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We get it, choosing an effective CBD vape that you can safely consume is hard. With a sea of CBD companies popping up every day, it’s hard to decipher which brands you can trust. Today you’ll discover the top 8 tips for choosing a safe and effective CBD vape juice.
1. Is it a fly-by-night CBD company?
Make sure the company didn’t just go into business last week! Here is an easy hack to see when a company was created. Visit http://whois.domaintools.com/ and type in the CBD company website address. The dates will tell you when the company website was created.
2. Ingredients are important
Ingredients in a quality vape juice are important. You must make sure the company you are considering is using food grade vegetable glycerin or food-grade USP propylene glycol. You should be able to find these details either on the label or outer packaging (Box). If you don’t, tighten up those shoelaces and RUN!
You may be asking yourself… Why would I vape something that has these ingredients? Let’s dig into this a little deeper as to why these agents are used in creating a premium CBD vape.
Vegetable Glycerin – Also known as VG is a natural ingredient and is derived from vegetables.
- Primarily used as a thickening agent. It makes sure the e-liquid doesn’t seep out of your vape tank, pod, or RDA.
- It’s responsible for the clouds of smoke when vaping. The more VG, the thicker you’re cloud gets.
- Suspends flavor, meaning it’s responsible (more on PG shortly) for carrying flavor for e-liquids.
- It provides you with a smoother throat hit, meaning it’s not harsh when you take a puff.
- Used as a sweetening agent.
Is it Safe?
The FDA (Federal Drug Administration) has classified VG as “Generally Recognized as Safe” (GRAS) for human consumption.
Propylene Glycol -Also known as PG is an organic compound with a chemical formula that is viscous, colorless odorless, and near tasteless.
- Primarily used in vape to carry flavor. It holds the flavors better than VG, giving you that taste bud activating flavor when you vape.
- Responsible for the throat hit when inhaling – meaning the more PG, the more you can feel the smoke while inhaling as opposed to VG that gives you a smoother vape experience. Ratios of VG & PG are important if you want to experience more or less of a throat hit.
- Used to stabilize the CBD Vape Juice – essentially it helps the flavors bond together with the other ingredients (flavors, VG, CBD).
Is it Safe?
The FDA (Federal Drug Administration) has classified PG as “Generally Recognized as Safe” (GRAS) for human consumption.
CBD vape juice doesn’t contain Nicotine. Here’s a guide on how to spot CBD vape juice that may contain nicotine.
3. Not all lab results are created equal.
Having access to CBD products lab tests is crucial to know exactly what it is you’re consuming.
It’s equally important to know what is on the label, is what’s in the product you’re consuming.
Not all lab results are equal. If a company gives you a document that looks like it was made in Microsoft word or looks like it’s been copied over 100 times. Your red flags should go up.
You need to make sure the products were tested with an accredited lab that is fully ISO/IEC accredited and whose procedures are mandated by the state regulatory body for compliance testing in cannabis. These tests are expensive and not everyone company can afford them. However, if safety is your top priority. You shouldn’t settle for anything less.
Where should I look for the lab results?
If you’re looking at other companies you’ll want to make sure you find lab results in the following places:
- Website main navigation (you don’t want to be hunting it down)
- A QR code on the packaging of the product you are using.
- A link from the actual product page
How Avida displays lab results.
- On our website, we list lab results on each CBD Vape product page.
- We also link to our consolidated lab results with a link on the top of our website on every page labeled “Lab Results”.
- We not only list them on our website but we also link to our third-party ISO/IEC accredited testing facility “SC Labs” where you can verify the information we have posted on our website has not been tampered with.
- On our packaging, you’ll find a QR code (it looks like a square digital code and you’ll find it on the back of the box) that if you use your phone camera will take you to our lab results page.
Any company selling Quality CBD Vape Juice will offer full transparency on their products.
4. Verifying Label Claims.
Look at the label on the product in question: Does it give you an ingredient list? If so look for one of the many ways that different companies name their CBD (Ex: Cannabidiol, Hemp Extract, Hemp Ariel Parts, Cannabinoid, CBD) and next to it you should see an advertised number. Generally, this number is the amount of CBD per recommended dose.
500mg CBD Label Example.
In this scenario, the front of the label reads 500mg, this large number is definitely not the amount of CBD per dose, it’s actually the amount of CBD contained in the entire bottle.
When you turn the bottle, the label reads 17mg Hemp Extract and the recommended dose is 1 dropper full (1ml). Now multiply that number by the amount of liquid in that bottle 30ml, that would equal to 510mg of CBD in that entire bottle.
Knowing that number (MG per dose), you can make an informative and more accurate decision as to how much CBD you want to consume or vape. Now look at the lab results and see if the label claim is within 10% of the advertised label claim. If you are far off, manufacturing may have inconsistencies with their products.
5. Where is your CBD coming from?
You want to be sure that CBD in your vape, oil or gummies come from a 2018 farm bill compliant state that allows the cultivation of hemp for commercial, research or pilot programs which include 47 of the 50 states in the US.
These are the 3 states where it is illegal to buy or cultivate hemp:
- Idaho
- South Dakota
- Mississippi
Some companies are selling CBD products that are made from HEMP grown outside of the states as its a cheaper alternative. The problem with this is that they don’t have the same agricultural standards and maybe using chemicals and pesticides on their crops that are not safe for people to consume.
If you are curious about where your hemp came from, reach out to your company of choice and ask the origin of their CBD.
6. Reviews on CBD products are important.
This day in age, CBD reviews for Quality CBD Vape Juice products are extremely important.
It gives you the telltale signs that people are buying the product in question, and in short, you’ll be able to tell what the end consumer actually thinks about the product before you make your purchase decision.
7. How was the CBD found in Vape Juice extracted?
Let’s go over the different ways CBD Isolate is extracted from the hemp plant.
CO2 Extraction – This method is formally known as a supercritical extraction method in which carbon dioxide (CO2) under immense pressure and extremely low temperatures isolate the cannabinoids being extracted from the hemp plant, maintaining the purity of the oil at hand.
The oil then gets distilled, vacuumed, and heated to vapor and re-condense to a powdery form. That powder then moves on to a crystallization process which gives us our end result… pure CBD Isolate that can be used in end products.
This method is the ideal way to extract CBD from those ever-green hemp plants. The method uses no solvents and preserves the greatest amount of terpenes and cannabinoids that make hemp-infused products.
Ethanol Extraction – This method involves using a high grade of alcohol, known as ethanol. This method takes the plant material (Hemp BioMass) mixed with ethanol then ran through a process to evaporate the ethanol leaving you with crude hemp extract.
The crude hemp extract goes through multiple purification steps that leave us with full-spectrum CBD oil. From there just like the CO2 extraction method it goes through a distillation process using a vacuum and heat method to vaporize, then re-condense into a powdery form.
The powder then goes through a final crystallization process which produces the CBD isolate end product.
Conclusion
Now that you’ve learned how to carefully select a quality CBD vape product. It’s time you take the leap and discover a whole new you. Experience the power of CBD today.
Head over to our shop and choose one of great-tasting CBD Vape Juices artisan-ly crafted by award-winning vape juice flavorists. We guarantee you won’t be disappointed. And we believe in that last statement so much that we offer a 30-day 100% money-back guarantee.
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