My brother's wife bought him the Proactiv 3 step system and apparently it worked for him. He found he didn't use the small repairing lotion bottle and gave it to me thinking it might help with my occasional ingrowns. I've had this about six months and I must say it does a great job of eliminating ingrown bumps - typically in a couple days, bumps disappear. If I use it once the bumps are large-ish, they disappear much quicker than if I don't (these bumps would get very large and take 3 or 3 weeks to completely go away). Only complaint is that, now that I need a refill, it appears I can only buy the entire three step system rather than just the repairing lotion. I am going to try Tendskin as an alternative.