A lot of brains come here on this forum, a lot of you know way more about this topic than I do. So I thought it be a good place for finding an answer to an old question that keeps me busy for over a decade now. A bit of background that might help others and maybe makes it better to understand my question.. So here we go.
As a teenager I had acne. As most people would, I hated it. It controlled my life pretty much. Just like many I searched on the internet for days and days every now and then. One day, twelve years ago, I found out about B5. On forums people were crazy about it so I ordered B5 from Solgar. A month later I was cured from my acne. It was the most crazy turnaround one could imagine from taking a supplement. In one week my oily skin was gone. My skin sort of peeled a bit and became smooth. From not so healthy looking to a shiny, healthy skin. Every time I think back I still almost can not believe it. I think a lot about how my life would be different if I had not found out and for sure not being were I am today.
I have taken B5 for over ten years almost every day in different doses. Every time I quit supplementing B5 my acne was coming back. One day I was worried about the imbalance of the b vitamins so I started with a B complex. Strange thing was that every time I started B complex supplementations my acne was slowly coming back. A couple years later I started to worry again about imbalance so I decided to buy every b vitamine apart to isolate which (or maybe all) vitamin b caused this.
Not directly expecting an answer but it turned out that I can take all b vitamins without any problems accept biotin. There is something about biotin and I don't think it's only a question of B5 competing with biotin which might also be true at the same time. There are many reports that biotin makes the skin oily which is interesting as well.
I would love to have insight in why biotin might cause acne or if there might be other factors to consider. Any ideas on this topic (the B5+ Biotin connection) are greatly appreciated.
Edited by Mens, 01 December 2013 - 02:35 PM.
