Mites

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.

Our scalp, face and oily area of our head have many
sebaceous gland that may be found in biopsy sections.
We have demodex mites commonly found in our
follicles. Not to worry. They are normally of no consequence. People with oily skin and scalp can
benefit from using dandruff shampoos and cleansers with zinc pyrithione, selenium sulfide, or salicylic acid.
Topical medications for rosacea all help keep our
sebum and sebum loving mites at normal.