Hemp terpenes are naturally occurring organic compounds found in the hemp plant. They are aromatic molecules responsible for the distinctive scents and flavors of the plant, and they are also believed to have potential health benefits.
Terpenes are found in a wide range of plants, not just hemp, and they play important roles in the plants' growth, reproduction, and defense against pests and diseases. In hemp, terpenes are synthesized in the plant's resin glands, along with cannabinoids - like CBD, CBN, CBG, etc. - which are present on the flower of the plant.
There are over 100 different terpenes that have been identified in hemp, each with its unique chemical structure and aroma. Some of the most common terpenes found in hemp include:
Myrcene: This terpene is known for its earthy and musky aroma, and it is believed to have recovery properties.
Limonene: This terpene has a citrusy aroma and is believed to have calming benefits.
Pinene: This terpene has a piney aroma and is believed to have recovery properties.
Caryophyllene: This terpene has a spicy aroma and is believed to have recovery and calming benefits.
Hemp terpenes are commonly used in the production of hemp-derived products, such as CBD oil, because of their potential health benefits and their ability to enhance the aroma and flavor of the product.
Terpenes are believed to work synergistically with cannabinoids, such as CBD, in what is called the entourage effect. This means that when terpenes and cannabinoids are present together, they may enhance each other's effects and provide greater health benefits than when used alone. That is why it is so important to buy products that are made from a) high quality hemp and b) use the whole plant (full and/or broad spectrum) rather than CBD isolate.
Here at Kyoto Botanicals, using whole-plant hemp extract is what we do, and that is why all of our products contain a diverse array of cannabinoids, but also terpenes. That is why our customers keep coming back and say we have the most effective CBD products they have every tried.
As you can see in our terpene lab results for our 600mg Lemon Ginger CBD tincture, we have high levels of terpenes in our products, roughly at the level of 2:1 CBD:terpenes, with this product having over 270mg of terpenes (over 4mg per serving) in the bottle. That is why you will both taste and feel the difference with Kyoto Botanicals CBD. Quality matters.
]]>You know how much we love nature. Everything we do is centered around bringing the healing benefits of nature to you, our families, and our friends. The main way we do this is through the beneficial health properties of the miraculous hemp plant. We work tirelessly to produce products that have the broadest suite of beneficial plant compounds to ensure that the end result for you is a CBD brand that you can trust will always work to help improve your wellbeing and help on your journey to Pure Harmony. Our premium hemp extract has high levels of CBD, but also contains CBC, CBG, CBN as well as terpenes – all of which are critical to to take advantage of the Entourage Effect and produce CBD products that actually work.
But beyond the hemp plant, we believe deeply that connecting with nature to improve our mental and physical wellbeing is critical to maintaining balance in an increasingly chaotic and stressful world. As part of this, we wanted to talk today about a new and exciting area of research called “Forest Bathing”.
According to experts, spending time outdoors in natural spaces is a great way to improve our mental health. The basic idea is to treat time in nature as you would a relaxing soak in your bathtub – that is you should use all your senses to try and absorb every sound, sight, color, smell and feel and allow that focus to drown out the stresses of your daily life.
For the maximum mental benefit from this, experts recommend 120 minutes a week in nature – but this does not need to be all at once and it does not have to be in the deep woods! If you have a park by your house or office, start and end each day with a 10-minute walk before walking in the office door and as soon as you walk out. Listen intently for individual bird calls, try and identify individual smells, touch leaves to see how each is different – the idea is to engage your senses to focus them on these details – you will be amazed how fast the stress of your day fades.
According to Kirsten McEwan an associate professor and research psychologist at the University of Derby in the United Kingdom, “Just having those micro moments of life in nature, whether it is just 5 or 10 minutes a day building up to that 120 minutes, it all has massive benefit”. Pairing these daily moments in nature with a consistent CBD routine using Kyoto Botanicals WARM(th) Cinnamon Turmeric CBD Tincture will help you find calm and focus and perspective in your daily life that will allow you to present your best self every moment of every day.
If you would like to learn more about "Forest Bathing", check out this video by Kirsten McEwan.
]]>The world of CBD is indeed a complicated one and finding a company you can trust with products you can rely on for you and your family is critical to having a positive, healthy experience. It is vital that consumers educate themselves about how to identify high-quality CBD that is both safe for them to use as well as properly labeled to make sure you get what you pay for – and that education starts with the Certificate of Analysis.
As a remediation crop, hemp plants are incredibly well adapted to remove harmful chemicals from their environment. While this makes it a valuable plant to clean up waste sites, it also means that anything that touches the crop has the potential to appear in products made from it, and in turn end up inside your body. This includes harmful pesticides, heavy metals, herbicides, residual solvents from extraction, and biological contaminants picked up along the way. The Certificate of Analysis is produced at the end of extensive testing from a verified third party lab that indicates the final product you buy is free from any of these harmful contaminants.
