{"id":94530,"date":"2016-11-23T12:23:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T20:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/?p=94530"},"modified":"2016-11-23T12:23:57","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T20:23:57","slug":"aloe-vera-products-dont-actually-have-aloe-vera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/aloe-vera-products-dont-actually-have-aloe-vera\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Aloe Vera Products Might Not Actually Have Aloe Vera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our whole life has been a lie.<\/p>\n<p>Recent tests revealed that aloe vera products at\u00a0Wal-Mart, Target, and CVS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-3962680\/Aloe-vera-products-sold-Walmart-Target-CVS-contain-zero-cent-plant.html\" target=\"_blank\">don&#8217;t contain any traces of the actual plant<\/a>, aloe\u00a0barbadensis, even though it&#8217;s advertised as containing it. The retailers are now facing lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p>To be specific, Wal-Mart&#8217;s Equate Aloe After Sun Gel, Target&#8217;s Up &amp; Up Aloe Vera Gel, and CVS&#8217; Aftersun Aloe Vera Moisturizing Gel contain sugar-based aloe vera imitation, maltodextrin.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to be very careful when you select and use aloe products,&#8221; said Tod Cooperman, president of ConsumerLab.com, which led the testing.<\/p>\n<p>Aloe vera is known for its &#8220;healing&#8221; properties, which is mainly attributed to acemannan (it makes up 15 percent of the plant). If less than 0.1 percent\u00a0is detected in testing, it won&#8217;t register as an aloe vera product.<\/p>\n<p>Do you still trust your aloe products? Let us know in the comments below!<\/p>\n<p>xx, The FabFitFun Team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":"Our whole life has been a lie. Recent tests revealed that aloe vera products at\u00a0Wal-Mart, ...","author":1557554,"featured_media":94569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,185],"tags":[],"thumbnail_url":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/23122646\/51216974-660x400.jpg","thumbnail_url_middle_card":"https:\/\/static.fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/23122646\/51216974.jpg","formated_date":"November 23, 2016","category_name":"News","category_icon":"https:\/\/d3vodd1ws13xud.cloudfront.net\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/10113842\/news.svg","author_name":"","trending":false,"sponsored":false,"random_color":"#c193d8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557554"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fabfitfun.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}