I used to have really bad face issues too with my skin and tried a lot of stuff like proactive and everything else and what worked for me was actually leaving it alone, as hard as it was. I just basically let the shower water clean my skin, I barely even used soap, just the shampoo suds and water and my skin cleared up. I can use some stuff now, the gentle stuff but even then I need to back off every now and then for my skin to recover.