We perform a full battery of tests, including microbiological contamination, heavy metals, potency, and residual solvents to make sure that the products you buy from us are as close to nature as possible. Additionally, we make these Certificates of Analysis available any time to you on our website because we believe that transparency in what we do is the best first step to help build trust with you.
In this multipart post, we will go through in detail the different components of our Certificates of Analysis to help you understand the results and read them properly to give you piece of mind that our commitment to healthy, effective products at Kyoto Botanicals will never waver.
There is a lot of information in a CoA; below we will outline broadly the different pages as a baseline before going into each one in much more detail in follow up posts.
These are the naturally occurring compounds found primarily in the flowers and leaves of the hemp plant that consumers are seeking today for their health and wellness benefits. This test is vital to confirm a couple of important facts about the Kyoto Botanicals CBD product that you are buying. First and foremost, it tells you that there is at least as much CBD in the product as the label claims. The second key piece of information on this document is the percentage of THC in the product. A small amount of THC occurs naturally in hemp, but per the 2018 Farm Bill, hemp extracts must contain no more than 0.3% THC on a dry weight basis, so the CoA should always indicate a percentage of THC below 0.3%. Other cannabinoids that are benficial to your health – such as CBG, CBN, and CBC – are also in our products, and our CoA will tell you exactly how much of those are present as well in the product you buy.
This test is used to make sure our products are free from microbiological contamination such as salmonella, E. coli, yeast, and molds. These microbes tend to make us sick, so we take every precaution in our production facility to keep it clean and up to federal and state standards to ensure that our finished CBD products are free from these contaminants.
Once the hemp plant is harvested, it must be dried to a specific moisture content and then processed in an extraction facility to pull out the beneficial phytocompounds – cannabinoids, terpenes, flavonoids, etc. – that provide the health benefits millions of people seek. This presence for us utilized alcohol to extract these compounds which we then remove from the finished extract. This test ensures that we removed all of the solvent that we used to extract the CBD oil so none ends up in your finished product.
Pesticides are a fact of life in large-scale agriculture, amd while we test for pesticides in our finished product to give you piece of mind, due to hemp’s remediation crop properties and its ability to suck up and retain anything and everything from its environment, we do not use pesticides in our fields. Rather, we rely on natural means to keep the plants healthy to make sure our hemp is the best in the world.
Lead, mercury, and other heavy metals are well known to be extremely bad for our health. After we test our soil for heavy metals to make sure they are absent before we even start growing, we test our plants as well as our finished products to be certain none of these harmful elements end up in your household. The results of this test illustrate that our finished CBD products you buy are free from these contaminants.
Mycotoxins are harmful chemicals products by certain kinds of fungi that develop on crops either before or after harvest if the crops are not cared for properly. Our crop is tended by the best hemp farmers around and our precise drying process ensures our finished hemp plants are free from fungi. Just to be safe, we test our finished CBD products for mycotoxins so we can all be as healthy as possible.
We strive to sell the best CBD products available that are as close to nature as possible and we are able to do that because of the rigorous testing we put our products through before we deliver them to you. Transparency is vital, so we pledge to give you the exact copy of the CoA as we receive it from the lab so you can rest easy that it is from an accredited lab in Colorado and that you can see the original results for yourself.
Please note that batch results are subject to change due to variations in each plant, each growing season as well as production. CoA’s across products and across batches may appear to show a higher level of a particular compound than you might expect, such as THC. This fluctuation across batches is expected, but know that we will never sell a bottle above the 0.3% legal limit for THC or one that has less than our stated amount of CBD in that bottle.
Stay tuned for part two where we will go into each section of our Certificates of Analysis and walk you through each data point...
]]>Read below to learn the rules and regulations behind taking CBD onto an airplane.
The Basics of CBD products
It’s critical to understand exactly what hemp-derived products like full-spectrum CBD oils, creams, and gummies are before talking about whether or not you can travel with them. Full-spectrum CBD products, like Kyoto Botanicals premium CBD tinctures, contain the naturally occurring phytocannabinoids found in the hemp plant, including a very small percentage of THC, the element that causes the “high” associated with marijuana. As of 2018 and the passing of the Farm Bill, the level of THC in hemp grown in the US is federally mandated to be less than 0.3 percent, which is not enough to produce an intoxicating effect. When flying, this law plays into whether or not your CBD products can be brought with you.
Can you fly domestically with CBD products?
The short answer is yes, you can bring hemp-derived CBD products on a plane while flying in the United States.
