It is a valid question and perhaps we can better answer you with the following information:

✔ They are the world’s largest grower and distributor of Aloe Vera. They own plantations in the USA and the Caribbean – both prime growing climates.  Therefore we can tell you EXACTLY how and where their aloe was grown. For example, we know and can assure you that no pesticides or herbicides are used in our Aloe Vera fields.

✔ They control the whole process, from choosing which leaves are ripe for harvest, right through to the storage temperature after bottling. They are not dependent on any other supplier. 

✔ Their gel is extracted from freshly harvested, mature leaves and stabilized to protect its essential nutritional content within hours. The stabilization process is patented by Forever Living Products President Rex Maughan. 

✔  No artificial flavoring or colouring is added to their gel. As there are many harvests during the course of the year, colour and taste may vary.  It has been known for some companies to add bleaching agents to their Aloe Vera products, to keep the colour consistent on the shelves, all year long. They firmly believe that the colour is NATURAL and HEALTHY.

✔  Although a large proportion of Aloe Vera gel is naturally composed of water, anybody seeing the raw gel will know that it is not a thin clear liquid. Their Aloe Vera Gel is NOT homogenized or filtered. Their drinks have a rich pulp which settles and contains much of the goodness of Aloe Vera that is necessary in our daily diets. They advise you to shack the drinks well to receive the full benefit from their pulp. There are some companies who offer Aloe Vera with the pulp strained, giving it the appearance of bottle water, in recent times, whole-leaf aloe vera has attracted much attention and is presented by its manufacturers as providing extra benefits. They often avoid mentioning that in order to remove the strong laxative elements found in the outer leaf, they must pass the whole liquid through charcoal filters, which inevitably upsets the natural balance of nutrients found in the gel. FLP does not have to risk the integrity of the product by subjecting the gel to this filtering process. Since the traditional, well-proven benefits of aloe vera are found in the gel, not the rind, FLP discards the useless rinds, using them as natural fertilizers in its aloe fields! 

✔  Forever Aloe Vera is not boiled. Boiling or pasteurization is cheaper and faster. Excessive heat destroys the active ingredients. They use only sub-pasteurization temperatures (known as ‘cool processing’) to ensure enzyme activity is preserved.  Cool processing locks in nutrients immediately after harvesting and enables the product to retain its full potency for a greater time. 

✔  Forever Aloe Vera is not reconstituted from freeze-dried gel. This is how some companies can offer ‘double-strength’ products and so on. FL products contain 100% Stabilized Aloe Vera gel, from plant to product to you. 

✔ 100% STABILIZED Aloe Vera is the FIRST ingredient on the labels of their drinks, jelly and lotions. 

✔  The Food and Drug Laboratories of New York have declared that Forever Aloe Vera Gel is ‘essentially identical’ to the raw gel. In other words, drinking our Aloe Vera Gel is like breaking open a leaf and scooping out the gel. 

✔  There is a complete retail money-back guarantee on all their products, which is not offered on most store-bought Aloe Vera. 

 

Unique Stabilization Processing Method

From the time of harvesting, through the entire stabilization process, the gel is handled is a sanitary professional manner. The machinery and buildings are clean and sanitary, thus assuring the quality of the product.

Even though FLP products are sold as food and cosmetics, they are manufactured under a pharmaceutical license. This means that the facilities, machinery, test equipment, etc. are subject to stringent government regulations. Each batch of every product manufactured is tested a number of times before, during and after final formulation before release by quality control from quarantine. The consumable products are sealed to protect against contamination, and to increase shelf-life.

The bottles containing Aloe Juice, Freedom are made with a unique three-layer plastic which further protect the product from oxidation and keeps it fresh. Virtually all materials used in food packaging are approved by the FDA for direct food contact. In the case of materials used for our Aloe Vera drink bottles, there are no harmful components or compounds that can leach into the actual product.

We use this multi-layer bottle because our Aloe Vera needs an oxygen barrier layer in order to provide maximum product integrity and shelf life. Additionally, the added antioxidant (oxygen) layer does NOT contain BPA, but rather a type of vinyl material. 

Important

Only the pure Aloe Vera gel is used. The leaf is removed and is used for fertilizing the sole. The gel is extracted mechanically and in the same time the yellow milky liquid - which is found immediately under the rind, the aloin - is separated.

Aloin is a member of substances called anthraquinones, which are found in the sap of Aloe Vera. It is one of twelve anthraquinones but it is the most well known one. These substances on their own are powerful laxatives. Previously they were sold as a compound called bitter aloes and because of their strong smell and bitter taste they were used to paint on children's nails to stop them biting them.

Despite what is often written about them there is no real evidence to support the fact that they may be harmful in pregnancy (causing abortion) or that they are carcinogenic when ingested over a long period of time. In Forever's drinking gels there is only an extremely tiny amount (less than 50ppm) and it is not at all harmful and in fact some authorities believe that at this level aloin is beneficial. The quality is rigorously controlled during each stage of processing. 

The leaves are cut manually are washed and rinsed twice before being carefully filleted. Minutes after filleting, the raw gel is stabilized by a proven, patented process which preserves essentially all of the 200 different nutritional compounds naturally occurring in the plant.

 

Forever Living Products processes its Aloe Vera leaves within hours of harvesting.

Immediately after being extracted, the pulp of the raw gel is instantly stabilized in order to preserve intact all the natural nutritive components existent in the plant. This pulp is very beneficial factor in the effectiveness of the products.

Aloe Vera gel, in spite of its miraculous effects, has a major disadvantage: it is very sensitive to oxidation (it oxidizes very quickly). If it is not processed immediately, within 2 hours it loses its therapeutic properties and it is destroyed by oxygen and microorganisms. So, this gift of nature could be used only by those who had access to the fresh plants.

Due to the healing value of Aloe gel, in the last decades it has been attempting the stabilization of the gel thus that it can be broadly used by many people. The experiments regarding the technique of stabilization of the gel were effective at the end of 1940s - the beginning of the 1950s and, subsequently, this has become a extremely popular and extensively used supplement since that moment. Until 1968 there had been patented numerous techniques of stabilizing. One of the very best companies and very successful one was Aloe Vera of America which kept 2 patents for stabilizing the Aloe gel. This company was incorporated by Forever Living Products, which patented additional 2 methods of stabilization of the gel. 

These techniques represent the foundation for obtaining a 100% pure and stabilized gel.

Since Forever Living Products stabilizes and formulates its own, the products are made on a timely basis. They don't order a big bath once or twice a year, and let it sit around getting old. You can be assured of getting fresh product, made only a matter of weeks before arriving at our warehouses.

A unique technology of Stabilization Aloe Vera Gel (the special way of cold processing and adding natural stabilizators) is patented and allows preserving all natural properties of the Aloe Gel.

If it is not processed right away, within two hours it loses its healing components and it is damaged by oxygen and microorganisms. Thus, this gift of nature could be used just by people who had accessibility to the fresh  plants. In order to prevent oxidation there are added a few natural antioxidants such as natural vitamins A, C and E.

The gel is thus stabilized and it can't degrade, keeping its curing qualities.

 

What is in Forever Living Aloe Vera Gel?

In order to preserve the nutritional potency of raw Aloe Vera gel, it must be stabilized, and this process inevitably involved the addition of small quantities of other ingredients.

Forever Living Products' Aloe Vera Gel has been declared by the Food and Drug Research Laboratories, Inc. of New York to be ESSENTIALLY IDENTICAL to that found in a fresh leaf. In order to preserve the nutritional potency of raw Aloe Vera Gel, it must be stabilised, and this process inevitably involved the addition of small quantities of other ingredients.