Desert Rose 53% 7-OH 1.6% MIT (1g)

Description

After searching and searching for the cleanest 7-OH product, it has finally been found!

Many 7-OH extracts have residual solvents. The fact right now is solvents are unavoidable. Most of these products are still going to be within the risk tolerance of most consumers, especially in the miniscule doses being taken. Many people think the labs are being lazy, and not purging the solvents or “cleaning” the final product when in fact they are going through tedious measures to get solvent levels this low. 7-OH is such a fragile alkaloid, any more harsh treatment will kill off the alkaloid instead of just eliminating unwanted residuals. We do our best to bring you only the highest quality. Some of the extracts out there on the marketplace… YIKES. So when one of our labs approached with a new prototype powder that had the cleanest solvent labs I’ve seen – of course we wanted to give it a try.

Test rounds had some mixed feelings- which we’ll dive into. The appearance is a nice tan color similar to sand. It is the single fluffiest 7-OH we’ve ever seen and has a very bitter plant flavor. During test rounds some people absolutely loved this extract. Has a super clean burn with amazing euphoric potential. The testers who prefer the “heavier” 7-OH powder didn’t put it on their favorites list, however remarks were generally positive across the board (if you can handle the bitter taste). A tip to maximize the potential is to get a full spectrum mit extract involved, and possibly consider blending with another 7-OH powder to bring out the best in all worlds. By itself this extract is very enjoyable, but the cleanliness of it paired with the full spectrum blend is unparalleled. It makes for a smooth and hyper focused daytime powder and works amazingly as a foundation for some carefully curated full spec blends. When you try it, you’ll know what we mean by “cleaner” burn.

But $70/g!? That’s ridiculous! We understand other companies offer some quite frankly ridiculous prices on some questionable powder with not so honest labs, but we focus on quality and transparency. Selling cheap and potentially damaging powder isn’t part of the game plan. The unique process required to make this powder produces more waste, which increases the cost to make. In addition it is not made in large quantity yet, which also adds to the cost. However, I worked out the best deal possible with the lab to be able to offer a virtually solvent free 7-OH powder. We’re one of the only people to offer this exclusive extract. You get what you pay for. If it’s not in your budget, or it doesn’t make sense that is perfectly fine 🙂 there are lots of other options.

So all the solvents are clean… but why is there so much methanol?

The prototype batch we received had next to 0 ppm methanol. A larger batch was made using the exact same process and this batch shows up at 12,300ppm… Several other rounds showed a similar pattern of back and forth methanol results with all other solvents squeaky clean. Definitely curious, let’s take a look at something funny. Methanol evaporates at a very low temperature and would have definitely been cleaned off with all other solvents. That means the methanol is being created post cleaning. When discussing the phenomenon of methanol showing up in 7-OH with the manufacturer, there is 0 methanol used anywhere in the extraction process. The solvents that are used, would not be reacting to create it either- even if they did it would be evaporated off when vacuum purging. This lead us to find some research indicating mitragynine can break down into methanol (as other organic compounds can do). The most likely theory we have been able to deduce is there are unaddressed issues with testing methods. Gas chromatography could be causing the breakdown of mitragynine into methanol when performing the lab tests, and it can’t be accounted for (yet). Depending on many variables some labs could come back at 0 methanol and others in elevated levels. Until this niche area of the science is addressed then it will be essentially unavoidable. Many companies love to promote tablet lab tests because the filler components water down the solvent levels and put them inside of passing ranges- meanwhile the raw extract would not look so clean. It’s one of those little tricks used to make people think something is cleaner than it really is. The Desert Rose is hands down the cleanest 7-OH we’ve seen and we’re very happy to be able to share it with you!

The recommended methanol limit is 3000ppm, so wouldn’t these levels be dangerous? There is 5x more methanol produced from eating a single apple than is contained in 1g of this extract. Of course these guidelines are made to ensure we’re not being over exposed to toxic chemicals, but in the miniscule doses taken of 7-OH these amounts should not be of major concern. If the solvent levels are past your risk tolerance that is perfectly fine, I’d recommend avoiding 7-OH altogether because as was stated, methanol is unavoidable. Don’t let dishonest vendors mislead you. This is NOT medical advice please consult your doctor for any questions of toxicity or methanol exposure.