Look at the skin in the left side of the picture and then look at the plant on the right side of the picture. Honestly I was not born with that skin and today I have that lovely skin just because of the Aloe Vera Plant extract that I am using on my skin every single day since 4 years. I had dry flaky skin and I am not fond of putting chemicals on my body, this is when I started trying multiple natural remedies at home - Tomato Juice, Lemon Juice, Papaya Extract, Turmeric and the list is long. But when I used Aloe vera extract for the first time, my skin felt happy and smooth. That was the start of my skin healing journey and I immediately got an Aloe vera plant of my own in my little home garden.
The aloe vera extract helps remove dead skin cells, has antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties which helps with reducing acne causing bacteria and results in crystal clear skin. With its moisturising properties, it makes your skin as smooth as honey.
Recently I have planted Aloe vera in one more pot to keep my stock full.
How do I use it every day as a natural Skin healer?
I first wash my face with a mild facewash in the morning to remove any over night oil and dirt. Then I take off one leaf from the plant in the morning.
Then I take a clean plate and a clean knife, and cut the aloe vera leaf in pieces both horizontally and vertically.
I take a steel bowl to collect the extract, I keep scooping out the aloe vera extract with a steel spoon and put it in my container. Using a spoon to take out the white aloe vera extract is the best strategy - it saves wastage of extract and your time. Then I blend the extract thoroughly until it becomes a consistent runny gel, if you face trouble making a runny mixture of your gel with your fingers then you can use a hand-held electric blender but it results in wastage of extract because quite a good amount sticks upto the blender blade and goes wasted. So I would recommed using a spoon and your fingers to blend it.
Then I apply the gel over my face until it gets dry and wash it off with plain water.
I do it every morning from scratch as I do not want to store the Aloe vera extract and lessen its effectiveness.
One thing I would like to highlight, whenever you take off the aloe vera leaf from the plant there will be a yellow colored chemical dripping off its tail, avoid using it. Its plant latex and contains Aloin which is considered bad for the skin. All in all, aloe vera as a natural home remedy is doing wonderful for me.
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Great article. What an interesting process you use. My mom used to have those plants and I never knew they were Aloe Vera. I just called them cactus! 🌵
hehe funny that you used to call them cactus 😁🤣
Great tips! I did NOT know about the yellow part. Good to know :)
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Glad now you know :)
When I was a child we had so many aloe vera plants at home as they are so easy to plant but we didn't know about their properties so now when I look back I regret that so much of the natural stuff was wasted..
I'm also thinking about getting aloe vera at home as my friend reminded me about it last week when I visited her. And now you reminded me too :) I'm glad to hear that it works so perfectly for you.
Thank you for sharing and have a lovely day!
The God of Aloe Vera wants you to accept him by so many reminders :P
I hope you get one soon and use it for its natural properties and benefits :):)
Have a lovely day :)
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Such a wonderful explanation. Thank you for sharing.
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It was a good read!
I'm quite lazy to do all these on a daily basis. So I use reetha extract instead ....which I prepare once in a week or two.
For aloevera gel, I remember that once I blended it in large quantity and added some coconut oil to it. Then I filled it in ice trays and stored them in freezer. Everyday before bath, I used to take one ice cube. So I didn't had to repeat the process for an entire month ...lol!
But it's great that you are using it fresh every day!
Reetha sounds cool too though I have never tried. And this ice cube idea is so thrilling, never thought of it. It sounds good since aloe vera will be freezed so it's quality will remain to the best extent. I will try it for once tomorrow and see how the ice cube goes for me.
This was amazing post! I so long time didn't know how to right use it! I even bought aloe vera because I knew it is healing plant, but I wasn't sure what I need to do with it 😅😅 Thank you! Is there something more where I can use it? 🤔
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Glad you liked it. Yeah you can use it in your hair too, makes hair smoother and shiner. You just have to collect a lot of extract and blend it with an electric blender since it going to be much for hair.
