You keep repeating things like, applying barriers can cause the lips to "not have AS MUCH peeling", or "much LESS peeling". Yes that is managing them, just to make them look better. They look better but aren't improving.
I'm talking about my lips and others' lips (like Mike's) IMPROVING/HEALING to the point of NO MORE PEELING. Not LESS PEELING, so that they just look better moist. NO MORE.
WHY aren't you understanding this!? It is SO SIMPLE.
There is a difference.
Is everyone else understanding the difference between what everyone in the past has done when they "covering up/managing EC" using barriers/creams and peeling your lips so that they look better, and what many of us are currently doing by actually healing your lips so that the inflammation goes down eventually to the point where the Hyperkeratosis (build up) stops!!!???