I get occasional pms related breakouts. My teenage son gets some pretty major breakouts. We kept seeing Proactive advertised on the television, magazines, radio etc. Everyone seemed to be raving about how well it worked so I decided to order some for my teen son and myself.

It used it less that a week and it left my face very red, painfully dry and almost chapped. I had a much worse breakout than usual.
I wasn't discouraged because just because it didn't work well for me didn't mean it wouldn't work well for the teenager in our household. He used the Proactive long enough to use up the complete bottle. We saw no major improvement in his facial breakouts. In fact he had quite a few more large breakouts and his skin was extremely flaky and somewhat dry.

I asked him if he wanted me to order another bottle so he could keep using the Proactive, He said "nope because my skin looks worse. " We switch back to antibacterial soap for acne which is very inexpensive and seems to work much better.