Reduced Inactive Ingredients

Cold Filtration

Cold-Filtered Resin refers to the proprietary process of n-Butane hydrocarbon extraction of cannabis oil resulting in high grade concentrates that contain only the necessary constituents available in the trichome head - producing the finest and cleanest live resin and cured wax products available.

Controlling environmental factors during the entire closed loop extraction process is critical to producing the high-end products you’ve come to expect. Input material quality, proper batching and handling during socking, keeping material frozen prior to extraction, hydrocarbon solvent blend, injection temperature, material column temperatures, soak times, recovery rates and other scientifically valid factors contribute as a whole to our repeatable inline filtration success.  

Inline Filtration

• Physical filtration practices in consumer oil production is proven technology.
• Ultra-cold processes avoids extraction of fats,waxes, lipids as well as unwanted Anthocyanins.

Fats, waxes and lipids, fine plant particulates among chlorophyll, carotenoids and anthocyanins may be present in unfiltered hash oil extracts.

We utilize 7 progressively finer points of physical, media and plate filtration assuring quality concentrates without unwanted constituents. Leveraging technology from other proven industries in consumable oil manufacturing such as vegetable oil production and clarification, to the Biodiesel industry for solid plate physical filtration, we extract at very cold temperatures down to .5 micron.  The media formula we utilize is comprised of pH balanced, insoluble, all natural adsorbents similar to those already used in proven food-grade oil manufacturing. 

This methodology provides the strongest representation of the original cannabis plant in the final product; maximizing terpene preservation as well as the accompanying cannabinoids. 

Beyond strong THCa levels, we strive to maintain lesser known constituents such as THCVa, CBD, CBG, CBN and volatile terpenes that, when consumed together, provide a proper smoking experience with flavor, taste, therapeutic effects and that entourage high.

Contaminant remediation, from pigments to fine plant particulates to horticultural oils and beyond is a must for healthym therapeautic oil. Our hash oils come in many shades from the clearest, white product into pink/champagne and then into the yellow spectrum, but every SOP we apply is intended to produce a full-spectrum, terpene-rich dabbing experience you can taste. 

1. Quality Starting Material

2. Trichome Maturity

3. Anthocyanins

4. Chlorophyll Contamination

5. Carotenes

6. Unfiltered Plant Particulates

7. The Color of THCa

8. The Color of Terpenes

This is a partial list. Variations among cultivars from various producers and a plethora of factors contribute to premium consumable oils.

Other notes if not otherwise located:

1. Closed Loop Hydrocarbon Concepts

2. Extraction procedure and pace

3. n-Butane Purpose and Fundamentals

4. Inline Hydrocarbon Blend Management

• Fire In Fire Out

You may have heard the term ‘Fire In Equals Fire Out’. What that means is that starting material is everything.  This holds true in any quality product manufacturing, from clothing and shoes to foods you eat and the concentrates you dab.

What is Fresh Frozen? ‘Fresh frozen’ material is what we make Live Resin products from. Fresh Frozen means the plant has been gently harvested, given that ‘extractors cut’ - preserving anything with sugar on it… and then getting them nugs off, vacuum sealed and into the freezer ASAP. Inherently, starting material contains inactive ingredients, basically everything except the oil in the trichome head.

The age-old adage ‘Fire in Fire out’ is absolutely true. If your starting material isn’t premium, you won’t be making premium concentrates. Trichome maturity at harvest, nutrient flush well before harvest and many other factors can define ‘premium fresh frozen’, but non-grow factors contribute to quality concentrates as well. Proper vacuuming and freezing at harvest, maintaining the frozen state throughout storage, transporting from grow to lab with dry ice and haste. All of these steps will preserve our trichome resin oil cannabinoids and terpenes to their fullest.

• Resin for dabs are contained in the trichome head. 
• Resin maturity and color will be reflected in the hash oil extracted.

In the hash game it’s all about the location of our desired ingredients, all conveniently located in the glandular resin within a trichome head. The resin contained herein has the only active ingredients you want in a dab: terpenes and cannabinoids. trichome resin color is unchangeable and not filterable. Fresh frozen starting material contributes non-polar constituents that require filtering downstream, whether physical or color. Size of the hydrocarbon molecule is unaffected by color. The condition of trichome population at harvest has a significant impact on color, terpene profile, potency as well as the combined entourage effect of your dab. Maturity at harvest has a direct effect on finished product color and active constituents. Allowing too much ambering, or rather degradation, will inevitably result in darker hash oil. Deeper ambering also leads to a heavier smoke and basic flavor. 

