Proactiv Solution : Acne Treatment System

- it doesnt work -i buy mine from the little stand-vendor things inside malls, i live in Toronto, ON and many malls sell it. $60.00 for a full 4 piece set, 120ml bottles. - IF YOU CAN FIND ONE OF THESE STANDS TO BUY FROM, DO THIS. NO ANNOYING CONTRACTS OR UNEXPECTED CHARGES / CANCELLATION ISSUES. - but do not buy it otherwise. Youd have to have tree bark for skin for this not to severley burn it.

I tried this product once when I was 13 and used it for a month and a half... that's how long the bottles lasted. By the end of the treatment, my face was so broken out, red, irritated, dry and flaky. Ever since then I have suffered from 15+ zits on my face a week. I have tried everything from Purpose, to Clinique, to Neutrogena, Clean and Clear, Dove, Aveeno pads and foam wash. I have seriously tried everything and nothing is working. I'm almost 20 years old and this battle began at 12...

Mty break outs became uncontrollable with huge pimples along the jaw line and white heads all over my cheeks and up the sides of my face. I am 35 years old now and it was horrible! Never never use this product!!!

Not worth it.

I started using this cause I had somewhat bad acne, nothin crazy..now everythime my skin looks clear I can feel a new cystic like zit coming up on sides of my face I never had zits before and they hurt...and I cant get rid of them for weeks. My skin looks blotching since using it (i have sensitive skin). i have tried so many other products and how long should you have to wait to have clear skin??? its been a year...im dumping this product

This proactive does not need to be rated like this on TV. All my life I have been using over-the-counter products which always worked great. Two weeks after I started using Proactive my acne broke out.....never have i seen my face so bumpy; (I did follow all the instructions) Before i know it, there was another order at my door and my account was charged. Real sneaky, real crap. BUYERS BEWARE!

You have to be consistent! It dries out your skin so getting help from any moisturizer is helpful. i also see a dermatologist she gave me some pills (monocycline).It's good to talk to your doctor before starting any product he/she may give you a medication to work well with you proativ solution.GOOD LUCK!!

I used proactive many years ago and had terrible experiences with their shady business practices, as well as their outdated methods, and lack of sophistication in resolving customer dissatisfaction. Many times I had called to cancel any further shipments (since you know they automatically send you tons of the product whether you need another shipment or not), and they would still bill my card and sometimes not even ship me the product. It became such a hassle I decided that I was done ordering from them. The product was fine, but the customer service was enough to send me in the opposite direction. Having recently moved to a new area my skin has changed, and I had just received a flyer in the mail for a special $14.95 for the whole system with free shipping, and you could send a check. I thought, uhoh, this is a great offer, and at least I have the peace of mind that if I send a check they cannot continue to charge money to a credit card. Even though my senses said DO NOT order from them. They are a company with no financial integrity... I sent the check in anyway to place the order. This was in January and I still have not received my order. (2 months later) I want to make it VERY clear that they had already cashed my check 3 days after I had mailed the check. I tried calling multiple people through customer service and well after being passed around to at least 5 people, including "managers". All Promised that someone would research this issue of the "lost check", and being told that someone would call me back. (which no body ever did). I was also told that there is no way to track check payments, and that they are sure that one day soon I will get a check reimbursed to me because Proactiv would never just keep somebody's money. I just laughed at that because if they couldn't ship me my product properly, how would they ever send me a check?. Ridiculous. Anyhow they basically told me that if I want to resolve this that ME, the CUSTOMER, who has already paid for a product I have not received, needs to do my own leg work. I need to get copies of the check, fax it in and hope that it gets resolved. I asked for the phone number to the billing department since I already have the check image on my online banking and I can email them or give all of the necessary information. To that I was told that there is NOT a phone number to call the billing department. What a fraud! I am not mad at the phone rep. as he is trained how to evade actually helping the customer get their money back. To me, it is NOT about the money, as I really don't care very much about $15. However it is simply the principle of the matter that you cannot deal straight with a company as disorganized as this one.

Probably the worst decision I've ever made. It wasn't /that/ bad while using it, though certainly not nice. After two months, I saw no change, my face burned, peeled so bad I was more embarrassed then ever to go out in public, and made my face VERY red. So I stoped... Then my face got worse. Worse then it had ever been. I went from having, on average, about 5 pimples on my face, to having about 10, and far too many small ones to count. It's been two years now, and my face has still not recovered. If you're still going to take a shot with this product, just AVOID the Proactiv website. Everything bad you're heard about it is true, and you have no chance of being "the luck one" and not going thru it. Take my word, daily showers, lots of water, keeping your hair out of your face, and just a little bit of sun each day will do you much more good then this product can.

Thanks Proactive! I PAID $70 FOR THE SET AND NOW LOOK LIKE A LEPER. RIP OFF SCAM, STAY AWAY. Do not buy this product, it is a scam and only makes your acne worse and even harder to treat. I used to have frequent break outs and thought that this product would put an end to that. Instead it made my skin SO BAD that I look like a leper. After two days of using it (using it following all of this crap companies instructions) my face broke out in hundreds of tiny painful white heads that looked disgusting and hurt so much. Proactive has made my skin so bad that I never want to leave the house again. I have no idea how long it will take to clear up the damage proactive is done. It is better to have pimples than let that awful Proactive crap near your face because it makes your skin look so much worse than it did before.