To my understanding its a depilatory powder, pretty much Nair for your face. You mix the powder with some water, rub it in, and then take the cream off with a spatula or something. It also seems to be marketed towards people that get problems with ingrown hairs and razor bumps a lot. I would never put this stuff on my face though...nothing beats the sensation of a sharp blade smoothly gliding over your skin.
http://www.forumopolis.com/showpost.php?p=582336&postcount=33Okay, so.
A few years ago, I was tiring of the constant need to shave my head. I love having it shaved, but sometimes I just get lazy -- and if you leave it for too long, it will get to this stage where it's too long to shave with a razor, and too short to effectively use an electric trimmer on.
So anyhow, one time I left it until it was about a 1/8th of an inch long, and I decided that I wanted to try using Nair on my head, in the hopes that it would give me a few more days between shavings. In addition to a really clean "shave". I went and got some that looked good.
I followed the directions to the letter, minus the "try a little spot first" thing.
I put on a nice this layer all over my head, and worked it in really well. Then I waited the 12-15 minutes or whatever that the package said to do. Then I did the whole rinsing thing... and it seemed to work pretty well, but had missed a lot.
"Oh well" I though, "I guess I'll just do another application."
I lathered it all up again, all over, and it was about a minute before my head started to burn really badly. I quickly rinsed my head off in the shower and got all of it off.
My head was pretty red and raw, but there were also still several patches of hair left! I couldn't leave it like that! The hairs were still too long to shave with my Headblade, so I had to take my electric shaver and run it all over my head to get rid of all the hairs. Then I was left with, essentially, several patches of not-as-closely-shaved areas amongst all the properly Nair'd places.
So... I then covered my head with shaving cream and took my headblade to it.
The good news is that I got a really good shave. I mean, there wasn't a sign of hair anywhere to be seen. Also, I managed to do all of this without cutting myself.
The bad news was that instead of a cut I had managed to chemically and razor..ly end up with a head that was one, big, throbbing razor burn. I mean, it was glowing red and hot. I was feeling lightheaded and my ears were ringing.
Then I did the most ridiculous thing of all.
What do you do if you just shaved? Why, you put on aftershave of course!
I splashed a bunch on my hands, and started rubbing it into my head.
The pain hit so hard and so fast that my knees buckled and I collapsed to the bathroom floor in a heap.
Never. Again.