Aloe Vera enjoys perhaps the highest level of consumer awareness and multi- functional benefit of almost any botanical derivative. Its inclusion levels may be formulated largely as required and current trends see increasingly high levels providing very tangible benefits. In personal care and sun care preparations, the benefits of Aloe Vera are widely accepted as indeed they are for skin conditioning and sensitisation control.

Outside the Toiletries and Cosmetic markets, Aloe Vera has found wide acceptance as a supplement to aid digestion and treat minor intestinal disorders. In the food and beverage industries, Aloe Vera appears as a highly functional ingredient, for example in yoghurts and health drinks, juices and fresh fruit preparations.

Aloe may be added in a variety of forms including liquids and pieces/“crush”. Extraction may be from the whole leaf or the centre fillet only. Extract bases can be aqueous, hydro-glycolic or lipoid based and preservative methods tailored to suit the final application and marketing needs. Concentrated Aloe Vera products provide cost effective ways to achieve high inclusion levels (expressed as single strength equivalent). Concentration may be from 10 fold liquids through to 200 fold spray dried and freeze dried powders. All readily reconstitute in the presence of aqueous phases.

Inovia can formulate many of its other products to include the addition of Aloe Vera as required. Inovia also offers a range of base skin care products and topical gels that feature high levels of Aloe Vera. Inovia offers private label facilities for the production of Aloe Vera drinking gel/juice and combination herbal products. Inovia Aloe Vera products include Aloe Vera sourced from around the world including Australia, South Africa, South America as well as the United States. The varieties used include Aloe Barbadensis and the Cape Aloes (Aloe Ferox and Aloe Copesis).

Aloe Vera is very much a part of our everyday lives whether within our diets or our skin care regimes. Aloe Vera is also a key ingredient in wipe formulations and as a functional additive for toilet tissue and facial tissues. Inovia will design a system to suit and may include other botanical extracts complimenting the benefits.