Careful! ..or you will get burned
I knew the risk of getting burned if you leave it on too long, but at 10min I didn't feel anything.  So I gave it a couple extra minutes, and then took my time getting in the shower.  All was well, until I started "groping" myself, as the directions humorously call for, with the provided cotton glove.  Then came the burn!  Yeeooww!  Once I felt the burn start, I minimized the damage by just rinsing the stuff off as quickly as I could with just water, and then used the glove ever so gingerly.  But it was too late, I got burned.<br /><br />So I highly recommend, even if your skin isn't "normally" sensitive, to rinse off at a max of 5min (or something much less than called for in the directions) as a first test.  And then next time increase it, and so on, until you find the right amount of time for you.  Patience is a virtue here.<br /><br />But it did work for me.  I have pretty thick hair, and it all came off (and then some! ouch).<br /><br />And the CalmBalm works too.  Ahhh... I'm sure glad it did!  For the first day I actually put Polysporin (or you could use Neosporin) all over the burned areas to help the healing, and that worked well.<br /><br />And it smells good too.  It doesn't have a chemical smell like many similar products.<br /><br />I'll change it to 5 stars if it doesn't burn me next time when I leave it on for much less time.<br /><br />***Update***<br />I tried a shorter time, but still got burned. :(  Apparently, it takes off skin as much as it does hair.  I reluctantly had to change my rating to "don't like it".  Even when I leave it on for just a matter of seconds and rinse it off, it basically chemically etches my skin.  And even that makes my skin get flaky and break out.<br />Disappointing.
Rating: 2 stars