diff --git a/docs/development.rst b/docs/development.rst
index 21f2256c..47ca2f00 100644
--- a/docs/development.rst
+++ b/docs/development.rst
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@ Runtime Dependencies
 * `Requests <http://python-requests.org/>`_ – an HTTP library “for human beings”
 * `inflection <http://inflection.readthedocs.org/en/latest/>`_ – Inflection is a string transformation library. It singularizes and pluralizes English words, and transforms strings from CamelCase to underscored string.
 * `six <https://bitbucket.org/gutworth/six>`_ – Six is a Python 2 and 3 compatibility library. It provides utility functions for smoothing over the differences between the Python versions with the goal of writing Python code that is compatible on both Python versions.
-* `certifi <http://certifi.io/>`_ – Certifi is a carefully curated collection of Root Certificates for validating the trustworthiness of SSL certificates while verifying the identity of TLS hosts.
 
 Development Dependencies
 ------------------------
diff --git a/intercom/request.py b/intercom/request.py
index c4002d5c..341fe466 100644
--- a/intercom/request.py
+++ b/intercom/request.py
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 from . import errors
 from datetime import datetime
 
-import certifi
 import json
 import logging
 import requests
@@ -43,8 +42,8 @@ def send_request_to_path(cls, method, url, auth, params=None):
                 logger.debug("  params: %s", req_params['data'])
 
         resp = requests.request(
-            method, url, timeout=cls.timeout,
-            auth=auth, verify=certifi.where(), **req_params)
+            method, url, timeout=cls.timeout, auth=auth, **req_params
+        )
 
         # response logging
         if logger.isEnabledFor(logging.DEBUG):
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 571df20b..c8a3d392 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 #
 # Runtime dependencies.
 #
-certifi
 inflection==0.3.0
 requests==2.6.0
 urllib3==1.10.2
diff --git a/rtd-requirements.txt b/rtd-requirements.txt
index d77bb2a7..3ba0fc27 100644
--- a/rtd-requirements.txt
+++ b/rtd-requirements.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
-certifi
 inflection==0.3.0
 requests==2.6.0
 urllib3==1.10.2
 six==1.9.0
-sphinx-rtd-theme==0.1.7
\ No newline at end of file
+sphinx-rtd-theme==0.1.7
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 7af6c2de..4d8f23a5 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -31,6 +31,6 @@
     classifiers=[],
     packages=find_packages(),
     include_package_data=True,
-    install_requires=["requests", "inflection", "certifi", "six"],
+    install_requires=["requests", "inflection", "six"],
     zip_safe=False
 )