People drink it too but Honestly I dont know a way of drinking it :D
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Isn't Aloe Vera a great plant? I keep a few plants growing in containers to use like you do and I also put it in my Lemon, Ginger, Turmeric morning toner drink. I add a bit of stevia to sweeten it. I find since I've been adding it to my drink my hair and nails grow quicker. It is packed full of collagen. Nice entry for the contest! Thanks for sharing!
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Yeah Aloe vera plant is a totally sweety pewty :)
The fact that it helps your hair and nail grow faster sounds so exciting, I will also find a way of drinking it for myself.
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there is but not the kind to chalk my skin
Oh my gosh your skin is beautiful!!! I love this plant.. so simple, who needs to spend a fortune on fancy creams??? Great entry. My aloe Vera died, and my new one is too small to use yet, but soon!!!
Exactly why spend on fancy creams when the big corporations themselves take the plant and put loads of chemical to increase shelf life. :D
Yeah Aloe vera plants take time when its new, I also had to keep patience with my first pot, nows its wild bunch :)
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I have also heard that Aloe Vera is good for the skin. I've used it in the past when I lived where they grow outside everywhere. Now I have moved, but I just bought a little indoor Aloe Vera plant so I can start using its juice on my skin again. It's working very well for you; your skin looks beautiful!
Yeah try using it, maybe tomorrow morning ? 😉
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I love aloe Vera! We have a plant in our kitchen by the window 😍
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Oh yeah me too loveeeeee it :):)
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Try it, its good :)
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Great article:) Aloe Vera is a magical plant:)
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Congratulations on being a curie contest winner. We share same country. and aloe Vera have many benefits even I have aloe plants at home.
Keep flourishing.
Thank you :)
Glad to hear you have Aloe vera at home too :)
I love my Aloe Vera too. They are also great for skin burn and make some drink and desserts from them. It’s so easy to grow that everyone should have one plant at home.
I love my Aloe Vera too. They are also great for skin burn and make some drink and desserts from them. It’s so easy to grow that everyone should have one plant at home.
Exactly so easy to grow that every home should one of them :) Plus it can take all kinds of seasons on it - winters, summers, spring, autumn :)
Excellent information! I never knew about the yellow part. I'll have to remember that next time I pull some off of one of my plants. Mine are quite small still, so I don't use it often. Perhaps I need to look how best to care for them so they can grow bigger like yours! I remember using it often as a child if we were out in the sun too long to cool our skin. :)
Yeah the yellow part info came to me also at a later stage :) It took alot of time for mine also to grow this much, slow in the beginning and then its wild bunch, thanks for stopping by :)
Sometimes we can do much with so "little"
You got yourself a beautiful skin!
Yeah little can do wonders at times :)
Thankyou for the compliment :)
Indeed aloe vera is good to our body, I have plenty of them to use in my garden too!
Good to know you have aloe vera in garden. :)
Thank you for stopping by :)
Aloe Vera is an amazing plant! I grow a bunch of it here at my house. I should really try to use it more though, I'm sure my skin could use it. lol.
Hehe yeah try it today, for your skin or hair too if you wish. :P
Great post - I had no idea about the yellow plant latex! Great tip. Thank you.
Now you know :)
Thank you for stopping by :)
Many commercial skin creams use aloe as one of their major ingredients.
As far as medicines from nature: The list is almost endless. I'm currently making tea from Horsetail (a weed). It is said to help prevent cancer. I started drinking one cup per day since finding out I had a tumor on one of my kidneys. I've also been collecting and drinking chamomile flowers (tea) for many years. It soothes the stomach.
My next-door neighbour showed me a flower that she said will remove warts by putting a drop of its sap on the wart and letting it dry there. Unfortunately, I have no clue what the flower's name is.
Oh... I just thought of something. My mother would use Aloe sometimes for minor burns. She just cut a sliver off the leaf and rubbed it on her skin. No scooping of gel; just cut and rub directly on the skin. She "painted" the gel on like using a felt marker pen, only the "pen" was the Aloe leaf.
Yeah many of commercial creams use Aloe and Lemons as one of their main ingredients.
The horsetail tea sounds interesting, has it been helping with the tumor? Like any improvements?
