Self 30% Glycolic Acid Peel

I purchased a book from Amazon on how to do peels from home. So far, the spots on my body I am doing peels on (right forearm, left calf and top of foot, neck and cleavage) are noticeably softer and smoother after one minute of 30% Glycolic Acid peel. As expected with this shallow of a peel, there is no change in pigmentation. My skin just feels a lot smoother and softer.

Instead of building up from 10% for one minute over a period of weeks, I just used the 30% glycolic acid on my face for one minute (but I have nearly the perfect skin type for an acid peel, so I was not concerned). My face felt hot and uncomfortable, and I got a mouth full of neutralizer which tasted bad. My face was slightly pink on day 2 and that's the extent of that. I am going to increase the time by one minute next week, and I hope to get someone to help me do my upper arms and back this week. You're not supposed to peel more than 25% of your body at once, and doing my upper shoulders/backs of arms/ shoulder blades should

I have some hyperpigmentation I want to remove, but that is going to require a deeper peel (TCA, at the very least) but given that my skincare routine involves cleansing and some sunscreen, and that's it... and I have fragile, dry skin, I have some minor acne scarring and some stretched pores. I figure if I keep up on the 30% glycolic acid peels until my skin is ready I'll have much nicer texture.

The issues I want to fix with a TCA peel are some icepick acne scarring, stretch marks, cayenne pepper marks on my feet and removing sun damage/freckles.

I plan on doing my entire body with the glycolic acid peels- as cheap as the acid is, I don't understand why so many women don't also do their necks, cleavage, backs of their hands, etc when they do a home peel. It's so inexpensive and if you have the solution (and are throwing it away when it expires) why not use it?

The skin on my body has bounced back 100%, and if this is the result I'm thrilled. It's soft, lovely, and some of the crepey texture is gone.

My face is a bit flakey, and little bits of skin are sloughing off. It's slightly itchy, like healing from a sunburn. Nothing else to really report.

I did a second peel last night, a little over a week after the first one. I forgot to wipe my skin with acetone first and the peel was less even than the first one. My skin feels softer, although there's not a lot of visible change yet. I look slightly sunburned.

I peeled my face, neck, decollete, right arm, and shoulders/back where I have sun damage. Next week I'm probably going to also get the skin on my legs because it's ashy and flaky, and the shin I did last week the skin is much nicer than the one I didn't do.

I'm going to keep upping the time week by week till I hit 10 minutes, then I'm going to up the strength of the peels.