Aloe Vera Has 10 Impressive Uses

Aloe is very useful for psoriasis, food sensitivities, diabetes, gastritis and gingivitis.

- Suzy Cohen, R.Ph.

Aloe vera made a couple of headlines recently. The first was when the actress Drew Barrymore dabbed some on a facial sore and it instantly took out the redness. The second was when Prop 65 regulations in California called out a known carcinogen in aloe vera called “aloin.”

Don’t worry, aloe will never get banned!

Not to be morbid from the get-go, but extracted compounds from this spiky succulent were used in the middle east during ancient times to clean dead bodies and prepare them for burial.