With all the CBD products available on the market it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. How do you separate the excellent CBD products from the bad? With so few regulations there is a genuine danger of being scammed or receiving a defective product. Low-quality CBD products can lack many of the benefits a consumer looks for and sometimes they can even contain extremely harmful toxins. We have listed here five methods of identifying high-quality CBD oil.
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Learn How a Company Extracts CBD Oil
Due to a lack of regulation, there is no control over the CBD manufacturing process. A company selling their products at a low price are probably using less safe methods to extract their CBD. They may be using toxic solvents such as hexane, pentane, propane, and butane. Yes, you read that right, propane and butane, the chemicals commonly used are gas stoves! More respectable and safety conscious companies use a CO2 extraction method which is far more expensive but is also a lot safer. This extraction method uses extreme cold and carbon dioxide to extract CBD in a way that produces an oil that is safe to consume and is exceptionally pure.
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Learn Where a Company Harvests Hemp From
Hemp plants are easily affected by the soil in which they are grown. Plants grown in fertile soil will often produce the highest quality CBD. While plants grown in soil containing heavy metals including lead and mercury, tend to produce oil which also contains significant amounts of heavy metals. These metals are toxic to humans and so should not be ingested.Because of a lack of government oversight, it is not uncommon for manufacturers to produce poor-quality hemp and use it to produce CBD based products. Thus when looking for high-quality CBD always be sure that the company uses high-quality soil.
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Learn How Much THC is Present in the Oil
Watch out for any products containing more than 0.3 percent of THC. CBD oil contains extracts of many hundreds of hemp plants, and even a small percentage of THC can affect the safety of the product.
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Make Sure the Product is Derived from “Full Spectrum” or “Whole-Plant”
High-quality CBD oil is not only CBD but is instead a combination of some nutrients including flavonoids and terpenes. CBD isolates are often cheaper but lack in many of the health benefits found in full spectrum oils.
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Make Sure the Product has been Tested by a Third-Party Lab
A company that cares about their products and customers will be sure to put their products through tests to ensure the product safety. These tests make sure that the oils contain the right levels of CBD, THC, and that they contain no harmful toxins.
A good company will always make the recent lab results available if they do not list them on their website try getting in contact to see if they would allow you to look at the results.
