Production Process
That’s Curaloe!
Under the hot Caribbean sun, there are growing 100.000 Aloe Vera plants, waited to be harvest and used in maybe one of the best cosmetics products in the world!
But before we tell you how we make these quality products, we would like to show you how the cosmetics industry works, and especially the Aloe Vera Cosmetics industry.
1. The Aloe Vera Plantation
The big Aloe Vera plantations in the world make powder from the inner side of the leaf, they call this Aloe Vera Extract. They heat up the gel till a 150 degrees Celsius to get the liquid out of the Aloe Vera. In this process they kill a lot of the good vitamins and minerals in the Aloe Vera, the reason they do this is because its cost effective. They ship 1 kg powder to the cosmetics factory instead of 1000 kg Aloe Vera Gel.
2. The Cosmetics Factory
The cosmetic factory will receive a ready to use powder, they mix this powder with water, some oils and butters to make an “aloe vera” cream or lotion out of it…. They can even sell these products as ‘Organic’ Aloe Vera cream or lotion. How do they do this? The powder they use is organic, they mix it with demineralized water and some organic butters and oils, this is the way they make from a not so fresh product an organic product.
How do you recognize this? Easy, just read the ingredients list! The first ingredient on an ingredients list is the most common ingredient in the product, next time when you are in the drugstore, check out for Aloe Vera creams and lotions and you will see the first ingredient is “Aqua” or water. What you are actually doing is putting water + a little bit of Aloe Vera powder on your skin!
But we do things Different!
We don’t believe in this process, besides, we’ve got an Aloe Vera plantation with a cosmetics factory on it, so we don’t have to ship the pure Aloe Vera, we can use the inner filet of this plant Directly in our products!
