Eagle Moon Hemp Extract Lab In New Mexico

Most cannabinoids and other compounds in hemp are only obtainable once heated to a proper temperature in a process known as decarboxylation. The other option is to use something such as alcohol to dissolve the desired compounds into a solution. Ethanol wash is the other process we use to obtain cannabinoid-rich oil. It begins by soaking the raw hemp biomass in ethanol, which allows the compounds to be absorbed. After these compounds are collected the ethanol is ready for the next step in the process which is ethanol recovery. If this sounds familiar it should. Ethanol recovery is the same process we use in our CO2 supercritical extraction after the second step of winterization. Once we reach the step of ethanol recovery the extraction process is the same for both methods.

After recovering the ethanol from the mixture, we then move on to what is called short path distillation. It is called as such because the distillation only typically takes place over a few centimeters. This step heats the oil under pressure to reduce the boiling point of the distillate. It is a great procedure for any compounds that are destroyed at higher temperatures. Short path distillation separates any remaining ethanol, unwanted terpenes, or high volatile cannabinoids from the extract. Leaving us with a very pure extract that only needs very little processing beyond this step.

The extract then proceeds to the final step which is called wiped film distillation. With this technique, the oil enters under high pressure into a rotating wiping system that distributes the extract into a thin film on a heated surface. This process helps to further remove any other unwanted compounds from the wanted cannabinoids such as CBD. After the wiped film distillation, we have one of our final products, the CBD distillate.

After obtaining the CBD distillate we can use it to manufacture a variety of CBD infused products or sell it directly to the consumer. The process does not have to end there, though. We can put it through another process called crystallization in which we use pentane and mix them until a homogeneous state is achieved. Once we cool the solution down the CBD will crystallize and fall out of the rest of the solution. This process creates our CBD isolate which is 99.5% CBD and the finest you can get.