The flower for the drying the warts sound too good to be true, I am sure there must be something like this, but never heard of it. Wish we knew the flower name and hit that pretty thing around :)
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I have no way to know for sure because the tumor has not changed in size over the past 21 months. I am also eating bitter apricot seeds for the same reason. It is anyone's guess which actually work and which do nothing. The main thing for me is that it is not growing.
I found this:
Although the images of the plant somehow don't look quite the same to me. It is a small flower though, and she plucked one of the flowers and squeezed it so that juice came from the stem just under the base of the flower.
Overall the combination is working for you, thats still great :)
I am gonna read about the Walachii flower and what conditions it grows in :)
Nice! I hope you can find all the information without too much trouble.
I grow my own ginger in 3 pots inside the house. I still don't know if the ginger likes wet soil or dry. I've been watering once a week and so far I get new shoots and roots each year, so at least they are surviving and I get fresh organic ginger. It's not a lot of ginger, but better than none!
Ooooo growing ginger inside home sounds interesting. What does the books and the internet says about ginger soil preference, maybe ginger has a weather preference.
But yeah any ginger is good , then ginger from the markets.
I find mostly stuff like this:
It isn't really very specific about anything. What does "over-watering" actually mean? https://newengland.com/today/living/gardening/how-to-grow-ginger-indoors/
From experience, I can tell you that my ginger sends up tall leaves (2-3 feet or just under a meter tall) and that they all die back once per year. It is a slow-growing plant, so each year there isn't a lot of extra ginger to harvest without depleting the roots for growing next year's crop. I have my pots behind my south-facing glass patio door, so it does get lots of light in the Summer and as much as possible for our climate in the Winter. As I said, I water once per week and depending on the temperature, sometimes the soil actually dries out before I water again. Whether or not this is the optimal condition, I don't know.
The lady next door found the name of the plant. It is called, Greater Celandine and is part of the poppy family. There is also a Lesser Celandine that is part of the Buttercup family, but that is not the plant she said cures warts. She even believes that when you use the sap of the Greater Celandine, it induces some sort of resistance in your body so that no more warts grow. It could be coincidence, but that was her experience, because she used it on her daughter and her daughter never had any more warts since then.
See https://www.google.com/search?q=celandine+plant&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=aVYAhva_7u1wgM%253A%252Cik6uph4dH1wkqM%252C%252Fm%252F05pdxb&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kSx_gjh8o6gotGozACTjQ61pXJ7Dg&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi818aD4b7iAhVMHTQIHYWuDc4Q_B0wEnoECAoQBg#imgrc=aVYAhva_7u1wgM: for a picture of the plant she showed me. She even gave me one to plant in my garden.
She has such knowledge, plus it worked for her daughter, so reliable in a way. Thanks for sharing it with me :)
I always loved aloe vera just for healing sunburn haha.
haha that is good too , whatever works wherever works :P
Hey @vibesforlife! I'm really into natural skin cleansers because I feel like we should put on our skins only that which we can consume/digest ((:
Thanks for sharing - will try it out!! 💕
So right on - Put only what we can digest :)
Thanks for stopping by :)
Natural is always the best and should be preferred over those bought over the counter. One natural remedy my wife mixes up whenever we have a cough. Lemon juice, ginger and honey always does the trick.
Oh yeah, lemon juice, ginger and honey, all three are real gifts from nature. Some elements of nature can't be beaten up.
@vibesforlife, if you do this every day, then you need to grow a lot of aloe vera plant?
I use one big stem in parts three to four days. The plant grows very slow in the beginning, once it sets up, the growth is fast enough to keep the stock enough.
Always super nice to see a PRACTICAL how-to for people who are used to only see aloe vera gel in a tube, laced with chemicals and preservatives. I, too, am about to repot and GROW my aloe vera supply - I'm forever giving the little plants away. Which is as it should be. My new plants are going in NICE ornamental pots and will be spread throughout the INSIDE of my house - I have been learning much about its air purifying qualities and want the air I breathe at night, as I sleep, to be naturally purified. Lovely post, @vibesforlife.
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Ornamental pots, wow sounds exciting. Please do a blog and show us the posts if you get a chance and which indoor plants you are using to purify the air. I can use some ideas :)