Why Aloe Vera is the ultimate ingredient of personal care? Ever gave a thought to the Personal Care Industry’s obsession with Aloe Vera? Well, The Aloe Vera plant has been known and used for centuries for its health, beauty, medicinal and skin care properties. Let’s take a glance at the pages of history that also support the notion of Aloe Vera being a panacea for the human skin. The subject of Aloe Vera's medicinal property didn't come to light in recent times. If we take ourselves 2000 years back, Aloe Vera was regarded as a universal panacea. The Egyptians called it Aloe "the plan of immortality". In fact, Aloe vera has been used for medicinal purposes in several cultures for millennia: Greece, Egypt, India, Mexico, Japan and China. Even it was a part of regular beauty regimes of the Egyptian queens Nefertiti and Cleopatra and an ultimate medicine that Christopher Columbus used to treat his soldiers.
Enough with history; we’re talking about 2018 right now where the benefits of Aloe Vera soap could be attained in different variants of personal care. Be it in the form of an Aloe Vera Soap or an Aloe Vera Body Wash, a Dry skin or an Oily one, Aloe Vera has been the ultimate go-to ingredient that has kept people and marketers ticking over all these years. Understanding the benefits of using an Aloe Vera Soap or Body Wash or any personal care product: Here’s a fun fact before you make a choice of buying an Aloe Vera soap or a body wash for Dry skin (the two most popular choices):
Aloe Vera contains 75 potentially active constituents: vitamins, enzymes, minerals, sugars, lignin, saponins, salicylic acids and amino acids. Imagine consuming all of them by using just one product. Anyhow, here are three major benefits that you get after buying an Aloe Vera soap rich product:
Healing properties: It mannose-rich polysaccharide, and gibberellin, a growth hormone triggers the synthesis of Collagen which a is a primary component in the connective tissues, such as tendons and ligaments. It is used extensively in the extracellular matrix, which forms the basis for most of the connective tissues. Also, due to the presence of an antioxidant protein, metallothionein in the Aloe Vera helps in protecting the skin on the exposure of UV and gamma radiation.
Moisturizing and anti-aging effect: Aloe vera triggers the stimulation of fibroblast which produces the collagen and elastin fibres, which in turn, make the skin more elastic and less wrinkled. Moreover, the amino acids present in it also smoothen the skin cells and the zinc acts as an astringent to tighten pores. In a nutshell, Aloe Vera soap improves the quality of skin by its moisturizing & healing properties and provides a significant amount of protection from Acne.
Anti-septic effect: Aloe Vera contains 6 antiseptic agents: Lupeol, acid, urea nitrogen, cinnamonic acid, phenols and sulfur. All of them supplement to skin’s inhibitory action on fungi, bacteria and viruses