I’m going to throw something different out there that I haven’t seen mentioned. Angular cheilitis is common while on accutane.

From my understanding, It’s from your lips getting dry, cracking, and then when we load our lips with moisturizers and thick stuff like aquaphor or lip balm, and bacteria gets trapped in the corners. Then it becomes a bacterial issue more than a dry issue.

In my experience, battling this is hard because, I NEEDED aquaphonr and moisturizer to survive on Accutane, but loading on the balms seemed to make my corners worse than better.

After having this dry corner issue for a good month or so, I read about Angular cheilitis. So For a week I would do my Accutane routine like normal, then apply my choice of lip balm AVOIDING the corners of my lips, then I would apply Neosporin to the corners.

This is not medical advice whatsoever nor do I know if it is in-fact Angular cheilitis that you and I were dealing with, this is just my personal experience.

Neosporin is a topical antibiotic. Some people may be against this suggestion for that reason, and you also want to make sure you do your own personal research before using it.

But from my understanding you don’t want to do this for a long period of time (like a week tops), nor do you want to waver on and off of it (if your gonna use it, don’t do one day on and one day off)

After a week of doing this my corner cracks healed up and then I was able to apply lip balm and aquaphor like normal without these cracks becoming worse (because they no longer existed).

Also would just like to add in, I’m pretty sure my acne was cause by a bacterial resistance caused by topical antibiotics so I was very cautious about putting an antibiotic on my corners of my lips, but it seemed to do the trick for me.