Sorry about the late reply - haven’t been on-line much because of the holidays. I don’t know what’s caused my peeling lips, like I said in my earlier post I really didn’t worry about it much and it did have an intermittent quality, granted when they are dry I do pull the skin off because it drives me crazy having dry skin ½ on and ½ off.
I can’t say exactly how long it took, I’d say about 2 weeks of 2 TBL spoons of VCO by mouth and also putting it topically on my lips. I bought the oil at whole foods. In warm weather it’s liquid, in cool weather its solid, I live in Texas currently so right now it’s in between - like butter. I think it cost about $10 so it’s very affordable.
The other benefits are that it’s an anti-microbial and anti-fungal.