http://www.facedoctor.ca - If that title didn’t capture your imagination – perhaps this blog on the subject of the Human Demodex Parasite will…

An article in Discover Magazine offers the best explanation we have yet to find:

“Mites are relatives of ticks, spiders, scorpions and other arachnids. Over 48,000 species have been described. Around 65 of them belong to the genus Demodex, and two of those live on your face. There’s D.folliculorum, the round-bottomed, bigger one and there’s D.brevis, the pointy-bottomed, smaller one” (Young, 2012).

Frankly, the rest of the article is unsettling – but it explains how these mites play a role in acne and other derma problems.