People have been using substances like olive oil, yogurt, vinegar, honey and aloe for skin care for ages, Day said, and now there are scientific studies that explain why they work.
McClung asked a cosmetics lab to whip up a rub made from the oil and aloe vera, which he started selling to his aging, aching restaurant customers in sterilized ketchup bottles in 1998.
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Another treatment, Mother of Pearl, uses pulverized queen conch shells in an aloe and lemongrass-oil base to exfoliate the skin.
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Super Blue Stuff is made from a witches' brew of ingredients: emu oil, aloe vera and methyl sulfonyl methane (MSM).
Thin, white threads are obtained from the core of fresh aloe leaves and woven into a net or other pattern on a cardboard background.
Aloe vera and emu oil, extracted from the fat on the backs of the ostrich-like birds, have been used as soothing anti-inflammatory agents for years.
For some parents, that means last-minute beach excursions and the careful application of aloe vera to sunburned skin.
Palm Greens went so far as to create a smoothie called the "Bradley's Ultra Green" which includes spinach, kale, mint, ginger, probiotic, bananas, aloe vera, apple juice and Spirulina.
None of it has looked like Aloe Vera or the surprisingly vibrant scene CNN experienced during a recent and rare visit to Damascus.
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