About Us

Founded in 1970, Lily of the Desert Organic Aloeceuticals is a family-owned vertically integrated grower, processor, and manufacturer of leading aloe vera based products. As the largest certified organic grower and processor of aloe vera, Lily of the Desert branded products are successfully marketed into over 40 countries around the globe. Lily of the Desert products have been distributed throughout natural products and health food stores since the business began. The company has been known throughout the years to set a high standard in the industry for quality aloe vera products.

Company Information

The Lily of the Desert brand of aloe vera products is the leader of the category in the natural products industry with over 50% of the total United States market share (based on SPINS data). The company’s aloe vera farms, laboratories, and processing plant are located in the Texas Rio Grande Valley citrus region and in the desert area of Mexico along the Tropic of Cancer. Additional processing facilities are located in Carrollton, Texas and corporate headquarters are located in Denton, Texas.

Complete Vertical Integration

Lily of the Desert is completely vertically integrated. The company owns the organic aloe vera farms and the processing facilities for manufacturing the numerous unique aloe vera products that carry the Lily of the Desert brand. This is very unique in the natural products industry among aloe vera companies. Lily of the Desert aloe vera is grown organically and free of chemicals. Once harvested, the aloe vera leaves are placed into refrigerated trailers within four to ensure that none of the 200+ biologically active components naturally occurring in the aloe vera plant are lost or sacrificed. The freshly harvested aloe vera leaves are then shipped to Lily of the Desert’s own state-of-the-art processing facilities and carefully inspected prior to manufacturing. Leaves are carefully selected, and then processed into the many unique formulations made by Lily of the Desert. Quality is maintained and monitored every step of the way, ensuring that Lily of the Desert consumers receive the best.

Quality Control

Lily of the Desert manufacturing and processing facilities meet the highest industry standards and certifications. Every incoming component, raw material, and product is meticulously analyzed for quality. Each outgoing batch of aloe vera products is scientifically tested to validate quality and product efficacy. Lily of the Desert’s rigorous testing methods and quality control procedures ensure that consumers receive the highest quality aloe vera products in the marketplace today.

Technology and Innovation Leader

Lily of the Desert has been setting the standard of technology and innovation in the aloe vera industry since its inception. Providing consumers with quality products continues to be the company’s focal point. This is accomplished through placing an emphasis on having scientific validation behind the brand’s products and finished formulas on the shelf, ensuring the consumer receives all of the naturally occurring health benefits of aloe vera. Lily of the Desert’s science and research team is continuously striving to develop new formulas and improve existing products.

Aloesorb™: Unique Technology

In 2007, Lily of the Desert developed a proprietary ingredient and delivery system in Aloesorb™. Aloesorb™ is a patented process in which high molecular weight polysaccharides (the biologically active component in the aloe leaf) that naturally occur in aloe vera are isolated, concentrated, and infused into all Lily of the Desert brand products to increase the efficacy of those formulas. The Lily of the Desert management and science team determined that consumers need to have clinical validation behind the product they are purchasing. To implement this, in 2008, the company had independent laboratories perform “Gold Standard” (randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled, 75 plus subjects) clinical studies on products enhanced with Aloesorb™. The results were incredible, and as a result all Lily of the Desert formulations are enhanced with Aloesorb™.

Learn more about Aloesorb™ and our clinical trial results in The Science of Aloe Vera (PDF).

Science-Driven, Clinically Proven

Being the leader in the aloe industry and on the cutting edge of technology has led Lily of the Desert to provide consumers with scientific validation on its branded products. Taking that a step further, the Lily of the Desert science and research team is continuously searching for new ideas and product concepts in addition to striving to develop unique formulas and improve existing products. Once those products are developed or enhanced, Lily of the Desert will send them off to have independent laboratories conduct a clinical study on the finished product that will eventually end up on a retail shelf. This is extremely unique to the aloe vera industry, and shows that Lily of the Desert’s focus continues to set the standard for science, innovation, and technology of aloe vera. Lily of the Desert consumers can have the utmost confidence that the product they are taking will give them the maximum benefits of the “miracle plant” known as aloe vera.

Fulfilling Our Motto

Consumers and retailers have known for over thirty years that Lily of the Desert’s main driving motto is “Retaining the Quality that Nature Created”. The natural products industry is well aware that products carrying the Lily of the Desert name are of the highest quality and efficacy in the industry.