Feb 17, 2026 · 34 min · 9 segments
You are not alone in your own skin. Millions of microscopic creatures live there too. Our skin is home to entire ecosystems of microscopic life. Bacteria and fungi get most of the attention, but mites…
Dan BaumgardtHostKatie EdwardsHostthese videos that I've been watching on social media where people have been, mainly women, I have to say, who've been doing the faces and putting makeup on and then they'll be like, ooh, I'm mid-makeup and my face is itching.
Or like they've done a full face of makeup and their face is itching and they're scratching the nose and stuff.
Okay, so this is a woman.
She's talking about face mites.
I have to treat them.
She's traumatised.
She's going to use hypochlorous spray on her face.
So
she's saying, this woman here, she's saying that your face starts getting tingly so you can actually feel the mites.
about here is demodex, those little mites that live in and around our face, particularly in our eyelashes.
And that sort of itchiness that you can sometimes feel around your face, probably not related to them in all honesty.
It's more likely to be related to other dry skin conditions or other skin conditions which affect the face.
spray then? Because that's a spray that became popular during COVID, didn't it, where people were spraying
it? Yeah, and I think they reside within these little pores and sometimes they can live quite deep down.
And I think more than anything else, we just need to accept that these mites are a usual part of our body and that we can't really necessarily do anything about them.
let me just reassure everyone everyone by showing this picture because who wouldn't want one of these little beauties living on your physog look at that
these videos that I've been watching on social media where people have been, mainly women, I have to say, who've been doing the faces and putting makeup on and then they'll be like, ooh, I'm mid-makeup and my face is itching.
Or like they've done a full face of makeup and their face is itching and they're scratching the nose and stuff.
Okay, so this is a woman.
She's talking about face mites.
I have to treat them.
She's traumatised.
She's going to use hypochlorous spray on her face.
So
she's saying, this woman here, she's saying that your face starts getting tingly so you can actually feel the mites.
about here is demodex, those little mites that live in and around our face, particularly in our eyelashes.
And that sort of itchiness that you can sometimes feel around your face, probably not related to them in all honesty.
It's more likely to be related to other dry skin conditions or other skin conditions which affect the face.
spray then? Because that's a spray that became popular during COVID, didn't it, where people were spraying
it? Yeah, and I think they reside within these little pores and sometimes they can live quite deep down.
And I think more than anything else, we just need to accept that these mites are a usual part of our body and that we can't really necessarily do anything about them.
let me just reassure everyone everyone by showing this picture because who wouldn't want one of these little beauties living on your physog look at that
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