Directly after an bee sting, you may experience itching, burning, or swelling. If you have ruled out the more serious bites, such as scorpion or poisonous spider, which would require a doctor, you are faced with figuring out how to get rid of the itching and swelling, using natural remedies for bee stings.

Home Remedy For Bee Stings

1. Lavender Essential Oil – is antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, and reduces itching and swelling quickly.

Use: Apply one drop, every hour, for several hours.

 

2. Tea Tree Essential Oil – is highly antibiotic, and fights allergic reactions.

Use: Apply one drop, every hour, for several hours.

 

3. Chamomile Essential Oil – is calming, while reducing inflammation, redness and swelling. Cucumber Oil is  extremely cooling, whereas Shea Body Butter is anti-inflammatory.

Use: Mix 15 drops of Chamomile Essential Oil into 2 oz of Cucumber Carrier Oil, or Shea Body Butter.

 

4. Eucalyptus Essential Oil – is painkilling, antiseptic, and heals skin tissue.

Use: Mix 15 drops of Eucalyptus Essential Oil into 2 oz of Cucumber Carrier Oil, or Shea Body Butter.

 

5. Epsom salts – draws toxins out of the skin.

Use: Dissolve half a cup of Epsom salts, in a basin of warm water. Soak the bee sting area, in the water, for 10 minutes.

If you have many bee stings over your body, dissolve 2 cups of Epsom salts in a warm bath, then lie in the water for 10 minutes.

 

6. Baking soda – neutralizes acidity of the skin, thereby relieving burning sensations.

Use: Use the same techniques as described above, in ‘Epsom salts’.

 

7. Salt – draws out foreign matter, especially pus.

Use: Make a salt paste, by adding a few drops of water, to a small amount of salt. Apply the salt paste to the bite, then stick a bandage over it, for several hours.

 

8. Peroxide – is extremely antiseptic, even in severe pus formation.

Use: Soak the bite in peroxide, for several minutes.

If the position of the bite, makes it difficult to soak it, then saturate a bandage with peroxide, and stick it over the bee sting, for several hours.

 

9. Antibiotic cream – its always best to be safe, and apply some antibiotic cream, but stick a plaster over it, to ensure the cream remains in place.

 

10. Ice – reduces swelling and burning inflammation.

Use: Apply ice pack to the bite, for 10 minutes. Always place a thin cloth between the ice pack and your skin, to prevent the ice from burning your skin.

 

11. Colophony ointment – is an ointment containing colophony, which draws out foreign substances, but stick a plaster over it, to ensure the ointment remains in place, to draw any unwanted matter out of the bee sting.