Stimulate Your Hair Growth By Using Aloe Vera Gel

What is Aloe Vera?

Aloe Vera is a perennial plant, especially known for its wonderful properties. It is a stem less or very short stemmed succulent plant growing to 60-100 cm tall. It is green in colour varying from green to grey-green with some varieties showing white flecks.  It has been used by mankind right from ancient Greek and European histories. It was first introduced in the southern Europe in the early seventeenth century and since then it has been beneficial to human beings. Earlier it was used as a medicinal plant but over the years, man has identified other properties as well like skin-moisturizing agent, digestion aid, and hair products and so on. More and more research is being done to fully understand the composition of Aloe Vera and utilise it effectively. One of its most amazing features is that it can grow easily in any habitat. It is a low maintenance plant, without much fuss about its cultivation.  It is especially suitable to indoor habitats making Aloe Vera one of the most preferred plants in residential and nursery homes.

Aloe Vera and Hair Products

It’s a well-known fact that Aloe Vera has healing properties. As a medicinal plant, it has been used for would healing, burn healing and abrasion healing.  Scientists tried to use this healing property to hair care. They conducted several experiments by using Aloe Vera in hair care products. They observed that Aloe Vera hair care products facilitate detangling, moisturization, scalp healing, remediation of dandruff, restoration in pH levels, increased fuzz and so on. Also, many users reported superb results when they used Aloe Vera for shampoos and conditioners. So profound were the results that Aloe Vera gel was being used as a sole styling agent. Straight-haired users began to use Aloe Vera for smoothening purposes and curly-haired users loved their look after using Aloe Vera products. Because of its benefits to different kinds of hair, we see an influx of Aloe Vera products in markets nowadays.

Components of Aloe Vera

One of the most important components in Aloe Vera is water. Water is stored in its leaves. As a result of this, water can be utilized by the plant when the rainfall is scanty and irregular. In biological terms, “gel” is the terminology used to describe the material obtained from the parenchyma tissue of the plant. It is a slimy substance, roughly containing 99-99.5% water. Other complex components, mainly polymer molecules, take up the remaining 0.5-1%. These polymers facilitate hydrogen bonding. Hence they are water soluble and they attract water from the atmosphere and bind it to the surface. It is this property that gives Aloe Vera its feature of hair care.

Aloe Vera wonders for Hair

Aloe Vera hair care products can be used as an emollient and moisturizing agent. By emollient we mean that it softens the hair. It also smoothens the cuticle, which is the outermost layer of skin. It attracts and retains the moisture content in hair. Though it has a limited amount of active ingredients on a molecular basis, it has a perfect combination of ingredients, making it suit the hair. In addition, it forms a polymer on the surface of the hair, thereby smoothing the cuticle and encouraging detangling. Further, the cortex of damaged hair can be strengthened by proteins and amino acids found in Aloe Vera plants. Also, minerals such as iron, potassium, calcium and magnesium can have miraculous effect on hair and scalp. Because of its varied composition, Aloe Vera products have a desirable effect on hair.

Obtaining Aloe Vera Gel

Modern day healthy stores have access to Aloe Vera products. But storing and preserving these products might be a problem. As a result of high water content level, microbial growth can easily thwart these products. So, special attention should be given for packaging and preservation when it is being used for commercial purpose. To make things simpler, the best way would be to grow an Aloe Vera plant at home and use the gel as and when required. As mentioned earlier, it is very east to cultivate and maintain an Aloe Vera plant at home. This might be a welcome idea for people interested in gardening.  Plus, it has an enriching experience of growing and nurturing a plant.