CBD, it’s benefits and products you’ll love
By Carla Snuggs
CBD is everywhere and everyone is singing its praises, so I started creating CBD guides regularly so you can learn all about CBD, its’ benefits, and some of the products you may want to try.
This month’s tips come from Adelina Sanchez, licensed massage therapist certified in CBD & the Endocannabinoid System.
Here are the five reason Adelina says to use CBD:
It's all natural and you know exactly what's in it - a great alternative to products full of chemicals
It gives you all of the relaxing benefits of cannabis without the high
It heals the body with its anti-inflammatory and neuro-protective anti-oxidants
It's accessible and regulated
It will bring you bliss and make you happier!
Now it’s time to share some of my current favorite CBD products:
Half Day CBD
Half Day CBD was launched by Chicago entrepreneurs Dave DiCosola and Kameron Norwood. This thoughtfully curated brand of organic hemp- derived products include full-spectrum oils, gummies, and creams and are designed to help manage pain, anxiety, stress and sleep issues. The Half Day co-founders are involved in every aspect of the production process from cultivation and extraction to flavoring and bottling to testing and sales. Additionally, as they conceptualize products, they consider input gathered directly from healthcare professionals and consumers. Half Day sources organic hemp from farmers in Kentucky and puts all products through rigorous scientific testing to ensure consistency, potency and safety. Shop: halfdaycbd.com | select physician offices and CBD shops.
Populum
Populum, a CBD oil company. Populum shares third-party lab-results - this means that they send their product to an unbiased company for quality testing. Populum provides lab results with every shipment. Populum customers use CBD for all sorts of ailments including sleep, anxiety, arthritis, allergies, PTSD, etc. I tried their tincture and cold therapy hemp rub. The cold Therapy Hemp Rub is amazing! I’ve used it for minor aches and muscle pain and it’s heavenly! Shop: Populum.com
SAFI
SAFI is a brand new, high-powered CBD line from Haris Wellness. SAFI offers pure, potent, and transparent natural alternatives for beauty, pain and stress management with an array of hemp-derived CBD products. SAFI focuses on purity, potency, and transparency in all of its products, offering 3rd-party tested lab results on every package and zero traces of THC. SAFI ships nationwide with five products exclusively available at saficare.com:
Daily Wellness Tincture: Promotes balance, calm, and overall well-being thanks to an extremely refined formula enriched with pure CBD and organic coconut oil. This relaxing tincture helps you feel your best without the psychoactive effects of THC.
Daily Soothing Moisturizer: Soothes the skin thanks to an intensely hydrating formula enriched with pure CBD, avocado oil, aloe vera, and cacao seed butter. This fast-absorbing moisturizer provides total skin and body relief from dry, chapped, peeling, and irritated skin.
Pain Melting Balm: This lightweight pain melting balm with pure CBD helps to soothe pain and discomfort while nourishing the skin with a powerful blend of natural herbal remedies.
Intense Relief Cream: Helps to soothe pain and promotes comfort thanks to a deeply nourishing formula enriched with pure CBD, calendula flower, rosemary leaf, and rice bran oil. This fast-absorbing cream goes to work on contact to soothe inflammation, muscle aches, and soreness.
Bevara Skin
Bevara Skin provides high quality, eco-friendly skincare solutions by utilizing botanical ingredients that are rich in anti-oxidants, anti-inflammatory properties, vitamins, and collagen in addition to Broad Spectrum CBD. CBD is a progressive ingredient that is rich in anti-inflammatory and anti-oxidant properties, ideal for preserving youthful skin. Their 4 products all work independently and together for a complete skincare routine: Exfoliating Cleanser, Daily Moisturizer, Clay Mask and Eye Serum. Bevara Skin is Vegan, Sulfate Free, Paraben Free, Phthalate Free and Cruelty Free. Shop: Bevaraskin.com
Green'd Hemp Extract 500mg
Each bottle of Green’d Hemp Extract contains 500mg of a naturally sourced full-spectrum hemp oil extract that is grown and manufactured in the US. The hemp oil extract helps with stress management, sleep support, improves joint health and general well-being. Also contains medium-chain triglycerides (MCTs) which are easily digested and provide metabolism support. Its peppermint flavoring and liquid delivery system means that active ingredients are quickly absorbed in the blood stream for optimal benefits.
