Lab Effects, a long-running terpene laboratory for the cannabis industry, announced the launch of The BASE, what it's calling the world's first universal vape carrier oil.
It provides a solution for vape manufacturers to simplify the task of vape formulation. Now, brands can stop worrying about non-compliant ingredients, known health risks, or unwanted adulterants in the final formulation. It is guaranteed to be 100% natural and compliant in all 50 states.
Now, anyone can mix their chosen ratio of cannabinoids and terpenes, and The BASE simply makes up the remainder of the formula.
"Our client's, and the market at large, have been asking for a product like this for well over a decade", said Scott Holden, CEO and founder of Lab Effects. "The BASE™ is the first-of-its-kind. A carrier oil that offers a safer and simpler solution to vape formulation. Being oil based, blending is easy and total homogenization is guaranteed. Just blend your active with terpenes or flavoring at your desired potency and make up the remaining headspace with The BASE™. It works at any concentration, and it's been particularly valuable working with cannabinoids that crystallize at higher potencies. There has never been a solution this simple."
The BASE is composed of cannabis-centric terpenes, lipids, and organic fruit-derived natural esters. It's unlike anything on the market. As a non-aromatic, flavorless carrier oil, it is similar to its sister product, The CUT, Lab Effects' popular terpene-based cutting agent. While The CUT is a natural diluent used to quickly reduce viscosity and bring flowability to thick oils in small concentrations, The BASE is thicker and designed to safely make up the majority of a vape formulation, while still allowing room for additional terpenes and flavors. The total terpene concentration in The BASE is significantly reduced (compared to The CUT), softening the overall profile to allow it to be safely used at higher concentrations than a pure terpene-based diluent.
Critically, The BASE contains no PG, PEG, VG, VEA, or MCT. Thanks to its all-natural origins, it complies with the rapidly changing regulatory landscape in states like Michigan, Nevada, New York, Connecticut, and California, where stringent rules now ban all synthetic flavors and terpenes for inhalable cannabis products.
This carrier oil reduces crystallization of more challenging cannabinoids, making it particularly valuable for those that crash out at higher concentrations, like THCa, CBD, CBG, CBN, CBDa, CBGa, THCv, CBDv, CBT, and CBDP.
