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For mite folliculitis/Demodex resulting in rosacia, I'm finding that full strength 100% tea tree oil in the morning and letting it sit on your face during the day seems to be making a difference. I simply take a cotton pad, get it slightly wet. Use a fairly good dose of the oil. Put it on the pad. Dab it on all over the face. Let it get into the pores, sit for a while. Tea tree oil supposedly is toxic for the mite. Then maybe wash off in the afternoon. Then let your skin rest till the evening. I also use a sulfur soap to wash. Let the sulfur soap sit on your face for a few minutes allowing it to get into the pore. Also creates an uncomfortable environment for mites. And before bed I use a compounded cream of azelaic acid, ivermedtin and metronidezole. Also, I use a hand-held battery pore/blackhead cleaner to vacuum out dead skin cells and sebum around my nose and cheeks. Or wherever there is redness. I do that either daily or every other day. Lots of dink'in around. But seems to really be helping to clear this up.
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I totally agree. Tea tree oil and sulphur soap and the best at fighting those nasty little critters. I started getting styes that kept reoccurring. The dr said it was from mites. I was horrified to learn this! I did a lot of research and found out about the benefits of tea tree oil. I bought a tea tree oil face cream and tee tree oil eye cleanser pads from Amazon. They helped. Now, as a preventative measure, I wash my face and eyelashes with sulphur soap to prevent them from coming back.
Good luck.
What brand of Tea Tree oil do you prefer? There are so many to choose from.
I have used tea tree oil shampoo but not any lotion or oil for face.
I am not sure why this mite problem has become so apparent; my dermatologist says everyone has them, but I never had problems or even any awareness of them until the last several months. I'm wonder what has promoted this.... something in my system has changed over time. Very annoying and I want to fix this.
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What is the brand of the hand-held battery pore cleaner and where did you find it? I've never seen one advertised anywhere. Sounds like a great idea.