Cultivate Softgels
Cultivate is a premium wellness and self-care brand offering safe and compliant THC-free, full-spectrum hemp oil-infused products! Cultivate’s products bring together quality hemp extract, sourced from organic hemp, combined with superb ingredients. Their 300 mg SoftGels benefit mind, body and soul. Each SoftGel contains approximately 10 mg of high-quality phytocannabinoid-rich hemp extract oil. Take one capsule daily with water for ultimate self-care.
Naternal CBD
Manufactured by Root Bioscience in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park.. Naternal, is a CBD brand with a product line fthat features full and broad-spectrum hemp extract oil available in 20, 40 and 80 milligrams, as well as a pet tincture and a natural salve. All products are made from locally-grown hemp and tested rigorously in a third-party lab to ensure accountability and transparency. Their natural salve is one of my favorites. It contains:
Full Spectrum Hemp Oil
Olea Europaea (olive) fruit oil
Butyrospermum Parkii (shea) butter
Cera Alba (beeswax)
Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride (MCT)*
Contains <0.3% THC
Soji Health
Soji Health is a prestige collection of scientifically derived CBD products - and their latest offerings. Their collection of Pure Hemp Broad Spectrum prestige products consisting of a full skin care regimen, several flavors of gummies, sublingual oils and even something for your favorite furry family members. I’m a huge fan of the Soji Health Hemp CBD Gummies.Soji Health Full-Spectrum Hemp CBD Gummies are an effective and delicious way to quickly nourish and replenish tired cells while restoring balance to your endocannabinoid system. These delicious dummies are manufactured using a unique infusion process to ensure an accurate and consistent 10mg dose in every serving. They’re available in Watermelon, Pineapple, Strawberry and Peach.
Leafly Therapy
Adelina Sanchez is a licensed massage therapist and is certified in CBD & the Endocannabinoid System. She is an entrepreneur who started her own business, Leafly Therapy, after her difficult upbringing showed her firsthand the power of medicinal marijuana. She was raised in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, where she took care of her sister who faced disabling medical conditions. They would take her to this “Curandera”, or the Healer, who would use natural remedies to help her sister’s discomfort, and now many years later, Adelina understands that this was cannabis. She has been a licensed massage therapist before even realizing that she could incorporate the relaxing elements of CBD into her business to help her patients who face chronic illness, muscle and nerve ailments, even mental health conditions. Now, Leafly Therapy is the pioneer medical massage spa that specializes in CBD & Cannabis treatment. The hand-made CBD products are created by Adelina herself, and used in each customized session.
Veritas Farms
Veritas Farms (OTCQB: VFRMD), a public company headquartered out of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is one of the few vertically integrated companies that practices sustainable farming at its 140-acre farm and production facility in Pueblo, Colorado. Here, the brand controls all of its growing, extracting, manufacturing, and bottling to ensure the quality, potency, and freshness of its products. The brand’s full spectrum hemp oil products come in the form of lotions, salves, oils, tinctures, gummies and more – even products for pets. Veritas Farms full spectrum CBD products are available for purchase online as well as in retailers including select Kroger Family of Stores, CVS Pharmacy and Bartell stores nationwide.
Hempmeds
HempMeds recently launched its Everyday Wellness CBD Product Line to support various health concerns. I love the sleep support and when using it, I sleep like a baby.
HempMeds Immune Support CBD Capsules
Our Immune Support capsules contain 15mg of full-spectrum CBD, combined with other immune support supplements like Turmeric root, black petter, Chamomile, and more.
HempMeds Digestive Support CBD Capsules
Designed to promote a healthy, happy digestive tract, these capsules are made with carefully selected natural ingredients such as fennel seed, peppermint leaf, and Vitamin E plus 15mg of full-spectrum CBD
HempMeds Sleep Support CBD Capsules
Couldn't we all use a good nights sleep? It's such an important aspect of overall health and well being. Each capsule contains 15mg of full-spectrum CBD along with L-Tryptophan, Passionflower, and Chamomile, all powerful ingredients that support rest and relaxation.
