What the?!
GOOP queen,
Gwyneth Paltrow's latest anti-aging treatment recommendation is
the snake venom facial. And it closely follows the
breaking news in December that - wait for it - Catherine, Duchess
of Cambridge is partial to products containing the venom of bumble
bees, too.
Purified venom has proved a popular anti-ageing treatment in
Korea for a while but - after 12 years of research - Korean Doctors
have now released the ingredient to skin care lines, creating quite
an, ahem, buzz.
The ones you need to know about are:
Real snake. The original Glamtoxy by
Rodial.
Beauty from the bees. Kate uses this.
Or fake it (pictured). Sonya Dakar's brilliant
Skincare Ultraluxe-9 Age Control Complex uses a
synthetic agent called "synake," which replicates the effects of
actual snake venom by temporarily inhibiting muscle activity.
Could this be bye-bye botox?
IMAGE: SONYA DAKAR