Cannabis Healing Oils

[floralheart]

Does anybody have experience with creating cannabis healing oils and topicals?

Interested in seeing what oils and salves you have created that incorporate elements other than cannabis, and I am especially interested to see who has created any healing oils derived from the Holy Bible.

I'm looking to start working on making some new oils.

 

[m314]

Gray Wolf has posted his recipes in the concentrates section. He has more experience with topicals than anyone else I've seen here.

 

[_tessarecting]

I like shae butter and hash oil

 

[m314]

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=140269

This is one of the recipes I was thinking about. I haven't tried it personally but it looks awesome.

 

[Stoner4Life]

Here:
post #1 way down, Qhaneh-Bosom, supposedly taken from the Bible, later translation errors occurred.

https://www.icmag.com/ic/showthread.php?t=113816

 

[heady blunts]

i've made quite a few topical formulations in the last year

i started cause i kept hearing people talking about them out west, and i was pretty skeptical of their value. so i had to try for myself---and HOLY SHIT. they totally are amazing! inflamation, pain, arthritis, eczema, burns, scars, carpal tunnel, etc. etc. all showing incredible results using topical cannabinoid therapy.

it can be as simple as any decarboxylated concentrate dissolved into any appropriate carrier oil. i use different oils for different formulations---they range in weights from light to heavy and that effects their skin feel, absorbency rate, and how much concentrate they can hold.

grapeseed
sweet almond
apricot kernel
jojoba
olive
avocado
coconut

just warm one or any combo of the above in a double boiler over low heat, and stir in your decarboxylated concentrate of choice. under 150* works fine for incorporating concentrates, and avoiding going too hot will preserve some of the more delicate natural healing properties of the oils.

then there's the butters

cocoa
mango
shea

butters are solid at room temperature, which can be useful or an issue depending on the application.

if you add beeswax, you've made a salve or a balm, depending on the ratio of beeswax to oils. salve is greasier, balm is more solid.

as soon as you add water (or any aqueous substance, including aloe gel, witch hazel, or botanical teas) things get a lot more complicated. creating a stable emulsion can be frustrating, and it gets trickier the looser your target consistency. not only that, but including water opens the product to bacterial or fugal blooms, which can cause nasty skin problems if use is not immediately discontinued. use of preservatives is highly recommended.

you can make a stiff cream using an water-in-oil (often written w/o) emulsion ratio, that means max 49% of the ingredients by weight is water. literally you're suspending tiny water particles in a matrix of oil. i've gotten a decent shelf life in products like this without preservatives by using packaging that minimizes contamination. foil tubes are my favorite right now, like a toothpaste tube. anything where the user puts their fingers into the product is to be avoided (no jars).

if you want a nice lotion consistency, you'll probably need an emulsifier and proper preservatives. the looser consistencies are oil-in-water (o/w) emulsions. the matrix is water in this case, with tiny oil particles suspended within. without preservatives any questionable bacteria or fungus can spread through the entire container very quickly.

my friend monsoon has created a nice tutorial for a shelf-stable medicated lotion over at fuck combustion. check it out.

here's a few of my products: