De La Cruz

De La Cruz Sulfur Ointment Acne Treatment Maximum Strength 10%.

Q: Is De La Cruz Sulfur Ointment Acne Treatment Maximum Strength 10% worth it?

Yes. All 5 gurus who reviewed it give it their stamp of approval, for a Guru Score of 83%.

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About this product

A 10% sulfur ointment sold as an acne treatment, designed to be applied to spots or used as a mask.

Full ingredients

Sulfur (10%), Polyethylene Glycol

Guru Score

83%

Yay

5 experts · Moderate agreement

What the gurus are saying

Its rotten-egg smell keeps coming up, yet several gurus still call this 10% sulfur ointment a bargain at around $10. Others favor it as a spot treatment or short mask for whiteheads, bumps and patches of oily skin. Because it is drying, the experts suggest working out how often it suits your skin, and easing off just before a date.

Synthesized from 5 expert reviews · most recent take July 2026

What they liked

10% sulfur concentration, high for OTC
Extremely affordable
Works as a mask or spot treatment

What they flagged

Strong rotten egg smell
Drying, needs respectful use

Best for

Acne-prone skin

Type

AcneBalm & ointment

Formula notes

Fragrance-freeNo drying alcohol

Where to buy

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What the gurus are saying.

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Dr. Mamina

282k subs

✓Yay

"Sulfur is one of the oldest and most effective topicals for perioral dermatitis, and for this condition specifically, simpler is better. My first recommendation if you want something over the counter is the Da Cruz sulfur ointment. It's pure 10% sulfur, it's really cheap, and it's widely available on Amazon."

Dr Dray

2.69M subs

✓Yay

"In the drugstore, you have two products that I frequently recommend. First is going to be the De La Cruz sulfur ointment. Topical sulfur can be very helpful for rosacea, and we do find that it can be helpful for peroral dermatitis probably because it is a cousin, pretty much identical on pathology to rosacea."

All 9 takes from Dr Dray

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"Sulfur is something that can be quite effective for acne. [...] It's keratolytic and anti-inflammatory. I always recommend the De La Cruz Sulfur Acne Treatment. You can [...] smear it on the upper back and leave it on there. You can use it daily, multiple times a day even. And unlike benzoyl peroxide, that's not going to bleach your fabrics."

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"Another ingredient that I really find to be effective for closed comedones is sulfur. Now sulfur does have a bit of an odd odor but once you get over that it can be very beneficial especially if you have very sensitive skin. It can help break up the plugged up pores and it's anti-inflammatory. One of my favorite products is the De La Cruz Sulfur Ointment. You can apply it as a mask. I have a whole video on how to use this product. It is underrated. It can be really beneficial for whiteheads."

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"One of the more helpful things that you can buy at the drugstore is a topical sulfur ointment. I'm a huge fan of the De La Cruz Sulfur Ointment."

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"De La Cruz Sulfur Ointment is one of my favorites"

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"I'm a big fan of the De La Cruz sulfur treatment, it's really inexpensive and effective."

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"It's fragrance-free. It's super inexpensive. Sulfur is awesome for acne, rosacea, seborrheic dermatitis, perioral dermatitis, periorrificial dermatitis, something that's happening around your eyes, those little demodex mites that can cause little red bumps, overlaps with rosacea, all of those things. Sulfur can be great for. [...] It has mild comedolytic effect as well. But unfortunately, sulfur does smell like eggs. And the De La Cruz mask treatment does leave the skin smelling like sulfur."

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"I like the combination of salicylic acid and sulfur for tinea versicolor, it's underrated but it definitely can help. [...] You can get the De La Cruz Sulfur Acne Treatment and apply it to the affected areas, about two to three inches around, [...] leave it on for ten minutes and rinse it off, or leave it on the skin overnight. It's a little drying, but can definitely be a game changer."

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"This can be a particularly valuable mask to consider incorporating into your routine if you have acne, rosacea, or perioral dermatitis. I like [...] that it's pretty easy to tolerate and gentle on the skin, even for people with rosacea, and that [...] it doesn't counteract other active ingredients so you can use it alongside them."

Dr. Shereene Idriss

1.73M subs

✓Yay

"It is drying, so you have to approach it respectfully in order to understand how often you want to incorporate it into your routine. De La Cruz Sulfur Ointment at 10% is a really nice ointment. You can use it on your T-zone, especially if you're very oily and leave it on for a little bit longer than recommended. Just make sure that your partner is not sleeping next to you because [...] you will stink."

All 6 takes from Dr. Shereene Idriss

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"De La Cruz Sulfur has a spot treatment with 10% sulfur that you can use if you have combo or dry skin. You can spot treat, for example even just spot, consider your nose a spot and just spot treat your nose."

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"This is a sulfur ointment that retails for $10 you cannot beat it and you cannot beat how bad it smells and for that reason this is great as a spot treatment. It is the OG classic it is the most affordable and it is great as a spot treatment because I highly doubt you're going to want to use this all over your face."

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"De La Cruz, where you can literally spend a couple of bucks, smell like a rotten egg and improve your skin in the process."

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"It is going to help minimize any sort of overproduction of oil or sebum, and sulfur is one of those ingredients that we as dermatologists learn help with redness reduction long term. So you have to use it regularly to see that redness reduction. But really, if you really want to treat redness from flushing constantly in addition to skincare you need laser treatments. [...] You're going to smell like a rotten egg, that's negative of this, but your partner should love you regardless."

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"Sulfur can actually also be an anti-inflammatory that you can help yourself with. This is one from [...] De La Cruz called Acne Treatment, it is 10 percent sulfur. [...] If you do break out, sulfur has anti-inflammatory benefits. But it can kind of smell like rotten eggs, so if you are active on [...] dating apps you might want to slow it down just before a date."

Dr. Aleksandra Brown

151k subs

✓Yay

"Next treatment recommendation is sulfur-based treatments. As you guys know, I love sulfur. I use it for my blackheads, for my pores, for oil control, for acne, for fungal acne, for perioral dermatitis. Sulfur-based treatments tend to calm down inflammation. They are also a little bit better than acid in my opinion at fighting some of the bacteria and fungi that we grow on our skin. The De La Cruz sulfur ointment is one product recommendation."

All 2 takes from Dr. Aleksandra Brown

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"De la Cruz 10% sulfur ointment is more of a budget friendly sulfur treatment option for the pustular ization, the bumps that we get. It's super fast drying, effective for reducing breakouts. The key ingredient here is the sulfur 10% which targets the inflammation as well as the excess oil."

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Dr. Jenny Liu

324k subs

✓Yay

"I can't talk about sulfur without talking about the viral De La Cruz acne treatment with 10% sulfur. [...] I think it's good for a few reasons. Number one, it's super affordable and does contain 10% sulfur, which is of the higher concentration. It's in this creamy ointment-like base that you apply on your skin and you use it as a mask, leave it on for like 10 minutes and then rinse off."