Feel the Burn - Aloe versus Coconut Oil

Have you ever burned yourself and wondered why you don't have an aloe vera plant in your house when you need one? This happens to me often.

I used to have an aloe vera plant - and I used to have a cat. Can you see where this is heading? I would nurture this plant and use it regularly until one day I realized that the poor thing looked like someone had sucked the life out of it.........and then I realized someone had literally done just that. Sucked the life out of it. My cat, being an old and ailing animal was biting the giant sections of this well matured product of nature - and draining it dry!

At first I laughed, but I wasn't laughing when the plant had to be tossed out and I realized that I was now without a crucial healing product I had come to rely on. My aloe vera plant was gone.

Aloe is great for so many things, but I never did find a new plant....and I probably didn't search too hard. If I couldn't get it from my Grandmother (who provided the aloe vera plant to begin with), I never tried too hard.

So the day came when I was introduced to coconut oil....and then the day came when I seriously burned my hand filling our woodstove one night. The first thing I reached for - the coconut oil. I applied it and let it sink in. I felt no pain within minutes. Aloe vera never seemed to do that for me.

The coconut oil healed my burn within a few days - I kept re-applying it daily and left it open to the air.

No pain, no scar. No problem!

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