Q.Write the cosmetic uses of Aloe.

Traditional Southern Indian skin and hair care relied on home-prepared plant products — turmeric, green gram powder, henna, soap-nut and reetha — before cosmetics became a high-value, largely chemical-based industry; growing awareness of chemical-cosmetic hazards is now driving a return toward natural ingredients. Aloe vera, native to Sudan and grown at scale across several Indian states, supplies a cooling, moisturising leaf gel (via the compound aloin) used in creams, lotions and shampoos, and valued for emollient, antibacterial, antioxidant, antifungal and antiseptic properties. Perfumes, in turn, are manufactured from volatile essential oils found in leaves, flowers, fruits or wood across many different plants. Jasmine, ranking just behind rose oil as a floral perfume and the source of the GI-tagged Madurai Malli, yields only about 2.5-3 kg …