Where It All Began

Aloe aloe!

Where It All Began - African Deserts - The Kalahari (Botswana) - Zebra Aloe Plant

  The aloe industry in South Africa is one of the least understood or visited – aloes are a huge family of plants but the ones that are used in cosmetics are aloe vera and the aloe ferox, commonly known as bitter aloe.  The ferox (fire) variety) is indigenous (but not endemic) to Southern Africa, particularly to […]