just get a good quality lip salve, carry at all times, and reapply, reapply, reapply... (I use the tube one from clinique).
also: do you run a humidifyer in your home? Chances are you have very dry atmosphere.. get a humidifyer, and make sure it runs at night in your bedroom too. (also you dont feel the cold so much this way ;-)) ), if you dont want to get one, then hang damp cloths over the radiators or near your heating, so they will evaporate the moisture into the air. (it ruins the cloths in the long run though).

In the winter I need double the moisturizing as in summer, and your whole face could probably do with more.. I have used "moisture seal serums", for under the normal moisturiser, before in winter, and just omit in summer.., but you could also use a different strength moisturizer in winter.

hope you get it sorted soon, I know these cuts sting..!

it sounds like a fungus to me...common thing to happen and it won't clear up with just moisturizers.

Use something for athlete's foot (Lotrimin creme) just on the corners of your mouth a few times a day....don't get it IN your mouth and don't lick it off. Fungus will cause dry flaking skin as well as cracking and as it gets worse it will cause splits that look like cuts.

I recommend Aquaphor ointment, made by Eucerin. It comes in a tube (4 oz?) and bigger tub, and is found in the body lotion/oils section of your local drugstore. It was recommended to me by my dermatologist when I had super dry lips due to taking Accutane, and is still what I turn to when my lips are at their driest. I have also gotten some very portable samples of it from a friend who's a nurse, so you might call your doctor to see if they have samples.

Angular Cheilitis info....(i'm still betting on fungus) you might have a vitamin deficiency

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_cheilitis

www.webmd.com/hw/health_g...ta123239.asp

en.allexperts.com/e/a/an/an...ilitis.htm

www.healthy-skincare.com/angul...s.html

I had the same problem around my eyes...finally I went to the pharmacist with a bunch of products and she helped me suss out the one that worked (yay!). I recommend using that resource at your local drug store.

I've recently been turned onto Macademia Nut oil ~ my heels are a problem but this time of year my legs get so dry sometimes they crack... so I've taken to putting the Macademia Nut Oil wherever I'm really dry. You could put it on at night before bed ~ so long as you don't have a nut allergy.

Hi Stephanie, when I have any super dry or cracked skin, I go straight for the Neosporin. It's not as fancy or frilly as I would hope my beauty products are, would be, but it works!! Especially overnight. Put some on before you go to bed andy you WILL see a difference in the morning!!

Then you go back to normal moisturizers & treatments to prevent the problem again.

Hope this is helpful!!

~C