Hello everyone! One of the features of mine that people often ask me about is my eyebrows. A lot of people struggle with their hair, and that struggle can include their eyebrows. Many people have very thin eyebrows or they struggle with eyebrows that won’t grow. But our eyebrows are important for naturally enhancing our beauty. Eyebrows frame our eyes, so they can help shape our facial features and the perception of our beauty.
So today, I will explain 2 main things that prevent our eyebrow hairs from growing and teach you how I grow out my eyebrows so that they are always thick and full.
Demodex Spider Mites Eat Away Hair Follicles
Demodex mites are very much like lice and fleas when it comes to their eating habits since they are parasitic in nature and feed off of their host. Demodex mites feed off our skin, in particular, they eat our skin cells/tissue and follicles. They feed on the oil, dirt, and debris that gets stuck on our body, so you can find them all over the body, but in particular, in areas where there is hair, such as the hair on our heads, the hair from our beards, the hair in our eyebrows and our eyelashes, the hair in our ears and nose, and even in pubic hair.
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Even though demodex mites are parasites with eating habits like lice, they are actually part of the spider family, so having a lot of these crawling on you is like being coated in small spiders.
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“Demodex is a genus of microscopic mites that live in human hair follicles. The tiny creatures are arachnids, cousins of spiders and ticks. Almost everyone has Demodex mites living on their skin and in their pores…A Demodex mite is extremely tiny…Under a microscope, the mite looks slightly transparent and is covered with scales. It has an elongated body with two segments. The first segment has eight legs and a mouth. When you sleep, the mites come out of your skin’s pores, mate, then go back into your skin to lay eggs” Demodex (Face Mites): Folliculorum, Brevis & Treatment. (2022, April 19). Cleveland Clinic. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22775-demodex-face-mites
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These mites are invisible because of their small size, but also because they hide and live inside of your skin. Since these mites come out when we are sleeping, they can spread to your partner and anyone who sleeps in the same room or bed with you.
These mites thrive in warm, oily environments, so your hair becomes a forest for them to thrive in; your hair gives them warmth, your hair gives them access to a place to mate and lay eggs, and your skin and hair follicles provide nourishment to them since your blood, skin, and oils are abundant there.
There is something completely disgusting about knowing that some creature is living inside of you, mating on your body, laying eggs inside of you, and feeding off of you, along with their babies. Knowing this is enough to make me careful about whose bed I sleep in, where I sleep, and who I allow to sleep beside me or in the room with me. Mites are very contagious and they can spread from person-to-person as easily as lice, so it is important to understand how to keep them at bay and the best hygiene practices to prevent their spread.
Hair Sometimes Can’t Grow Over Damaged Scar Tissue
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Sometimes depending on the texture, depth, and amount of damage done to the skin, hair can not grow over scar tissue. I learned this after a bad head injury a few years ago that required several stitches and lead to a concussion bad enough that I had to go through months of rehab and could not even comprehend what I read for quite some time. At that time, I was more afraid that I would never be able to read a book again, than I was about the fact that my body was covered in bruises and that I looked like an abuse survivor.
Over time though, those wounds healed and I wanted to remove the memory of that trauma and my scars, but where the stiches were, the scar did not disappear. However, despite that the scar is still there, I now have a lot of eyebrow hair in that area, but there is a small part of the scar where hair does not grow, and it looks like a small bald spot in my eyebrow there. That area was the deepest part of the scar so it had more texture and was the main entry for the injury that caused the scar. The rest of the scar though, does have hairs growing out of the damaged scar tissue. So, if there is scar tissue where hair normally grows, depending on the damage done, the scar tissue can prevent hair from growing there. The issue is what scar tissue is and how it is different from normal skin.
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Scar tissue is not dead, despite how different it looks. Scar tissue is composed of living skin cells, but depending on the level of damage, it may not contain any hair follicles or sweat glands. The hair on our head grows out of hair follicles, but hair can also grow from skin cells, and since scar tissue is still made up of living skin cells, that means that the skin can heal, improve, and change over time.
