Just for a moment I would like for you to make a mental list of the different companies associated with the cosmetic industry. As you begin your list, you'll start to realize the number is endless. In fact, this is the second largest industry in the world, second only to the food industry.

There are literally thousands of companies and products available to meet your needs; however, out of all the different products available, you really only have a few choices. Your first choice might be a water-base product. That means if you look on the back of the product, the first ingredient which is the base of the product would be DM water.

Some examples of water-base products would be Mary Kay, BeautiControl, Estee Lauder, Clinique, Elizabeth Arden, Borghese, Alexandria DeMarkoff, Lancome, Cover Girl, Revlon. In fact, about 95% of the products are considered water-base products.

Your next choice might be an oil-based product. Again, this a product in which the primary base is oil, such as mineral oil, mink, emu oil and such. Usually these products target customers with dry skin.

Examples of these products would be Rose Marie, Oil of Mink, We Care, Oil of Olay, or you could choose an aloe vera-based product in making your choice. It's important to realize there are benefits which you'll receive with an aloe vera-based product that you can not receive from water or oil-based products.

The first benefit: aloe vera is a known healant. Its powers have been recounted for thousands of years. The early Egyptians and Ancient Greeks used aloe vera to heal internal as well as external needs. The journals of Marco Polo speak of its magical powers used in the Orient. The Bible tells of Christ's body being wrapped in myrrh and aloes following his crucifixion. In the journals of Christopher Columbus we find recordings of the mysterious healing properties of this plant and his faith and its powers. All is well, aloes are aboard. It is the earliest recording of aloe in American history.

Today aloe vera is found throughout our country and the world in burn centers and surgical wings, and is used extensively to meet pharmaceutical needs. So the first benefit of an aloe vera-based product is the ability to heal the skin.

The second benefit: an aloe vera product is its own moisturizer. Aloe vera is a succulent and humectant. Therefore, it has the ability to draw and maintain moisture from the air for a longer period of time helping retard the natural evaporation process and preserve the skin.

Again, passed down through the ages we know aloe vera was used by the early Egyptians as a moisturizer as illustrated in hieroglyphics from the tomb of the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. We find she instructed her hand maidens to prepare a daily bath of aloes. This was truly her secret to youthful beauty.

The third benefit, and possibly the most important: aloe vera absorbs into the skin. In fact, aloe vera penetrates all five layers of the skin all the way to the muscle layer, taking the healing and moisturizing benefits into the very deepest layers of the skin, something oil-based and water-based products can not do.

By penetrating, aloe moisturizes the sebaceous glands or oil glands, helping to balance and control oily skin, or reactivates the glands for dry or normal skin. Therefore, no matter what your skin type, aloe vera will bring it into perfect balance.

Not only does aloe vera have the ability to heal, moisturize, and penetrate the deepest layers of the skin, it has a fourth benefit. Aloe vera creates a proteolytic enzyme action. When aloe vera is applied to the skin, a proteolytic enzyme action takes place which exfoliates dead cells and generates healthy new cells.

The big buzz word in the cosmetic industry today is exfoliation. Aloe not only exfoliates, but also rejuvenates cells. In fact, aloe actually regenerates cells six to seven times faster than normal cell reproduction. The stimulation of new cell growth results in younger and healthier looking skin.

Now that you understand the benefits of aloe vera, let's look at what sets Deborah's Collection of aloe vera-based products apart from the rest. Most aloe vera products are of cosmetic grade, whereas Deborah's Collection uses a high-quality pharmaceutical grade of aloe vera, as well as a pharmaceutical grade for all other ingredients, giving you the maximum benefits produced by aloe vera. Deborah's Collection has reached this level of quality for several reasons.

All of our aloe vera is grown in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas. The valley has the highest grade of aloe in the world. It is then hand picked and hand filleted to remove a substance known as alloin. If alloin is present in the gel, it hinders the benefits of aloe vera. Then a cold stabilization processing is used to maintain the highest activity level needed to meet pharmaceutical standards. Deborah's Collection takes great pride in providing you with the complete product line created from the finest pharmaceutical aloe vera gel available. At Deborah's Collection we feel it's important for our customers to understand what makes our products different from the rest. However, we would like for our customers not only to understand the difference, but to see the difference for themselves.

You'll find that we at Deborah's Collection are excited and enthusiastic about the remarkable benefits of the aloe vera gel. We encourage you as an informed customer to examine our products and discover the difference in Deborah's Collection.