 but that's fine. Your eyes will re-moisturize just fine. But as it soaks up the moisture from your eye, it becomes mucilaginous and that in turn attracts and gathers all of the dust or whatever else is in your eye. It doesn't have to be dust. It could be anything that's irritating your eye that you can't pick out. You put a flaxseed in your eye and it will sweep your eye and it will gather that together