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Aloe Vera is a plant that provides us with a healing and penetrating gel suitable to be a carrier for essential oils. There are times when oil may be inappropriate or not suited to a horse. You can safely use Aloe Vera gel with the same dilutions recommended in the applications with vegetable oil. Just make sure when you purchase your Aloe Vera gel you are purchasing the genuine product, some gels are synthetic imitations.
The word Aloe is derived from the Arabic word alloeh, which means shiny and bitter and refers to the Aloe gel. References to its use as a healing agent can be found amongst early Egyptian, Chinese, Greek, Indian and Christian literature. Legend says that it was the desire for Aloe plants that caused Alexander the Great to conquer the island of Socotra, where Aloe was cultivated in the fourth century B.C. Aloe is also thought to have been one of Cleopatras beauty secrets. In
Africa, hunters sometimes rub Aloe juice on their bodies to reduce sweating and to mask human scent. Aloe is one of the easiest house plants to grow.
Another vegetable base gel worth considering is Amigel.
This a vegetable based gelling agent derived from the yeast sclerorium rolfsii. Soothing to the skin it is excellent for all topical application.
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Aloe Gel as a Carrier Base
(For Your Horse)
"No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses."
Herman Melville
Horses love to eat short, juicy grass. They also eat hay (which is dried grass) especially in the winter or when they are stabled. Extra high energy food such as barley, oats, maize, chaff, bran or processed pony nuts are good for working horses. Horses have small stomachs for their size and need to eat little and often - if in a field, horses will graze for most of the day.
