Magnus8's Canna Cream, Body Butter & Canna Lotion Study Hall

[Cannasavvy]

Here is my favorite Pain Salve. This is version number 10 of this formula.

Infused Cannabis Pain Salve

50 grams Calendula and Chamomile infused oil
200 grams Infused Cannabis Oil
80 grams beeswax
30 grams candelila wax
40 grams C 12-15 alkyl benzoate (an oil ester with a very light feel)
1 gram CBD CCO
4 grams Cinnamon Leaf Oil
2 grams Clove Oil
4 grams Lavender Oil
4 grams Peppermint Oil
3 grams Spearmint Oil
4 grams Cedarwood Oil
2 grams Bisabolol (you may recognize this terpene that has skin healing properties and aids in skin penetration)

1. Combine Infused oils, waxes, and alkyl benzoate or another light oil in a glass pyrez or mason jar in a pot of simmering water. Heat until melted together, stir with a chopstick or the like occasionally.
2. Hold on the heat 20 minutes. This ensures everything is trully evenly melted together and makes for a smoother salve.
3. Turn off heat. Stir in remaining ingredients.
4. Pour into desired containers.
5. Place immediately into freezer uncovered to harden. This helps everything cool at the same rate keeping your texture smooth.
6. Label and store in freezer up to 1 year, refrigerator 6 months, room temp around 3 months, depending.

The essential oils give a more immediate pain relief and anti-sposmadic effects giving the cannabis time to soak in and join the party. It's a one two punch set up. I balanced the oils so they are neither super heating nor super cooling. They are designed to confuse the nerve signals and give you a break. The lavender is especially important for the healing effect. You can switch the oils out to see what works best for you. They also help cover the cannabis scent in case that matters to you.

Happy cooking!

 

[dynamo1]

Merry Christmas Magnus

 

[HashGirl]

Here is my favorite Pain Salve. This is version number 10 of this formula.

Infused Cannabis Pain Salve

50 grams Calendula and Chamomile infused oil
200 grams Infused Cannabis Oil
80 grams beeswax
30 grams candelila wax
40 grams C 12-15 alkyl benzoate (an oil ester with a very light feel)
1 gram CBD CCO
4 grams Cinnamon Leaf Oil
2 grams Clove Oil
4 grams Lavender Oil
4 grams Peppermint Oil
3 grams Spearmint Oil
4 grams Cedarwood Oil
2 grams Bisabolol (you may recognize this terpene that has skin healing properties and aids in skin penetration)

1. Combine Infused oils, waxes, and alkyl benzoate or another light oil in a glass pyrez or mason jar in a pot of simmering water. Heat until melted together, stir with a chopstick or the like occasionally.
2. Hold on the heat 20 minutes. This ensures everything is trully evenly melted together and makes for a smoother salve.
3. Turn off heat. Stir in remaining ingredients.
4. Pour into desired containers.
5. Place immediately into freezer uncovered to harden. This helps everything cool at the same rate keeping your texture smooth.
6. Label and store in freezer up to 1 year, refrigerator 6 months, room temp around 3 months, depending.

The essential oils give a more immediate pain relief and anti-sposmadic effects giving the cannabis time to soak in and join the party. It's a one two punch set up. I balanced the oils so they are neither super heating nor super cooling. They are designed to confuse the nerve signals and give you a break. The lavender is especially important for the healing effect. You can switch the oils out to see what works best for you. They also help cover the cannabis scent in case that matters to you.

Happy cooking!

Good afternoon, Cannasavvy and Merry Christmas if you celebrate.

Are your measurements by weight or by volume? Since it's in grams, I'm assuming it's weight but since I've been wrong before so I figured it didn't hurt to ask.

Also, what is "candelila wax"? And, finally, how greasy is it? I've had complaints that the cream I make is too greasy.

 

[Cannasavvy]

All measurements are by weight.

