Material Preparation and Making Live Resin

Posted by Ainsley Aiken on September 11th, 2019

Creating good concentrates require expertise and right material. If you don’t know, live resin makes better concentrates. But what is live resin? Many people don’t know what live resin is. In simpler terms, live resin comes from freezing freshly trimmed material. After freezing it for 24-36 hours, concentrate is immediately extracted. The process helps preserve terpenes present in it and prevent oxidation, drying, and heat that cause degradation of terpenes. The process always gives superior outcomes.  

As you now know how to make live resin, you should also understand various facts associated with it. Why is freezing important it making live resin?

1. Freezing gives better results.
2. Frozen plant material gives better extracts than dried leaves.
3. As freezing stops the metabolic process, it delays degradation of plant material

If you can’t immediately use the frozen plant material for extraction process, keep it for later use in the same state. Simply understand that you buy frozen fruits from the grocery store for its quality and keep all the eatables frozen that you want to consume later. Freezing preserves freshness for a longer period of time. Use a refrigerator to keep the material frozen for making live resin.

Freezing means better extracts

Herein, freezing preserves terpenes and gives better extracts. In fact, it does more than that – freezing also helps to prevent water soluble components of the plant from being extracted. The moisture, if extracted, can obstruct the properties of butane as a solvent. For this reason, even those users who use cured or dried material still prefer to freeze the plant material before processing.

Preservation of terpenes through freezing is essential as it gives the natural flavor and smell to the plant. The unsaturated, volatile terpenes are hydrocarbons found in essential oils of plants. Preservation of terpenes is thus essential to obtain extracts that retain the original properties of the plant and give natural flavor. In making live resin, preservation of terpenes is also essential to retain the plant’s pharmacological effects along with flavor and smell.

Now you understand that terpenes are highly essential in making top grade extracts, it is really important that terpene preservation takes priority during material preparation. It should gain preference even while using a professional grade extractor for the process. If you thinking how to make live resin of top quality, then use whole plant. Avoid stems and roots as they are low material containing parts.