Lotte aloe vera

The Aloe or Giglio del Deserto is a bold plant of African origin belonging to the Aloeacee family, with very short stem, fleshy rosette leaves and red, yellow or white flowers. It is also called "Pianta del Miracolo", for its incredible beneficial properties.

It grows spontaneously in abundance in many parts of the world and thrives in warm climates, on dry and calcareous soils, but it can also be cultivated through the seeds or for propaggine. Of the more than 300 varieties of Aloe, only Aloe Barbadensis Miller (who owes its name to the Barbados Islands, where it is widespread), called Aloe Vera, is the most useful and valuable. From its leaves is extracted manually a dense juice - also called gel - whose active ingredients are real dirters of diseases, because they have the same effects of antibiotics, but do not have the same toxic effects.

For over 2000 years Aloe Vera has been cultivated and used for its beneficial properties and effects on health, thanks to its unique biochemical composition. Despite being known and appreciated since ancient times, the systematic study of the plant began only in the 1960s, thanks to the work of Bill Coats, a Texas pharmacist who developed a process to stabilize the pulp, opening the road to the marketing of Aloe with no more problems of oxidation and fermentation.