Arguments And Tips For Your Own Aloe Vera Plant

If you have your own aloe vera plant, you can always access fresh leaves.

The leaves of the aloe vera plant should be used as fresh as possible, so that it makes sense to get your own plant.

We’ll show you what to look out for and what you can use the leaves of the plant for.

Why your own aloe vera plant?

If you have your own plant, you can always fall back on fresh leaves.

You are probably wondering why you should keep a plant when there are so many products with aloe vera on the market?

Well, there are many arguments in favor of your own plant in the apartment or on the terrace ! Your own plant

• always delivers fresh leaves,
• always delivers 100% pure aloe vera gel,
• is free from pesticides,
• does not contain any additives such as preservatives and
• is available at all times.

So whenever you need aloe vera, you have a fresh leaf to hand and you don’t have to rely on the dubious quality of some products, which usually contain very little aloe vera.

Since injuries and other illnesses that the gel helps with usually occur suddenly, you don’t have to go to the pharmacy to buy a product.

Aloe Vera for the skin

Aloe Vera is known for its excellent care and healing properties on the skin. You should either have an aloe vera plant on the windowsill or a pure (!) Aloe vera gel at hand, because aloe vera can be used in many ways in skin care.

Basically, it donates an incredible amount of moisture. Their nourishing ingredients also ensure that wounds or other skin injuries or skin irritations such as sunburn or burns heal faster.

The aloe vera also serves as a moisturizer. If you own an aloe vera in the garden, winter garden or on the balcony, you can make a great moisturizing mask yourself.

To do this, cut off a piece of the thick-fleshed leaf and carefully peel off the hard, green outer skin. The resulting light green jelly-like core is the part of the aloe vera that contains the active ingredients that your skin is waiting for.

Aloe Vera for a healthy stomach

If you suffer from gastric mucosal inflammation, gastric ulcer or other inflammatory diseases in the stomach, aloe vera can help to support the therapy prescribed by the doctor and promote healing.

To do this, puree the gel into juice, which you can drink or mix with, for example, yogurt or smoothies.

For injuries in the mouth

If you have an injury in the mouth, for example on the gums, aloe vera can help it heal faster.

Simply put a piece of aloe vera gel on the affected area and leave it there for a long time.

Note that you should have yourself checked for zinc deficiency if aphthae and other “places in the mouth” appear regularly and for no understandable reason.

A fungal infection could also be the reason!

How do I grow my own plant?

There are over 200 types of aloe vera plants. They differ mainly in their growth.

Some species grow quite quickly and reach sizes that are ideal for the conservatory but bad for the windowsill.

Such large species are ideal if you need a lot of aloe vera because you use it regularly and need larger amounts because you use the gel in smoothies, for example.

Small species are ideal if you only want to harvest a leaf occasionally, because you only use aloe vera as “emergency medicine” to apply it to burns etc.

Aloe Vera plants constantly form new, small offshoots on the “mother plant”. This gives you the opportunity to get to know the “adult” plant and how it grows.

Pick one of these little seedlings for yourself. It should be a bit bigger and ideally already have some roots.

Plant the small offshoot in a pot with potting soil, which can be a bit sandy. In the first week you can put a freezer bag over the pot to give the aloe a protective climate and to encourage it to grow.

Care of the aloe vera plant

Aloe Vera is an undemanding plant in itself. It grows in Africa and is used there, for example, on roadsides, to delimit gardens and to border trees and flower beds.

It tolerates drought and loves the sun ! As long as your aloe vera plant is still small, you should water it regularly. Once it has grown in well and has new roots, don’t mind if you forget to water it.

Place them in the blazing sun, this can be a window sill on a south-facing window, a sunny balcony, your garden or your sun terrace.

In winter, however, the aloe vera plant definitely has to go indoors, it cannot tolerate the cold! So think carefully about where you have space for your new medicinal plant in winter!