When conducting screenings, TSA officers are looking for anything that’s not allowed in the cabin during air travel, from guns and explosives to liquids purchased outside the security gates. However, thanks to the Farm Bill, this doesn’t include CBD. The TSA website says “Marijuana and certain cannabis infused products, including some Cannabidiol (CBD) oil, remain illegal under federal law except for products that contain no more than 0.3 percent THC on a dry weight basis or that are approved by FDA.” Meaning, if your CBD products conform to the limit of THC outlined by the Farm Bill, like all Kyoto Botanicals botanical CBD products, it’s perfectly fine to bring them with you on a plane.
To be safe, review the certificate of analysis for your CBD products to confirm that they contain less than 0.3 percent THC. All of Kyoto Botanicals certificates of analysis are available on individual product pages and meet this standard of having less than 0.3% THC. For an added level of comfort, feel free to print the CoA for your particular CBD product and bring it with you on the plane.
If the product will be in your carry-on bag, it must contain less than 3.4 ounces of liquid, ointment, cream, or balm, be contained in a shatter-proof container, and should be included in the transparent quart-size bag of such items that you take out of your suitcase to put through the TSA screening machine. In this case, it may be more beneficial to opt for products like Kyoto Botanicals CBD gummies because they have plastic containers instead of glass.
Can you fly internationally with CBD products?
Flying internationally with CBD is where things get more complicated because regulations on the level of THC allowed (and classifications of products) change from country to country. SmarterTravel says “professionals strongly advise to err on the side of caution and leave products with any cannabinoids (including hemp-derived oils) at home, especially because some countries have much stricter drug laws.”
Regulations for different countries
Some countries do not allow CBD at all. Others do with a prescription. A couple allows a THC level greater than 0.3 percent (Italy allows 0.6 percent, for instance), while other countries allow no greater than 0.2 percent THC (lower than the United States’ allowed level) or none altogether (the United Kingdom mandates 0%, for example). If you are traveling internationally, make sure to check the regulations for the country you are traveling to, and if in doubt, it is always best just to leave your Kyoto Botanicals CBD products at home.
The best CBD products for air travel
Now that you know what can and can’t be brought on a plane let’s talk about the best CBD products to bring with you while traveling:
The Bottom Line
If you’re traveling in the United States, you’re generally going to be fine traveling with hemp-derived CBD products if the products you have conform to federal government regulations. Internationally, you’ll want to check out the regulations of the countries you’re visiting, but in general, traveling with CBD internationally is much stricter. To learn more about CBD and CBD products, take a look at our FAQ page or reach out to us directly.
]]>Even with the growing popularity of CBD and hemp’s legalization in 2018, there is still a lot of misinformation out there. At Kyoto Botanicals, we are debunking four myths we often hear:
Marijuana, another type of the cannabis sativa plant, has been bred to have high THC, a psychoactive compound, in order to increase the psychotropic effects. CBD products have low levels of THC (<0.3% by law), making it extremely unlikely that you will feel any psychotropic effects from taking CBD.
Organic compounds, such as CBD, can produce different effects in people since our bodies are different. Individual results may vary, and we encourage people to try CBD for a number of weeks to give their body time to adjust and feel the full effects. We recommend full-spectrum extract, widely considered to be more beneficial from a health and wellness perspective.
Additionally, different strains and different forms benefit people in different ways. If you are struggling to find CBD that works for you, try different trustworthy brands and different forms (i.e. tinctures, gummies, etc.).
Due to limited government regulation, many CBD companies provide subpar products. Avoid products from companies that include CBD isolate in their products, use hemp seed oil as opposed to hemp extract, don’t readily offer lab test results, and don’t control their own hemp supply chain.
Among the many reports out there about the scientific effects of CBD, the World Health Organization did a comprehensive report in 2017. Findings included:
Kyoto Botanical products can be found online at https://kyotobotanicals.com/. Our line of high-quality CBD products includes tinctures, gummies, body oil, body balm, face serum and dog treats.
]]>Careful not to over-exfoliate – Exfoliating too much can damage your skin’s barrier layer and negatively impact its main way of protecting against the harsh winter elements and maintaining proper hydration. Exfoliants like Vitamin C, acids (AHA, BHA, etc.), and retinol should only be used 3-4 times per week and you should make sure to stick with one type in your skin care routine.
Try a honey mask – Delicious and effective. After you wash your face, spread a very thin layer of high-quality honey and let it sit for 15 minutes. Then wash it off with just warm water and apply your face lotion. You will love how soft and hydrated this will make your skin feel.
Apply moisturizer to damp skin – Not wet skin, so make sure to lightly towel off after you get out of the shower. When you apply moisturizer to damp skin, you will seal in moisture to help keep your skin hydrated throughout the day and night.
