Proactiv Solution : Acne Treatment System

I called the customer service several times to get my order cancelled. When I finally did reach someone they assured me that they would cancel my order. When I get my September statement it showed another payment for Proactiv. I got some run around about that being the July payment. DO NOT BUY THIS PRODUCT.......

Proactive does not work, I'm a 14 year old teenage girl and I have a fair amount of acne. It worked for the first 2 weeks but then I noticed my white heads and black heads were getting worse. I missed one night from studying and the next morning my forehead was a bumpy mess! I had blemishes on my cheeks and it was just terrible. If you use proactive for a long time and then switch to another cleanser your acne will intensify. Proactive is definitely not what the commercials say it is.

I tried proactive for one week and the results are dissapointing! It cleared some tiny spots, but it made some acne were I never had before on my face. One pimple is so huge and it hurts. It made my face sooooo oily. Plus, there are so many steps! I have to use 3 products the night, 5 in the morning and a mask 3 times a week......all that for NOTHING. I can't believethat I paid that much for this sh*tty producted. Now, my whole face burns when I go in the sun, even if I use the "special" sunscreen they gave me.

My face got use to it. And I heard that the mask that comes with it is bad for you. Sulfur isn't good for your skin. Pretty much, it sucks. It contains what most other acne solutions contain.

Im sure this may work for some, but for my acne, (oily skin, moderate/severe) it didnt have any effect. so if your skin is like mine, dont bother even trying.

I don't recommend proactive, it made my skin very very dry and didn't help with my acne. The only thing that worked was the refining mask the fist 3 I got, but the 4th one for some reason made my acne even worst, probably they changed the formula or something. I will never buy proactive again !

It just does not work for me and i certainly would NOT recommend the product

As a system, I'd pass. The cleanser is abrasive and causes discomfort and increased oil production. Toner is an extra useless step. However... love the moisturizer! I don't use it as part of my daily routine, but it's perfect if I'm having a bad skin week. Not moisturizing enough for me for daily use, but stops a breakout in it's tracks, feels great, dries quickly. I always keep some on hand. System is a 1, moisturizer is a 5.

This sucks and i cant believe its still on the market!! My acne became worse and skin hurt. It aged me by about 10years during the first week!!!!!! I started using Clinques line of acne care and noticed results overnight!! No new breakouts and is helping to correct the damage done by proactive! I HATED IT AND WILL NEVER USE IT AGAIN!

I had to have one of my parents purchase this for me while I was in college because it was so expensive and nothing else was working. They are very secretive about their products, so I wanted to know what these magical products were that gave such good results (as seen on TV). It's nothing more than 2.5% benzoyl peroxide cleanser with a very coarse exfoliator, a toner, and a moisturizer. You can find 10% benzoyl peroxide gel at the drug store for a fraction of the cost. The cleanser was so coarse that my skin started flaking off, and that's almost impossible to do because I have eczema with scales and need to exfoliate daily. I had to go down to once a day and then once every other day, but then the oil starts building up so I had to get another cleanser to use in between anyway. The toner did nothing at all, so I stopped using it between the cleanser and moisturizer. The moisturizer was too light for the really coarse exfoliant, so I would need to apply it, let it dry, and repeat 1-2 more times. The instructions said that your face had to COMPLETELY dry before going onto the next step, so I was spending about an hour on my face every day (30 minutes/2x day). If I could have bought just the moisturizer by itself, I would have but they only offered an expensive "subscription" plan where you have to buy everything and they will automatically deduct it from your credit card and ship it. No thank you! I have tried so many prescription and non-prescription products, and this is a major dud. A Dove pink beauty bar, St. Ive's apricot scrub, a light moisturizer, and benzoyl peroxide gel will do better a job for probably 1/4-1/2 the cost.