Have you tried using jojoba oil?I think I remember people recommending to gently scrub away flakes by rubbing in jojoba oil; you will feel the dead skin get removed as you rub, you just have to do it gently. You could also scale back your BP appliance to only in the morning or only in the evening, or use less in general. As a rule of thumb I'll use more moisturizerafter using BP, more than the BP I applied.

I use jojoba oil in my mositurizer. I only use a small amount of bp.

This is EXACTLY what happened to me in the early days of using this treatment but by month 3 my skin returned back to its softness, despite me getting spots here and there.