Candelila wax is used as a vegan beeswax alternative. It has a more brittle feel than beeswax. I like the beeswax for its waxy staying power and the candelila wax melts and spreads quickly. That ratio captures the best qualities of both to me. If using all beeswax realize candelila wax is a lot harder, so it wouldnt be a straight swap.

 

[SweetSue]

Excellent recipe Cannasavvy. I can see I'll need a shopping list filled before I make my next batch. I've an inkling to learn to do more than basics with my pain creams and salves. Thanks for working all this out.

 

[Cannasavvy]

I forgot to address the greasiness concern, the ester in place of some of the oil helps cut greasiness. Another fairly easy to find choice would be isopropyl myristate, commonly called IPM. If you want to use an oil i highly suggest liquid coconut oil.
Another hack to reduce greasy feel is to add some corn starch or arrowroot starch to your salve. Start at around 5% by weight of your total salve weight.

 

[HashGirl]

I forgot to address the greasiness concern, the ester in place of some of the oil helps cut greasiness. Another fairly easy to find choice would be isopropyl myristate, commonly called IPM. If you want to use an oil i highly suggest liquid coconut oil.
Another hack to reduce greasy feel is to add some corn starch or arrowroot starch to your salve. Start at around 5% by weight of your total salve weight.

Cool! Thanks, CS!

 

[Magnus8]

Good morning.

So, I made some new pain cream yesterday as my sister wants some but stupidly used CB Dutch Treat, which is higher in CBD than THC instead of Hash Plant like I did previously, which is higher in THC than CBD. I say "stupidly" because it's not nearly as effective as the previous batch.

I was using Hash Plant because that was the strain we had the most of. I switched to CB Dutch Treat because that's the strain that we now have the most of. I wasn't even thinking about the whole THC/CBD thing. So, my question is, can I infuse the rest of my oil with Girl Scout Cookies, which is supposed to have 24% THC and no CBD and then add that oil to the cream and re-jig the other measurements?

Here is my recipe:

Ingredients (Weigh all ingredients):

• 28 grams of beeswax
• 22 grams of shea butter or 14 grams of cocoa butter
• 10 grams of decarbed CB Dutch Treat
• 274 grams of sweet almond oil including 174 grams infused with cannabis
• and, still to be added – tea tree oil, peppermint oil and maybe lavender oil

Instructions:

• Decarb cannabis in the oven at 230F for 110 minutes.
• Add 174g of the sweet almond oil to mini crockpot and decarbed cannabis. Stir off and on over 3 hours.
• When the infusion is done, strain the plant material and then add 100 grams of uninfused sweet almond oil, the beeswax and shea butter.
• Once it has melted, move to the fridge or freezer to see how well it sets.
• If it’s too runny, re-melt it and add more ???

TIA (Thanks in advance spelled out for @Magnus8 if he's still out there somewhere)

Hi HG, and Merry Christmas and a very happy new year to all!

As for yor cbd oil you have... yes, there is nothing wrong with re infusing it with thr GSC weed. It will absorb the thc and you will have the pain relief you seek.

Sorry i didnt catch this. I havent been around much as i am fighting off a lot of pain this last year all leading up to a break up with the wife bot that occurred on 22 Dec when she told me she was moving back to Ontario -- without me.

Best,
Magnus

 

[Magnus8]

Merry Christmas Magnus

Thank you so very much, Dynamo. It pleases me to no end to find this simple note.

It has been a very difficult Christmas. Ginette told me she was leaving me on 22 Dec. She will move back to Ontario in March, without me.

I am so angry i could scream. But there aint no one listening for my screams. Just me.

All my best,
Darren

 

[Magnus8]

I forgot to address the greasiness concern, the ester in place of some of the oil helps cut greasiness. Another fairly easy to find choice would be isopropyl myristate, commonly called IPM. If you want to use an oil i highly suggest liquid coconut oil.
Another hack to reduce greasy feel is to add some corn starch or arrowroot starch to your salve. Start at around 5% by weight of your total salve weight.

Hi,

I would really refrain from using liquid coconut oul (which is just coconut oul that has been melted above 76 degrees F.

