Bee Venom: The Acne-Busting Ingredient You Don't Know About Yet

Lately, the skin-care industry spotlight has fixated its (always) lit-from-within glow on honey for its antimicrobial and anti-acne properties. Think of it as the new natural wunderkind. But honey isn't the only thing bees are good for (you know, in addition to the very essential-to-the-planet act of pollination). Hell, Kendall Jenner even uses honey as a spot treatment, so you know it's gotta be good. Enter bee venom, the bitter colorless, liquid poison a bee deposit up to 0.1 mL of using its stinger when it well, stings. Turns out that the liquid also has powerful anti-inflammatory benefits. Read: Bee venom can help with those pimples that go a bit beneath the surface—a.k.a the inflamed, cystic ones. And if you're a vegan and/or concerned with cruelty-free products, you can rest easy: Bee venom is harvested in humane ways that never hurts the bee. But it does knock out your zits—here's exactly how.