Another type of scalp folliculitis, Demodex folliculitis, is caused by an excess of Demodex mites (face mites) on your skin. It is normal for some Demodex mites to live on your skin, but having ...

Meet the microscopic arachnids that live on your face, and find out why Demodex mites are part of the human microbiome.

Those are demodex mites. We all have them, and they're found on the scalp and face. See those guys? They're chillin' in the roots of your eyebrows right now. Nice. These micro mites eat the dead ...

Meet Demodex, the face mite, a microscopic arachnid that lives on human skin. The pore is its humble abode and the waxy sebum we secrete is its meal of choice. It's hard to know for sure ...