Aloe vera and your skin.

Aloe vera and your skin.


Aloe Vera is a great and inexpensive way to treat your body and skin!



So what is Aloe Vera you ask? Well aloe Vera is a plant. That has long, spiked leaves, which are thick-skinned and contain a clear gel-like substance.


Aloe Vera Leaves can be purchased at any Asian supermarket. Or if you want to take it a step further.... purchase an Aloe Vera plant. =D (no pun intended)









If you have been wandering around in supermarket and have picked up a bottle of Aloe Vera drink. Put it down right away! Not only is this bottle sugar loaded, it's been proceed many different ways causing it benefits to diminish greatly!



Natural Aloe Vera drinks are bitter not sweet.




Benefits of Aloe Vera:

help sooth skin injured by burns, irritations, cuts and insect bites.

help moisturize and soften the skin.

help speed the healing of skin wounds, burns and other injuries.

help (when taken internally)with constipation, diarrhea and other intestinal problems.

speed and improve general healing when taken internally.

relieve itching and swelling of irritated skin.

improve the effectiveness of sun screen products.

treats chappy dry skin.

helps your skin retain it moisture.

helps whiten your skin.

keeps your skin clear.

known to treat scars.

Aloe Vera Drink recipe:

Ingredients:
*half of a aloe vera leaf
*water
*honey


Directions:
*Cut aloe leaf horizontally (1 centimeter band each)

*Toss into a pot

* Add water (Tip: 1 part aloe 2 parts water)

*set flame medium and occasionally stir.

*bring up to a boil and let it sit

*add a bit of honey and stir in

*pour into cup and enjoy (the color of the drink should be pinkish purple.. yeah it's normal =D)



WARNING: Drink is bitter.. add a bit more honey if needed.. but don't over do it.


Aloe Vera Mask:
The reason for telling you only to use half of leaf was.. making a mask! This is super simple and very effective!

Ingredients:
*The rest of your aloe Vera leaf.

Directions:
*cut open as if you were cutting a bread roll open to make a sandwich


*with the inner flesh part up against your face, start to spread the gel over you face evenly


*allow mask to sit of 20 minutes or intill dry.


*wash off with Luke warm water and apply toner and moisturizer


Enjoy!

-Mei

p.s. have a scar? use this as a spot treatment. just dab a bit on the scar and go on with you daily activities. apply numerous times a day.