Review (2/5): 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.
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.
But it did work for me. I have pretty thick hair, and it all came off (and then some! ouch).
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.
And it smells good too. It doesn't have a chemical smell like many similar products.
I'll change it to 5 stars if it doesn't burn me next time when I leave it on for much less time.
***Update***
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.
Disappointing.