# Contents of pimples?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contents-of-pimples/523418>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 2, 2010, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contents-of-pimples/523418 "2010-01-02T18:41:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2010, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contents-of-pimples/523418/21 "2010-01-03T21:03:54Z")

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> [@Chakra Nadmara](#):
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> Tom Bunk? Great cartoonist.

Don Martin, wasn’t it, **Chak**?😕

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**Author:** ![horsetech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dec6dc/32.png) [@horsetech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/horsetech)\
**Post date:** [January 4, 2010, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/contents-of-pimples/523418/22 "2010-01-04T00:13:34Z")

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> [@Lynn\_Bodoni](#):
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> OK, I just got off the phone with my nephew, who’s in medical school. He says that pimples contain dead/keratinized skin cells, sebaceous material, pus, and bacteria. He said there’s a specific type of bacteria in acne, but he can’t remember the name of it offhand. He also said that makeup and pollutants are sometimes in the zits.
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> He said that it was rare for other foreign materials to be in pimples.

Propionibacterium acnes? IANAD/IANA med student.

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