perditax
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Tea tree oil might help but it is extremely harsh on your eyelids. The Cliradex just uses the active ingredient in tree tea oil. Some dermatologist have recommended mixing a drop of tea tree oil with baby shampoo and washing your eye lid with that. I don't have redness or flakes either just itchy, burning eyes. The cliradex helped me so much. I then began to use it on my face and was shocked at the improvement on my face.
I edited my other post after I realized that autocorrect changed the spelling of cliradex to "climaxes." Now that was funny!
The Dessert Essence stuff is formulated to be a face wash:
https://www.amazon.com/Desert-Essence-Thoroughly-Refill-32-Ounce/dp/B001CMV8FG
I saw some other mentions of this product on other forums ... I already had it on hand and it's a heck of a lot cheaper than the cliradex. So far it doesn't seem to burn my skin despite a very strong tea tree smell. Going to use this for now since I already had it on hand. I appreciate the mention of cliradex though, since that got me thinking about it again.
(I don't have any of the symptoms of demodex-style blepharitis, and none of the three eye doctors I saw when I first got dry eye mentioned it, but it's still worth a try, especially since I also have rosacea flares for things like red wine.)