Types of Concentrates

For reference, concentrates with the shatter consistency can be converted to budder by simply whipping the concentrate on a hot plate. Pro Tip: For easier handling, warm the tip of your dabber before sticking it into the shatter to break off a dab.

Crumble is form of concentrated cannabis that has become popular due to its versatile nature and high potency. Butane Hash Oil or BHO can take various forms once manufactured such as wax, crumble or shatter. Blasting plant matter with butane and curing the by-product using an oven and vacuum is the most common way to extract concentrates.

Learn about live resin, a type of cannabis concentrate that retains the plant’s original flavor and fragrance that other concentrates lack. Learn about live resin, a type of cannabis concentrate that retains the plant’s original flavor and fragrance that other concentrates lack.

CO2 Oil. Hot on the market is CO2 oil, a concentrate made possible by expensive botanical extractors that use pressure and carbon dioxide to separate plant material. This method, called supercritical fluid extraction, is one of the most effective ways of reducing cannabis to its essential compounds.

Rosin refers to an extraction process that utilizes a combination of heat and pressure to nearly instantaneously squeeze resinous sap from your initial starting material. The term “rosin” originated as a method of making a product used to lubricate violin bows.

Shatter is a commonly-used term to refer to the type of concentrate pictured above. It typically looks like honey with varying degrees of transparency and color profiles. When this type of concentrate is warm, it has a consistency actually quite similar to very thick honey.

What is Marijuana Wax? Cannabis wax refers to the softer, opaque oils that have lost their transparency after extraction. Unlike those of transparent oils, the molecules of cannabis wax crystallize as a result of agitation. Light can’t travel through irregular molecular densities, and that refraction leaves us with a solid, non-transparent oil.