Choosing Aloe Products
Which one to use?   Are all brands the same?

Aloe Vera is a popular product widely sold in a number of high street outlets. Without direct control of every aspect of production, from manufacture to customer, it is hard to ensure product control. Problems encountered include illegal irradiation, excess processing, additives, and clandestine dilution with water or other substances.

Why Forever Aloe Vera

•       First, FLP owns its own Aloe Vera plantations in the fertile Rio Grande Valley in Southern Texas, Dominican Republic and Mexico (three countries). FLP grows only the Aloe Barbadensis Miller that has the most nutritional compounds, even though there are more than 300 different species of Aloe.
•      Our cold pressed, stabilized Aloe Vera is the very finest available. To keep it at the highest standards FLP has vertically integrated entire aloe process. It means we control everything from fields, to factory, to research and development, to packing, to shipping and distribution. This allows us to guarantee the quality of FLP products to our millions of customers and distributors who depend on them for a healthier and more rewarding livelihood.
•      FLP processes its Aloe Vera leaves within hours of harvesting. They are washed and rinsed twice before being carefully filleted. Minutes after filleting, the raw gel is stabilized by a proven, patented process which preserves essentially all of the 75 different nutritional compounds naturally occurring in the plant. Only pure Aloe Vera gel is used. The leaf along with the yellowish lining (called aloin) is discarded. The pulp of the raw gel then undergoes a stabilization process that protects it from oxidation and seals in its natural potency. (Oxidation means getting exposed to air.)
•      Only mature Aloe Vera plants providing 100% gel potency are harvested and used for manufacture. Modern harvesting techniques are employed throughout the farm system and no pesticides are used in any phase of operation. Each aloe plant starts out as a shoot, or pup. After approximately 3 years of careful cultivation, each mature Aloe Vera leaf is gently removed from the plant by hand with a small incision along the stalk.
•      The facilities, machinery, test equipment, etc are subject to stringent government regulations. Every batch of every product manufactured is tested a number of times to ensure purity and consistency before, during and after final formulation before release by quality control from quarantine. Once the aloe gel has been tested and approved, it is transported to FLP's product manufacturing plant, Aloe Vera of America, in Dallas, Texas where it's put through a series of microbiological and quantitative testing.
•     Once approved, the gel is transferred to our product formulation tanks. When the compounding phase is completed, the product is filled on our automated filling line. The consumable products are sealed to protect against contamination, and to increase shelf-life. The bottles are made with a unique 3-layer plastic which further protects the product from oxidation and keeps it fresh. Our revolutionary bottling equipment can produce over 100,000 bottles per shift, that's more than three bottles of Aloe Vera Gel filled, sealed and packaged per second! Isn't that unique!

Proven Results

The Food and Drug Testing Laboratories of New York conducted an independent test comparing Forever Living's Stabilized Gel with the gel from a raw, mature Aloe Barbadensis leaf. The two were found by them to be "essentially identical". In other words what you get in the bottle is the same as what you would have if you filleted your own leaf (without a mess!). Forever Living Product's Aloe Vera Gel has been certified by the International Aloe Science Council and earned the right to display the Council's Seal of approval on the Gels.
FLP Aloe Vera products have been approved not only by International Aloe Science Council, but they carry KOSHER Rating seal of approval, as well as Islamic Seal of approval and none ofthe products have been tested on Animals.