The story of our aloe vera gel

 

Harvesting aloe vera

Even as good wine is made in the grapes, so the aloe vera gel we source comes from plants that are grown in perfect conditions in Southern Africa.


It is the combination of desert sun, sea air, good soil and a frost free climate which produces all the goodness in the leaves which you can now enjoy for the benefit of your health.


The processing of our organic aloe vera gel begins in the coolness of the early mornings when the outer leaves of mature plants are harvested by hand.


The leaves are washed by hand

The leaves are then taken to an air conditioned factory next to the lands where further processing is started immediately to keep the gel as fresh and cool as possible until it is bottled.


As soon as the leaves arrive in the factory, they are washed and rinsed, where after the thorny rinds are removed with knives.


Then the leaves are carefully filleted to expose the inner gel.


Next, the gel "fillets" are lightly washed and rinsed by hand to remove most of the yellow aloin which would otherwise cause a bitter taste.


The fillets then go straight into the grinder, which rather resembles a large meat mincer, and comes out on the other side as a thick juice that still contains small pieces of gel.


The aloe vera leaves are filleted

A small amount of stabilisers and preservatives are carefully measured and added to the gel before it it is poured into large containers and transported in air conditioned trucks to our store room, where it is kept cool and bottled by hand.

 

And this is what you get when you buy our Aloe Vera Drinking Gel - pure goodness from the leaf to the bottle in less than three hours.

 

The outer leaves still contain valuable nutrients and is mostly used as compost, but some of it is also grinded. This is used in our pet products to obtain the full benefits of whole leaf aloe vera.

 


Thick juice pouring from the grinder

Not only does this method of hand processing cause the least amount of damage to the nutritious components of the plant, but it also creates jobs in an area of our country where it is much needed.