Clear for Life

Proactiv is on it again.

This time they recruited professional skateboarder Ryan Sheckler as their celebrity face.

This is what Ryan had to say about Proactiv:

“When you put it on your face, you can feel it actually getting the dirt out. It feels like you have a brand new face.”

Funny enough Ryan, but you are right. You do get a new face when those chemicals (and the free radical damage they cause) destroy your skin.

I’m just wondering what he means by saying ‘you can feel it actually getting the dirt out’?

Does he refer to the burning sensation the chemicals cause? Or perhaps it’s the redness and irritation Proactiv causes to so many people. Perhaps those chemicals have like little shovels they use to ‘dig out the dirt’ and that causes redness.

Don’t mean to sound too negative. Proactiv probably helps millions of people to mask away their acne. As I wrote in my original Proactiv review.

Not to mention that Proactiv is horribly overpriced. You could probably get as good stuff for 10th of the price. The ingredients in Proactiv cost next to nothing. Marketing expenses probably account for 90% of the price.

Another point.

Quick-fixes like Proactiv keep people from finding the real solutions to their acne. When you can mask away those pimples why would you look for anything else? Especially if the real solutions would require you to change your diet and, god forbid, exercise. What a horrible thing!

So people merrily poison their faces with these chemicals for years. Until their body gets into such a bad shape that those creams and pills stop working. That could be 10 years worth of unhealthy living and abusing your body.

Take a moment and think back.

How much easier it would have been to cure your acne with real solutions when you got it the first place? You would probably have 10 or more years less damage to reverse.

All those years you could have lived a healthy and happy life. With much more gusto and confidence to enjoy life. Being healthy also makes you more optimistic and productive. When you get more done you get further in life.

So all those quick-fixes bear quite a heavy cost - when you count everything.

Anyway, remember to be grateful for your acne.

Once you’ve fixed your life and look back you’ll notice it’s probably one of the best things that happened to you. It may not seem like that now, but it will be.

It certainly was that for me. Without acne I would have never fixed my health. I would still be sitting in some (%#)%*#) office writing useless reports to people who are too stupid to figure things out themselves (I used to be a consultant : )).

Now I live in a tropical paradise, learning to be a scuba diving instructor and loving every bit of the work I do (to spread this message to people).

So not too bad for few pimples.