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ELI5: Will there ever be a cure for acne?

It's not cancer, but it comes with its own baggage.
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Yes and no.  Acne comedones are infections, and the pus is bacteria plus dead white cells trying to fight off the bacteria.  Most acne treatments are designed to help remove dead skin cells from covering the pores that fill with bacteria so the infections in the pores can drain without making whiteheads.  *but few acne treatments actually do anything about the bacteria!*  

Killing off the bacteria on your face so it doesn't cause an infection and make a zit, is something you can do yourself, and attacks acne at its root cause..the bacteria on your face that gets into your pores and causes a pus-laden pocket of *infection.*

Get yourself a container of sulphur powder, also called Flowers or flour of sulphur.  It's sold on amazon, and its cheap.  It's not patented.  And it kills bacteria...BEFORE we had antibiotics, infections were treated with sulfa drugs, up through the Korean war.  Sulphur-based drugs are still used for people who can't take antibiotics or in containing antibiotic-resistant bacterias.  

Mix 1 teaspoon of sulphur powder with 1 cup of rubbing alcohol in a glass or plastic container.  (sulphur won't dissolve in water, but it suspends in rubbing alcohol.)  Shake well.  Twice a day, AFTER you have washed your face, shake up your sulphur solution and saturate a cotton ball with it.  Using -firm- strokes, stroke the solution over your face.  Make your strokes firm to help dig the bacteria out of your pores and get the sulphur into your pores.  Leave it on.  When it dries, if you have a little visible yellow dust, just brush it off with your fingertips.

Bacteria *can not live* in the presence of sulphur.  As long as you have a light coating of sulphur on your face (light enough it can't be seen), bacteria will not be able to survive on your face or in your pores and since its not there, it will not multiply into infections.  And the infections are zits.  Therefore, no zits.  

This won't make acne treatment companies any money.   There is no patent on sulphur, its a common mineral.  But it solves the problem.  Give yourself a month of using it for any old discolorations to fade.