Use CBD products – Did you know CBD can help your skin to maintain optimal skin moisture levels? And when combined with other potent botanicals ingredients you will be amazed at how much better your skin looks and feels this winter. With our CBD Body Oil, simply massage it into your skin over your whole body or just in particular areas where dry patches are a concern after you get out of the shower. Our CBD Face Serum can be used to replace the serum you currently use in your skin care routine and you will be amazed at the difference it makes both with hydration as well as helping calm your skin and making it glow. Our CBD Body Balm is a great addition to have with you throughout the day as well to help keep your hands hydrated and smooth. Simply rub a little on the backs of your hands as needed to maintain a moisture barrier and keep your skin smooth and supple. Just be patient as it may take some time to start seeing results. And just like with any other new skincare product, make sure to start slow and see how your pores react.
]]>This is where high quality, hand-crafted CBD from Kyoto Botanicals comes in. While hemp and hemp-derived CBD have been used for generations throughout the world, cannabidiol (CBD) has only recently begun to find its place in the modern world to help people in many ways for general wellness.
We are intensely focused on quality and consistency to provide a reliable and safe product for you and your family that you can trust and that will provide results you can feel. While there are many wild claims being made about what CBD can do, not all of them are backed by research, so read on to learn how CBD can actually help you on your journey to a healthier more harmonious life. And to learn more about what CBD actually is and how it works, make sure to read our post What is Cannabidiol.
CBD Oil Benefit 1: To help maintain a sense of calm.
Perhaps the most well-known benefit of CBD oil is that it can help to ease your worries and promote a sense of calm throughout the day. Many people find this CBD benefit essential to help them through a difficult day at work or a stressful period in their lives. Our BREATH(e) Lemon Ginger CBD Tincture is the perfect product to help you find your inner calm and can support in calming your nerves, allowing you to be your best in every moment.
CBD Oil Benefit 2: To help you focus despite daily stresses.
Distractions come at us anytime and anywhere throughout the day. With the expectation to be on call and available at a moment’s notice through work or family, it is easy to get distracted and overwhelmed by all of this pressure. Just when things seem to be under control, something new will pop up to try and take our focus from the task at hand. With our CBD Gummies, you can always make sure to have that extra dose of calm on hand to help you relax and focus on the task in front of you. These can help you stay on track by helping to settle your heart rate and clear your mind allowing you to regain focus and control.
CBD Oil Benefit 3: To help post-exercise recovery.
Exercise is critical to maintaining health, strength, and energy levels, but recovery from the soreness after exercising is something we all wish we could have some help with. Wanting to skip out on your next workout because of muscle fatigue and soreness is normal, but with our high-quality CBD, you can have something to help in your recovery every day. Our WARM(th) Cinnamon Turmeric CBD Tincture and CBD Body Balm can work wonders here since it helps to fight against the inflammation that sets in after an active day or a vigorous workout to help you recover faster and stay on track with your goals.
CBD Oil Benefit 4: To help promote healthy sleep.
Sleep is one of if not the most important thing that helps us maintain our health and wellness, both mentally and physically. Both the amount of sleep we get as well as the quality of sleep (determined by sleep cycles) are critical to us starting each day at our best. Even if you are in bed for the recommended hours for your age group, if you aren’t sleeping soundly, you won’t see the benefits of that time spent in bed. Using our REST(ful) Spearmint CBD Tincture every night before bed can help to support and to promote healthy sleep cycles to make sure your body and mind are reaping the full benefits of your time in bed every night.
CBD Oil Benefit 5: To help improve skin appearance.
Your skin is your largest organ and taking care of it is the first line of defense to maintaining your health and wellness. Whether it is the dry winter air, sunscreen and sweat in summer, or just natural skin oil balance that impact us all, CBD and the natural plant compounds in hemp can help to restore, revitalize and calm your skin. With Kyoto Botanicals WARM(th) Body Balm added to your skin care routine every day you can take control of your skin’s health and help to see improvements in tone and balance.
CBD Oil Benefit 6: To help your pet.
Just like you, your dog can and will experience various ebbs and flows in their mood and physical well-being. Whether it is winter keeping them inside more than usual, a thunderstorm stressing them out, or extra activity in the summer causing soreness, CBD can impart the same benefits for your dog as it does for you. Make sure to try our CBD Dog Treats if it seems your dog needs a little boost to their mood, a little to help with daily stress, or a speedier recovery from an active day.
With all of these benefits of CBD oil it is definitely time for you to give it a try for yourself, your dog and everyone else in your life that needs an extra dose of wellness. From the condition of your skin, to support for your daily stress, to the angst of your pet and the recovery of your muscles, there is an effective use and solution with a Kyoto Botanicals CBD product for everyone.
