Why Doesn't ProActiv Work?

As an ex-acne sufferer for almost 10 years, I tried a lot of different treatments ranging from the popular ProActiv solutions to even flying to a foreign country to see a famous cosmetologist. But nothing, none of it solved my problem.

Here are some of the things that I’ve tried (There are so many, I’ve forgotten a few but will add them on later if I remember them):

o Aloe Vera & Products from Forever Living

……..Aloe Vera Drinks

……..Gel

……..Bee Propolis

……..Vitamin B Products

o Dermatologist

……..Minocycline Antibiotics

……..Tetracycline Antibiotics

……..Benzoyl Peroxide

……..Salicylic Acid

……..Laser Electric Pulse Treatment

……..Steroid Injection

……..Ultraviolet Ray Electric Frequency Treatment

……..Multiple Topical Creams (Different medications mixed into toners, creams, etc.)

o Cosmetologist

……..Facials

……..Mud Masques

……..Whitening Facial Cream

o ProActiv Solutions

o Some other popular brand like ProActiv (but I forget the name)

o Clean & Clear

……..Acne Creams

……..Facial washes

o Changing my diet

……..Eating healthy

……..Cutting down on sweets

……..Drinking a ridiculous amount of water (one glass every hour for 10-12 hours)

o Working out

o Saunas

I actually tried doing a search for why ProActiv didn’t work for me about 3-4 years ago but found nothing. It’s kind of odd that I’m actually the one, now, who’s posting about it. Alright, that brings us to the main reason you’re all here: so… if ProActiv doesn’t work, what should I do? I’ll have to do a little bit of explaining but stay with me. Trust me, you’ll thank me later you took the time to read this =)

BENZOYL PEROXIDE & PROACTIV SOLUTIONS

Conventional acne medication generally only treats the symptom. Let’s take, for example, the infamous BP or Benzoyl Peroxide, a topical cream that’s applied externally.

Topical acne treatments like salicylic acid or Benzoyl Peroxide do is kill acne bacteria. But after most the acne bacteria is killed on your face, it still doesn’t change the environment of your face. Eventually, the acne bacteria will come back. If you don’t believe me, that’s why you have to continue to use their products otherwise you’ll start breaking out again.

For those of you that Benzoyl Peroxide didn’t even work on, this is because Benzoyl Peroxide couldn’t kill the acne bacteria fast enough compared to the infections that were still happening.

To illustrate what I’m talking about with an analogy, let’s take a pond of water. Healthy people with healthy skin have a nice pond of water with fresh water running in and fresh water running out. This is sort of like their bodies or pores being able to filter out the toxins before it clogs up their pores. If you continue to have this fresh water running in and then having it running out, the possibility of infestation is very low.

But what if you have congesting toxins in your blood and lymph fluid and hormonal imbalance? The congesting toxins would cause your body to not having any “fresh water” running into your “pond”, so to speak. The hormonal imbalance would cause your body not to not be able to filter toxins out, sort of like not having that water running out of your “pond.”

Eventually, you’re pond just becomes a clogged, perfect breeding environment for acne bacteria, a “stagnant pond” if you will. Think of those backyard water fountains that have gone out of use but still have a little bit of water in them. What happens to that stagnant, unmoving water? Eventually it becomes filled with mosquitoes, bacteria, fungus, it’s pretty gross. So what happens if you hose down and pour insecticide in that bacteria infested pond (which is the equivalent of only killing the acne bacteria on your face with benzoyl peroxide)? Obviously, you’ll kill most of the mosquito eggs, most of the mosquitoes, wash out most of the bacteria, etc… And for a little bit it’ll look like that pond’s pretty clean.

But sooner or later, after the insecticide dissipates and fades away, the mosquitoes will come back, the fungus will re-proliferate, and the bacteria will start to grow again. That might be a fine solution for some of you, but also, don’t forget about this. Your body isn’t that random pool of water in your backyard that you don’t really care about. It’s YOUR BODY.

Pouring insecticide on or in your body for a long period of time eventually will start harming it, but we’ll get into that later.

And surprise! What do you think is the main ingredient in ProActiv’s Main 3-step regimen? That’s right, you guessed it, Benzoyl Peroxide. Or check out this website “Nature’s Cure” offering antibiotics and benzoyl peroxide cream (next we cover how bad antibiotics really are). In my opinion, that’s why, if it didn’t work for you, it’s because it really doesn’t work at all.So what’s the best solution here, we focus on getting this “pool” of water running again so it’ll just clean itself and allow us to never have to use any insecticide ever again?

So in the end, some topical treatments might be useful in the short-term to alleviate acne, but you must understand that these topicals really don’t do anything for the underlying cause.

In my blog website, I talk about things like: Have you ever thought about what’s the difference between you and that other person with clear skin? I mean, they barely ever wash their face, they eat like crap, they never sleep, yet their faces are so clear.

But before you click on the link, I want to warn you. This ISN’T going be another one of those 3-days to being completely “acne free” things and I’m NOT offering magical pixy dust to sprinkle into your cereal (But if you’re here, you probably already know that things like that don’t work anyway).

It took me a lot of hard work to finally clear my acne and it will clear for you too, if you want it bad enough. So if you know that you probably don’t want it that bad, then don’t even waste your time with my website. But if you do, like I did, (and let me tell you, I would’ve done anything to have clear skin back then) you should probably check out the first step.

Next: Step 1 – The First REAL Step to Clearing Your Acne

Or: Check Out the How I Cleared My Acne Video Tutorials!

-Ray

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