Pro-active solution

[Eternal]

Anyone tried it and did it work? What are your comments on it?

I've tried it and it didn't work. The commercials are funny though at how they claim it works.

I say, save money, go out and buy some bp (2.5), mosturizer, and some good face cleanser. A ton cheaper.

 

[TyTe`EyEs]

I tried it and it worked for me. Really the only thing that ever has.

 

[Shiftkey]

It worked for me for a few months. Then I seemed to build up a resistance to the tiny amount of benzoyl peroxide in the crap. You're better off getting a prescription for cream with higher amounts of benzoyl peroxide - that's the chemical that makes 99% of all topical acne treatments work. Prescription will always be higher than over the counter too, for legal reasons.

You might want to try using the cream more liberally, you might be spreading it too thin.

 

[Levex]

Originally posted by Shiftkey
It worked for me for a few months. Then I seemed to build up a resistance to the tiny amount of benzoyl peroxide in the crap.

last i checked it was imposible to be resistant to benzoyl peroxide. it creates oxygen in your skin which kills the bacteria, and you can't become resistant to oxygen.

crazykid, use 2.5%-5% BP which has the same effect as 10%. i tried 10% once and that **** burned my face so bad i was peeling for 2 weeks.
or be smart and just go on accutane, which is the only thing that REALLY works. i been living with this acne bull**** for 4 years and about to start taking it in the fall.

 

[Eternal]

Originally posted by Levex
last i checked it was imposible to be resistant to benzoyl peroxide. it creates oxygen in your skin which kills the bacteria, and you can't become resistant to oxygen.

crazykid, use 2.5%-5% BP which has the same effect as 10%. i tried 10% once and that **** burned my face so bad i was peeling for 2 weeks.
or be smart and just go on accutane, which is the only thing that REALLY works. i been living with this acne bull**** for 4 years and about to start taking it in the fall.

My skin actually reacts better to the 10% then the 2.5 BP. Never peeled from the BP itself, but from too much moisturizer after shaving.

I thought about Accutane, but my skin isn't that bad with acne to need it. All I really have left are the red marks.

 

[Shiftkey]

last i checked it was imposible to be resistant to benzoyl peroxide. it creates oxygen in your skin which kills the bacteria, and you can't become resistant to oxygen.

Yes I've read that as well. That's what I mean by it seems that I built a resistance to it. It's a fact that for me it worked for a few months, then I kept breaking out. I don't know what really happened but those are the results. Even when I talked to my dermatologist about it, she said she's heard of that happening before. But that was several years ago so I don't remember the reasoning she gave me. Perhaps Proactiv relies on more than BP and those chemicals can be resisted.

 

[Levex]

if your skin is not bad enough to use accutane, i'd suggest getting a prescription for "DUAC" gel from your derm. it has 5% bp and 1% clindamycin and has helped me a lot in the past few months. can't say that i tried proactiv but i heard it only works for several months, then your skin gets used to those other chemicals, so you're only paying for the benefits of BP which you can get 10x cheaper.

 

[Raven125]

I've tried proactive and it kept my acne in line, although it never improved. I then switched to using the proactive cleanser then putting on BP and my acne has improved ten fold.