I work in commercial plumbing/pipe fitting and have used these on multiple occasions. They are in all of our first aid kits.
I cut the skin off the tip of my finger. It would not stop hurting. Every time I moved my finger I got a horrible pain. So out of desperation I opened one of the burn cream packets and put it on my wound to see if it would help with the pain and after a minute the pain was manageable. It only hurt now when I bumped the end of my finger but nothing like it was. I think I'm going to find other uses besides small burns to put it on.
I keep this in the first aid kit for splinter removal. It's basically just a numbing cream. Put it on about 5 minutes before attempting splinter removal, wipe it off, hand the kid a sucker and a phone, and you can get a splinter out of a 6 year old's foot with no tears whatsoever.
Without thinking, I grabbed my as-hot-as-it-could-get curling iron by the metal part to roll up the cord and burned the heck out of my hand. It hurt so bad I thought I might pass out (then again, I have a really low pain tolerance). I ran my hand under some cold water and applied four packets of this stuff. Pain was almost completely gone within about ten minutes. An hour later, there’s zero pain and my hand doesn’t have a mark on it. Yeah, I’d say this stuff is pretty great.
My husband got a pretty large burn on his ankle. This product definitely made it look better but it was still slow to heal so we switched to Medihoney and that did the trick. The packets are very convenient to carry and I think this would be better for cuts and scrapes. Still a good product and we will definitely keep them in our first aid kit.