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ALOE VERA Just tried biting into a slice of Aloe Vera and it's pretty bitter and disgusting and has a crunchy texture. You have to scrape the gel out which goes against the instinct to want to squeeze it out. The gel is amazing and next time there's a heat wave I'm going to have slices in the fridge to slather all over myself😅 Satisfyingly to slice, and so clean and clear👌 Aloe Vera is a succulent plant which is grown for commercial and ornamental use and widely viewed as an invasive species. Its clear gel and yellow latex are used to manufacture a variety of products. The gel for topical medication for skin conditions, such as burns, wounds, frostbite, rashes, psoriasis, cold sores, or dry skin with conflicting evidence of its effectiveness. It's also good an effective skin safe and hydrating water based lube and can be used with condoms. Its used widely as a commercial ingredient in drinks, yogurts and desserts to ease digestion but eating too much can prove to be toxic. The latex is used individually or manufactured as a product with other ingredients to be ingested for relief of constipation. Aloe latex may be obtained in a dried form called resin or as "aloe dried juice".

RUBBER TYRE A tyre is a ring of material that covers the rim of a wheel. Most vehicles use rubber tyres, soft for use in summer for better traction and hard rubber to last longer. Tyres were made of leather for thousands of years and of iron or steel for hundreds until pneumatic tyres were invented in 1840s. Tyres can be recycled to become garden paving and landscaping, playground and hospital flooring, mudguards and anti-fatigue matts. They can be chipped or turning into rubber crumb to become gravel substitute for roads and laying on train tracks to reduce vibration and noise of passing trains. Shredded they can be used for fuel.

RYE Round 3 of @lewis__bush attempting to make Rye bread.. Improving with every go!👌🍞 Rye grain is used for flour, bread, beer and crispbreads and can also be eaten whole, either as boiled rye berries or by being rolled, similar to rolled oats. It can be used to make alcoholic drinks, such as rye whiskey and rye beer. Other uses include kvass and an herbal medicine known as rye extract. Rye straw is used as livestock bedding, as a cover crop and green manure for soil amendment, and to make crafts such as corn dollies. Rye flour is also used in the original way to make Falun red paint (in addition to linseed oil and iron oxide) in Sweden- By the 16th Century, mineralization of the mine's tailings and slag added by smelters began to produce a red-coloured sludge rich in copper, limonite, silicic acid, and zinc. When the sludge was heated for a few hours and then mixed with linseed oil and rye flour, it was found to form an excellent anti-weathering paint. During the 17th century, falu red began to be daubed onto wooden buildings to mimic the red-brick façades built by the upper classes.

HUMAN HAIR Hair is composed of 95% keratine, a helix shaped protein and also includes oils for texture and a chemical called melanin. The growth of human hair occurs everywhere on the body except for the soles of the feet, the inside of the mouth, the lips, the backs of the ears, the palms of the hands, some external genital areas, the navel, scar tissue, and, apart from eyelashes, the eyelids. Waste hairs can be recycled to hair extensions, wigs, eyelashes, moustaches, beards, and many more beauty accessories. This is one of the most ancient and currently the largest human hair based industries. Keratin-based wastes, like hair, decompose slowly but that does not necessarily make them ineffective in soil. It is rich in nitrogen, so it can be used as an effective fertiliser. Research has found that human hair has a tensile strength comparable to steel. You could carry a person with 500–1000 human hairs.

MARZIPAN (Pig) The marzipan pig is a traditional German, Dutch, Flemish and Scandinavian confectionery. During Jul in Norway and Sweden, a tradition is to eat a rice porridge known as risgrøt (risgrynsgröt in Swedish); a single almond is hidden in the porridge. Whoever finds the almond receives a marzipan pig as a prize. In Germany they are given at new years for good luck. The last slide is Posankka, a hybrid marzipan pig–rubber ducky statue in Turku, Finland, just because its great. 🐖👌 Russell Hoban also wrote a children's book The Marzipan Pig where a pig gets lost down a sofa. When it's eventually found (and eaten) by a mouse, parts of his personality are transferred and enter into a complex food/ identity chain. (I'm buying this book immediately) Marzipan consists primarily of sugar, honey, and almond meal (ground almonds), sometimes augmented with almond oil or extract. It acts as a great edible moulding clay. Persipan is a similar, but less expensive product, in which the almonds are replaced by apricot or peach kernals

ALPACA FLEECE. Alpaca fleece is the natural fiber harvested from the friendly alpaca. The most common fleece type comes from a Huacaya. This looks similar to sheep wool in that the animal looks "fluffy". The second type of alpaca is Suri. Their fiber is more similar to natural silk and hangs off the body in locks that have a dreadlock appearance. Huacaya fiber is similar to sheep's wool, it is warmer, lighter, not prickly, and has no lanolin, which makes it hypoallergenic. Alpaca fiber is naturally water-repellent and fire resistant. Alpacas come in 22 natural colors, with more than 300 shades from a true black through brown-blacks, browns, fawns, white, silver-greys, and rose-greys.

