02/03/2019
To all my humans who don’t feel the need to wash your face or clean the area around the eyelids properly. Meet demodex folliculorum and these mites live in the hairs of the skin of your face and eyelashes- that's why it's important to wash your face and remove makeup!!
The only way you can see them is with a microscope. They measure between 0.3 and 0.4 mm, and like spiders, have 8 legs.
They like living in hair follicles that you have in your nose, cheek and eyelashes. These are places where there's more fat to feed and residue, like leftover makeup, oils, grime from the day.
They feed on your secretions and your dead skin & can put up to 25 eggs in every hair follicle.
Its digestive system is not able to eliminate waste, so it accumulates them in my body until they explode and die. The remains cause hypersensitivity reactions and can cause infections on eyelids and rosacea.
Are you gonna remove your makeup tonight? Are you going to invest in a good skincare regimen? Or are you going to be grossed out and ignore it and allow these little guys to reproduce on your face? 🤮
Ok.....Just picking a cleanser off the shelf and tossing it in your shopping cart with the hamburger meet IS wrong on every level....Could be it is not formulated for your skin type which can do as much harm as good!
Ps.... if your mascara is over 3 months old you might wanna throw it out and get a new one too! Often people brag to me that they don’t wear mascara much so theirs lasts a year... Nope! 😱 Bacteria begins to grow in your tube after the first time you use it. 90 days is the max you should go 😊
