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Magnus8
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So what is the purpose of a cream/butter/lotion?
Depends on who we're talking to.
For the maker, it has multiple purposes.
It is an expression of creativity. For in the various trials and tribulations in developing our formulations, we expend creative energies in first trying a little bit of this, then a little bit of that. These trials and tribulations help us realize a creative force that lives within us all. The force to make something new, to bring it from its base elements into a new life. Something that breathes its own breath, something that literally lives.
It is also the drive to develop something new. To bring something that never existed before into being. This is tied closely with the creative effort that goes into developing our formulations.
It may also be the realization to develop something that eases discomfort, pain or dis-ease. For many of us in this study hall, this is of paramount importance, and may even be the raison d'etre of what we do. Many of us here are here to develop a substance infused with cannabis that will ease either our own or someone else's pain and discomfort and dis-ease.
For the user, a cream/butter/lotion has other uses, some of which are closely ties with those of the maker.
For the user, the primary reason for using a product is to ease discomfort. The discomfort of dry skin. The discomfort of tight muscles. The discomfort of chronic pain.
Our canna creams/butter/lotions that we are mostly here to develop are probably designed primarily to ease the discomfort of tight muscles and chronic pain. But must that be the only raison d'etre of our products? How about if we opened our eyes to another use for these products and thought more holistically about what we can produce -- if we set our minds to it?
Might we not, during the course of developing our creams and butters and lotions, open our minds to the possibility of developing products that work not only to ease pain but also to nourish the skin and thereby soften it, sustain it and heal it? Might we not do double duty?
I offer to all of you a challenge as you embark upon this path to developing your OWN cream, your OWN butter, your OWN lotion. Take it upon yourself not just to copy the successes of those who have come before you. Sure, use their success as a jumping off point, as a guide down this path, but also challenge yourself to develop your OWN cream, your OWN butter, your OWN lotion -- a product that serves you and your needs and the needs of your loved ones.
What works extremely well for one might work only passably for another. Yes, it will be passable, but will you or your loved one thrive with that particular formulation?
Or would you and your loved one flourish with a different formulation?
Over the next little while I will try to post short write ups of numerous different oils and their uses in making creams, butters and lotions. These write ups can act as a guide to you in considering how you might want to formulate your own concoction, one that is perfect in every way for you. Some of these oils will work better as carrier oils than others, but all will have their use in making our products. All are used to soften and nourish the skin. I will also (maybe) write a post about the oils that are NOT useful in making your creams/butters/lotions. Oils such as linseed oil, corn oil, vegetable oil and, yes, coconut oil.
I hope that at least some of you will take me up on my challenge, while healing your bodies along the way.
Depends on who we're talking to.
For the maker, it has multiple purposes.
It is an expression of creativity. For in the various trials and tribulations in developing our formulations, we expend creative energies in first trying a little bit of this, then a little bit of that. These trials and tribulations help us realize a creative force that lives within us all. The force to make something new, to bring it from its base elements into a new life. Something that breathes its own breath, something that literally lives.
It is also the drive to develop something new. To bring something that never existed before into being. This is tied closely with the creative effort that goes into developing our formulations.
It may also be the realization to develop something that eases discomfort, pain or dis-ease. For many of us in this study hall, this is of paramount importance, and may even be the raison d'etre of what we do. Many of us here are here to develop a substance infused with cannabis that will ease either our own or someone else's pain and discomfort and dis-ease.
For the user, a cream/butter/lotion has other uses, some of which are closely ties with those of the maker.
For the user, the primary reason for using a product is to ease discomfort. The discomfort of dry skin. The discomfort of tight muscles. The discomfort of chronic pain.
Our canna creams/butter/lotions that we are mostly here to develop are probably designed primarily to ease the discomfort of tight muscles and chronic pain. But must that be the only raison d'etre of our products? How about if we opened our eyes to another use for these products and thought more holistically about what we can produce -- if we set our minds to it?
Might we not, during the course of developing our creams and butters and lotions, open our minds to the possibility of developing products that work not only to ease pain but also to nourish the skin and thereby soften it, sustain it and heal it? Might we not do double duty?
I offer to all of you a challenge as you embark upon this path to developing your OWN cream, your OWN butter, your OWN lotion. Take it upon yourself not just to copy the successes of those who have come before you. Sure, use their success as a jumping off point, as a guide down this path, but also challenge yourself to develop your OWN cream, your OWN butter, your OWN lotion -- a product that serves you and your needs and the needs of your loved ones.
What works extremely well for one might work only passably for another. Yes, it will be passable, but will you or your loved one thrive with that particular formulation?
Or would you and your loved one flourish with a different formulation?
Over the next little while I will try to post short write ups of numerous different oils and their uses in making creams, butters and lotions. These write ups can act as a guide to you in considering how you might want to formulate your own concoction, one that is perfect in every way for you. Some of these oils will work better as carrier oils than others, but all will have their use in making our products. All are used to soften and nourish the skin. I will also (maybe) write a post about the oils that are NOT useful in making your creams/butters/lotions. Oils such as linseed oil, corn oil, vegetable oil and, yes, coconut oil.
I hope that at least some of you will take me up on my challenge, while healing your bodies along the way.
I've put this one off long enough, and it forced me to tend to it now. 
I changed to a coconut oil, but I'm really inconsistent about using it. The psoriasis isn't that pronounced, and I'm not that self-conscious a woman to care. I figure I'll eventually heal from the inside out. 
