This stuff works very nicely on my acne and it leaves a nice light cooling effect on the skin. So it's nice for hot summer nights when your face has been feeling sweaty, oily, and sticky from the humidity. What I do is I exfoliate my skin and then I use this. It's done wonders for my summer time acne. Before I bought this face wash I was starting to develop deep cystic acne thanks to the humidity of summer. But this, paired with an exfoliant, and the pore 'freshner' to follow and top me off, my acne has been pretty tame.