Gosh! What's On Your Eyelashes!

I believe that many people know that there are tiny bugs living in the human hair called 'mites'. Do you know that there are also lots of mites living in the roots of your eyelashes? Don't be surprise, everyone has mites on the eyelashes, including you and me.

Close up view of a Demodicid

The scientific name of these tiny mites is Demodex folliculorum, also known as demodicid. They are very small, only about 0.4mm in length. They live in pores and hair follicles on the face. There are countless of them nesting on our faces!

A female mite will lay about 25 eggs in a hair follicle, which will hatch and mature and move to other follicles. These disgusting mites live head down in a follicle, dead skin is their food source. If there are too many of them living in a single follicle, the hair shaft will fall off, that's one of the reason for your precious eyeslashes falling off!

The white color tips are the tails of the mites, 3 of them!

If these mites are living in the pores on the face, the outcome may be skin disorder or acne formation. Mites have tiny mouth which feed on the dead skin cells. The fortunate thing is that, mites do not poop, as they only have one opening on them which is the mouth.

Don't get freak out, everyone of us have them on our body, not ten, not hundreds, but millions of them!