The point is it's just improving appearances, that it all. These products work for me for that reason alone. Once I leave them for 24 hours they go back to being cracked and peeling. The sensitive area for me is the area that is prevented from skinning over, that is the inner lip. This is the area which gets so sore and cracks. The truth is Daniel is right, his method took months of consitent effort and nobody else has had the will power to do the same.