Aloe vera plants, particularly aloe barbadensis miller plants, have been used for centuries to help burns, cuts, and other skin ailments. Perhaps your grandparents always had one of these unique, cactus-like plants nearby, just in case of an emergency. If someone got a cut or burn, they would break an aloe leaf apart to extract gel from inside the leaf. The aloe gel inside the leaf is used as a natural healing salve.
With the onset of commercialism and the recent boom in all-natural products, aloe has become the ingredient of choice in many skin care and health products. Commercial aloe products include everything from creams to lotions to nutritional supplements in pill or drink form. The products often combine aloe gel with other ingredients to enhance the gel's natural healing components. For example, an aloe-based Hawaiian product, called AhVahleen, combines aloe with some natural extracts taken from organic honey and a Hawaiian Kalo herbal plant.
Natural Aloe-Based Solutions for Skin Care and Health
Aloe gel, especially when combined with other natural ingredients, can greatly enhance the skin and its ability to replenish skin cells. As skin cells die, new skin cells must replace the old to promote healthy skin. This also slows the aging process and helps keep the skin moist and beautiful. Aloe creams and gels on the market can help enhance this process. There are also creams and gels to help with itching, burns, cuts, psoriasis, shingles, and other skin conditions.
Aloe vera gel is also known to have antiviral, antibacterial, and antifungal properties, which allow skin ailments to heal while reducing risk of infection. Some aloe-based products are said to help soothe and dry up chicken pox as well. Aloe gel can work as a natural anesthesia to reduce or alleviate pain caused by burns, cuts, and skin rashes. For severe sunburn and/or sun poison, aloe vera gel can cool the burning skin and speed up the healing process.
How to Buy Natural Aloe Products
Besides growing your own aloe vera plants, the next best thing is to buy natural aloe-based products. But before buying, be sure the products are all natural with few or no added ingredients that could decrease the aloe's beneficial properties. Read the ingredients on each product and learn why the ingredients were added. You'll find some products, such as AhVahleen, to have added natural ingredients to enhance the product's skin care and health properties. These products often provide more benefits than even the actual aloe plant alone.
Shop online to find aloe-based products that are unique to your skin care and health needs. If you have psoriasis, for instance, look for creams, gels, or lotions to soothe this condition in particular. If you work in the sun or are outdoors a great deal, look for aloe products that can protect your skin from the sun's harmful rays. If you have multiple needs for aloe, find a natural aloe product that offers many benefits in one. Start enjoying natural skin care and health today with the wonderful natural solution of aloe vera!
A major discovery was made recently regarding Aloe Vera & how the human body functions & communicates. So profound, that multiple Nobel Prizes in Medical Research were awarded for this discovery and yet, because drug companies influence nearly all doctor's continuing education, your doctor probably doesn't even know about this Aloe Vera & Glycomics based discovery -- So significant that MIT has called Glycomics "one of ten technologies that will change the world" (Feb 03 issue).
In a nutshell, glycomics is the emerging, new study of how certain Aloe Vera type monosaccarides are organized on the surface of every metabolically active cell in YOUR ENTIRE BODY! These saccarides provide a protective coating and communication coding system for every single cell. If they are lacking, due to inadequate nutrient intake, your body knows how critical they are and it will work overtime to try and make them with it's backup system - but this requires a lot of energy, enzymatic processes, & breakdowns occur over time.
Aloe Vera contains Mannose which is one of eight of these critical saccarides -- scientifically proven & physiologically required by ALL of your cells -- Mannose is found in Aloe Vera as well as in some other plants. Of the eight needed, because of modern agricultural methods such as green picking, only two (sometimes three) of the building block nutrients are available today in our modern diet. Verifiable at www.longevist.org Newsletter 8B.
If you can buy your produce from an Organic Farmer's Market and consume primarily vine ripened, fresh fruits & vegetables, you will give your immune system a good boost. This type of eating will strengthen your cellular defense, cell to cell communication, & help build essential structures called glycoproteins. You can investigate the importance of Aloe Vera, Mannose & these cellular structures by visiting www.pubmed.com and searching the term: glycoproteins (over 20,000 articles).
But for simplicity, imagine if you had a cellular phone that required eight wires for the antenna to work properly,...yet five of those wires were broken or missing. You might hear, like when you go through a low or "dead spot", about every fourth word. How impossible and frustrating is that? Well that's the struggle your body is involved in every single moment -- cellular communication, and the Nobel Prizes proved this.
Our son's condition was resolved after supplementing his diet so that his body could then easily build these critical structures. There are three options I know of for getting these Aloe Vera type, plant based nutrients to help fight off illness -- And to repair and restore both short and long term health.
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