First aid kit on your windowsill: 5 useful properties of aloe

Aloe Vera fights stress and strengthens your immune system.

Aloe is not only beautiful to look on the windowsill, but also significantly strengthen your body.

So if you have not planted this healing plant at home, you should do it now.

A list of five of the healing properties of aloe are worth paying attention to.

Boosts immunity
Aloe Vera juice is one of the best remedies for strengthening the immune system. And all because the active ingredient “acemannan”, which is contained in aloe Vera, and protect your body. Also, the saccharide contained in the plant helps to fight stress.

To prepare a healthy drink, dissolve in a glass of water a spoonful of honey and the juice of one aloe leaf.

Strengthens hair
Who could think, but aloe also improves the structure and growth of hair. To do this, use a mask with aloe contents. It is easy to make at home: mix 1 tsp aloe juice, 1 tsp castor or burdock oil, vitamin A and E in an oil solution, 1 yolk and 1 tbsp of yogurt. Apply to hair roots and wear a shower cap. After half an hour rinse with warm water.

Heals the skin
Porridge with aloe is often used as applications to the affected areas of the skin for acne, bruises, insect bites and sunburn, and the aloe Vera extract is part of many antiseptic ointments.

Slows down aging
In addition to other properties of aloe, the plant nourishes and improves skin elasticity and helps to slow the aging process. And interestingly, in the composition of plants also have such elements, which prevent the appearance of pigment spots.

To restore and soothe the skin, mix 1 part of any of the moisturizer fresh aloe Vera juice and olive oil. Apply the mask on face and neck, gently massage in a circular motion and leave for 20 minutes. Then wipe with a cotton swab. This mask perfectly restores weathered skin, constricts the capillaries and helps to preserve youthfulness.

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Cleans the air
Not just green the plant is useful for the body. Aloe also cleanses the air of formaldehyde, which highlights the furniture from chipboard, and low in protozoa. This plant is perfect for bedrooms, as it is at night it is most actively absorbs carbon dioxide and releases oxygen.

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