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I did 10 g/day for about 4,5 months, and now after 8 months I'm down to 3 g/day. It had got rid of my acne after about 3 months, so I think I could have lowered the dose earlier. But it's different for all people. Many tend to see real results within 2-3 months, but in the original study by Lit-Hung Leung some used 10-15(!) grams for at least 6 months.

Don't believe everything you read either for or against B5, but there are some very helpful information on the net. See for example the good and bad experiences under 'Testimonials' at www.geocities.com/b5foracne/. The helpful Australian guy who runs that site is called radiographer and writes at the forum Absolute Acne Info. A lot of people there have used or are using B5 against acne.


What B5 does is to simply reduce the amount of sebum in the skin, just like Accutane but without most of its side-effects.

Please note that there still is a risk with using B5. Most people only have easy side-effects which are natural causes of the loss of sebum. But no-one really knows what B5 might do in the long term. There are, however, several people in other discussion groups who've used it in low doses for 2+ years or even longer.

To me, as long as B5 works, which most people who've tried it agree on, and it isn't even near the side-effects of Accutane, I will continue using it.

(I will turn 25 this year so I hope I will be able to quit B5 altogether later this year. I've had acne since I was 12-13 but I hope it will end now when I'm leaving my teens. It did stop for my elder brother, so I'm positive.)


I also recommend the news group alt.skincare.acne. You need a news group reader, like Outlook Express in Windows, to read and post there. But you can also search the archives at groups.google.com. The alt.skincare.acne group had some good discussions with trusted long-time posters who even posted under their real names. I especially enjoyed the posts around the time when the author of the B5 FAQ, William Gray, was still posting there.

If you really want to know what B5 is and what it does in a scientific perspective, read the full report by Lit-Hung Leung as well as other scientific papers. It helps to know that vitamin-B5 it the same thing as pantothenic acid, d-panthenol, provitamin-B5 (common in shampoo) etc.

To understand why the reducing of sebum helps acne, see for example AcneNet. IMHO, it really is the most effective way to treat acne, since it's sebum that gets trapped within the skin that causes pimples.

I personally don't believe there's any lack of B5 in our bodies, like it says in the B5 FAQ etc., but B5 helps the body with metabolising fats which in turn reduces sebum (which of course is fat/oil).

Oh, the B5 FAQ I'm referring to seems to be down at the moment. It's normally at members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3f978/. You can instead read a cached version at http://web.archive.org/web/20030205170548/http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3f978/B5_FAQ.html

ps. Sorry for any spelling mistakes, English is not my native tongue!