A New Method “Controlled Peeling”

I want to start off by saying I’ve tried the constant moisture and leave it alone method many times. They both have flaws. With the leave it alone method it could potentially take years to heal, it’s uncomfortable, and negatively affects your mental health. The constant moisture method can leave the lip skin mushy, and in my case stinky. The skin also easily slides all over the place. The cleaning method I’ve never tried, but when physically exfoliating your lips you run the risk of doing it unevenly. So, I said no to that.

After not letting any water touch my lips for a pretty long time. I decided to wet them. When I did. The hard scales flattened onto my lips almost normal in appearance. It amazed me at the time. I was so scared to get them wet in fear of hurting progress.

What I do first is wet my lips using a q-tip applying a little pressure to flatten the skin. Don’t just throw water on them. Then follow up with an oil. This helps the skin stay flattened after you wet them. After the oil I use a hydrating lip balm. This will help to hold the skin in place for even longer. If you don’t use the oil or the lip balm they will shortly become dry, and the skin will rise again. The skin should stay flattened for a couple of hours.

When the skin becomes too hard to flatten. I cut it with off with small scissors. The small scissors are very important. If I leave the skin alone too long. I run the risk of layers of skin being ripped away once it falls off on its own. Sometimes taking away larger pieces with it that aren’t ready to fall off yet.

The goal is to leave the skin on as long as possible without the layers of hard skin building up. I do the cold water, oil, and hydrating lip balm around 3-4 times a day. I have seen great improvement since doing this. I went from giant layers of crust. To now appearing to only be dealing with a case of very dry lips. If your lips are dry with hard crusts. It probably wouldn’t hurt to give this a try.