How Do You Prepare Aloe Vera Gel?
Aloe vera is one of the most popular medicinal plants that can easily be grown in the house. The aloe vera plant is very hardy and will require only minimal watering and maintenance. If you have these plants growing around your house, here’s how you can process them and turn them into homemade aloe vera gel that will work just as effectively as the aloe vera gels in supermarkets. Prepare. Pluck the leaves from aloe vera plants until you have enough to fill a small bottle for your regular use. Choose aloe vera leaves that are large and mature, but still soft and succulent with plenty of moisture and gel inside. Avoid the small leaves, since these still have too little gel in them to be useful. To prepare the aloe vera leaves, take a sharp paring knife and use it to remove the edges from the leaves. The leaves will have spiky edges to protect the plants from animals that also like the sweet gel inside the leaves. Once the thorns have been removed, use the paring knife to peel one side of
