Shedding the Snake: Peeling to Remove Discoloration

Good luck BD. I’m anxiously awaiting the results of your most recent experiment.

Now I’m curious about this. Unfortunately I’m one of those people that immediately gets darker skin on areas with friction or subjected to force. My groin and armpits are a little bit darker than my body. Of course my snake gets a daily dose of rubbing plus all the PE I’m doing, so yeah, it’s darker than my body.

Peel results - 6 days after applying the SA wart remover, I can call this method a preliminary success. I will know for sure in another week when the new skin has settled. Everything went mostly as hobby described, 5 star instructions.

The very dark underside penoscrotal patches that stood out like a sore thumb are gone completely. That was the area I thought was most likely hemosiderin. The more uniform, but much less noticeable, shaft discoloration that may be hyperpigmentation - that also improved but not as much. However, the spots that improved the most were also the spots that peeled the deepest, so there are multiple factors.

My cock now looks more or less normal, you’d have to go over it with a microscope and know what you’re looking for to know that I do PE. Whereas before there was a neon “PE dick” sign written in discoloration. So I’m very pleased with the results.

For reference, my sudden sharp increase in discoloration happened about 3 months ago after experimenting with tighter and longer clamping sets. It was fading very slowly, and had at least a few months to go, if not longer. I had been doing regular firegoat rolls, and had tried the DMSO method for several weeks. So the peel definitely gets the credit for the fix.

There is one small strip along the left side of the raphe that peeled earlier than everything else, possibly from friction and movement where the shaft folds over the scrotum. This area still has pink and irritated skin, and one small sore the size of a bb. I’m continuing neosporin on that area as long as necessary.

I do think this is borderline dangerous to be doing at home by oneself. Don’t undertake this method lightly. In addition to the peeling agent, you need isopropyl alcohol to disinfect the area beforehand, and antibiotic ointment to disinfect the area daily throughout the next week.

The areas where I applied a double coat of SA (see previous posts) did seem to peel deeper than the other areas. This might also be because they were penoscrotal skin areas whereas the other areas were more shaft skin. I don’t know the reason exactly, but a double coat may actually be worth it. Those were the most discolored areas for me, and they turned out the best afterward. I had other areas (the dorsal shaft skin for example) where there was relatively little peeling, and relatively little change in color, suggesting a deeper peel is better for our purposes.

In peeling instructional literature around the web, SA is listed as a light to medium facial peeling agent - however the visible effects on the penis skin in terms of scabbing, dead skin look, and recovery time are all more consistent with a medium to deep peel. Maybe this is because there is no fat in the penis skin. Also professional peelers aim for medium to deep peels when treating discoloration. So I wonder if SA is actually giving a deep peel on our penis skin while it normally gives a light peel on the face.

Finally something I didn’t see mentioned in this thread, but seemed like an important cautionary note from peeling literature - Salicylic Acid can cause a poisonous overdose reaction in VERY RARE instances, called salicylism or salicylate poisoning, which you can die from. The symptoms are dizziness, nausea, vomiting, headache, confusion, hyperventilation, rapid heartbeat - and in severe doses delirium, respiratory arrest, and coma. Apparently the amount of SA required to cause this would be equivalent to applying it to over half of your entire body’s skin surface area. But just in case, if you suddenly start puking after putting the stuff on, or some accident happens that dramatically increases the dose / area of skin contact, be ready to call an ambulance.

Nice to hear the treatment is going well. I am going to resume my chemical peels in my next break from PE.

From what I read, glycolic acid may be a better chemical peel to use, especially on the penis.
For instance, 30% glycolic acid actually rarely peels, and usually side effects like irritation are pretty minimal.
This peel is more subtle, and causes the skin to flake off more on a cellular level.
The fact that there is minimal irritation and the skin doesn’t actually peel, may allow for some light PE work, like manual exercises.

For those that have sensitive skin and are easily prone to hyper pigmentation/ other discoloration, using an anti-darkspot cream, that contains retinol and niacinamide, after PE sessions may reduce your chances of developing hyperpigmentation
I’m currently using a cream like this, its nonirritating and I’ve noticed my skin has been passively lightening for the past 2 months, although not by much.

2 week update, and barring any unlikely complications my last update.

This was a 100% success for me. No exaggeration. The color has stabilized during the last few days, and there is no trace of discoloration whatsoever.

I’m taking a couple more months off to let the skin completely heal up. Still two small areas of thin pink skin.

Highly recommended method!

Thanks again to hobby, all who have gone before, and everyone who responded to my various posts on the subject.

I recently bought a 30% glycolic acid peel, im going to be using it to try to get rid of my remaining discoloration.

I’ve tried 17% salicylic acid but it only just faded the discoloration, hopefully this works better

Update 1: I’ve done 6 acid peels with 30% glycolic acid so far.

I only leave the acid on for 2 minutes, at times there can be a painful tingling sensation, but its pretty bearable.

After about 2-3 days, the skin gets dry, turns white and flakes off gently.

After a chemical peel, one spot of the discoloration flaked off and revealed pink skin. After a week, the skin has healed, and that spot now has no discoloration. I wish this could happen evenly, but there is no way of controlling it.