In place of that very greasy oil i would use Pumpkin Seed Oil. It is non greasy and soaks into the skin almost immediately, cutting out your need for esters, which are questionable to use in a topical, say some, anyway. And because it soaks in so well, it acts to carry all cannabinoids across the skin barrier excellently. There is no better carrier for cannabinoids, in my opinion.

Best,
Magnus.

 

[InTheShed]

Hi HG, and Merry Christmas and a very happy new year to all!

As for yor cbd oil you have... yes, there is nothing wrong with re infusing it with thr GSC weed. It will absorb the thc and you will have the pain relief you seek.

Sorry i didnt catch this. I havent been around much as i am fighting off a lot of pain this last year all leading up to a break up with the wife bot that occurred on 22 Dec when she told me she was moving back to Ontario -- without me.

Best,
Magnus

I'm so sorry to hear that Magnus. I remember you two were having troubles earlier in the year but I had hoped those had cleared. I hope you find good things and good things find you in 2019.

 

[dynamo1]

My condolences Magnus, i hope 2019 can turn around 2018 and is a better positive year for you.

 

[HashGirl]

@Magnus8 - I'm sorry to hear about you and Ginette. If you want to vent, you can send me a PM.

 

[AngryBird]

Thank you so very much, Dynamo. It pleases me to no end to find this simple note.

It has been a very difficult Christmas. Ginette told me she was leaving me on 22 Dec. She will move back to Ontario in March, without me.

I am so angry i could scream. But there aint no one listening for my screams. Just me.

All my best,
Darren

We are good in supporting each other here, so feel free to vent

 

[Magnus8]

Im so angry i could just scream. Followed by a good bout of tears.

I have stood by this woman through thick and thin. Through every deep dark depression she dropped into. I sat, sometimes with more grace than at others, by on the wayside as she would stop taking her meds on a whim, causing terrible strife within the relationship. I mean, have you ever lived with someone so deeply ensnared in her depression that she cannot even bathe -- for weeks?

For more than eleven fucking years?

And then to come back and leave (partially) because she cannot deal with what is happening to me medically ?

Fuck you.

Just leave. And take all the memories with you.

I tell you all, i am so fucking angry right now. And that is undergirded by some real solid emotional pain. I don't know how i am ever going to get over this. I thought i had a real partner, for better or worse, in sickness and in health. I thought we were both in it for life. I know i was.

She told me today that her daughter gave her a good suggestion: go back to Sault Ste. Marie and stay for 3 or 4 months then make a decision to come back. Would i be amenable to that arrangement. I pondered for a moment, then said, That is some very new news and i will have to think about it. Even though it was hard to say it was the best answer for me because, truthfully, i am not sure i DO want her back once she leaves. The place will be much less cluttered because Ginette is a pack rat. The kitchen will be MUCH cleaner, not becsuse i am a clean freak but because Ginette is content to let dishes sit for MONTHS, and i am not kidding. I have seen her pack her dirty dishes that she doesnt want to do onto a cardboard box and then leave them there for over a year. Why didnt i just do them? Because after about 6 months of living together i gave up cleaning. It didnt seem to matter how much cleaning i would do she would leave clothing, dirty dishes and everything else under the sun all over the fucking place. And it is as though the girl is allergic to doing the dishes, or even just doing her own dishes. You cannot imagine just how filthy our kitchen was on numerous occassions.

Okay, now i am just bitching.

I spoke to the landlord who owns the farm where i live. I told him and his wife that Ginette was leaving me and that i would have to move because i wouldnt be able to pay the $850/month that i currently pay. Then he said to me, "Dont you even think about moving, Magnus. You have been good to us these past years, so we can be good to you. We will work out a deal you can afford for the rent on this trailer, but dont you even think about moving!" You've no idea how grateful i am for this bit of good luck. If they are willing to go down to about $500/month that would both please me greayly and make living here much more affordable.

