 Trini Girl Natural. Hi everyone, welcome to my channel. We also naturally if I do that I will wear a pre-poo and we all wanted to try it within me but since I'm the kind of person that me and Fresh Stuff don't really get along I decided to try side by side with like the fresh aloe leaf on one side and like the store bought or natural of course aloe gel on the other side because I think naturally if I was saying that the fresh leaf was not better than the store bought and my first thought was like well which store bought are you buying are you buying the edible kind you know are you buying the 99% pure kind like what are you buying so I decided to match up the aloe leaf against like a real top of the line store bought aloe gel and just see how they perform against each other I'm the kind of person that I just got anxiety every time I have to buy something and use it before it goes bad so like kind of aloe vera leaves I wasn't too sure about it and I guess if I'd thought I would have probably bought a plant but the one time I bought that leaf and I had that huge leaf across the whole section of my fridge scared me half the time looking like a dead snake in there you know people are like what is that near a fridge and like you know it's just a whole lot of drama that a modern girl sometimes doesn't want to have to do it so if you were thinking about trying to aloe creepoo but you wanted to know if you really had to go to get the leaf and like one of the pros and cons and stuff like that take a look at my demo and just see how the two of them stacked up against each other so I start off by just cutting the end of the leaf and then cutting about one inch sections this is the dell inside then I just cut the sides off then I slice each piece in half to expose the gel this is the amount that I'll be using on half of my hair then I use surround wrap just to help seal the exposed aloe leaf to keep it fresh and I use a napkin to help block the light and again you know keep it fresher so now it's time to apply this is my hair before and starting with the aloe I just kind of wipe the excess gel into my hair and then I start puncturing to expose gel so the gel it was just exposed didn't last very long I had to puncture pretty soon and I spent a good bit of my time puncturing to expose gel and then applying it so it did take a while to do all of that that's the finished section versus the untouched section and you can see the struggle was very real with those huge gloves that were just everywhere so once that's done I just kind of put it back in the little pigtail and that's me completely finished with both sections and then this is the aloe vera gel from lily of the desert yes you see it so this went on a lot easier it was just a lot faster to apply no puncturing I just kind of pour and put and I did use smaller sections as well I just didn't show that and that's that section then so they look almost the same except the side of the real from the real plan this kind of you know you can see the aloe it's not blended in as well they're more lumps and it was just less liquidy the side with the aloe from the store the bottle was just easy to distribute and you know kind of went on smooth but other than that my hair looks pretty much the same so far because my hair is my area doesn't really get wet and it doesn't really absorb product which I say like every video so yeah now I just do my oil pre-poo which you've seen before basically I just kind of get some oil onto my scalp I don't put extra oil on my hair but there's so much of my scalp that it gets down to my hair when I do the pre-hands method then I massage my scalp that's it I just twist it up but first let me have a little fun now put on my bonnet and get ready for bed and this is the next day I'm taking it down you're seeing what I'm seeing kind of like my fresh reaction I'm like looking for a difference it feels about the same the side with the lily of a desert gel is a little bit wetter because you know the gel itself was wetter the gel from the plant wasn't very wasn't as wet I guess as the gel from the bottle which was a lot more runny but other than the store bought gel started being a little wetter it felt just as moisturized just as soft just as everything other than the extra water it looked pretty much the same and felt pretty much the same I guess it wasn't a big wow for me but I guess you know I know that going in because you know my relationship with aloe vera is a little bit strange due to my watery texture my cuticles are already sealed not much is getting in and my extracts are coarse so not much really makes a difference at least this way I have to like you know add heat and stuff like that humectants and stuff like that to really get moisture in so yeah for me it was a nice experiment get to try but didn't do that much for me so I probably won't be doing it again my hair looked really similar in the end my hair was wetter on the store bought aloe vera gel side it was just stuff just had more water which I guess for me it's probably a bad thing because I don't want my hair to be wet overnight if I can help it but it definitely spread a lot easier was a lot faster was a lot less drama to just open a store bought bottle and just like use it as opposed to slicing cutting making sure that's in spoil applying and hoping that the cutters and jagged to like tear to strands pushing and like trying to release gel so like if I was to use the plant again I would probably blend it but you know my goddess not sure if I was like pushing everybody was like doing that and I did with it but as you saw I have a lot of gloves in my hair some people said I did not experience that so maybe my leaf wasn't the freshest I just got it at the grocery so that could be the issue there but it definitely took more time to like keep releasing gel than if you just had it in a bottle and you could just pour plus the one on the bottle can last for like for me I use it long-term let's just say as opposed to being cautious about the leaf spoiling and the leaf just taking up space near fridge and looking scary you know all of that in terms of course my leaf cost me about 150 and you saw the size of it and I think you can get about three uses out of that the store bought gel was like 750 and I think I might get like 12 uses so the leaf was cheaper and fresher the bottle is just more convenient for applying but other than that my results were pretty much the same so once I was well so I didn't have to kind of account for that but in terms of softness and in terms of look other than the actual water I think my results were pretty much the same so if you're thinking about trying the pre-pool but you're not really a leaf girl you can just go ahead and pick up a bottle of the edible aloe vera gel and try it it just depends on what you want to do I think for me like my hair being wiry and ultra low porosity it didn't really make that much of a difference for me so my hair was a little bit softer but not my will was not up to anything so for me personally warm warm it didn't work that well for me but definitely try it especially if your hair is in a different texture for mine if your hair is not wiry and if you don't have like the lowest of the low porosity then it might work better for you for me I have a tricky relationship with aloe vera and it kind of goes on top of my moisture it doesn't moisturize myself it goes on top of the water and product as opposed to moisturizing myself if you love aloe vera definitely give it a try personally it's a little bit relieved that it didn't work because it's just like okay one last thing that I have to think about maybe doing honestly so you DIYers get on it and now you have options I'm close to you and I hope you at least saw some tips and do's and don'ts about using the aloe vera gel as a pre-pool and hopefully I have you some ideas about what might work for you and maybe how to modify it so definitely blending and streaming is good if you're using the leaf if you're using the store bought gel maybe try to put a little bit less or something because my hair is not really wet so let me directly try the aloe vera pre-pool let me know if you want to try it in the comments below and definitely like and subscribe for more content see you in the next