NOW Supplements, PABA (Para-Aminobenzoic Acid) 500 mg, B-Complex Family, 100 Capsules

Oddly, this is the best PABA and most effective we've ever found. It's great for stress and wonderful for hair because it can help restore your color if gray appears (mainly from stress!) I've seen people get gray hair from stress in a day, and take PABA and have it disappear in 2 or 3 days. Adelle Davis says that research showed you could take thousands of milligrams (mg) of PABA without adverse effects. With all the stress in the world today, PABA, which is a B vitamin, gets eaten up in the body pretty fast and needs to be replenished. The price of this one is fair, and the product works. These are capsules. It seems that tablets from other companies weren't really effective, but PABA capsules from NOW did work well.

Easy to swallow. Nice bottle. I haven't noticed any difference in health, but I'm not sick :0)

About 40 years ago I got on a kick of reading up on vitamins. I don't know how I figured this out, but I realized if you took about 800 d- alpha tocopheral of vitamin E and about 1000mg of PABA, you would have the following results. Your hair did not turn gray. Supposedly it could reverse that process to some degree. You would be taking internally skin protectant and not sunburn or wrinkle very much, if at all. ALL OF IT TRUE. I'm a light skinned blonde who never tanned. I tan a beautiful color now. LET me change that- when I was younger I did and up until about 3 years ago it was ALL still true. I was 65. I was 28 when I started this. All I ever did was burn and peel. I never laid out for that purpose I did it bc I lived in Southern California and thats just what you did. i worked on the ramp for the airlines in the sun and was always just red faced. I started tanning the most beautiful color. No more sunburn and peel. My hair became a beautiful goldish white. I look at pictures back then and can't believe it's me. NOW i'm 68. my whole family was mostly or totally grey by their 40's. I have like 5-7 grey hairs and it's probably just bc I got very extended sick. And grey hair wasn't my first concern at the time and so I wasn't taking them for at least a year. So if nothing else, I'm not sure if it reversed anything, but I've definitely stopped the process of greying again. The REALLY fascinating part of this is a few years later i was reading a book of my sister's about the winners of Nobel Prizesand their winning projects. A couple of people had discovered the grey hair thing. They completely missed the nonwrinkle aspect of it and the no more sunburning and total tanning protection of the PABA. I take it as a combo, for the grey hair also, so I don't know if you need the vit E for the tanning or not. I do know the PABA begins working on the tanning aspect pretty quickly. I never expected that result. I don't know how long it was, but no more than a couple months I don't think before I laid out by the pool. You can imagine how thrilled i was to have brown tan lines that evening instead of burning red skin! The vit E has to be helpful in maintaining the softness of your skin for nonwrinkling. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND at least the PABA, but more the combo. It's not just my experience- It's a Nobel Prize winner!

I bought this for my hairs to be black , but i notice that it is less effective :(

I was consulting my medical astrology book, that has been more useful than my doctor for the past few years, and I read that people with a hard aspect of Venus and Saturn tend to be low in PABA. (Venus being beauty and Saturn ruling aging). I did a quick google search on PABA, and when I learned that it could help my prematurely gray hair, I thought I’d try it. The price of this one was so good, that if it ended up being useless, it wasn’t a big loss. I took it for a few days and didn’t think anything of it. Until I took it before bed one night...and I was tossing and turning. Eventually I had to drug myself to sleep. The next day I remembered seeing a review on here about someone who couldn’t sleep after taking it. I was like “wow, so this is actually doing something!” I now take it in the mornings. I have great energy during the day, and no problems sleeping at night. That alone would be a good enough reason to take it. Then I began to notice that even with our dry Santa Ana winds, which always make my skin dry and peeling, my skin is smooth and hydrated. Like it wasn’t this way a month ago. And I’m now at the point where my gray hair regrowth begins popping up, and I would say there is 50% less. I’m going to keep on taking it and hopefully see my hair go back to black. PABA has been so worth it!

I ordered this by accident (I had been researching GABA). Then I read about the hair color thing, so I thought, what the heck. I started taking 1 a day, and after a couple of weeks, my hair started showing dark roots (It was white since before 2000). It looks like I'll wind up with white at the temples, going through salt and pepper to my original brown at the top and back. Cool! Another nice thing is that I have seen a definite increase in new hair growth. It's thicker, and wow is it shiny! Turns out studies have shown that 10 to 30% of people who supplemented at much higher doses than this saw hair color restored. From my reading I'd definitely not go over 1 gram a day, though, due to potential problems. Recent research has shown that some hair color loss is caused by excess hydrogen peroxide in the hair follicles, which actually bleaches the hair inside the scalp. So I guess it's been there all along, on the inside. Full disclosure - this is not the only supplement I'm taking that is said to affect hair color. Most are recent additions, so I have no idea whether it was one of them, PABA, or some combination. But they all have substantial benefits in other areas. Here is the full list: These are standalone supplements: PABA (500 mg/day) Vitamin E (400mg/day) B12 (5000mcg/day sublingual) Biotin (5000 mcg/day) Inositol (100 mg/day) Some also come from the multivitamins that I take: Nature's Lab One Daily Multi-Vitamin Vitamin E (30mg/day) B5 (10 mg/day) Biotin (500 mcg/day) Folic Acid (800mcg/day) B12 (500mcg/day) Nature's Way Vitamin B-100 Complex B5 (100 mg/day) Biotin (100 mcg/day) Folic Acid (400mcg/day) PABA (100 mg/day) B12 (500mcg/day) I go with Average Amazon rating, my trust in the manufacturer, and value to select. Not all are from Amazon, but most are. Check dosages against common supplements sold in Amazon - Don't treat my numbers as gospel. It is too easy to make a mistake between mcg, mg and g.

I was hoping this would reduce gray hair, and it actually did for a while, but the effect seems to weaken over time. During the time it worked, it only helped a little. Basically I could go 8 weeks before coloring again (instead of every 6 weeks). After a year, I'm back to 6 weeks.

I think it's great and I'm very satisfied.