It’s Safer than CO2 & Butane Safer for Consumers Ethanol is a food-grade compound safe for ingestion in low amounts. Unknown to most, this solvent...
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What Are Ethanol Extraction Methods?
The most popular solvents used to extract CBD from cannabis are butanol, CO2, and ethanol. While each of these solvents has its own pros and...
What Does Hemp Do For Your Skin?
Hemp products are increasing in popularity due to their medicinal properties. This species of cannabis may help in promoting brain, muscle, hair, and skin health....
What is Hemp Used For Medically?
What is Hemp? Hemp is part of the species of Cannabis sativa plants. Containing a lower concentration of THC compared to other variants of Cannabis,...
What is Botanical Extraction?
Botanical Extraction Definition Before defining botanical extraction, what exactly is a “botanical”? In a nutshell, botanicals are plants or substances derived from plants. Botanicals are...
CBD and Altitude Sickness
What is Altitude Sickness? Altitude sickness is an illness that can occur when someone is at a much greater altitude than they are used to....
Alternative Solvents Versus Green Solvents
What are Solvents? Solvents are substances, usually liquids, that have the capacity to dissolve other substances. There are three main classes of solvents: hydrocarbon solvents...
Modern Methods of Extraction
What is Extraction? Extraction is a process that is normally purely chemical. The extraction process consists of separating a substance from something else, for use...
Methods of Plant Extraction
What is Plant Extraction? The process of plant extraction is a way of taking certain parts of a plant and extracting certain elements from them...
Is An Extract Natural?
What is an Extract? At Extraction Grade Solvents we deal with chemicals that assist in extractions, but what exactly is an extract? In common terms,...