It all started during our European vacation in the summer of 2008 when we visited my husband’s parents, relatives and friends in Hungary. It was a great trip. We traveled through a bunch of countries, from Germany, Austria, Hungary, Slovenia and Italy. We’ve visited many great places, from Budapest, through Munich to Venice.

While in Hungary, we visited Balaton, the largest lake in Europe. My hubby’s friends owned a series of smaller hotels and inns by the lake and they invited us to stay in one of them for a few days. It was a great couple of days just for the two of us, without the kids… We traveled around the lake, visited castles and drove though countless small villages while learning about the Hungarian culture.

During that trip though, my hubby pulled his back when he lifted our heavy luggage so we were thinking about cutting our vacation short, since he was in constant pain so he couldn’t even drive anymore. Luckily, our friends (who only managed those hotels at the time and now own them) introduced us to Forever Living Products (FLP), an American company that has been researching and growing aloe vera plants and manufacturing great quality products based on this healing plant. They gave us a tube of aloe based cream, called heat lotion (though they just called it the “red cream” due to the red stripe on the tube) which shortly after massaging into his aching back, he felt burning sensation, but quickly the pain has gone away.

We were shocked how a single product made out of all natural ingredients with no synthetic stuff could save our summer vacation so fast!

The rest of the story is stretching through a period of over a year, so let me continue writing about it in my next post.

Until then, if you wish to learn more about this cream, the Forever heat lotion, just click here.