Learn how to make aloe vera juice with 2 ingredients, in 10 minutes, using just a blender. This easy aloe vera juice recipe tastes delicious, uses fresh aloe vera leaves, and produces a juice that offers a range of health benefits.
1-2orange slices(if you want to sweeten your aloe vera juice)
Needed To Clean Aloe Vera Leaf
¼cupwhite vinegar
6cupswater
Instructions
Cut Gel from a Fresh Leaf
Put on latex gloves before cutting into a fresh aloe vera leaf as the yellow film inside is a skin irritant.
Wash the leaf, being careful of sharp spiky sides. Cut the sides and ends. Over a bowl, cut or peel off the top of the flat leaf. Use your fingers, knife or a spoon to pry off the clear gel and drop it into the bowl. (see video)
Add water and white vinegar to the bowl, and slosh the gel around with a fork. Rinse the gel strip and now you can remove your gloves.
¼ cup white vinegar, 6 cups water
Make Aloe Vera Juice
Add the fresh gel strip to a blender.
1 aloe vera leaf
Add in lime juice, water, and 1-2 orange slices if needed.
½ cup lime juice, 4 cups water, 1-2 orange slices
Blend until foamy
Store
Pour the aloe vera juice into a bottle and refrigerate for a week. Adding the lime juice increases its nutritional shelf life.For long term storage, pour into ice cubes and preserve frozen for two months. Add an ice cube to a smoothie a day, or thaw a cube overnight for the next day's aloe vera shot.
Video
Notes
Wash your hands and the aloe leaf and all equipment thoroughly to be sure to keep the juice sanitary.Wear rubber gloves. It's essential that you wear gloves when cutting an aloe leaf for many reasons including to protect against sharp edges and to avoid the skin-irritating yellow latex.Drink aloe vera juice. Drink up to 8 ounces a day, or add it to juices or smoothies to benefit from aloe vera's nutrition and healing powers.Use it as a topical remedy. Prepare the gel as directed but don't blend it for skin use. Instead store it refrigerated for 2 weeks and apply gel to burns, bug bites, acne, sunburns, and moisturize skin, sooth aches, reduce bug bites. for relief.Make fruit-flavored aloe vera drinks. Blend ½ cup of aloe vera juice with 1 cup of water and your choice of ½ cup frozen fruits such as mango, pineapples, watermelon, peaches or cherries. Serve the drinks over ice.