This product is great for those painful bumps that never come to a head.  They're considerably smaller by morning, if not completely gone.  I used the buffering lotion every day until my cystic acne was gone, and now i only use it once in a while when I have a flare up.  This worked faster and better than all of the different topical prescriptions my dermatologist prescribed!  I use a bunch of products from the Mario Badescu line and I like them a lot.