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It is within this frame of mind that we created Kyoto Botanicals. Our natural, plant-derived CBD products are only a piece of a greater holistic health and wellness puzzle we incorporate into our lives to help us on the journey to Pure Harmony. We thought we would start this new year sharing some other things we do to help us find harmony in the little things we can control every day to make each moment as tranquil as possible. You’ll find that none of these ideas are particularly time consuming or difficult and that is by design. By incorporated one or two or all of them into our daily plan for 2021, we create small moments of success that help us in our journey to a more harmonious and healthier life on a daily basis.
4-7-8 breathing. When we feel stress, our breath gets quicker and shorter. This quickened, shortened breath turns on a fight-or-flight mode that leads to shorter, quicker breaths and a downward cycle of stress. To arrest this downward spiral, the 4-7-8 breathing technique is incredibly simple and effective and only takes a minute or two to calm your body and mind. Simply breathe in through your nose for a count of four, hold your breath while you count to seven, and exhale through your mouth for a count of eight. Repeat at least four times until you feel noticeably calmer. This technique sends a powerful message to your central nervous system and is one of the most effective techniques we use to head off stress as it starts. This method also works incredibly well to help calm your mind and body if you are struggling to fall asleep at night.
Go outside. Getting outside and connecting with nature can be done anywhere at anytime and offers huge benefits. Ten minutes just stepping outside, breathing fresh air, listening to the birds, even just watching clouds move is so much easier than fighting for enough time to go to the gym and we are always amazed how much regenerative power something so small can have.
Read. Books, not the news, not social media, but a book, any book. It is incredible how fast we stop thinking about the million tiny things that give us anxiety in our daily lives when we escape into a book for ten minutes instead of scrolling on our phones when we have a break.
CBD. And of course, to provide help dealing with those everyday stresses we all live with, a little high quality BREATH(e) Lemon Ginger tincture goes a long way to help keep us calm and even throughout the day.
Diet. We believe in keeping it simple. Becoming a vegetarian overnight is a goal that is admirable but bound to lead to failure and negative self-perceptions. Instead, we focus on setting one consistent and simple food goal per day. Eat a brightly colored vegetable raw, have a piece of fruit, pick one good water bottle and refill it at least twice a day, etc. Doing this will have positive long-term effects on not only our physical well-being, but mental as well.
Take a walk. Sure, we all want to get to the gym every day, but life usually has other plans. So on the days you can’t make it to the gym, at least get outside and take a 10 minute walk around the block. The air, nature, the movement, all of it will help your body find balance and let you feel a sense of accomplishment (even small) that will have positive impacts on your body and mind.
Brush your teeth. Simple right!? Study after study links mental and physical health to dental health, so don’t ever forget to brush your teeth twice a day. It is the hardest two minutes in the day, especially when you are tired at the end of the day, but it is only two minutes! But setting aside those four minutes in a day will help you feel accomplished, healthier, fresher and lead to myriad benefits in the future.
CBD. Adding our CBD Face Serum to your daily face routine is one small step you can add each day to help your skin feel and look rejuvenated and healthier, especially in these dry, tough winter months.
Bed. While we all have a million things we want to improve in our homes, we like to focus first and most on the place we spend the most time, our beds. Think about it – you spend far more time in your bed than any other single place in your home, often up to 8 or 9 hours a day (hopefully!). Think of your sheets like an outfit you have to wear every single day. When you take that view you realize how important they are, so opting for organic (just like our organic CBD products) so you don’t have chemicals rubbing up on your skin, which is your largest organ, makes a ton of sense.
Lavender. Scents can have a powerful effect on mood, and lavender is one of our favorites to help with life’s little stresses. Having a lavender scented candle in our homes creates a calming and relaxing scent that just seems to help keep us calm without even realizing it. Diluting a bit in a small spray bottle full of water and lightly misting it on an eye mask or a pillow when traveling or at home is also a great way to ease your mind at the end of the day.
CBD. With organic lavender oil, our REST(ful) CBD Body Oil is a great addition to any bath at the end of a long and stressful day to help your mind let go of all of the things that add up to big stresses by the end of the day.
]]>We are honored to have made the highly curated list of Liz Moody's Healthier Together Holiday Gift Guide. If you don't follow Liz @lizmoody, listen to her podcast Healthier Together with Liz Moody, or own any of her cookbooks then you should definitely change that right now. She is an inspiration to help you enhance your life through healthier and happier living without judgment and without sacrificing joy. We love what Liz represents and are so happy to be included on this list.
