Skincare with Aloe Vera vs Water

The Trouble with Water & the Case for Aloe Vera

Nearly all skin care brands formulate their products using water as the first ingredient. After all, not only is water abundant, it’s also inexpensive, making it an excellent base – from a manufacturer’s point-of-view. But what about the product end user’s perspective?
For years, consumers have been led to believe that water-based products benefit the skin and help to hydrate it. But the simple, undisputed fact is this: skin cannot absorb water. If it did, we wouldn’t be able to swim. A skin care product’s base ingredient is tasked with delivering all the other included ingredients to the skin so the product may provide it’s intended benefit. Given that the skin cannot absorb water, it is very difficult for the other ingredients to penetrate.

Aloe is readily absorbed into the skin and is highly therapeutic. It is also an excellent anti-inflammatory, and inflammation is at the underlying cause of a wide array of skin conditions. For this reason, aloe is an excellent base for skin care products.

Aloe in Skin Care – It’s a Matter of Concentration

Many companies tout the use of aloe in their products, but what they don’t want you to know is that aloe must be used in high concentrations to ensure its benefits will be realized. In order to achieve this, aloe must be used as the product’s base ingredient. As such, it will be the first ingredient listed on the back of the product. I’m willing to bet that instead, you’ll find water listed in that primary role.
Water only dilutes the active ingredients in the product, which makes any aloe it does contain virtually worthless. Additionally, water-based products are essentially non-therapeutic. To make them therapeutic, medicines must be added to the product formula, which often puts consumers at risk of adverse side effects. Conversely, aloe-based products are therapeutic by their very nature because there is enough aloe in them to provide therapeutic results.

Given aloe’s ability to penetrate deep into the skin’s layers (unlike water, which cannot be absorbed), it is an excellent carrier for other effective ingredients. Therefore, beyond the need to have a high concentration in order to experience its benefits, a base of aloe offers additional advantages.

The Quality of Aloe Vera in Your Skin Care

All Aloe is Not Created Equal.The highest or purest aloe is pharmaceutical grade. It is the most expensive to use given the long harvesting and processing techniques required to “purify” it. For that reason, it is typically only used in medical applications.
The most commonly used form of aloe vera is cosmetic grade. This includes products that say they contain aloe extract, aloe leaf juice, or even certified organic aloe. None of these forms are comparable to the potency, purity, and effectiveness of Certified Organic Pharmaceutical Grade Aloe Vera in TreSkinRX Products.

The pure and potent form of aloe contained in the TréSkinRX Products, has exceptional abilities relevant to skin care.

Aloe penetrates tissue.Unlike water, aloe can be absorbed by the skin. In fact, it is absorbed deep into the skin’s layers. This is due to the presence of lignin, a substance similar to cellulose. This ability allows aloe to act as an excellent carrier for the other components of Aloe Vera, as well as other ingredients that are included in aloe-based skin care products.
Aloe acts as an anesthetic.Aloe has a high magnesium content and contains aspirin-like compounds. Therefore, it is commonly used to alleviate the pain of burns and wounds, including countless skin ailments.
Aloe has antimicrobial properties.Among the antimicrobial compounds found in aloe are saponin, which acts as an antisepsis, and barbaloin, which is effective against Mycobaterium, a family of bacteria known to cause serious diseases. Given that bacteria is a main cause of acne, aloe’s antimicrobial properties are highly beneficial in treatment of the condition.
Aloe is an anti-inflammatory.Aloe contains salicylic acid, a beta hydroxy acid known for its anti-inflammatory capabilities. Additionally, it contains sterols that inhibit acute inflammation, similar to cortisone, but without the side effects. Nearly all skin conditions stem from inflammation, making aloe an ideal remedy across the board.
Aloe is proven to heal wounds.Scientific research has shown that several components in aloe are responsible for the substance’s excellent ability to regenerate cells. These include gibberellin, a growth hormone-like substance that increases protein synthesis and lectin, a protein that increases collagen activity and improves the collagen. Aloe may be utilized to heal conditions, such as acne or eczema, while improving the overall health of the skin.
Aloe is readily available in nearly every type of skin care product – from cleansers and serums to moisturizers and sunscreens. However, few, if any of these products deliver exceptional results. Why? Because of limitations in quality and concentration, as well as inappropriate formulations that fail to maximize the active ingredients present in aloe.

The Aloe Vera in TréSkinRX

Like other cosmetic ingredients, aloe is available in a range of grades. In descending order, these include pharmaceutical, food, cosmetic, reagent and technical. In skin care products cosmetic-grade aloe is the most commonly utilized.

In addition to the numerous beneficial components present in aloe, the plant also contains active ingredients considered impurities because of their capacity to cause contact irritation or allergic reactions in some individuals. Given that a percentage of impurities are allowable in cosmetic-grades, per the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, cosmetic-grade aloe may actually be detrimental to some skin types. For this reason, it is necessary to select a product that utilizes pharmaceutical-grade aloe, the purest form available. Pharmaceutical-grade is generally reserved for medical and pharmaceutical applications but some skin care companies utilize it to ensure optimal results from their products.

Beyond the grade of aloe, there are also two main types that are used in skin care products. These include “whole leaf” and “inner fillet.”

Whole leaf aloe is made by grinding both the interior and outer rind of the aloe leaf while inner fillet aloe is made by removing the outer rind of the leaf and harvesting only the interior of the stalk. Aloe gel made from whole leaf is less expensive but is subjected to more processing. Thus, it contains more undesirable materials. While whole leaf aloe does have a dedicated following, nearly all research conducted on aloe’s benefits was done using inner fillet. Therefore, inner fillet aloe has a proven scientific track record. Harvesting and processing techniques matter.

Aloe’s active ingredients begin to break down and lose their effectiveness immediately after harvesting; a situation that is only compounded by inferior processing. When aloe leaves are crushed, an enzyme is activated that begins to kill off the mannose molecules in aloe. In time, this enzyme will digest all of aloe’s beneficial polysaccharides as a termite digests wood.

To avoid this decomposition of benefits, aloe must be processed within four to six hours of harvesting. This ensures the harvested aloe retains its “bioactivity.” In other words, it maintains its therapeutic healing properties and will work synergistically with the body’s own healing mechanisms. Additionally, effective processing requires that aloe’s molecular structure be stabilized, standardized, freeze-dried and ground to a powder or created into a gel – all within that short window of opportunity.

So how can you ensure these guidelines have been properly followed in the aloe contained in your skin care product line? The International Aloe Science Council (IASC), a non-profit trade organization dedicated to providing the world with the highest quality of aloe, is the governing body that certifies high quality aloe. By purchasing products that utilize IASC certified aloe, you can rest assured that the aloe contained in a product meets only the most stringent quality standards.

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