How do you get rid of age spots on your skin? They are so common as we age and most of us would love to get rid of them. Last week I saw a lot of patients in my dermatology office with very crusty seborrheic keratosis. They’re scaly, bumpy growths and most people who have these age spots don’t like them. They look funny, scale comes off of them and they can get caught on clothing, becoming irritated. My patients and I call them skin barnacles because they're stuck on the skin much like ...