Proactiv Solution : Acne Treatment System

I used to use this when I first started getting acne in gr. 6....worst idea of my friggin life. In the first few weeks the product seems to work just FanTastic! (but most products are like that right?) but after a good month of use my skin started to break out worse than before...so I stopped using it...second worse choice of my life I broke out even WORSE after that. I have sensitive skin too, so my skin goes red very easily, and having acne in gr. 6 just sucks...really. especially when you don't get in control of it until 12th grade...ugh So basically, it wont hurt to try >.> maybe, but you have to be willing to stick with the routine to only god knows how long... if all else fails, go ask your dermatologist about minocycline and tazorac...accutane can be pretty harsh on the body so I really don't recommend it..

Tried this for a month. I noticed some improvement, but I still broke out. Things got much better when I started applying much more of the BP, as per DKR. The toner didn't seem to do much for me, except after a workout when I could see it picking up a lot of oil and grime. Best thing about the Proactiv products is the Refining Mask, which has sulfur in it. I tried using it once as a facial mask per their instructions, but it stank to high heaven! Read reviews on [link removed] toting it as being an great overnight spot treatment. Tried it that way and totally concur with the other reviewers. It's an awesome spot treatment!

At first it started to look like my skin was clearing up. Then my acne started to develop even more and it got worse the more i used it. My skin started to get dry and flaky so i stopped. My skin then started to clear up a bit and wasn't oily. If i were you i would not even try proactiv out unless you can get it for $19.95 or whatever they advertise it for i TV.

Don't waste your money. You will be upset. The best thing this product does is exfoliate dead skin cells, which may clear skin but so will a 3 dollar scrub. The BP is drying. It did not work well for me.

I have light/moderate acne and every now and then I get a few new whiteheads here and there. I started using proactive in middle school because I had very slight acne. In high school, I still used proactive but I would still get acne on my chin and around the nose area. Towards the end of high school and into the beginning of my college year, my acne got even worse. I even started to break out on my forehead. I don't know if proactive really did any thing for my acne because it only got progressively worse as I grew. Also after using it for so long my skin has gotten very dry even after I use the moisturizer. I recently switched my face wash to cetaphil because my skin was getting to dry from using proactive. But after using cetaphil for one month, I began to get worse breakouts then I ever got with proactive. So now I switched back to proactive. I'm still searching for a different product because I feel as though proactive really doesnt really help with my acne I never saw my skin clear up. With proactive I saw my face get better, then get worse, then get better, then get worse again. At the end of the day my acne is worse then when I started to use proactive. Also occasionally my skin would get really skin or oily.

proactiv works to reduce the severity of my acne, but it is clearly not a LONG TERM FIX! My acne never went away. I finally stopped using proactiv and my acne is coming back a lot worse then when I started the proactiv treatment. Those 6 years felt like a temporary fix to repress my acne and now it is finally showing itself.

I've been using Proactiv for about 4 years. I have moderate acne (a couple cystic ones every month or so, a good handful of your typical whiteheads all the time) and combination-type skin. It took about 3 months for me to see results, and for a good while, I was pretty satisfied with the results. I still had a break-out from time to time, but it definitely stopped the cystic acne. During the last year of use though, for some reason (perhaps stress), my acne worsened, and I was almost back to pre-Proactiv use. After struggling for a few months, I decided to stop using the Proactiv system and I ordered Dan's BP, and bought a mild cleanser and moisturizer from the drug store. Since then, my acne has cleared up significantly, and overall, my skin tone is more even. Proactiv seems to be pretty variable. Some people have lots of success with it, and others don't, and the success also seems to variable with respect to time. If you want to give it a try, give it at least a couple months, and be liberal with the lotion (even though they give you a disproportionately small amount). I find the toner to be completely useless; I spent a few months not using it, and no changes. The cleanser is an exfoliant. If you're washing your face with this two times a day and you have drier, more sensitive skin, this will probably be too much of an irritant. The BP is excellent, very light and with minimal fragrance, but the quantity is quite small. So what's the bottom line? For me, I found it to be too expensive for the results I was getting. Dan's BP is the same concentration as the treatment lotion provided in the Proactiv kit, and is cheaper. The BP products across both systems are very comparable. For my skin type, I found the cleanser to be overly irritating, and the toner didn't have an effect either way. For a BP treatment regimen, I wouldn't recommend Proactiv.

I think it's an OK product but not necessarily the solution to moderate and worse acne.

i used the old proactiv and it didnt work to well. i think its my skin type, because some of my friends who used it it cleared their skin up completely.

ive had horrible acne for 2 years and started lighting up on me in janurary, i started proavtive to speed up the prosses and i DO have clearER skin, but not perfect skin. i still break out here and there. im on my 3rd month useing it and i still have atleat EIGHT ZITS ON MY FACE.but ill continue to use it till may 1st. if not clear by then im moving on to something else. if you dont give something at least 4 months your wasting your money. period.