Extracting and winterizing while skipping the butane

In my considered opinion there are always fats and waxes and nobody is ever producing a wax free product (perhaps with the exception of by recrystallization for CBD/THCA).

If you think you’ve ever produced a 100% waxless extract, by any common method, I encourage you to try winterizing that extract with acetonitrile as the solvent… I guarantee you will see waxes drop that even methanol cannot drop… and for all I know, there are other waxes still remaining after that, that nobody has ever detected for lack of known way to test for them.

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