Healing Aloe

1562 · Benjamin Moore

Benjamin Moore

Healing Aloe

1562

Hex code

#D5DBD2

Light reflectance value (LRV)

68.3Light, brightens without washing out

0 black100 white

Undertone

Subtle green, a green color

Color family: Green
Sold for: Interior and exterior

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Benjamin Moore Healing Aloe 1562 is a pale green-gray, light enough that many people take it for a white until it is on the wall. Its LRV of 68 is the range where a color brightens a room without washing out, and it still shows against white trim. Our method reads it as a subtle green, a small amount of color on a near-neutral base. Bathrooms and bedrooms are the rooms it is searched for most.

Is Healing Aloe warm or cool? Undertones by the numbers

leans green

Undertone

Subtle green

graysaturated

A gentle lean, quiet on the wall.

There is very little pigment at work here, and what there is sits on the green side with no yellow pulling it toward sage and no blue pulling it toward aqua. That thin dose is why the color changes so much with its company. Next to a true white such as Distant Gray OC-68 it reads clearly green; next to a sage it reads as a gray; next to warm oak and cream it can look faintly cool and blue. On white marble or a honed limestone counter it holds its green better than it does against a cool gray tile, which cancels it out. Silver Crest 1583 is its nearest match at Benjamin Moore and is close to identical on a wall.

Healing Aloe in north, south, east and west light

A north-facing room is where Healing Aloe is at its coolest and greenest, and it is one of the few pale colors that survives that exposure without going dingy, though the green turns slightly steely and a warm white on the trim helps. In south light it softens almost to a white with a green shadow in the corners. East rooms show a warm, faintly sage version in the morning that grays off by afternoon, and west rooms hold gray-green until the evening sun warms them. Bulbs at 2700K to 3000K keep the green readable; cooler lamps make it look like plain gray.

Watch for

Reads as a plain white in a small sunny room with a lot of glass
Turns steely and slightly blue on a north wall under 4000K bulbs
Loses its green entirely beside cool gray porcelain tile

Best rooms and surfaces for Healing Aloe

Bathrooms are the strongest use for it, since the color is light enough for a small windowless room and green enough to keep white tile and a white vanity from feeling clinical. Bedrooms come next, where it works as a restful near-white that still has something in it. It carries a whole floor easily, hallways and stairwells included, because at this lightness it never darkens a corner. On kitchen cabinets it is usually too pale to do anything a soft white would not do better, though it suits a bathroom vanity. It also works on a ceiling above walls in a deeper color from the same group.

Healing Aloe on an exterior

Benjamin Moore sells Healing Aloe for exterior use, where it behaves as an off-white with a cool cast rather than a green house. Full sun takes nearly all of the green out and leaves something close to a pale gray, so it is a choice for people who want white siding without the glare. It holds more of its color on north elevations, under porch roofs and on soffits. Pair it with a crisp white trim and a dark green, black or charcoal door for definition.

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Healing Aloe vs Sea Salt, Quiet Moments, Gray Owl and Rainwashed

Living room walls rendered in Sherwin-Williams Sea Salt SW 6204, white trim, ceiling and wood floor unchanged

Healing Aloe vs Sea Salt SW 6204

Healing Aloe is noticeably lighter; both have a subtle green undertone.

Sea Salt SW 6204 is the color people put against this one most often. It is five points darker at an LRV of 63 and carries more of its green toward blue, so it reads as a spa color where Healing Aloe reads as a tinted white. Benjamin Moore's own Sea Salt CSP-95 is a different color again, a warm beige-neutral at an LRV of 61, so check the brand on the chip before you buy.

Living room walls rendered in Benjamin Moore Quiet Moments 1563, white trim, ceiling and wood floor unchanged

Healing Aloe vs Quiet Moments 1563

Healing Aloe is noticeably lighter; both have a subtle green undertone.

Quiet Moments 1563 is the next color down the same group, eight points darker at an LRV of 61, and the pair are often shortlisted together. The extra depth is what people are usually after: Quiet Moments shows its color across a whole room, while Healing Aloe needs good light or a white beside it to prove it is not just white. Take Quiet Moments for a bedroom you want to feel cocooned, Healing Aloe for one you want bright.

Living room walls rendered in Benjamin Moore Gray Owl OC-52, white trim, ceiling and wood floor unchanged

Healing Aloe vs Gray Owl OC-52

Healing Aloe is noticeably lighter; undertone subtle green vs subtle yellow-leaning green.

Gray Owl OC-52 sits four points below at an LRV of 65 and leans to the yellow side of green, which makes it the warmer, more truly gray of the two. Healing Aloe keeps a cleaner green and no yellow at all. In a room with oak floors and cream fabrics Gray Owl blends in; Healing Aloe stays slightly apart from them and looks cooler for it.

Living room walls rendered in Sherwin-Williams Rainwashed SW 6211, white trim, ceiling and wood floor unchanged

Healing Aloe vs Rainwashed SW 6211

Healing Aloe is noticeably lighter; both have a subtle green undertone.

Rainwashed SW 6211 is nine points darker at an LRV of 59 and pushes its green further toward blue, enough that most people call it a coastal color. Put them on the same bathroom wall and Rainwashed is the color and Healing Aloe is the backdrop. Rainwashed is the pick when you want the room to read blue-green; Healing Aloe when you want the tile and the fittings to lead.

Questions about Healing Aloe

Does Healing Aloe look green or blue?

The measurement puts it on the green side with no blue in it at all, but the dose is small enough that cool light and cool finishes can make it look bluish. In warm light and beside white marble the green shows plainly. If a blue cast worries you, sample it on the wall that gets the least daylight, where the shift is strongest.

Is Healing Aloe a good bathroom color?

Yes. Bathrooms draw more searches for it than any other room, and the color fits the job. It is light enough for a small bathroom with a single window or none, and the green keeps white tile, white grout and a white vanity from looking like a hospital. Warm metals suit it better than chrome, and warm bulbs over the mirror keep the green from turning gray.

Is Healing Aloe too pale for a bedroom?

It depends on how much you want to see the color. On four bedroom walls it reads as a soft, cool near-white with a green shadow where the light falls off, which suits a bright room. In a bedroom with heavy curtains and one window, most people prefer a step down such as Quiet Moments so the color still registers at night.

Does Sherwin-Williams have a version of Healing Aloe?

Kingston SW 9677 is the closest by measurement and near enough to be hard to separate on a wall. Window Pane SW 6210 and Pine Frost SW 9656 follow, both within a shade of it. Sea Salt SW 6204 is the closest color with a page here, though it is darker and bluer. Farrow & Ball's Pale Powder No. 204 is nearer than any Sherwin-Williams color.

What colors go with Healing Aloe?

Benjamin Moore pairs it with Distant Gray OC-68 and Steam AF-15 as whites, Mocha Cream 995 as a warm neutral and Dolphin AF-715 as the deep gray anchor. That warm neutral matters: without something warm in the room the color can drift cool. White oak, honed marble, brass and rattan all sit well with it.

What is one shade darker than Healing Aloe?

Quiet Moments is the next step down its own group at an LRV of 61, and Beach Glass 1564 is the step after that at 50, by which point the color is clearly a green-blue rather than a near-white. Among its close matches, Gray Cashmere 2138-60 at 65 is a smaller move if you only want a little more weight.

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