I have had the worst acne thru out my pre teen and teen years!!! I have tried a whole bunch of diff. things! Proactiv never worked for me, it only made my face irritated and dry but my friend said it worked for her but if you stop using it you break out again so what the point of that? Right now i am using AHAVA face wash and it's soo great! It's gentle and is made with the dead sea so it's great for skin. I used to use Cetaphil which is prescribed by derm. cause it is gentle for the skin, and it is also good, i still use it sometimes but since i wear makeup it doesn't take it all off and ahava does. I have tried clindamycin, benzaclin, clearasel, etc and none took them away completely. What i finally had to do was go on accutane and that worked 100%. Now i get them occasionally when i eat junk but if i drink a lot of water and eat healthy they go away.
Mario Badescu products are also good btw, they have this drying lotion that dries zits up overnight
