Product Endorsement: Proactive

Here’s another product endorsement that I’m not getting any money from.

For anyone who’s known me any significant length of time, you know that I’ve had a bit of an issue with acne. I actually went through my formative years with relatively blemish-free skin. It wasn’t until late junior year of college that my face erupted into uncontrollable volcanic chains. A former roommate thought it served me right as she had suffered a long battle with facial blemishes while I would quite often go without washing my face before bed and then slather perfumed and oily lotion on while she was trapped in a nightly routine of special medicated wash and moisturizer.

I’ve tried a couple of different products and practices over the years to treat the angry and bumpy splotches on my face and have finally found a reliable companion in Proactive Solution. I use the three-punch skin care system nightly (they recommend once to twice a day but my skin dried out with morning and night washes) and have to say that I’m much prettier than I used to be. I still get the odd pimple or two (there’s a nice dot forming in the middle of my forehead that I’m blaming on Thanksgiving) but they seem to be isolated incidents rather than the small colonies that had previously settled on my chin and surrounding areas.

Though I’ve been warned by others who’ve used Proactive that it eventually lost its effectiveness for them I can’t be anything but pleased with the product now. You can (sort of) see from the (tiny) pictures above the improvement Proactive has made to my complexion and overall confidence in myself. I’d like to say that Proactive also helped to improve my fashion sense as I no longer where the bright green Oscar the Grouch hat but, really, that’s just because my beloved knit has gone missing.