Pros and Cons of Proactiv?

Question

my mom is getting me proactiv.

and i wanna know the benefits of it.

and what are some problems you had with it.

and are you pleased with your outcome.

give it a rating on a one to ten scale.

like one being terrible.

ten being the best you've ever used.

Answer 1

When I used Proactiv, I did the whole "automatic shipping every two months" program, which was really convenient.  Plus, this was before most malls had Proactiv kiosks (which are everywhere now).

This is all from personal experience, of course, but here's what I thought:

Pros:

1) Easy-to-use, 3-step system

2) Definitely cleared up my existing acne and calmed my slight redness

3) Made my skin smoother

4) Didn't burn my rather sensitive skin

5) Gentle scrubbers (elaborating on #4), as opposed to the rough, scratchy ones I'd been using

6) Didn't have to worry about going out and buying more with the automatic shipping

Cons:

1) I often found that my facial cleanser ran out before the automatic shipment, and eventually I ended up with a 3 bottle back-up of the skin clearing lotion because I was using less of it.

2) Sometimes I would hurry and not wash my hands thoroughly after applying the lotion, so the benzoyl peroxide ended up bleaching some of my clothing and hand towels.  Of course, that was my own fault, but it's still something to consider.

3) It didn't totally prevent new pimples--they were just less noticeable.

4) It takes about 4 weeks of consecutive use to see your continual results.

5) I quit using it for a while for lack of money and didn't re-start it until about 3 months later.  It didn't work HALF as well when I re-started it.  Now I wish I'd just kept using it.

So, nearly equal pros and cons from my usage of it.  However, it still remains the best product for acne I ever used as a teen (I only have light breakouts every now and then currently).  I would definitely highly recommend it to anyone, especially people with moderate to severe acne breakouts.  There's no cure for acne, but Proactiv came pretty close!

My rating out of 10?  Well, a full 10, to me, would be the cure itself.  :)  So I'd have to give it a 9.