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Maybe It’s Aloe Falsa

Aloe barbadesis leaf juice, more commonly known as “aloe vera,” was one of the top two ingredients listed on the labels of house-brand aloe products investigative journalists picked up at CVS, Target, and Walmart stores. Aloe vera has three chemical markers, and when the journalists sent the products for testing, the lab couldn’t find them — though it did find a cheaper sugar whose known uses include imitation aloe. The president of Concentrated Aloe Corp. claims the test is unreliable. The processing the aloe had undergone, he said, might do something to one of the markers, acemannan. But the executive director of the International Aloe Science Council said acemannan was believed to be what makes aloe worth applying to your skin. (AC/Bloomberg) ...So whether it was removed or it was never there, if you buy an aloe product without it, youre getting skinned.