Re: I created a documentary for peeling lips, please watch!

Thanks for your message :) :)

I appreciate everything you wrote, however the main thing I wanted to comment on was about getting them wet.

Everyone seems to ask me why I don't want to get them wet...and I've been hesistant to answer that question because I am still expirementing with the answer. However I've pretty much figured it out, and am ready to give it an answer.

Since I'm mainly the only one who has done it for this long and wrote about the expirence throughout the whole time, and I've talked about it in my vlogs that I've made, what happens when you don't get them wet is actually something spectacular...

The lips are a mucous membrane, however to be completely honest the skin gets almost all of it's moisture from the water we drink, it doesn't need to get wet in order to be 100% functional. In fact it's quite the opposite, as our skin has a waterproof barrier on it that prevents water from getting inside. You'll notice the barrier is rubbed off on parts like your hands, fingers, and feet where there is a lot of friction. When you soak those parts of your body they wrinkle up which is soaking up the water, however the rest of your skin does not wrinkle up, which indicates that skin is not soaking up water. You can test this in the bath and do a little research and you'll find this to be accurate.

Therefore, the lips do not need to get wet in order to heal, and getting them wet honestly impedes the healing process as in my first approach in 2011. Now, to the thing that I've been hesistant to talk a lot about is this liquid that forms under the "dead" skin. The lips are a mucous membrane so it knows how to produce its own lubrication that is needed, when they are healing it actually produces more, and my lips under the dead layer will fill up with that liquid it's a yellowish-clear liquid and sometimes has a slight burning sensation as it is being produced on top of the lips. If you leave this liquid sit there for as long as possible you will see how well your lips are being rebuilt. I had this expirence just last week when it was about 1.5 to 2 weeks that it sat there on one side and my lips felt amazing...however a lot of times there are holes that it escapes from and air gets in causing the liquid to dry.

When I was getting my lips wet every single day my lips would feel very dry everytime I got out of the shower...and they never produced this liquid that they are producing now...and I did it for two months last time.

It is my firm belief that this liquid is the building blocks for the natural barrier on the top of the lips, and is needed to complete the healing process.

I know this is long, but I wanted to stress why I feel not getting them wet is important...as long as you are dinking plenty of water (which I am drinking a lot of water each day) then your body will give your lips the water that they need, external water is not needed...and in normal lips they don't soak it up anyways.

These are my thoughts and based on my research and expirence, I can almost guaruntee you your lips will heal considerably faster if you don't get them wet. Tweet