Make aloe vera cream yourself

If you have the opportunity to get fresh aloe vera, you can prepare one of the most effective face creams yourself. However, aloe vera concentrate or aloe vera gel, which can be bought in specialist shops, is also suitable as a base. You should use Tegomuls as an emulsifier, because this emulsifier is used in the food industry for cake bases and ice creams, it is very well tolerated and even edible.

How to get the gel for aloe vera cream

1. To obtain the cream base, cut off a single leaf of the aloe vera plant as close as possible to the roots with a good knife.
2. The plant heals quickly and without problems at this point.
3. Now wait until the yellowish juice that is now dripping from the interface of the leaf has completely dripped out of it.
4. Only then do you cut it lengthways. You can now see the clear, slightly thick gel in both halves.
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5. Using a spoon, scrape it out of the two halves directly into a glass bowl for further processing of the cream.

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1. For the next step of the aloe vera cream, mix the oil, Tegomuls and in another glass bowl Beeswax together and gently heat in a water bath until all of the ingredients are well dissolved to have.
2. Now take the water bath off the stove.
3. For the aloe vera cream, mix in the water heated to 40 degrees Celsius and stir it very well during the process.
4. Keep stirring until you have a kind of pudding.
5. When this mixture is still at hand-warm temperature, add the aloe vera gel and the shea butter.
6. Mix very well and then top off the aloe vera cream with essential oil.

Please pay attention to the greatest possible cleanliness and hygiene, so that the aloe vera cream can be kept for as long as possible. It is best to store this aloe vera cream in the refrigerator and remove the respective portions with a spatula to avoid the formation of germs.