Clear up your acne
Have you ever heard of Propionibacterium acnes? Propionibacterium acnes is a bacteria that lives on the surface of your skin. When this bacteria finds its way under your skin it produces substances that cause irritation and inflammation. These bacteria also create an enzyme that dissolves the oil produced by your skin into more irritating substances which makes your acne even worse. |
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Aloe Vera for younger looking skin  Want younger looking skin? I don't know anyone who doesn't. Unfortunately aging is part of life, but if you want to reverse the effects of aging look no further than aloe vera. Compounds in aloe vera promote the production of collagen.
What is collagen? Collagen is the foundation on which our skin is built. About 75% of our skin is made of collagen, unfortunately, as we age, our body produces less collagen. The collagen we do have breaks down and is not replaced as fast. This breakdown of our collagen causes gaps and crevasses in our skin we call wrinkles. The more we age, the less collagen we produce the more wrinkles we get. Are we doomed to have wrinkles? |
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Aloe Vera and Wound Healing |
Healing wounds with aloe vera 
Aloe vera has been used a long time for it ability to heal wounds. Its wound healing ability is associated with its moisturizing effect and its ability to promote collagen synthesis. What is Collagen? Collagen is a fibrous structural protein found in skin, bone, tendons, muscles, and cartilage. Collagen give the skin its strength, flexibility, and resilience. |
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Aloe Vera for better immunity 
One of the most important systems in the body is the immune system. Without our immune system we would live probably about a day, a week at most. Everyone knows that aloe vera has many beneficial properties. Most people do not know that aloe vera helps to strengthen the immune system. There have been many claims through out the years about aloe vera's beneficial affect on the immune system. Then in the 1980's scientists did a study about the beneficial effects aloe vera. They found out that compounds in aloe vera had an antiviral effect, killed cancer cells, reduced the growth rate of tumors, protected the body against free radicals, and helped with allergies. Aloe vera contains a substance called acemannan. |
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Use Aloe Vera to protect your skin from sunburn. 
Why should you worry about protecting your skin from the sun? There are many reasons the biggest being skin cancer. However, many have not heard of the other reason to protect yourself from the sun, photoaging. Photoaging is the premature aging of the skin cause by UV exposure. Some of the effects of photoaging are: - Looking older younger in life
- Freckling and fine wrinkling
- Irregular pigmentation (liver spots)
- Wrinkling and loss of skin elasticity
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