I would like to offer something to the thread, and I hope it will be of value to many of you. I do not have it ready yet, though. It is something I have yet to work on.
I would like to offer a recipe for a cannabis lotion that anyone could make with just a few easily attainable ingredients.
I will offer up my professional background to you to assure you that my lotion will be of professional quality. I used to be a soap and lotion crafter as a professional, besides my writing background. Every writer needs a profession to fall back on while they recieve their many rejection letters on their writing, and making soaps and lotions was mine.
I used to, until very recently, own a company that handcrafted soaps and lotions. My company was called "Soaps and Lather" in case you want to verify my credentials on Facebook. I no longer run the website for Soaps and Lather.
During the course of owning my business, besides looking after the business side of it, I also was the primary handcrafter of all the recipes we used to produce our soaps and lotions.
The lotion will undoubtedly contain emulsifiers such as BTMS 25 or BTMS 50, Emulsifying Was, Steric Acid (not actually an emulsifier but rather a thickener), etc. It would undoubtedly contain such wonderful body oils as Shea Butter, Mango Butter, Sweet Almond Oil, Grapeseed Oil, Pumpkin Seed Oil, Fractionated Coconut Oil (not to be confused with regular Coconut Oil), Hazelnut Oil, Rice Bran Oil and even Vitamin E. The lotion probably would not contain all of these oils, but a good selection of them. But all the ingredients listed above, including the emulsifiers, are all-natural. You can choose whether or not to purchase organic products, yourself. All of these ingredients are readily available from a soapmaking supplier such as Safari Blue or others whose names escape me at the moment because it is late at night now.
Maybe the most valuable thing I can offer the group would be to be to act as a resource to them and as a consultant as they experiment with their own selection of oils, for not everyone would want to use the same selection of oils that I would choose for my lotion (many of these oils are interchangeable with other oils; some are not).
The lotions we will be making will be of professional quality and calibre. Beyond just making a recipe and giving it to you, I can teach you how to craft your own cannabis lotion, made from the ingredients YOU want to use, ingredients that will serve YOU best, that will suit your budget and that you will be proud of. And you may choose whether or not to decarboxylate your cannabis. At this point, I do not know the difference of how carboxylated or decarboxylated cannabis will work in the lotion. We will have to figure that out ourselves, won't we?
That is, if you want me to do it.
I now invite you along for the ride.