Making your own CBD oil

Why make your own CBD oil?

• You can determine the percentage of CBD in the oil very precisely yourself.
• Making it yourself is cheaper than buying ready-made oil.
• You decide the taste of the oil yourself and can choose your favourite carrier oil, for instance.
• Making your own CBD oil is a stepping stone to making your own CBD products and edibles.
• By adding extra herbs or other ingredients, you create your own unique food supplement.

Making CBD oil at home with isolate or CBD paste

The basis of every CBD oil is cannabidiol, CBD for short. CBD is a non-psychoactive constituent of cannabis. Not to be confused with THC, which is psychoactive and can give a high. By dissolving CBD in an oil, you can turn it into CBD oil. In principle you can use any type of oil for this, as long as it is safe to ingest. For the taste, most people prefer hemp seed oil, olive oil or coconut oil. Grapeseed oil, salmon oil or sunflower oil work perfectly well too.

To get the CBD out of the cannabis plant safely and in the right way, a supercritical CO2 extraction technique is used. The CO2 is used under high pressure and at a precisely determined temperature to extract the CBD from the plant. This requires special equipment that most people do not have in their kitchen cupboard. It is far easier (and safer) to buy pure CBD and then make CBD oil from it. You can use two forms of CBD for this: CBD crystals (isolate) and CBD paste.

Making CBD oil with isolate

Is it important to you that the CBD oil contains no THC at all (so 0.00%)? Because you have a job where you may not have THC in your blood, for instance? Then you safely make your own CBD oil with CBD isolate. CBD isolate comes in the form of crystals and is obtained by putting the extract through an extra filtering process after CO2 extraction. This filters out all the plant material and all the THC, leaving only pure CBD.

Making CBD oil from CBD paste

Would you like to get the most out of the entourage effect? And is it not a problem for you if the cannabis oil contains a small percentage (less than the legally permitted percentage) of THC? Then full spectrum CBD paste is the best choice for making your CBD oil. The entourage effect means the separate constituents of the cannabis plant reinforce one another’s action, so you get the most out of every drop of CBD oil you take. CBD paste is the extract that remains after the supercritical CO2 extraction mentioned above and consists of about fifty per cent CBD. CBD paste is also rich in cannabinoids such as CBG, CBN, CBC and CBDA, and in terpenes, phenols and pigments.

How much CBD and how much oil should I use?

So the two components of CBD oil are CBD (isolate or paste) and a carrier oil. In what ratio should you mix them? That depends on the percentage of CBD you want to end up with in your oil. Would you like a light CBD oil? Then go for 5% CBD. For a medium-strength CBD oil the percentage is around 10%, and a powerful CBD oil can contain up to about 25% CBD. Anything in between is possible too, of course, because you are making the oil yourself. Also bear in mind that CBD isolate is practically 100% CBD and that paste is 50% CBD. How much CBD do you then need to mix with how much oil to get 10 ml of a given percentage of CBD oil? We have worked that out for you:

Making CBD oil in 5 steps

1. Decide how many ml and what percentage of CBD oil you want to make, and put the amount of oil in a glass bowl.
2. To make sure the CBD dissolves properly in the oil, we recommend heating the oil in a bain-marie. Ideally you heat the oil to a temperature between 78° and 80° C.
3. Is the oil up to temperature? Then add the CBD.
4. Keep the oil at this temperature for 15 minutes and stir regularly.
5. Then let the oil cool down and voilà: your own CBD oil is ready.

Do you have questions about making CBD oil yourself, or would you like to know more about CBD? Then do not hesitate to get in touch. Our experienced CBD specialists are happy to help.