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Cannabinoids, other than THCA, may be pigmented. I believe CBG, CBN, and especially CBD, can influence color. Filtering out an ambered cannabinoid that’s right next to a translucent cannabinoid isn’t possible. Molecular composition isn’t affected by color. 

Terpenes are produced by specialized cells at the base of the trichome head and shipped directly for storage with other cannabinoids in that little trichome head we’re after. Subpar starting material will make subpar concentrates. Facts.

• Anthocyanin pigmentation is not present in trichome resin. 
• Proper front-end extraction technique is a form of color remediation.
• Anthocyanins are very polar molecules.

Anthocyanins provide beautiful purple to black coloration in cannabis leaves in the later stages of flowering of those plants that express this color. You may want these purple colors in your flower or unfiltered hash, but not if you want a great smooth-smoking dab. Avoid the coughing fit. Using proven extraction techniques, we simply exclude this inactive ingredient from our finished products. There are no benefits to dabbing anthocyanins. They add to the darker brown coloring of unfiltered hash oil being manufactured. They impart bitterness and harshness in those same dabs. You won’t experience that ‘basic hash’ smell or flavor when you dab our cold filtered hash products. Doing your extraction properly will simply NOT extract these pigments. They will REMAIN IN THE STARTING MATERIAL. They are mostly polar in a sea of non-polar hydrocarbon solvent.

• Chlorophyll pigmentation is not present in trichome resin.
• Chlorophyll would have to be removed downstream during hydrocarbon extraction.
• Chlorophyll is non-polar, attracts to n-Butane via London Dispersion Forces (LDFs). 
• LDFs are weak like-polarity attraction that causes non-polar molecules to attract to other non-polar molecules

We all know about the color and importance of chlorophyll in plant growth and development. However important in the growth of our cannabis plant, this is not something you want in your concentrate. Chlorophyll turns from a beautiful green 'pickle juice' to dark brown very quickly. 

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Considering it’s prevalence in the plant and non-polarity, if we extract chlorophyll from the plant and don’t remediate it further downstream in the production process, doesn’t it end up in your dab? Degraded Chlorophyll can’t be something you want to dab.

• Carotene (Carotenoid) pigmentation is not present in trichome resin. 
• Carotenes would have to be remediated downstream during hydrocarbon extraction.
• Carotenes are non-polar, attracts to n-Butane. More London Dispersion Forces.

These pigment compounds are found in cannabis and many other plants. Providing yellow and orange hues to various parts of our plant, in the fine hairs at the top of a cola, the orange hairs throughout, and hidden among chlorophyll on leaves and stems to aid in photosynthesis.

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These are another isoprene/hydrocarbon compound that will get drawn into our starting hash/solvent slurry during n-Butane extraction. Every unfiltered BHO extraction will contain carotenes to the degree expressed in the starting material plant. Filtered hash will have less carotene, but to what degree is not currently measured; neither is chlorophyll or anthocyanin content in hash oil. 

Most hyrdrocarbon hash oil concentrates produced come out with a degree of yellow and orange that we intend to produce. That coloring represents the plants intention, 

Fine Plant Particulates refers to the near-powder like green/brown material that is inevitably drawn from the starting material, whether cured or, at a lesser extent, fresh frozen starting and taken into the hash/solvent slurry during hydrocarbon extraction.

This whole-plant material is removed downstream from extraction utilizing proprietary physical filtration techniques.

• THCa is a transparent crystalline.

THCa is the second most important ingredient you want in your dab and it is void of color. Crashed out and cleaned properly it becomes a white crystalline structure. Dabbing straight THCa may burn the throat as much as a straight terpene-only dab. The effects from straight THCa dabs will be strong but brief. Without terpenes, the dab is shapeless.

• Terpenes are as clear as a Rocky Mountain stream.

Terpenes are the MOST important constituent you want in your dab and it is void of color. Dabbing THCa properly will always get your endocannabinoid system saturated, but terpenes frame the experience into what you should be experiencing…the entourage effect. Adjunct cannabinoids, such as CBG, CBN, and CBD are maintained in our finished products and displayed with pride on every gram. 

Terpene Profiles should be available to the consumer on every gram. Terpene profiles on cannabis products is optional and has an expense per production batch. I am proud of our terpene profiles and use the same licensed testing facility every time.

Considering it’s the most important active ingredient in your dab, shaping the high with that entourage effect. Every gram should have a pleasant smell when you open the glass, that’s them terps. Change the industry and insist on terpene profiles from your hash provider.

Unfiltered traditional hash oil may have a taste/smell during dabbing of planty, earthy and unfavorable woodiness. Ick. Strict low temperatures extraction does not require extra and unnecessary steps of terpene removal and reintroduction. Unadulterated full-spectrum dab oil from beginning to end.