Who knew? Eyelid cleanser

I went to the eye doctor, and finally (FINALLY!) someone takes me seriously about how much I hate the blazing sunlight here in the Arctic Circle where the sun never climbs high into the sky so always shines directly into your eyes and there is less pollution haze and humidity to dilute it. It was a paid interaction, after all (as the door hits my health insurance's #ss on it's way out)--he does have an interest in nodding sympathetically and scribbling notes ("what a pansy, can't stand the two darn months of sunlight we have here blah blah blah here let's draw a big smiley face, no a flower, no a big bloodshot eyeball crying tears of sadness for Nora").

But I digress. Completely apart from my sunlight allergy, I also happen, apparently, to have some CLOUDY OIL coming from my eyes. Cloudy! Not clear! Causing dry, irritated eyes. One of his recommendations?

Seriously! Did you know there was such a thing?

Dry, irritated eyes? The problem might not be your eyes but your eyelids!

They are individually wrapped cloths, and you are to cleanse your eyelids (close your eye first! It says it in the directions!) using lateral, side-to-side strokes. Not to be confused with the lateral, up-and-down strokes.

Note my compliance with my eye doctor's recommendations, and note also my freakishly large mannish thumbs. If you ever need to identify my remains, start there.

Funny thing, it feels great and I think it might actually be doing something.