I have done some digging through the site archives on the subject and am quite interested in the following process, perhaps someone here has performed the experiment with success?
It looks to be fairly straightforward to push the fats and waxes away from your cannabinoids using alkali salts and an alcohol/water blend such as is detailed in the method found in the following post, it’s as simple as skimming the undesirables off and correcting the ph:
The referenced patent goes into great detail and has been updated since then and can be found here:
It’s ingenious, but any decarbed cannabinoids might be lost with the waxes as they won’t complex with the salts.
The decarb process is also very interesting but I am more interested in the initial dewaxing step as it seems very efficient to be able to skip winterization during the extraction phase.
Thoughts?