I had the Vi peel 6 months ago. My skin peeled for a week and looked great 7 days post peel, when all the skin had flaked off. About 2 weeks after that, my skin took a drastic turn for the worse. It has become dry, scaly, flaky, red, inflamed, sensitive, chapped looking, and actually, older looking. No amount of moisturizer helps at all. My face looks sunburned all the time and people keep asking me if I am sunburned or have been at the beach. I have reptile skin! Please help me.
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January 7, 2018
Answer: Treating the skin after a vipeel chemical peel
One of the ingredients in the Vi Peel is salicylic acid which is related to aspirin. It is generally recommended that if you are allergic to aspirin that you avoid salicylic acid, Although I have never heard of someone with this allergy actually having a reaction to salicylic acid, I would...