Liz has been a proponent of CBD for about as long as it has been around and we couldn't be happier that she included us in her Healthy Holiday Gift Guide for 2020 as her preferred Healthier Together CBD brand. We are the first CBD brand she has recommended to her audience and love that she recognized our commitment to natural CBD wellness as an incredible tool to help each of us be healthier together. Make sure to try out Liz Moody's favorite Kyoto Botanicals CBD product, our WARM(th) Cinnamon Turmeric to start your journey to a healthier lifestyle today.
]]>Our local Colorado community is a huge part of who we are as a CBD company. As we worked to develop Kyoto Botanicals CBD products, we wanted to ensure that we did everything possible to support our great state and the people who live here. We wanted our products to be more than just high-quality, handcrafted Colorado CBD tinctures, topicals and gummies. We wanted them to help as many people as possible in Colorado through the benefits of nature as well as through the economic investment in our community.
Being a Colorado CBD company starts with having a vertically integrated hemp supply chain that provides Colorado CBD from hemp that is grown, processed, bottled and distributed in Colorado. We support local farmers and workers with our hemp grow and processing operations that are 100% conducted in Wray, Colorado. From there, our high-quality CBD travels to Longmont, Colorado where we own and operate our own facilities and equipment to bottle and distribute our CBD products directly to you. Our hemp and CBD never leave the state of Colorado until we ship it directly to you. By doing this, we not only control our quality every step of the way, but we support local Colorado hemp farmers, workers, economies and communities.
Beyond our local CBD supply chain, we work with partners across the state whenever possible. This local connection goes a long way to improving our ability to deliver the highest quality CBD products to you while also improving quality of life for people across the state. Our packages and labels come from a printing company in Grand Junction, Colorado. The equipment we purchased to bottle and package our Longmont CBD products was built and installed by a Denver manufacturing equipment company. Our not-for-profit partner Romp Global is based in Denver, Colorado. Our lab that tests each and every batch of our products to make sure we are delivering only the best CBD to you is also located in Denver, Colorado.
We are committed to providing our customers and our state with not only the highest quality CBD products available, but also as much local investment as possible. We are from Colorado and want to do all we can to bring the many benefits of hemp, both economic and health & wellness, to as many people as we can. We believe in the amazing power of this plant and hope to make it a lasting economic and health boon for Colorado for years to come. We hope you will join us in supporting our local economies as much as possible.
]]>We developed our topical products to deliver highly effective skin and body care with the cleanest labels possible. You will never find any lab made chemicals or scents in any of our topical products; every ingredient we use comes directly from nature to you. Each recipe includes organic botanical ingredients that work to complement and enhance the natural calming and soothing properties of our high-quality, CBD rich, full spectrum hemp extract. To preserve the quality of our botanical ingredients, we hand mix and hand package each bottle because quality skin care is crafted, not mass produced. And like all of our products, our topical line only uses CBD grown, extracted, and processed by us here in Colorado. Each of our topical CBD products is designed to be used together throughout the day to provide a whole-body skin care routine that will leave your body and mind calmed and rejuvenated.
Our face serum is antioxidant and nutrient packed with 600mg of full-spectrum CBD and five potent botanical oils to help skin stay refreshed and radiant. When applied each day after washing your face, our luxurious botanical blend will help to calm redness, smooth and even skin tone, and deeply restore your skin’s natural luster.
You will find that this incredibly aromatic body oil will do as much for your senses and your mind as it does for your body and your skin. Designed for deep hydration, when applied to your entire body after a shower this body oil will help to even skin tone, calm redness, and smooth your skin. This body oil works great when:
We combined 500mg of CBD from our whole-plant hemp extract with a rich and organic botanical blend to create a body oil that is unmatched in sensory experience and results. You will find that this CBD body oil has as much of an impact on your state of mind as it does on the radiance of your skin.
Our rich and indulgent CBD balm is handcrafted to target specific areas of discomfort you experience throughout the day. This potent botanical formula helps to nourish and calm problem areas and penetrates beyond the skin to provide deep and lasting relief whenever and wherever your body needs it.
We thoughtfully created our handcrafted CBD tinctures to bring you the positive benefits of nature in a deliciously clean and simple way. No matter what benefits you are looking for out of a CBD product, we have something that should fit well into your daily routine. All three of our great tasting CBD tinctures are crafted with 1200mg of high quality, full spectrum, whole plant hemp extract grown and processed by us locally in Colorado mixed with organic MCT oil derived from virgin coconut oil because we only put the best ingredients in our bottles. The difference between our three CBD tinctures is in the organic ingredients we hand mix into each to deliver added benefits for a great tasting CBD oil.
