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Invisible skin mites called Demodex almost certainly live on your face – but what about your mascara?

  • Written by: Mark Sandeman, Honorary Professor, Federation University Australia
Invisible skin mites called Demodex almost certainly live on your face – but what about your mascara?César Couto/Unsplash

Demodex are 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...

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