Chemical burn from depilatory

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I wanted the hair gone off my legs, so I had my daughter put a cream depilatory on them. It started to burn before 3 minutes were up, but it want burning too awful much. So the hair didn't all melt off. I had her put a second coat on my legs and it started to burn really bad almost immediately. She washed it off and my legs were red and swelled in the burning area. The next day every hair hole and every pore were blood stained. I put a kleenex over the burned area and pressed down slightly. I saw little specks of blood on the tissue. I took a picture of my left leg today. It is much better now. It doesn't hurt anymore but still looks like thousands of blood specks. I'm not going to write the name of the product, for obvious reasons. I used to use depilatories all the time when I was younger. Now I'm older and have thinner skin. Mess may also make my skin fragile.