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Inclusion Criteria: * Must understand the risks and the benefits/purpose of the study and provide signed and dated informed consent. * Must be 18 years at time of signing informed consent form. * Willing to participate in all required evaluations and procedures in the study including the ability to apply topical medication without difficulty. * Patients must have a diagnosis of HS based upon the clinical criteria of a history of more than or equal 5 typical lesions (erythematous papules, nodules, or abscesses) in flexural sites with a recurring nature over time. * Patients must be candidate for topical therapy defined by active Hurley stage I or Hurley stage II/III with active disease after an adequate trial of systemic antibiotics/hormonal/immunomodulatory or biologic therapy. * Patient is required to be on stable dose of concomitant therapy for at least 3 months before enrollment and throughout the study period. * Females of childbearing potential must have a negative urine pregnancy test at baseline visit and be on adequate contraception throughout the study time. Exclusion Criteria: * Concomitant use of topical antibiotics, topical corticosteroids, resorcinol, benzoyl peroxide, vitamin D analogs, Hibiclens wash (except for emollients) within 1 week of enrollment. * Increasing or changing dosing for concurrent therapy agents within 90 days before study day 0 and during the study period. * History of any clinically significant (as determined by the investigator) cardiac, endocrinologic, pulmonary, neurologic, psychiatric, hepatic, renal, hematologic, immunologic, or other major uncontrolled disease. * Any condition, including the presence of laboratory abnormalities, which places the subject at unacceptable risk if he/she were to participate in the study or confounds the ability to interpret data from the study. * Pregnant or breastfeeding. * Prior major surgery or major life-threatening medical illness within 2 weeks. * Active hepatitis B or C infection with detectible viral nucleic acid in the blood or known Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) positivity. * Patients with known active malignancy. * Any severe systemic illness requiring Intravenous (IV) antibiotics within the two weeks prior to initiation of the study drug. * Active substance abuse or a history of substance abuse within 6 months prior to screening. * Use of any investigational drug within 4 weeks prior to randomization, or 5 pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic half-lives, if known (whichever is longer).