This gel kind of works for me. I have mild acne, usually cystic so it hurts really bad and it can be there for days. What this gel does for me is it dries out the spots that I have and are healing. For the new spots that I get, it makes them smaller and disappear in a couple of days. It doesn't do much in clearing the skin and not getting new spots but it does work and heal the spots that do come out.