The Surprising Reason Queen Camilla Can’t Stock Up on Her Favorite Face Cream (Exclusive)
- - - The Surprising Reason Queen Camilla Can't Stock Up on Her Favorite Face Cream (Exclusive)
Monique JessenJune 26, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Queen Camilla at the Palace of Versailles in September, 2023
Queen Camilla's favorite beauty product has plenty of buzz.
The royal, who has been a client of the celebrity facialist Deborah Mitchell for over two decades, once received her usual order of products from the beauty expert's bee venom range, oblivious that her favorite face cream actually contained honey from her own bees.
"One day, I decided to surprise her, and I used some of her own honey to make her Bee Venom products and gave it back to her!" reveals Mitchell to PEOPLE. "The Queen actually sells her honey for charity at Fortnum and Mason, and it is delicious. She loves her bees!"
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Queen Camilla in Jersey in July 2024
The Gold Bee Venom Mask is an organic cream that tightens, firms and lifts thanks to the patented ingredient: organic Abeetoxin derived from milking bees to extract their healing venom. The anti-aging product, described as a natural alternative to Botox, was created around the same time that Mitchell started seeing Camilla as a client.
In fact, Camilla was one of Mitchell's first-ever clients to try the bee venom products. She loved them so much that she has used them ever since.
"When she first had the Bee Venom Facial, she absolutely loved it and it's still her favorite," says Mitchell, who is primarily based in Shropshire but travels all over the world to treat her famous clients.
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The $475 product, which works on tightening and lifting the facial muscles, has healing properties that make it ideal for mature, blemished, eczema-prone or dry skin. Containing the world's rarest bee venom, only 500 are made annually.
"We don't let customers buy multiple pots at a time, and even the Queen sticks to the rules very rigidly as she knows how special it is. And that's why it is the most expensive product in the range," she says.
"Gold Bee Venom contains royal jelly and natural antibiotics as well. It's more of a skin cure; it's very healing. Every time you put it onto your skin, it thinks it's been stung. It literally makes your skin go back in time. We have our own clinical studies, and we are very proud of the results," reveals the 59-year-old businesswoman.
Not only is Queen Camilla a fan of the bee venom range, but she also buys Mitchell's Overnight Success Oxygen Cream, Chamomile Hydrogel and New Edition Cleanser and the brand's own Collagen Drops, which contain hydrolysed liquid marine collagen and vitamin C.
"With skincare, when you find a brand that works, whether you are the Queen or not, you do want to stick with it. But it is nice to occasionally switch to another product, and that's a great way to keep the skin improving," Mitchell says.
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In December, it was announced that Mitchell's company Heaven by Deborah Mitchell, which she founded as an 18-year-old beautician making beauty products from her kitchen table, was one of seven brands awarded a prestigious royal warrant by the Queen, the first beauty brand to receive the honor for both products and treatments.
"It's just such a wonderful feeling, and to have it for both my products and my treatments, it's so special. I'm flying high!" says Mitchell.
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