Fake Products

Samples of store-brand aloe gel purchased at national retailers Wal-Mart, Target and CVS showed no indication of the plant in various lab tests. The products all listed aloe barbadensis leaf juice — another name for aloe vera — as either the No. 1 ingredient or No. 2 after water.

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... and aloe is a cosmetic, why?

Cosmetics schmosmetics...

It's worked wonders on our burns.

'Course we got ours from an actual plant.

Same here. Little dude on the window sill.

We have the decendents of my grandmothers aloe plant in the window.

tarheel