Ah, if only I had been interested longer in the benefits of Aloe Vera or Babosa as it is popularly known. I'm Kayoko Takeda and on this channel I talk about healthy eating, mainly fermented foods and probiotics, as well as oriental cuisine and other important tips. If you are new here, you are very welcome and to you who already follow my work, thank you very much!
If you like this content today, like the video and subscribe and turn on notifications. Thank you very much! In today's video I will teach you how to extract Aloe vera gel and how to prepare it for topical application and what is the benefit of this gel for our skin, hair and nails.
If you want to learn the basic principles of good and safe fermentation, and invest in your health and that of your family, take my online course Probiotics for Beginners First Steps for a very affordable price . The link is in the description of this video. The gelatinous and fibrous fillet found inside the Aloe Vera Barbadenses leaf is highly nutritious and rich in properties.
Aloe vera gel is known to soothe the skin after exposure to the sun, helps skin healing, treats acneic skin, has anti-inflammatory action, but I'll talk a little more. Aloe vera gel has a high MSM content, which means Methyl Sulfonyl Melano, plant-based sulfur, which is very necessary for our survival and quality of life. When we apply this gel on our skin, hair and nails; it not only softens and beautifies the skin, when applied directly bringing the appearance of hydrated skin, without a tired skin appearance, but also heals from the inside out.
It is a nutrient that stimulates collagen production, which is essential for skin firmness and a more youthful appearance. Helps in combating free radicals and preventing premature aging. Therefore antioxidant action and nutrition guaranteed by minerals and vitamins.
That's why I regret not having known before when I was very young about these benefits, but you can still run after the damage, the years gone by and take care of my skin and my self-esteem. Let's go to practice. Well here I have a leaf from Aloe Vera Barbadenses, it's such a tiny leaf and here I used an adult one, a very large adult leaf, you see, so this is the Barbadenses variety that has huge leaves like that and very full of gel, they they are very succulent.
So we're going to prepare. Now it's been washed very clean, the glass is also clean, dry, and I'm going to cut it and when I cut it, a yellow-green liquid will come out, right, it's called Aloin. It is quite toxic if we apply it on pure skin or if we ingest it, it is very toxic, but it has its usefulness, which I will teach you about in the next video.
So here, when we remove the leaf, we must remove it along with this part here so that its juice does not drain out. It's a little bruised, but it doesn't matter. Here we are going to put some water.
Water should always be with as little chlorine as possible. I'm using mineral water there, but it could be filtered without any problem. Here drains a yellowish juice that is called Aluína.
And here, as it is hurt, I'm going to make another cut here and I'm going to take this part and put it here in the water. After 24 hours or a little more, this liquid will stay like this here, you see? Colored medium pink is what I did.
I leave it in the fridge for 24 hours or a little more than 48 hours. This one is already 48 hours old and now I'm going to remove the gel from inside it . This part that comes out here is the juice.
We can use it here. There's a defect I'll take it out. This one is easier.
AND. I'm going to put some water there to wash, to remove some of the excess Aluin here, you can still have it right here . To find out if you have an intolerance or not, you can if you are allergic, you can pass it here on your forearm and within two hours observe, if it turns red, it starts to give a pluritus, then yes you can be allergic, right?
In the meantime, let's leave this there, and this part here we'll cut. So this liquid is Aluina juice. I'm going to put.
. . This glass is very big, right?
This is the Aluína juice that I'll talk about in the next video. Now we are going to beat the gel here. It's very thick, isn't it?
He's tough, tough, look! It still has big chunks. You can beat it with a blender too or else you can just massage it.
Let's grind a little more The gel is here, it's ready to be used now. You wash your face very clean, apply a toner and then with a cotton pad you take it and apply it. Do this morning and night.
In the morning after about 20 minutes, half an hour, you can wash and then apply sunscreen. Never forget to apply the specific sunscreen for the face because it has moisturizer, right, different from the sunscreen that is for the body. And at night, after the face is also clean, apply it again with cotton, a wad of gauze and leave it for half an hour and if you want to sleep with it, you can.
Then you can rub a little essential oil or moisturizer over the Aloe Vera without any problem. I'm going to use this small glass. Why is this important?
Because if I put it on glass with a larger area, it tends to have a very large area of exposure to oxygen like this glass here for example, it has a very large area of exposure to air, the smaller it is, the better so as not to undergo oxidation and then if we put it in a smaller glass and inside the, even inside the refrigerator, after a few days it can start to ferment and it will become a little more acidic, without any problem. This is very good even for our skin. This gel here is valid for a month.
You can use it by keeping it in the fridge. Every time you use it, you don't put your finger in contact with the inside of the liquid. I always separate the part I'm going to use in a syrup medicine measuring cup.
So here is the gel ready to be used. I'm going to show one that I have one that is already over a month old so this one making a new one today I'm going to discard this one. It's already done, right?
Now I'm going to replace it with this new one. Then the gel is ready to be used. I hope you enjoyed today's video.
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