With organic lemon peel oil and organic ginger oil, this CBD tincture delivers a clean and refreshingly fresh sweet flavor that is perfect for those that want to make CBD a part of their daily routine to help slow down, breathe and manage a hectic lifestyle:
Lemon Peel has been used in traditional herbal medicine to help support digestion since ancient times. The peel of the fruit of this evergreen citrus tree is pungent, bitter and warm. Our organic lemon peel oil is sourced from Italy, certified organic and delivers a hint of clean, citrusy sweet and sour flavor.
Ginger Root, the underground stem of the ginger plant with a spicy sweet flavor, has a long history in herbal medicine. In traditional Indian medicine, Ginger is known as the wonder herb, and it's no wonder as we see it everywhere as an ingredient these days. Our certified organic ginger oil delivers a fresh, warm, woody, sweet and bright flavor that pairs perfectly with lemon to deliver a great tasting CBD oil.
Adding organic spearmint leaf oil to our base mixture creates a soothing warm and minty flavor with the following benefits for people who are looking for a nighttime product:
Spearmint Leaf, or common mint, comes from a perennial herbaceous plant and has been used for culinary and medicinal purposes for thousands of years dating back to the ancient Romans. Our certified organic spearmint leaf oil lends a hint of warm, spicy and minty flavor that your senses will relish as you go through your sleep routine.
Organic cinnamon bark oil and organic turmeric root oil combine for an irresistibly earthy and spicy CBD oil for those with an active lifestyle:
Turmeric Root, an herbaceous perennial in the ginger family, has been traditionally used for centuries and remains as one of the most widely used herbs that can help to support the joints and reduce inflammation. Our organic turmeric root oil is sourced from Madagascar and delivers a fresh, spicy, and woody flavor.
Cinnamon Bark comes from a small evergreen tree native to Sri Lanka. This pungent, sweet and hot spice can warm and invigorate the body and, combined with turmeric, makes for a delicious CBD oil flavor. Sourced from Sri Lanka, our organic cinnamon bark oil contributes a warm, dry and herbal flavor.
]]>With our high-quality tincture and topical CBD products, what is on the label is exactly what is inside. That is why you won’t find any catch-all ingredients listed on our label, not even those that are “natural”. We believe deeply in the benefits derived from nature and our products are a direct reflection of that. Each and every ingredient in our tinctures and topicals is derived directly from a single plant source and delivered to you with minimal processing to maintain the benefits as close to nature as possible. “Organic” is more than just a word to us. It is a promise we make to you and to ourselves that every ingredient we include is done so thoughtfully to derive benefit, not only for you, but for the environment as well.
Many CBD products on the market sounds great with their impressive flavors, but when you look at the label, all you see is “Natural Flavors” with no information on what those are. So what are “Natural Flavors”? The truth is, you will never know. Scientists have gotten really good at mimicking flavors by combining chemicals in a lab, and they are not required to disclose what is in those “Natural Flavors”. So that one ingredient listed on the label could actually be 100 different chemicals combined together to imitate a certain flavor a product is trying to achieve. Does that sound like something you want to put in your body? It didn’t to us, that’s for sure.
For our tinctures, we knew we wanted a lemon CBD tincture, a mint CBD tincture, and a cinnamon CBD tincture. We also knew that we wanted minimal ingredients, and only the best ingredients, that would deliver the best tasting product on the market, and one where every ingredient contributes to your overall health. That is why we paired lemon with ginger, cinnamon with turmeric, and used spearmint to deliver flavor with benefits. By selecting these ingredients, and using only organic, whole-plant oils, we are able to deliver benefits to help your mind, body, and taste buds. Combining these ingredients with organic MCT oil derived only from coconuts, not palm oil, and our full-spectrum hemp extract that we grow and process ourselves creates a holistic product that is as close to nature as possible.
We followed the same philosophy when we developed our CBD topical products too. You won’t find any chemical enhancers or stabilizers in our topicals, just ingredients from single, whole-plant sources, because your skin deserves the best. Our amazing scents come from things like organic green coffee bean oil and organic sweet orange peel oil and organic eucalyptus leaf oil. All ingredients that you can pronounce from sources you know without any chemicals made in a lab.
We could have developed these products faster. We could have made them cheaper. We could have made them easier to produce. We could let someone else grow hemp for us. A lot of CBD companies already do that. We wanted to be different though. We wanted to make products without compromise because we wanted to make products for ourselves first. We use these products. Our families use these products. Because of that, we will never compromise on our thoughtfully and carefully selected ingredients.
]]>We are so excited to announce that we have partnered with an incredible organization called Range of Motion Project (ROMP). Combining our mission and passion for improving quality of life, we hope to increase access to devices that enable personal empowerment and hemp products that help bring balance and harmony to body and mind. Together we are working to help amputees confront, cope with, and overcome the physical and mental barriers created by the loss of a limb.