Something that is problematic about scar tissue is that it does not have good access to blood flow, and since there may or may not be any sweat glands, even if there is a hair follicle, there would be no way for that follicle or for the skin to receive proper nourishment there to grow healthy, long, and strong. The reason for this is that the blood is what contains nutrients like oxygen, vitamins, and minerals that are essential for hair growth, so even though the skin cells may be able to heal over time from the damage, it will be quite slow. Thus, it may take much longer for hair to grow where skin is damaged, compared to the speed that hair may grow everywhere else on the body.
“Unlike healthy tissue, in scar tissue they’re arranged in a chaotic, disorganized manner. This tissue becomes thick and stiff. Worse, the tissue develops adhesions—bands that stick together tissues that shouldn’t stick together in healthy tissue…because scar tissue doesn’t have a good blood supply, it’s poorly nourished and more likely to become inflamed, stiff, or just uncomfortable” CA, A. (2025, April 7). Why Scar Tissue Hurts Years Later | Pain Relief in LA. Via Skincare. https://viaskincare.com/the-link-between-scar-tissue-and-chronic-pain/
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Even though you may not be able to make scar tissue completely disappear, you can soften and lessen its appearance, and you can heal it over time so that hair may one day grow out of it again; that is what I have been doing over time. I wanted to make my trauma less obvious from that accident, so I have been healing that scar and nourishing my eyebrows with healing products like Barbara Frank’s Rose Beautifying Cream that contains helichrysum and rose essential oil. Helichrysum has been used for centuries in other countries to aid tissue repair, healing, and collagen production.
Before I knew it, my eyebrows became thick and full, and the scar barely noticeable. So next I will share with you all how I made my eyebrows the way that they are now.
How To Grow and Thicken Eyebrows Naturally
Here is a photo I took today of my eyebrows. I have not shaped them and I have not applied eyeliner to them
If you have followed this site for a while, you may know that I have very fine hair, and fine hair tends to be thinner. I have learned how to take care of my hair over time so that it is healthier and grows well, that includes my eyebrows and eyelash hairs. So today, I will share my nightly step-by-step routine that I use to grow out my eyebrows.
Step 1: Apply Astringents
Since I don’t want mites to be able to grow in my eyebrows, I use 2 astringents each night before bed to keep my eyebrow hairs clean and to coat them with something that repels and kills bugs and mites:
- Hydrogen Peroxide – Peroxide won’t kill mites, fleas, and ticks, but it will clean the hair, act as an astringent, and remove debris and dirt from it. So every night before bed, I put some hydrogen peroxide on a cotton ball and run it over my eyebrows to clean them.
- Barbara Frank’s Natural Herbal Lotion – This product contains oils and mints that will help repel and kill mites and lice, so I apply this with my finger over my eyebrows at night before bed and leave it on while I sleep.
Step 2: Nourish Eyebrow Hairs with Oil
Lastly, just as you must oil a beard and the hair on your head, you should also oil your eyebrow hairs to keep them healthy and strong. I also oil my eyebrow hairs to dilute Barbara Frank’s Natural Herbal Lotion. The oils that I like to use for this last step are:
- Castor oil
- Papaya seed oil
- Carrot seed oil
- Cactus oil
- Rice water oil
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I leave these 3 products on my eyebrows overnight, and they help create healthy-looking, thicker eyebrows that have more body and are soft to the touch.
Conclusion
Growing out your eyebrows is not an impossible task and it doesn’t have to be time-consuming to do. It only takes 5 minutes everyday to get started growing your eyebrows and making them healthier, fuller, thicker, and softer to the touch. Just as we need to take care of the hair on our head, we must also not neglect to groom the hair on our faces. With good hygiene practices and the right ingredients, you can naturally enhance your facial features and your natural beauty and start shaping the eyebrows you always wanted!
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