Cannabis plants can vary greatly in chemical structure and effect. Cousins share a lot of characteristics while maintaining distinct personalities. The differences between hemp and cannabis are minor and often cause confusion. While there’s little to physically distinguish the plants, the chemical profiles are vastly different. Though all cannabis plants contain cannabinoids, not all plants in this family will get you “high”. The only cannabinoid
My wife and I have been interested in cannabis as an industry since I managed to land a job as a tech writer for a software company in the space, but this has only served to sharpen our curiosity about the green wave we have found ourselves caught up in. The industry is booming and we’re interested in getting involved. We see products on the shelves with that signature leaf staring us down, but we find ourselves with questions about the effectiveness of these items. Since cannabis is fully legal here in sunny Las Vegas and we have access to lots of cannabis products that other’s may not have the luxury to test, we’ve decided to turn ourselves into guinea pigs and report our findings.
Cannabis in the kitchen can be a valuable source of protein and healthy fats in your diet. Hemp protein has loads of potential benefits that you can read more about in the article linked here in MedicalNewsToday.com. We’ve been using Hemp as a protein in our smoothies recently and it’s not bad.
Hemp doesn’t normally contain THC or CBD so shakes made with hemp seeds won’t have any intoxicating effect. Some people may worry that their products do still contain THC. The jury may be out on this one because it’s almost impossible to know what exactly is in some of the products you find on the shelf and if the manufacturer wasn’t careful then it is possible for products to be contaminated. If you’re really concerned about the THC content then it’s best to look for certified products that have been tested by reliable third parties.
My wife likes to make potions and such so today she decided to try her hand at homemade makeup using natural ingredients including our hemp protein as green for skin color correction. She tells me it might help neutralize the red in her skin tone. This was our first experiment using hemp topically so we wanted to take it easy but we plan to expand our repertoire so stay tuned for future cannabis kitchen experiments and product testing posts.
Here’s her recipe once everything is powder. In a glass container mix:
- 3 tablespoons of cornstarch
- 1 teaspoon of powdered carrots
- 1 teaspoon of powdered strawberries
- 1/2 teaspoon of cacao powder (add more or less according to your skin tone)
- 1 or 2 capsules of vitamin E
- 1/2 tablespoon of coconut oil
Mix well with a spoon. Your homemade powder should be good for 6 months.
We dried the carrots, strawberries, and mango in the oven at 170 F for about 5 hours. The carrot and strawberry actually turned out good to grind but the mango just turned into goo so we didn’t use it for the final product. Wasn’t a bad snack though. Like a mango jerky.
She ground the dried carrots and strawberries in our stone grinding bowl.
She then mixed it all together in a glass jar.
I don’t know the first thing about how it turned out as far as makeup goes, but it smells delicious. My wife tried it on her face and says it has a nice light feel with a similar consistency to other powders that she has purchased. The oils give her face a good feeling of some moisture retention, which is important as we live in the middle of a desert. Stay tuned for updates as she uses her
