Why are oil even more expensive than regular CBD flowers? This is probably the question that we are seeing the most on the Internet and in cannabis events that we organize around the world! Oil is not simple to make, maybe you think that we simply buy hemp or cannabis biomass and that we press it to extract the delicious CBD, this is not how it works … To reach the highest standard of hemp-extracted oil we need to follow a long path using high-tech laboratory machines and extractors to deliver our golden CBD oil.

Here are some of the important steps that are involved in the making of Naturicious Premium oil :

Growing hemp :

The first step is to grow some good quality hemp by selecting a nice and vigorous strain to will grow and produce a great plant in 6 months. We are rigorously selecting the best hemp strains that will be suitable for our final product, we are making numerous test for the taste, we are looking for low THC high CBD and the plant needs to produce high concentrations of other cannabinoids too. So it is not an easy procedure!

Gathering biomass

After on long process, we can harvest our hemp and let it dry for some days before we are able to process it in our C02 supercritical extractor. Drying cannabis in a good way is important to preserve the taste and to make the extraction process easier.

By removing a good part of the water in cannabis we have less liquid residue and the taste is preserved in the extraction process.

Extracting CBD from hemp

To extract this precious molecule from Marijuana, first, we need to remove the flowers because we are not allowed to use this part for countries like in Europe. The flower contains the highest percentage of CBD so there is some loss but this is mandatory to be able to sell our products in the whole world.

Then we need to go grind the plant in very small particles so it will be easier to extract the components from the plant. Then we insert this powder in a super-critical C02 extractor: This extraction method doesn’t use alcohol but only air (carbon dioxide), this gas under high pressure will act as a solvent and will separate the cannabinoids from the plants. We can only extract 5 kilograms of biomass each 5 our hours so it’s a very long and complex process!

In the end the retrieve a yellow paste full of cannabinoids (with THC), terpenes, wax, chlorophyll, and other residues, at this stage we then need to refine it to remove unwanted impurity.

Removing residues with distillation

To improve our oil an make it fully legal regarding the 0% THC law, we need to distillate our wax to remove all the unwanted elements. Distillation is a very old and well know process that removes wax and chlorophyll while keeping terpenes and cannabinoids. But then after we distilled our oil we still need to remove all the THC before bottling our oil. This process of removing tetrahydrocannabinol is made using advanced chromatography methodology. Chromatography is the only way to remove only the molecules of THC while keeping the Precious, CBD, terpenes, and all the other cannabinoids of Marijuana.

Sampling and analyzing in laboratory

Finally, before we are able to sell our products, we need to be sure that our oil are top quality level, so we send some bottles to a third-party laboratory that will test our products for cannabinoids concentration, heavy metals, microbiological and pesticides residues. We run more than 5 differents on each batch, and everyone can consult them on our website before purchasing our precious tincture.