Usually my skin has issues when the seasons change and then quickly subsides as the weather becomes consistent. The only problem is the weather here in DC is never consistent! I have tried so many different products this summer and my skin has just been overly temperamental. I bought the Clarisonic to try and help the products I was using work better, and it helped a lot with cleaning my face but the products were still not doing enough. This is when my friend suggested Murad. I had seen the commercials on TV and just kept thinking it was another Proactive, which broke my face out and gave me scars that took months to fade. So my dislike for anything of the like is pretty strong and I tend to not want to use products that seem to be the same thing. But when my friend told me about what it did for her face I was sold!