healing and i have been doing this with good results... i think what people need to understand here is that there in no wound to heal... something just triggered a chonic inflammatory reaction in your lip which causes it to overturn cells at a rapid rate... you need to do whatever you can to keep your lips soothed and moist without irritating them by doing dumb things like picking them or putting dishsoap on them lol... this is done to reverse the inflammation... keep inflammation low and the lips soothed for a long period of time and symptoms should gradually dissapear.