I read all the great reviews on this & jumped into trying it. I really wanted it to work for me & was okay with trying it because it was Vitamins. I figured, what can happen from Vitamins right? PLEASE look into this as much as you can before trying it. Not everyone will get the same result. Today is exactly a month that I was taking this & I stopped today. The first thing I noticed is that my oil did not reduce at all. When I started taking this I had beautiful naturally thick thick hair. A few days ago I was washing my hair & was shocked to see that all of my hair was in my hand & my hand felt empty. My hair thinned out so much because of this to the point where 25% of what used to be my full head of hair... is actually now my full head of hair. All of my hair can now fit into a small clip. I am devastated & in horror. I hate myself for trying this. I would do anything to get my thick beautiful hair back. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE look into this completely before trying it. It's not a joke. I don't know if I will ever get my hair back or what will happen to me now. My acne is still here. Basically all that happened for me was my hair loss.

i'm really enjoying using this product mainly because it is so easy to use and i am seeing a gradual difference in my skin.

One thing i'm not to sure about though is the dosage. My B5 supplement is 500mg (per tab.) Now i;m constantly reading reviews that say to take up to 10g (20 tabs!!) per day. I mean i'm still only in my teens but i think i'm mature enough to know that 20 vitamins per day could be considered mega dosing.

Personally i'm going to limit myself to 2g (4 tabs) per day, because i'm scared of any side affects. Preferably 2 tabs in the morning before school and 2 before i go to bed.

Besides the dosage, its true, i think this supplement is working for me - slowly but surely. Although i dont see any difference to my blackheads on my nose which is a shame, but then again i have only been using these for about two weeks. Two weeks is also the time when people say that you should start seeing results which makes sense.

In conclusion vitamin B5 seems to be a natural remedy for skin and acne and i would definatly reccomend it to anybody.

But please bear in mind your dosage.

Seriously 20 tablets per day...everyday?!?!?

telogen effluvium sucks... worse than acne.

don't know what it is? good. don't find out.

DO. NOT. DO. THIS.

best product i have came across, i have tried just about everything minus accutane due to the price. very excited about how b5 may work as the days continue, I have been on it for about a month and the results have really just started showing up. confidence is coming back =) I am taking 10-16 pills (500mg) a day depending on what i am eating, good luck hope this works as well for you as it did for myself. be consistent and don't give up. ORDER ONLINE dirt cheap

Iam updating my review, i reviewed b5 3 months ago wen i started using it.. So its been 3 month today that i have been taking b5. I started with 500mg and then went up to 1 gram.. I kepted goin up a gram every 2 to 3 weeeks and now im at 4 grams. Im really excited to have reached my 3 months because i have read that it take about 3 months to actually see results.. But i used to get alot of cysted acne on my cheeks and smaller whiteheads on my chon area.. Maybe 2 weeks ago i started to actually see my skin to start clearing up.. I have no cysts on my face right now but i do have a couple of smaller pimples but nothing like i used to get.. I will not go more than 4 grams, im scared of mega dosing..I am goin to give it another 3 months on 4 grams and hope for my skin to be completely clear by then.. Fingers crossed!! As soon as my face is clear i will start lowring my dosage.. Btw i take 4 500mg with my lunch with a b-complex and 4 500mg with my dinner with a multi-vitamin.. And i take a biotin with my breakfast too cuz i have read about hair loss.. So good luck to all of you hope my review helped and i will post again after 3 more months to share my results..

Pantothenic Acid (Vitamin B5) has really helped me get rid of my acne. Had acne for 4 or 5 years and nothing worked, so I decided to try vitamins. Pantothenic Acid really helped, and has kept me clear long enough for all redness to have (nearly) disappeared. I have always used it with a multivitamin, so I am a firm believer in a natural approach to acne prevention. I definitely recommend this.

I love B5! I have had cystic acne since i was 13, I'm 24 now so its been a long, rough journey. I've used everything, but nothing worked except accutane which made me very depressed, enough to scare me away from it. I read the reviews on this website and decided to give B5 a try. My results weren't as immediate as most of the other reviewers, but after about a month i was completely clear. I have one zit right now, one! I've never been able to say that! It's so small and on my hairline i don't even think its noticeable. I also take 2 zinc pills a day, I originally tried zinc which reduced my oil but did nothing for the acne, i don't know if it's the zinc alone that's controlled the oil so I'm not going to stop taking them. I also take a multivitamin....a Flintstones chewable because they're yummy haha. I heard if you take too much zinc and don't take copper it can mess you up, so if you take zinc take a multivitamin too. I didn't experience any gas or diarrhea while taking this, i do mega dose, i take 12 B5 a day. The only thing left to deal with is the scarring, which is fading and concealer is fantastic when you don't have an actual bump to cover. I highly recommend this, with a gold card at GNC the cost isn't too bad. I' hope you guys have as much success with this as i did, because acne destroyed my confidence and i finally have it back. Good luck!

I've had acne since high school. Was never that bad until I came to college tho. Maybe bad diet coupled with more stress made acne worse? Yea probably,. Anyway, I started taking two 500 mg pills every 12 hours. So 2 at 9am and 2 at 9 pm. And with my biggest meal (usually lunch), I take a b-complex pill.

I bought the b5 from vitamin world and the b-complex from gnc.

I think if you have relatively oily skin and you feel that your cystic acne is resulting from that, then you should definitely give this product a try. For me, it took about 2 days to see a decrease in oiliness. And now, on day 5, my face looks about 90% better.

Also important: There was 1 day breakout for me. They weren't of the cystic kind but they were still pretty red.

Megadose at your own risk. and drink plenty of water regardless. Good luck!

Hi, 24, m, I used this product before and it worked perfectly(10g) i took 20 tabs a day spaced out and kicked in 2 weeks was great. I eventually ran out of caps(2000) and skin was flawless so didn consider gettin more(silly).

2 - 3 Months later skin was back to its oily ways so i decided to get more but this time 1g tabs so i would only have to swallow 10 a day, But i am 5,6 weeks in and nothing has changed with my skin still bad the only thing i notice is dry lips, I read below that if you stop taking them the next time you need to increase your dosage but im not sure But just to let you know the product worked for me perfect i was meant to write a review ages ago but was never on this site cause skin was so good.. But now doesn't seem to be working but its still early days they say you should stay on them for 3 months.. Anyone have different effects the second time taking them?????

B5 (pantothenic acid) is great! I followed a megadosing regimen linked in one of the reviews, and after a couple weeks things started looking better

Eventually I had virtually no acne; to make sure it wasn't me thinking I looked better, I stopped taking it cold turkey and things were terrible,and it took a while to recover

Eventually the regimen tells you to work down, and while I was never able to fully get off it, I only take 2 500mg tablets a day now and my skin has 1-2 pimples

If I forget a dose, I usually flare up but nothing bad

While taking b5, I didn't and dont use any other products besides spot treatments--don't even wash my face besides when it gets wet in the shower

I never experienced any side effects besides when I was megadosing, it kinda made me farty and my stomach would rumble. So take it with food always, that helps

Make sure to keep a bottle for emergencies, if you forget to put in an order online (gmc charges $12~ a bottle). I buy mine from puritans pride, 5 at a time because you get a discount so it comes to about 6$ a bottle, I don't remember. Just search pantothenic acid--puritans pride can even auto-order for you