Dr. Idriss Barrier-Based Lip Peel: a Guru Score of 84%

What the gurus are saying.

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"The Dr. Idriss Barrier-Based Lip Peel is a dermatologist-developed chemical and enzymatic lip peel that smooths, softens, and resurfaces dry, flaky lips. It's formulated to gently remove dead skin cells without damaging your delicate lip barrier. It will help prep the lips for a balm, for treatment, or lipstick by improving texture and absorption. It's designed to be used once or twice a week, and then immediately you want to follow it with a nourishing lip mask or balm."

Kelly Driscoll

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"I didn't know I needed a product like this, but I actually need a product like this and I really like this one. So, this is a really interesting combination of [mandelic] acid as well as gluconolactone, which is also known as PHA. Now, PHA, not technically an AHA, and yet it is often considered a new generation AHA. So, it has a lot of similar properties. It does exfoliate on the top surface. It helps to really rejuvenate, resurface, helps with texture, tone. It's a brightening ingredient."

Beyond50Skin

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"Now, it's not going to make your lips exfoliate overnight. You kind of have to repeatedly use this for a few weeks, but it's excellent in getting those crusty bits off your lips. The Dr. Idriss line has the gloss separate from the exfoliating product. The efficacy of the mandelic acid for my very dry Colorado lips is in this product. If I get those crusty sort of flat skin-like crusty bits, this takes care of it in about a week just to help exfoliate that. This is a very gentle AHA."

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"Now, it's not going to make your lips exfoliate overnight. You kind of have to repeatedly use this for a few weeks, but it's excellent in getting those crusty bits off your lips. The Dr. Idriss line has the gloss separate from the exfoliating product. The efficacy of the mandelic acid for my very dry Colorado lips is in this product. If I get those crusty sort of flat skin-like crusty bits, this takes care of it in about a week just to help exfoliate that. This is a very gentle AHA."

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"I tried a new exfoliating product by Dr. Idriss, this is her lip peel. It has a very gentle exfoliator to help remove those kind of flat crusty bits that you get on your lips. I used it all winter long and loved it for gentle exfoliation. I've gone to a chemical exfoliant as opposed to a lip scrub."

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"I prep my lips with a gentle exfoliating product by Dr. Idriss, this is her lip peel. Much more gentle, it's a chemical exfoliant versus the lip scrub stick."

Dr. Shereene Idriss

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"My lip peel is a glucanolactone based peel that you can use every night on your lips to keep your lips smooth. As long as you don't have any infections around your mouth, cold sores, etc., you could take that serum on the back of your hand and apply it lightly underneath your eyes as well because we hardly ever exfoliate the skin under our eyes. And as we get older, our skin cells turn over slower."

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"My lip peel is a glucanolactone based peel that you can use every night on your lips to keep your lips smooth. As long as you don't have any infections around your mouth, cold sores, etc., you could take that serum on the back of your hand and apply it lightly underneath your eyes as well because we hardly ever exfoliate the skin under our eyes. And as we get older, our skin cells turn over slower."

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"This is called the Barrier-Based Lip Peel, this is a first of its kind formulated specifically for lips chemical peel that is going to be gentle yet effective to help get rid of those dead skin cells on the surface of your lips. It is a combination of a polyhydroxy acid known as gluconolactone as well as an AHA called mandelic acid, which is the lightest AHA because it is the biggest molecule, so it sits more on the surface of the skin and it doesn't go as deep as glycolic acid."

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"My lips just get completely annihilated in the winter. I would get such bad windburn on my lips. [...] Last winter when we had these two products finally available in real time, both of them at the same time, my lips did not crack. They were not chapped. They were not inflamed. It was perfect. [...] I no longer have the dry spot on my lip."

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"I put glucanolactone in the Dr. Idriss Barrier-Based Lip Peel. [...] It's our lip basing duo. I do use this, the peel, which is this product to exfoliate my lips and I do this every night in the winter time, not so much in the summer, but in the winter when it's very dry I will do it at night, followed by the lip base to lock it in once it dries."

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"At night, I use the Dr. Idriss Barrier-Based Lip Peel, which is mandelic acid, as well as glucanolactone and glycerin to help to smoothen my lips. And then I lock it in."

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"Dr. Idriss has a lip peel, a gluconolactone and mandelic acid peel specifically formulated for the lips. It is very very gentle, so you can also use it as an under eye peel."

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Frequently asked.

What is Dr. Idriss Barrier-Based Lip Peel?

A chemical lip peel with gluconolactone and mandelic acid designed to exfoliate and hydrate lips.

Is Dr. Idriss Barrier-Based Lip Peel worth it?

Yes. All 4 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 84%.

What is Dr. Idriss Barrier-Based Lip Peel's Guru Score?

Dr. Idriss Barrier-Based Lip Peel holds a Guru Score of 84%. That is our read on how warmly the experts talk about it, based on the verdicts of 4 expert reviewers we have collected.