Platforms like Facebook and Amazon don’t allow the advertising or sale of cannabidiol products through their venue. This could be because it’s easier to just block all CBD advertising or sales than to ensure vendors adhere to FDA-compliant guidelines. However, the FDA guidelines for CBD allow its use in topicals. In other words, including cannabidiol in lotions and creams is legal in the United States.
Amazon and Facebook aren’t the only ones who have many of us frustrated. Square won’t allow its users to sell CBD-containing products either. As soon as I uploaded a product named ‘Arnica & CBD Lotion,’ they closed my account.
We have a legal product, yet they block us from selling it as a CBD-containing product through three of the country’s most visible sales platforms. Do these powerful entities realize they are increasing the likelihood people will be ripped off? Do they know that “hemp” has become the code word for “CBD?” Recent developments suggest Amazon is flagging products containing the word “hemp” for removal from their catalogs.
What astonishes me is the fact I had no trouble with my trademark registration once I explained that I would only use certified THC-free cannabidiol in my products. Who would have expected non-governmental entities to be more vigilant than the regulatory bodies who oversee these things?
Is Hemp Oil and CBD the Same?
Unfortunately, most consumers don’t realize that hemp oil and cannabidiol come from different parts of the plant. Hemp oil comes from the seed of the hemp plant. Any traces are microscopic. Even when hemp oil is green, it only gets its color from the green covering on the seed.
In contrast, they extract the useful component from the hemp flower of Cannabis sativa, a close relative of the plant from which marijuana comes, Cannabis indica. The two plants cross pollinate, which marijuana growers do their best to prevent. They want higher THC content, so they actively weed out any ‘male’ plants. This causes thicker buds to form.
In contrast, hemp growers want no THC content, so growers who want CBD plant ‘sativa’ seed, and then encourage pollination between low THC hemp breeds. The more flower heads the better.
The phytocannabinoid is then extracted from the plant material (mostly the flower head) using either ethanol (alcohol like you find in vodka) or CO2. Ethanol extraction is cheaper and very effective. [Source]
What Are the Different Types of CBD?
CBD isolate is 100% CBD. Full spectrum CBD includes trace amounts of other cannabinoids and terpenes–including THC. Broad spectrum CBD attempts to remove the THC, while leaving behind all the other cannabinoids and terpenes.
Is There Cannabidiol in All for Better Health’s Lotions and Creams?
If a lotion says ‘hemp’ on the label, it has approximately 200 mg of independently GCMS tested CBD Isolate in each 4 oz. tottle. We don’t list this on the label, or we wouldn’t be able to sell it on Amazon, or to advertise it through Facebook. So far PayPal has not given us any issues, and we hope this continues.
We will continue to monitor the situation. We hope to add arnica-hemp creams to our arnica offerings in 2021.
Check out our current line of arnica-hemp lotions.