I was thinking to start a photo diary but figured I might as well look at a material a day instead. I had just put some silicone ear plugs in before turning to bed... Silicon (Si), is a nonmetallic chemical element in the carbon family. It makes up 27.7 percent of Earth’s crust; it is the second most abundant element in the crust, being surpassed only by oxygen. Although there is 1-2 g present in the body (the most abundant trace element after iron and zinc, two other elements of physiological importance) its function is still surprisingly unclear. Silicone rubber is a durable & highly-resistant elastomer (rubber-like material) composed of silicone (polymer) containing silicon together with other molecules like carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. Silicone rubbers can withstand temperatures ranging from -50°C to 350°C depending on time of exposure. Parts made of silicone rubber when exposed to wind, rain and UV rays for long periods result in virtually no change in physical properties. Unlike most organic rubbers, silicone rubber is not affected by ozone as well. The second slide is a silicon baby egg thing you can buy on Etsy.

VOLCANIC ROCK/ TYPHRITE? ALKALI BASALT Tephrite is an ignaceous rock that generally occurs as lava flows and solidifies close to the earth's surface. 80% of the volume of Gran Canaria was formed during the Miocene period eruptions, between 14 and 9 million years ago. This is called the "Old Cycle" and is estimated to have lasted some 200,000 years and have spurted out about 1,000 km3 (240 cubic miles) of mainly fissural alkali basalt, the same rock suspected to be on the planet Venus. After this the island went through a 4 million year period of erosion and then more eruptions 3.5 millions years ago known as the 'Roque Nublo cycle'. All that activity has left some pretty impressive blobby rock formations on the island that look like those forms you make on the beach by dripping liquid sand slowly through your fist. Just read about a rock in the North East of the island called Roque Nublo too which is 4.5 million years old and has a smaller spire (volcanic plug) known as El Fraile (the Friar). #roquenublo #alkalibasalt #volcanicrock #tephrite

CRAB SHELL/ CARPACE/ CHITIN Found this on a beach in Gran Canaria but not sure what kind of crab it belongs to. It is a crab's exoskeleton which is called a carapace, the same as the shell of a tortoise or the top section of an arachnid that holds its eyes. It is mainly made up of a substance called chitin, which is a durable and firm compound that helps protect and support their soft boneless bodies. Marine chitin waste abundantly obtained from fishery processing byproducts, have been used for the production of various bio-active properties, including chitin, enzymes, coagulants, antioxidants and anti-cancer components. Chitin in also found in insects, and the cell walls of fungi. It is non-toxic, biodegradable and non-allergenic and therefore safe for oral ingestion as a dietary food supplement and good for promoting healthy gut flora! 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

SEA SNOT Sea snot or marine mucilage is a kind of algal ectoplasm, phlegmy substance ranging from a creamy white to yellow, orange and khaki brown. It is produced by a mixture of microorganisms such as microalgae formed as a result of prolonged warm temperatures and calm weather in areas with lots of nutrients in the water. Global warming, ocean acidification, oil spillages and sewage being dumped in the sea have all contributed to recent sea snot explosions in Turkey and Mexico. The snotty strands can coagulate and reach up to 125 miles long across the surface of the water, eventually sinking and coating the sea floor and suffocating the sea life like a deadly gunge ghost.The sticky matrix can also trap harmful bacteria such as E-Coli. 🤧🤢

BELLY BUTTON FLUFF (purple) A combination of a new purple addidas T-shirt fibres, dead skin cells, sweat and oil residues and miscellaneous debris. Scientifically referred to as 'naval fluff' or 'naval lint'. It's often created by men with hairy chests. The hairs rub on the fibres of clothes and collect in the belly button cave. The deeper and wider the cave the bigger the fluff disk.

GOLFBALL INNARDS The inside of golf balls can be made from 2-5 layers of various wound rubber that offers more control for golfers and totally solid centres which can travel further distances. You can also get illegal golf balls that correct themselves to fly straight. 'The most popular myth about golf balls is that the center is either poisonous or explosive. Generations of children have been fascinated by the thought that the inside of a golf ball was filled with a poison gas or potentially explosive material. Fortunately, this is nothing but an urban legend. In 1898, B.F. Goodrich produced golf balls with a compressed air core that had the unfortunate habit of exploding from time to time. This may be the origin of the current myth.' Golflink.com