f you have a small aloe plant growing in your window, sure you time to time
slice off a leaf to apply to a burn or a cut. This is the good all-purpose
remedies for cuts, burns, insect bites, and any type of skin irritation.
It cools and soothes even the tenderest skin and creates a natural protective
bandage as it dries. Clinical studies have shown that that fresh aloe gel
speeds the healing of wounds and burns and also fights bacteria that cause
infection. Cosmetic industry use aloe plant since Cleopatra rubbed aloe
gel into her skin as a beauty treatment.
When treating sunburn
we need a large quantity of aloe gel. You can make up a batch of fresh
aloe gel and keep it in the refrigerator (chilled aloe gel is doubly effective
for soothing burns).
To
make fresh aloe gel:
1)
Slice off an outer leaf of an aloe plant, peel (peeler paring
knife or with a vegetable), and place into a blender. Bough type
of aloe plant - Vera
or Barbados - is effective.
2) For every 50 g (1/4 cup)
of aloe leaf, add
- 500 mg powdered vitamin C,
- 400 IU vitamin E (contents of 1-2 capsule),
- 1/2 teaspoon of lavender essential oil.
3) Blend thoroughly and apply
several times a day to cuts, wounds, or burns.
4) Refrigerated in a clean
glass jar, this gel will stay fresh for a couple of months.
Mixture
of aloe and lavender gel soothes many kinds of skin irritations, from
sunburns to skinned knees.
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