We are working with ROMP to raise awareness and support for this movement. When you use the code MOBILITY at checkout, you get 25% off your purchase and we donate 20% to ROMP. This partnership will support ROMP’s mission to provide life-changing prosthetic and orthotic devices to those in need and bring the whole-body benefits of high-quality hemp extract to as many people as possible.
Founded in 2005, ROMP is a non-profit, for-impact healthcare organization dedicated to providing prosthetic and orthotic care to those without access to these services. Over the years ROMP has helped thousands of individuals gain access to life changing devices to increase mobility and personal empowerment. ROMP’s incredible mission and vision is:
To learn more about ROMP and their amazing mission and incredible programs throughout the year (especially their epic climb every year!), be sure to visit them at http://www.rompglobal.org/. You can also find them on Facebook and Instagram @rompglobal. We hope you will join us in supporting them this month and beyond.
There are two million Americans and 28 million people globally living with limb loss and its impact on their lives and 9 out of 10 amputees in the world do not have access to prosthetic care. Through this partnership, we are hoping to do our part to help those populations by enhancing mobility and unlocking human potential.
]]>Kyoto Botanicals originated as a way for us to create CBD oil products that we wanted to personally use. Having worked in the industry before founding this company, we knew that finding high quality products that were safe, effective, and trustworthy was not the easiest task. That’s why we started with the ingredients and from there worked to create trustworthy products- products that we are proud to show you how they are made, every step of the way.
Our high-quality CBD products start with locally sourced hemp extract oil from right here in Colorado. We are proud to partner with Kind Roots Botanicals in Wray, Colorado. Because hemp is an effective bioremediation crop, it is vital that hemp for consumption is grown to the strictest standards, and that is how our friends at Kind Roots Botanicals grow their hemp. Their non-GMO hemp is sustainably grown, pesticide and insecticide free, following organic standards. These growing practices protect natural ecosystems and avoid contamination of the local insect populations, topsoil, groundwater and runoff. This assures that our CBD oil is extracted from the most natural, uncontaminated plant matter possible.
From there, we combine the CBD-rich hemp extract oil with only the finest organic botanical oils to deliver a product to you that not only will you enjoy, but of which we are immensely proud.
By the time our products reach you, you can rest assured that what is in the bottle matches the label on the box, as well as your expectations, because we never let a single product out our doors that does not meet our strict quality standards. That is why our products are third party verified three times throughout the supply chain: once as hemp is still growing in the field, once as extract before arriving at our facility, and once as a final product in the bottle before we release it to sell to you.
We strive to make every decision based on two criteria- what is best for you and what is best for the environment. And our commitment to sustainability goes beyond the organic ingredients that go in our packages as well. We were not content to use cheap paper for our cartons that is not sustainable, so we invested the time and money to source cartons that are made from 80% recycled material combined with hemp fibers.
Our products are the epitome of the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. With full-spectrum hemp extract, MCT oil, and botanical extracts your body needs, our products aim to go beyond CBD oil to deliver a wide array of benefits in a delicious and conscientious package.
]]>Cannabidiol (CBD) is one of many cannabinoids found in hemp and the main component of our whole-plant, full spectrum hemp extract CBD products. While CBD is the one cannabinoid generating tons of talk these days, there are actually over 100 known cannabinoids in the hemp plant. While hemp is the most well known source of phytocannabinoids (plant-based), the human body actually has an endocannabinoid system that produces endocannabinoids (internal), similar to those found in certain plants, including hemp and other plants.
The phytocannabinoids produced by hemp, and found in our high-quality CBD oil, work in concert with our existing endocannabinoid system and the endocannabinoids it produces to help keep our mind, body, and spirit in equilibrium. We are still learning more about this system already present within our bodies, but it has been shown to help with numerous physiological processes, including homeostasis, sleep, mood, appetite, memory, stress response, and more.
It is important when shopping for CBD oil to make sure that you are buying from a company, like KYOTO BOTANICALS, that understands this system and how CBD oil derived from hemp can fit in. Hemp plants only produce cannabinoids in any measurable quantity in the leaves and flowers, so in order to have an effective CBD oil, it is important to buy from a company that is listing “aerial parts” on the label. Companies that are trying to pass off CBD oil that is created from seeds and/or stems are not selling CBD oil at all, as there are only trace amounts of cannabinoids found in these hemp plant parts.
There are also CBD products out there that attempt to spike their products with CBD isolate in order to hit a claimed level of CBD in the product. While this delivers an intended level of CBD, it does not deliver the broad spectrum of beneficial compounds found within the hemp plant. To make sure you are getting the best product possible, make sure you ask for and review the CoA from brands. The CoA for high-quality CBD oil will show detectable levels of not only CBD, but other beneficial cannabinoids as well.
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