This $3 Magic Powder removes hair in minutes

• We test out SoftSheen-Carson Magic Fragrant Shaving Powder, a depilatory powder that claims to remove hair instantly with no razor bumps.

• The $3 powder, originally created for Black men struggling with ingrown hairs, went viral on TikTok and was deemed the best at-home hair-removal method.

• The powder proves to be more effective in certain areas rather than others, but is still a great option for those who want a razor-free hair-removal option.

Following is a transcript of the video.

Nico Reyes: Shaving actually really sucks for me, but I recently saw this on TikTok. This is the SoftSheen-Carson Magic Fragrant Shaving Powder, and it's a depilatory powder that's supposed to remove hair in five minutes. I think that if this stuff can effectively remove my hair and do it faster and leave me with, like, zero bumps on my skin, that would be ideal. It's also $3.

This product isn't new by any means, but I did see it blow up on TikTok, and then I kept seeing it everywhere, so I really, really wanted to try it. You're supposed to mix equal parts powder with cool water, and then you just apply it to the places where you want to remove the hair.

So, let's start with my legs, and then we can move on to my underarms. It smells exactly like if you mixed Nair, like that very, almost rotten-egg kind of smell that comes in Nair, with, like, an old floral perfume or something. Do you ever feel the need to, like, eat something inedible? 'Cause I kinda wanna take a bite of this.

Let's just smooth it out first. So far, no burning. OK, it's been five minutes. I just want to rub it off on a little section just to see if anything happened, and if not, we'll leave it on just for a little bit longer. So, I have my big, giant bowl of water right here, and let me just grab a little towel, and we can test it out. OK, so I just wiped this little, tiny section off with my finger, and you can see the actual hairs that have come off of my leg and onto the towel. That is unbelievable! OK, so I think that it's actually ready to come off. I'm just going to start wiping my entire leg off. I did use a bit of pressure when I was wiping off this little section, 'cause I want to make sure that the hair is actually coming out of the follicles. I have tried so many products like this, like Nair and all that other stuff. Nothing has ever removed my hair so fast and so effectively. I'm in shock. I don't feel any bumps right now. My skin does look a little bit dry and slightly red, but it doesn't hurt, it doesn't tingle, it doesn't burn, nothing like that. I will say that there are, like, one or two spots that I can see where the hair didn't completely remove, but it's still pretty good.

So, now let's move on to my armpits, which I do not want to be putting on the internet, but I guess I have to. I don't know if that worked as well. Oh, there's hair on here.

I think this magic shave powder does work, to an extent. I feel like it worked great on my legs and it removed most of the hair, but when it came to my armpits, where the hair is a bit more coarse, it didn't remove all that well. It probably could have benefited from having a minute or two longer on the armpit, but the instructions explicitly say only five minutes, so I don't want to push it. The really great thing about it is that it did not leave behind any bumps or rashes, which is what I was scared about in the first place. This stuff is definitely strong, so I was expecting it to maybe burn, maybe hurt, but it did none of that. And all I have is, like, a bit of dry skin now that I've taken it off.