Proactiv Solution : Acne Treatment System

pro aktiv can maybe a could treatment for people who don't have really bad skin or only a few breakouts. I have the typical t-zone skin (oily forehead, dry to oily cheeks and large pores) I also have a very bad skin on my back. Pro aktiv didn't say anything of using it on the back or that it would work there but I used it there too, with no change. I am glad that my skin doesn't gets worse of this product. Like I said, proactiv is maybe not a bad product but I would only use it if you don't have bad breakouts and acne.

dried my skin out and didn't do anything for my acne except irritate it

I am a 28-year-old acne sufferer. My breakouts have been under control for years now, but over the past 6 months they came back with a vengeance. I started using Proactiv in college, and it cleared up my condition. I used it for years, until I was about 23. I quit b/c it was expensive and b/c I noticed that I didn't need it anymore. I started grad school recently, and I think the stress made me breakout. Last month, after unsuccessfully using a variety of products (Burts Bees acne system being one), I decided to give Proactiv a try again. I was using it for a couple weeks, and things seemed to be okay, but then my acne got WAY worse! It spread underneath my chin and onto my neck, something that has never happened before. The pimples were often huge and painful to touch. This went on for two weeks before I decided to stop using Proactiv. I don't know what Proactiv did to their system, but it's just not the same. I used it for years before with positive results. My breakouts used to clear up in two weeks on it! I don't know if it's my age or what, but that shouldn't matter. This is supposed to be formulated for everyone. I've switched to AcneFree Severe acne kit and it seems to be working. It's cheaper and you don't have to pay shipping.

I had tried this years ago and dried out but saw there was a new improved formula that was supposed to be gentler so i tried that. i didn't notice any difference. my acne did start to go away but it got so dry and red that I had to stop using the products. After trying absolutly everything out there i have to say that zenmed has helped me the most. If you have mild acne and really really oily skin this may work for you but if your acne is any worse or your skin is even normal in oilyness - try zenmed!

this product did not work for me it may work on other people but i have not found a person that has had success with it.

When i started using proacitv i got the same results as most people on this page. It sucked! However for some reason i continued to use it and it began to clear up my face. It is a good product just continue to use it dont let a little setback cause you to stop using it. Rather than using all three products three times a day i like to use only the cleanser in the morning and use the oil free moisturizer over it. Its a fine product try it out .

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.