beam Wellness
BEAM is owned and operated by friends & former pro-athletes Matt Lombardi & Kevin Moran. What’s unique about Beam is that it self regulates all of its CBD products through internal & third-party testing systems and uses USA-grown PCR (Phyto-Cannabinoid Rich) hemp sourced from a farm in Colorado, which contains zero THC and is legal in all 50 U.S. states. Using a proprietary full-spectrum extraction method, beam products are 100% THC-free! While many CBD oil products are made using CBD isolate, beam exclusively offers full-spectrum oils, which maintain the same concentrations of beneficial compounds that are found in the original PCR hemp plant. Full-spectrum CBD oils contains a larger range of cannabinoids like CBN & CBL and is widely considered the fastest & most effective CBD type, beam’s signature extraction method provides consumers with the benefits of a full-spectrum CBD oil (100% free of THC molecules) without any additives. Products:
The One: Beam’s signature CBD oil is a multi-purpose product that can be used to improve focus, ease anxiety and fight inflammation. Available in two flavors “Natural” or “Mint.”
The Fixer: beam’s multi-purpose salve with 500mg potency, which can be used to relieve pain, reduce inflammation and soothe skin.
Fix You: A combination package including both The One (Natural or Mint; 500mg) and The Fixer (500mg).
CBD-Powered Protein Bar: A vegan nutrition bar for post-workout and on-the-go snacking, packed with 14 grams of plant-based protein, pharmaceutical-grade CBD and other natural, raw ingredients.
beaming ($147.95) – A combination package including The One (Natural or Mint; 500mg), The Fixer(500mg) and a 12-pack of CBD-Powered Protein Bar
Franny’s Farmacy
Franny’s Farmacy is dedicated to bringing you the highest quality products from seed to sale. Hemp used in Franny’s Farmacy products is grown, sown, processed and packaged locally in Western North Carolina. They bring you top-notch products, grown by hard-working hands on Franny’s Farm and by their team of dedicated farmers from across the region. What I love about Franny’s Farmacy is that they have a women’s line including CBD bath bombs, anti-aging face cream, bath salts, face masks, body butter, a moisturizing stick and a breast milk boosting balm. Shop: Frannysfarmacy.com
PurWell
PūrWell is focused on providing pure, natural hemp oil products that promote general health and wellness. Its proprietary formulations are designed specifically for the healthcare marketplace, and its team of healthcare professionals and personal care experts have crafted the finest products containing full-spectrum, cannabinoid rich hemp oil that delivers powerful whole plant relief. PurWell specializes in the sleep industry with its one-of-a-kind award-winning product PūrSlēp, a full spectrum hemp oil with a proprietary blend of holistic sleep supplements. The oil extracted from the plants is rich in beneficial cannabinoids, such as CBD, CBN, and CBG. The brand’s full spectrum hemp oil products also come in the form of tinctures, capsules, lotions, salves, and pet tinctures and are available for purchase online as well as through healthcare professionals.
CLOUD CBD
CLOUD CBD is geared toward professional women. The first products are geared toward the feet - as a way to bring comfort to uncomfortable heels. The CLOUD MIST Prep Spray is recommended to spray on feet before slipping into your heels using 100mg of CBD, peppermint, lavender, coconut, and arrowroot powder to prevent pain while gently moisturizing feet with a powder finish. CLOUD - SUNSET Warming Butter is a cayenne and Himalayan sea salt infused moisturizer for comforting feet after a long day (or night!) the Cayenne, cinnamon, and black pepper oil warm while the 100mg of CBD and arnica relieves pain and coconut, jojoba and shea butter moisturize. Rub it into tired soles and cover with socks while you relax. Shop: Cloud-cbd.com
Daddy Burt Hemp Co.
Daddy Burt Hemp Co. is something special. The founder’s great-grandfather Joe "Daddy Burt" Burton was a leading hemp farmer in Kentucky during the 1930s and 1940s - they have a long history in hemp! Today, they continue the Daddy Burt legacy by producing the world’s best CBD products, made with their industry-leading Plant-To-Product™ Quality System. They have high-quality, 3rd-party tested, and good tasting products - their process goes above and beyond the current legal & safety regulations and this has helped them to become one of only 20 companies certified by the U.S. Hemp Authority. Try: CBD oil (THC Free - Peppermint Flavor): 750mg of CBD, THC Free, MCT Carrier Oil, Peppermint Flavor.
Have you ever used a product with CBD? Leave a comment below and let me know!
*Disclaimer: Press samples were provided for editorial consideration, product testing, photography and honest review.