And my landlord is okay with me opening a dog kennel in which i breed Labrador Retrievers -- my favourite kind of dog. This will entail renovations to the porch to accommodate at least 4 (maybe more) dog pens, whelping boxes, and doggie doors to the outside FENCED area in the side yard, where i have my huge marijuana planters. Next year i will be growing indoors instead of outdoors and will use the planters to grow veggies, not weed. That is, if i can ever get my hands on the bulbs and ballasts to do so, effectively.

Hey, maybe that is an idea.... Does anyone here, by any possible chance, have a spare HID with digital ballast or a spare CMH and ballast or even an old pair of still working HPS/MH bulbs with ballast that they might be willing to gift to me? I just cannot afford to purchase lights right now. Actually, any lights that still perform well would be welcomed. If that could happen i would be most grateful for the offering. When i first tried to grow indoors i purchased a good tent, good other equipment, but, alas, decided to save on LEDs. BAAAAAD mistake. My plants grew well enough but didnt produce a single bud. Not a one. Never make THAT mistake twice...

Anyway, im way too tired to vent. I havent been able to sleep much lately and now with news of Ginette leaving i am spending days and nights awake without sleeping at all. So i suppose i will sign off for now.

And please, if you have lighting you can spare i can put it to good use.

ps -- i also need one of those fans that go inside your tent. I already have the controller but alas no fan to vent the hot air outside...

All my best,
Magnus

 

[InTheShed]

It's nice to have someone who is understanding and willing to work with you, so your landlord is a godsend at this point! A silver lining right there. Every relationship takes time to get over, good or bad, but like the death of a family member, the sting passes with time. Hang tough, turn to your community for support, and go breed those cute dogs. Unconditional love wrapped up in each and every one .

Sorry, no lights or fans to pass along but it's early days.

 

[Magnus8]

It's nice to have someone who is understanding and willing to work with you, so your landlord is a godsend at this point! A silver lining right there. Every relationship takes time to get over, good or bad, but like the death of a family member, the sting passes with time. Hang tough, turn to your community for support, and go breed those cute dogs. Unconditional love wrapped up in each and every one .

Sorry, no lights or fans to pass along but it's early days.

Hi ITS!

How nice to hear from you. And i dont really expect anyone to have any lights they can spare. Lighting systems are the blood that runs through a growers veins, and we are highly tuned not to let them go so easily. I completely understand, but i thought i would put it out there anyways.

Today has been a particularly rough day. With her depression, Ginette tends to sleep a lot, and that is putting it lightly. If i could think of one word that bespoke the whole of our relationship for me, i would have to choose the word "loneliness". I have spent hour upon hour upon hour waiting for my partner to wake and spend some time with me. Then about a year ago i gave up waiting (our 10 year anniversary brought a lot of insights to me for some reason) and decided to just do my own thing and NOT drop everything the minute that Ginette gets up only so i can have a bit of her time. Yeah, fuck that.

And she noticed a difference. Soon enough she started entering the statement, "You never want to spend time with me. " to which i had no reply because it was, in fact true. By this time i had been so hurt by her actions that i was already considering ending it myself.

Oh gawd. I didnt mean to do that, go off bitching everywhere about my own troubles...

But good to hear from you, man! I hope you had a splendid Christmas and New Years and looking forward to hearing much more from you in the coming year.

All my best,
Magnus

 

[InTheShed]

All is well in the shed. Thanks for asking! I'm just growing and spreading the gospel of topicals .

Sounds like you kind of moved on last year and now it's just reality check. Do what writers do...use it .

 

[AngryBird]

Parting is always painful and insulting, you know in your heart that that is what you want though.
Magnus, you saw something a year ago.
As I read it, my thought was exactly like shed's.

Sounds like you kind of moved on last year and now it's just reality check. Do what writers do...use it .

Tough but necessary.

 

[dynamo1]

Raise dogs, they bring so much joy and are wonderful companions when you are alone. Sending Positive vibrations to you Magnus, the future is going to get better things will work out.