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Hey,
I am a seventeen year old boy, I have acne, but have that kinda under control, but have such oily skin.
Now I have several optitions to reduce my sebum, I list them below:
- Pantothenic acid, B5 / oxidises the sebum in the skin
- Vitamin D(3) / I really dont know how this reduces sebum
- Vitamin A / I also don't know exactly how this can reduce sebum
- Accutane / shrinks the oil glands permanently
- Saw palmetto, green tea extract (oral) / Lowering androgen levels
- Green tea extract (topical) / Lowering androgen levels
Now I am a bit confused, because I dont know wich ones I should chose, and maybe more than one at the same time?
well, every type of supplement has his own things, B5, D3, and A works in the whole body, but doesn't affect the dead skin cells and bacteria, the things that lowers the androgens does those three things, they let your skin produce less sebum, horny layer is less and less bacteria, but if I take that internally, then I will not grow very well because I am still in puberty, that's why I thought about topical green tea, but than I don't affect my scalp, back and chest, sooo, please help!! ow, and also the vitamins help always reduce sebum, regardless what causes it, but androgen blockers only reduces it when it's caused by hormones, for example, maybe my overproduction of sebum is for 70% because to many androgens, and for 30% because food allergies.
I have tried pantothenic acid tho, a few months, every day I would say 1500mg, but it didn't work very well, actually i dont saw any improvement, maybe this time I will see differences, I honestly can't believe that that pantothenic acid did'nt anything!
help, please!
BTW, I don't want accutane! for several reasons! I don't have that severe acne for accutane and it's just the sebum, and I don't want to fall even deeper in depression
Well, you will not like this answer, but in my experience only accutane has been effective in reducing my sebum production. At the moment there are a couple drugs out there that are being developed to address oily skin, but they are in clinical trials and will not be available to the general public for some time. The drugs in question are DRM01 and SB204. The latter is closer to release than the former. So far both drugs have had little to no negative side effects so they look promising.
I made a log of my experience using accutane in the forums. Tl;dr is that i had very mild acne and used accutane 40mg/day over the course of a year. The only side effects was dry skin/lips, reduced sebum, and slight joint pain. Though I understand you not wanting to risk using it. I am unique in that I experienced virtually none of the major side effects.
One benefit of accutane is that although my oily skin returned within a couple weeks, I do not get any zits anymore (as of 3 months post-accutane). Any that I do get shrivel up quickly overnight with a dab of BP.
Hi Peter...I agree, for several reasons, you should not take Accutane. I am now 42, I've only been dealing with an upsurge in acne over the last two years or so and I refuse to take Accutane. I'm old enough to know better...but I have seen another member post on here about the after-effects of having been on Accutane in his teens and it's a HUGE regret for him. Life-long consequences...
Oily skin...can be annoying (I am dealing with that recently too), but I'll take it over pizza-face!
In part, harsh products can contribute to oiliness. (Trying to adjust this myself.)
As far as supplements...taking a decent multi for starters. Vitamins compete for absorption, so if you start taking one, you could cause deficiency of another. Do your homework on these and don't get too carried away. (Accutane is essentially a HUGE overdose of vitamin A.)
I've also read that spearmint tea was effective as well...
Currently, I am taking a once daily multi, Nordic Naturals Cod liver oil (vit A & D, and helps lower those androgens you mention) and some Vitamin D3 oil drops, and some good probiotics...I also just picked up a bottle of the Murad vitamins. (I will take two at night only to balance what I'm getting in my multi.) I've significantly increased some level intakes, but nothing even close to overdosing.
Keep in mind, any significant increase in your daily Vitamin A intake will likely result in some degree of "purging".
Try Hemp seed oil (drink) or Fish oil.
Accutane should be the final choice after all has failed because you risk what you have (your current health) only to exchange with something which is possibly worse than before. (side effects of Accutane)
@TheBean, I notice you have mentioned Murad & Probiotics. Does Murad work? I see many positive reviews on Amazon but afraid of fakes, scams. About Probiotics, what do you currently use? Does it work too? The Primal Ultra Defense Probiotics is on the way to my house xD.
The only Murad product I am using is the Vitamin Supplement. I chose it because it's lower in the B vitamins and higher in the A. I use it alternating with another multivitamin to balance out the B vitamins...I'm doing a little experimenting with mixing up the vitamins.
I currently take Garden of Life RAW probiotics, Colon Care. But I switch around to get diversity in the strains. I think nutrition is much like exercise (life in general?)...variety and moderation. Primal Defense are good probiotics as well.