The main cause of acne is oily skin! Too much skin oil leads to clogged pores and promotes bacteria growth leading to pimples, blackheads, whiteheads and breakouts. Vitamin B5 regulates the amount of oil your skin produces returning it a normal level, ultimately reducing acne.
Your skin is producing too much oil because the lipids and fatty acid deposits underneath the skin are not getting broken down and re-circulated into the bloodstream. Instead they are being released as sebum (oil). What enables your body to break down these fatty acids is directly related to an enzyme called coenzyme A, which is an essential enzyme to the body and is used for fatty acid metabolism. When there is enough Vitamin B5 available in the diet, the deficiency in coenzyme A is eliminated. As a result, a person's fatty acids get broken down and the skin doesn't over release oil. By minimising the amount of oil that is released, acne does not occur.