Re: A theory and possible solution.

I didn't mean to "pick" your lips. When you pick your lips, you also remove part of the good skin, which causes harm. What i meant was to gently remove skin cells that are already dead, thats what the fruit acid is for. It softens the dead cells so that they can be removed without "picking" your lips.

So when you remove dead skin, your are also removing microbes on the surface of the lips, thus preventing them from growing back.

Think about it this way: Our immune system is constantly killing microbes inside the lips, but it cannot reach the microbes on the surface. Thats where microbes are constantly reproducing and sending more microbes in. Now you can try to clean your lips often, but the dead skin protects the microbes.

So we should remove dead skin and clean our lips very often to prevent new microbes from growing on the surface, and let our immune system kill the microbes in the inside. Eventually, there will be less and less microbes in the inside, thus the peeling cycle will be slowing down. Once there are no more microbes, there wont be an imune reaction and our lips will be normal.

Now, some of us have tried to keep the dead skin the longest time possible, and this didnt help at all. So why not try to do the opposite, keep the dead skin the shortest time possible?