Proactiv Solution : Acne Treatment System

Now this is what i call sad.. NEVER worked.. made my face red.. never showed improvement. wow. i am very ashamed with you proactiv. What a shame.

I endured hour long testimonials on TV consistently researching online, which finally led to a purchase. Long story short it didn't work. No life changing story here.

Proactive is a joke and a scam!!!!

I tried this after seeing all those annoying commercials on tv saying it was a "miracle" product and how the people's acne on there went away in like a week. WELL, it was TERRIBLE on my skin. i broke out soo bad, i think it took me like a month for the acne to go away that formed from Proactiv. I can't believe I wasted 60 bucks on this junk. I definetely would NOT recommend this to anyone!!!

1. It doesn't work, period. All those silly commercials are just misleading and honestly do not have an ounce of truth to them. 2. Costumer service. Terrible. When i realized that I didnt want them anymore, I called to cancel. They still kept on sending them and charging my account even when i sent the stupid shipment back. I called to cancel my account again and they told me 'well we have to wait for the returned shippment to get there, then it will be automatically cancelled'. Unfortunately for me, 2 months later, i get another bill. I call to find out why I am still getting it...guesss what? They hadn't cancelled my account because they claimed they got the shipment late in violation of the 60 day warranty. So they made me pay for a the kit a hadn't ordered, didn't want and which i had returned. Customer service hung up on me even when I was polite. Save your money. Go see a dermatologist. You will get long term solutions and results.

Too little product. Too much money. No results.

Don't expect them to cancel your account when asked. Don't expect them to tell you they received the package you sent back, even 3 months after you sent it back! Get proof from the post office when you send it back!

I've used ProActive for about a year now. Last year when I first started using it, it worked tremendously for about a few months. I loved it and recommended it to everyone to give it a try. When summer came around it started to not work so well because of drying and pimples started showing so I stopped using it for a while to try another product called Arbonne Clear Advantage (it's a 3-step solution also) and it worked for quite a while because of no dryness, it kept my skin nice and moist, but didn't cure all the pimples, just the occasional so I kept using it. I wanted no pimples of course and that wasn't 100% working so towards the end of summer i started using ProActive again and same results to why I stopped using it till this day I am using it to hopefully see some results but NO still the same. I came to a conclusion that mid-year they changed the formula or something that maybe irritates my skin more. I don't know. It just wasn't the same ProActive that I first used. Everybody is different of course, but majority of the people posting reviews that I seen say that it does dry out the skin.

I tried Proactiv years ago and after having a bad reaction with a Burts Bees acne line, I thought I'd give Proactiv another try to help clean up the mess that Burts Bees caused. It made it SO much worse! With any new acne regimine, your skin is going to get dry to a point...although its SO dry that I haven't smiled in 3 weeks, I won't eat in public because stretching the skin around my mouth makes it all flakey and gross. Sometimes I'd eat my lunch in my car at work and have to pick off the dead skin after I'm dead eating...it's just been a horrific experience. It worked NOTHING like it did for me years ago. The cleanser seems nice at first, but after 3 weeks of using it, I stopped because of the horrible cystic acne it gave me and because I couldn't go through putting the cleanser on the cystic acne with the little scrubby beads in it. It just seemed to irritate things. I went back to my dermatologist today, and told him that I tried Proactive and he told me that that wasn't a good decision to make at all, that the stuff in Proactive is not good for your skin. I know that it works for some people, although this time around it just made it so bad for me. I called off of work today because it's so bad, and I've NEVER done that before. I can't say that I would or would not recommend it to someone, because everyones skin is so different. It all depends, unfortunately it may come down to trail and error as far as finding something that works for you. Personally I've given up the battle, and I'm resting my skin in the hands of a doctor. It's a little more expensive, but clear beautiful skin is more than priceless to me.

I was on Proactiv for around 5 months and nothing happened for me. I did like the way it felt on my skin and the smell but thats nothing. The acne did not get better it got a little worse and just kept getting worse even when i was off of it. i would only tell someone to use this if there acne was light because it might help for someone with light acne. good luck for everyone i have not found anything that helps well yet.