Journey Through the Lab

Take a behind-the-scenes journey through our lab, where innovation meets sustainability. Watch as we transform waste aloe vera rind into soft, absorbent, and eco-friendly ECOpads, a groundbreaking product that is fully biodegradable and plastic-free.

Top Layer

Seperating leaves and gel

Washing leaves with distiller water

Drying leaves in oven

Powdered dried leaves (rind powder)

NaOH treatment + bleaching of rind

Removing extracted cellulose

Drying to remove water content

Alovera cellulose pulp extracted

Result:

The extracted pulp was given to local weavers to weave into a fabric and this was used as the sanitary pad's top layer. This layer was then dipped into a D-mannose sugar solution

Final top layer weaved into fabric

Absorbant Layer

Trying different concentrations

of SA + alovera gel with CaCl2

Forming sodium alignate beads in CaCl2 solution

Transfering to petri

dish for drying

Collecting dried powder (formed hydrogel)

Agar jelly plates with CaCl2

Boring holes in the formed jelly

Adding SA + alover gel in holes

After drying the cylinders in agar plate collectecting dried powder

Result:

The hydrogel was added in the alovera pulp extracted during the top layer preperation. During the mixing process charcoal extracted from the alovera plant as well as clove oil were mixed into the absorbant layer.