Never burned myself with is. It smetimes itches a bit and gets warm, the skin might sometimes get a bit red-ish, but it never hurt. Smells quite bad, like ammonia a bit, but you're not realy sniffing your own balls while you're shaving, right ? Once you wash the cream out it's all perfectly fine and smells just like baby's skin ! Veet for men sucks, it's just a way to make money on guys. It's less effective and costs twice more. Take the regular one for girls, it'll do the trick perfectly. I take the sensitive skin one, it's just perfect ! that's what it looks like in their new packaging thi