Re: Does anyone have scaly looking skin on top lip?

The answer to your question is actually pretty simple...the cells surrouding EC behave as if they have EC even if they don't. Take a mosquito bite for example...if you scratch it the nearby cells will swell very large even though those cells were not attacked by the mosquito. If you don't scratch the site, then the nearby cells will not sweel nearly as much.

The same is true here, however it is multiplied a magnitude of times because we have been doing this for so long, this is how EC spreads and affects the other areas of the lips. I read your post earlier about the dead skin on the outer lips around the mouth, this is exactly what is going on here as well, I have been meaning to write a post about it actually for a couple weeks now but haven't gotten around to it, so I guess I can do it now:

Around my mouth when I was leaving them alond not applying water the outsides of my lips started producing a lot of dead skin, especially when I used my electric shaver the dead skin would really build up as I rubbed it. This is NOT from avoidance of exfoliating, exfoliating is not required at all by the body and the buildup doesn't happen anywhere else on the body from lack of exfoliation. The dead skin is simply the cells surrounding EC starting to behave the same way as if they had EC as well. Cells do this, it's in their nature. Since I have been getting my lips wet, they have started to heal a LOT, the bottom of the outside of my lips no longer produces the large amounts of dead skin, and the top is slowing down. The reason your LIPS look raw when you rub the skin off and NOT your outer lips is because they are two different kinds of skin. The lips are a mucous membrane, and the outer skin around the lips are just regular non-complex skin. When you remove a part of a mucous membrane, it becomes raw...partly because it has less layers to begin with....and when you remove regular skin its just red but doesn't look raw.

Let me know your thoughts!