Vitamin E is considered as a very good antioxidant at all levels and to reach the skin, vitamin E needs to be taken orally. Topical vitamin E which is available in creams and lotions is not found to be too stable to be effective. As regards with the pimples, there is no direct studies depicting the usefulness of vitamin E to control the pimples but indirectly yes, because vitamin E is an antioxidant, what happens in the case of pimples, the oil glands are very active and they produce excess of oils. So if vitamin E supplements are given, they prevent the rancidity of the oils and the inflammation in the acne. Pimples are also known to occur because of a lot of stress factors. Vitamin E would reduce all these stress factors because of its antioxidative capacity and acts as an adjuvant therapy. So per se only with vitamin E there may not be significant improvement in the pimples but the oral formulations of these capsules can be definitely used as an adjuvant.