You shed about 15 million skin cells each night, but they don't just pile up in your sheets. Because something else is already there waiting to gobble them up: dust mites. And the longer you wait ...

Skin flakes are hard to digest. It’s like eating hair, or feathers. So dust mites have powerful digestive enzymes to break the skin down. Those enzymes turn up in dust mite poop. And let’s just say ...

Where do dust mites thrive? Household mites thrive in warm and humid conditions where there is skin and dander to feed on. This is why mattresses are so popular with the microscopic creatures.

Dust mites, skin cells and bed bugs can live in your mattress if you don't keep up with your cleaning schedule ...

I didn't know this either. But did you know that your pillows are actually secretly filled with bacteria, dead skin cells, fungi, and dust mites and their feces? We gathered tips from some of the ...

So we asked Hull-Martin and gathered tips from some of the top home blogs about how to rid your fluffy pillows of the dust mites, bacteria, and dead skin cells that they're secretly harboring.