Remove these unwanted characters

I'm abit baffled as to why everytime I'm posting something I get these characters on my DB
Example below is what gets inserted:
<p>
Text Here</p>

Is there any way to remove these?

I'm using the following code:
$description=addslashes($_REQUEST['description']);

<textarea id="description" name="description">
<?php echo stripslashes($rs1[0]['description']);?></textarea>
<script type="text/javascript">
CKEDITOR.replace( 'description' );
</script>