Invisible Skin Mites Called Demodex Almost Certainly Live on Your Face – But What About Your Mascara?
Demodex is a family of eight-legged mites that live in the hair follicles and associated sebaceous or oil glands of many mammals. Two species are known in humans – Demodex folliculorum, which lives mainly in hair follicles on our faces (especially eyelashes and eyebrows), and Demodex brevis, which sets up home in the oil glands ...