Alternative for chloroform

Hash and Stuff Extraction
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Ethanol

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@bombaah you have been asked repeatedly to clarify your intent.
you would still be served by defining “bio-wax”.

…and I’ll repeat the part where you are asking folks who try to avoid picking up fats and waxes how to extract them.

OK, you can’t use chloroform. Why even mention it? You can’t use it, and we don’t use it…at least not for extracting cannabiniods, which is primarily why the rest of us are here.

look up the solubility of vegetable oil in various solvents, or read the paper you were linked (twice).

the data points WE care about are “which solvents pick up the LEAST wax”.

if you had defined WHICH plant you were planning to extract from, you could have avoided a lot of guessing: many of the responses you’ve gotten clearly assume you’re using “bio-wax” as a euphemism for cannabis extract.

give us context. you’ve mentioned “us students”. is that U.S. students? college? kindergarten? school project?

are you asking someone to do your assignment for you?

give us details. or we can’t help.

Edit: check out @Beaker’s work Wax in solvent solubility test

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You could use a closed loop but an extraction unit, run warm, saturate the material for 30 minutes to an hour and then recover and pour up.

Again like @cyclopath stated the goal everyone here is going for is the LEAST amount of waxes and fats.

I suppose you could do a really really long ethanol soak until the alcohol is dark as holy hell and then you could just not filter it.

What is your end goal though? Like are you making shatter, wax, honeycomb/crumble, CRC concentrates? Like what is this barbaric wax seeking all about?

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