Ill probably need 10+ peels before I no longer have discoloration.

Fantastic work, Extremity, Bearded Dragon, and others. This is The Internet operating at its finest (imagine trying to coax an answer from a doctor or dermatologist…yeah, no). I also have a purple-ish, eggplant color, spotty-red coloration thing going that I resigned myself to living with. But maybe not!

About two years ago I developed some purplish discoloration on the underside of my shaft from some over enthusiastic stretching. Even though at that point I’d been PE’ing for about a year and a half and I thought I was conditioned, I apparently wasn’t ready for the new stretching routine I tried, which was pretty intense.

Anyway, I took about a six week decon break, went back to jelqing only for a while and sure enough the discoloration started to improve. But it didn’t go away completely.

Slowly I got back into stretching, not as intense, and the improvement has continued. It’s now almost two years and the discoloration is barely visible, if at all.
The point is to try and isolate what’s caused the discoloration and then change your routine accordingly.

I can understand that it’s difficult to change your routine for the sake of improving discoloration. It was tough for me psychologically because I was gaining when I got the discoloration. But if you want to get rid of that purplish spot, sometimes changing your routine and the passage of time can really help.

I’m glad for guys like BD and Excalibur who have gotten results from using acid and peeling.

I for one wouldn’t go that route, but hey, that’s me.

Bottom line: if you can figure out what caused the discoloration in the first place, change your routine and give it time.

It’s taken about two years, but like I said it’s worked for me.

Good luck.

So you actually exfoliate till it bleeds ? Isnt it painful ? What do you use to exfoliate to get it raw ?

I made an observation a few years back. While showering i tried this shower gel on my penis which was very viscous. I lathered generously and washed it off and user it regularly almost daily. The problem was that due to the nature of this gel, the soap didnt wash off easily like normal soap, therefore many times i eas left with some of it still on my penile shaft skin.
Over a few days this dried out my skin and one day while masrurbating, some of this skin cracked and i think it burned (the skin stage before it actually bleeds) so i left it alone and let it heal. I don’t recall there being any bleeding, but it was close to it. So after it healed, i either peeled off the scab or let it fall off naturally (cant remember), and the underlying skin was smooth and body tone skin.
The process seemed relatively easy the way it occured, I wouldnt mind replicating this scar in the discoloured penile skin, in hopes of getting to thar lighter colour.
My body colour is a light brown / yellowish, the bottom 1/4th of my penis from my base is about 1-2 tones darker than my body, while the remaining 3/4th till the tip of my penis is black. Ok now to make it more colourful……the underside of my shaft is a golden light brown halfway and black the remaining halfway while my scrotum is pink Haha. Im just looking to get my entire shaft uniform light brown in colour.
Will be trying some TCA, i got 25% and 50% with me currently. I tried a small patch of skin on my pubic area surrounding the shaft (nothing on the shaft as yet) to see how it reacts. Whole area is like a dark brown almost black colour. Will wait a few days and see how it progresses / heals. No PE till then.

So I decided to partake in this experiment myself. My skin has gotten a lot darker ever since I started using the bathmate. Luckily I have some tretonin from the dermatologist from awhile ago and started to apply that. Well I’m starting to shed like crazy. I’m gonna lay off for a few days, but I’m noticing some lightening.

No, not for me. I just took a cloth and soapy water and scrubbed the skin for several minutes in the shower before doing the peel. No bleeding, just cleaning and scrubbing to remove oils and dead skin. I also applied isopropyl alcohol with a cotton swab over the whole area which further dried it out. “Raw” was perhaps the wrong word to use, I just meant that scrubbing off the outer layers would prep the skin for a deeper peel effect. They do a more advanced version of this for professional peels depending on the desired effect - they will have the patient apply a light pre-peel up to several times before doing the real deeper peel.

Certain spots for me went deeper than others. I don’t even know how much I would recommend pre-scrubbing to a first time peeler. In retrospect I would have liked a deeper peel on my dorsal side, but a lighter peel on my ventral side. If I had pre-scrubbed any more on the ventral side it might have been bad.

I still can’t believe I did this whole process. So glad it worked though.

I’m using glycolic acid on my off days, as it doesn’t peel, and is non irritating. Anyways I noticed another patch of discoloration is now completely gone.

Has anyone tried Maxipeel?

It’s a tretinoin hydroquinone solution.. It’s available I think in 4 different strengths. It’s only OTC here so I can buy it anytime.

So if these peels are working does that mean that the discoloration is not caused by hemosiderin?

The going theory here seems to be that it’s caused by hemosiderin (which does seem very plausible), but I’m not sure how that could ever be confirmed.

I’ve done a bunch of peels with TCA which have definitely helped with the darker areas of discoloration, however I still have a baseline level of discoloration which I hate.

So if this were really hemosiderin would peels be working?

Also has anyone else here had real success with Amlactin? It was mentioned a few pages back, but not sure how helpful it has been for people who have tried it? I guess it’s next on the list for me cause I’m not sure what else to try.

And does anybody know what effing cream this guy used? The link he posted to ebay is gone.