Why Do We Rosin Press? Plus, 5 Key Benefits

In a past guide, we explained why we chose aquaponics to grow our rich, hand-selected cannabis plants. The next step in making our craft cannabis products is to press down our hemp with pressure and heat into extracts. Also known as rosin pressing, it’s our go-to method. But why is rosin superior? Why is it what we chose to stand out from the crowd of cannabis brands? Let’s dive deeper into the subject!

What is Rosin?

If you’re unfamiliar with it, a rosin press extracts cannabinoids through heat and pressure. Rosin refers to the extraction process that provides resinous sap nearly instantly. It’s exactly how we extract our CBD and delta-8 THC from hand-selected hemp strains.

Rosin is often translucent or tinted, the color of golden wax. It’s sometimes more like a sap, sometimes more shatter-like. The extract rivals any solvent-based product's potency, flavor, and yield.

What is a Rosin Press?

Rosin extracts started with individuals who wanted a safer alternative to solvent extraction processes. These individuals began with homemade machines that could generate shatter-like extract but without the setups necessary for butane and propane. Experimentation around heated presses followed in an effort to press out the same level of extract without industrial solvents.

Initial setups included modified shirt-pressing machines and even hair straighteners. These machines generated heat across two plates to distribute pressure evenly, forcing the resin-like oil directly out of the cannabis flower.

This early pioneer technology made newer and more efficient means available to the general public. This allowed more people to extract a safe, clean, and efficient product within the comfort of their homes.

But — Why is a Rosin Press Better than a Solvent Extraction?

The two major players in extract production come in two flavors.

There’s the pressure-based rosin, from a rosin press.
Then, there’s the solvent-based extract, typically made with either butane or isopropyl alcohol.

More Work for Less Reward

Solvent-based extracts can produce extremely consistent results. However, the level of know-how and safety precautions far exceeds that needed for a rosin press. Likewise, solvent-based extractions always run the risk of leaving traces of butane and/or alcohol in the final product. When this happens, there’s no true way to fully clean the harvest.

Solvents Take Time

It also requires time to freeze the entire product during the extraction process. This step is what separates the chemical from the extract in the first place, so it’s a necessary step.

And even after all that extra effort, it’s still impossible for a solvent-based extract to be assuredly 100% clean.

Meanwhile, a rosin press is always clean, as long as you don’t actively press a contaminant into the batch. Rosin comes out clean every time if you’re using proper equipment that’s cleaned regularly and well-maintained.

Less of a Learning Curve

The average beginner can learn how to use a rosin press within the first hour of tinkering with it. Realistically, you could have a usable product after 15 minutes of learning how to use a rosin press. Plus, this also results in significantly faster turnaround times for rosin yields. Just about anyone can start making rosin on their own, provided they bought the press and have it set up.

The Rosin Press Preserves Flavor

The low heat and high pressure of a rosin press also act to preserve flavor. Without having to introduce external chemicals, the terpenes are left intact at the end of the process. This can give you a more robust flavor profile.

Solvent extraction tends to strip the flavor out while leaving the potency intact. This, coupled with the lingering flavor of butane, makes for a less desirable taste. It can also give the end product a machine flavor as opposed to something natural.

A More Powerful Entourage Effect

We saved one of the biggest benefits to using a rosin press over a solvent solution for last. The preservation of terpenes allows the end product to more easily deliver the “entourage effect.” With the terpenes intact, they can work with the cannabinoids to produce a more immersive, deeper interaction. You can maximize a user’s experience, allowing the full potential of a strain to activate.

Why is a Rosin Press Beneficial?

In the face of a growing market of various concentrates, rosin manages to stand in a league of its own. Compared to its competitors, rosin production is more cost-effective, beginner-friendly, and safer. This is with the added bonus of high-quality end products with much faster turnaround times.

Why is a rosin press beneficial? We’ll let you count the ways.

Rosin pressing results in zero solvent contaminations. Because there are no chemicals, there are no leftover chemicals that could cause a harsh interaction with the consumer. This is as clean as it gets.
Extracts from a heated rosin press can be just as potent as BHO and other popular concentrates. A rosin extract could test at 70% or even 80% or more cannabinoids per gram.
Rosin presses are significantly cheaper than any solvent-based setup. The initial cost is more appealing, as well as the cost to maintain a rosin press. Your biggest obstacle is just keeping stocked on the wax paper necessary to run the press. Compared to the slew of chemicals needed to run a solvent operation, this helps to always keep costs down.
Rosin extraction is the safest option by a massive margin. Sure, it has heated plates that could cause serious burns if touched. The same can be said of a kitchen stove, though. Alternatively, solvent operations run the risk of flameless explosions that could cause serious harm or even death.
Finally, rosin can be extracted from almost any starting material. Whether it’s hash, flower, or even trim, it can be pressed into pure rosin. Rosin then retails for $40 to $80 a gram, making using a rosin press highly lucrative.

5 Benefits of Rosin Pressed Extracts

Solventless extractions are in high demand for a reason. We want to show you why so many processing facilities are making the switch to rosin extraction technology. Simple, efficient, and safe, let’s look at the biggest benefits rosin pressed extracts have to offer.

Requires No Solvents

Rosin is the purest of cannabis concentrates by many people’s standards. Why? It’s the only pure solventless solution. While RSO, BHO, and especially CO2 extractions are still mightily popular, they’re starting to take a backseat to rosin.

Unfortunately, solvent-based methods just have too long of a purging process for our taste. Likewise, the solvents have to be completely removed from the finished product. Otherwise, the product could be dangerous with potentially harmful residuals.

Rosin pressing results in pure, organic extracts. And we LOVE some pure, organic extracts. In reality, butane, alcohol, and other solvents can be harsh on the human body. Plus, they’re not the greatest for the environment, either.

With rosin, there’s zero risk of residuals for the finished product. We’re talking clean, solventless concentrates that can be turned into so many different products from here.

Super Versatile

In fact, rosin’s ability to be a base for countless products is what makes it so versatile. Yet another benefit, its diversity knows almost no bounds.

Once you have a powerful extract chockful of cannabinoids, terpenes, and more, it’s easy to go from there. We can separate our extract into the CBD, delta 8, and even CBN products we offer.

With rosin, you can make sugar, shatter, budder, wax, crumble -- you name it.

Essentially, you have the power to make your favorite concentrates into any type of cannabis product using just rosin. Edibles, topicals, salves, softgels -- we have it all for a reason, you know.

Max Potency

Rosin’s high cannabinoid content is just one of its many benefits. Since it is the purest type of cannabis concentrate, it makes sense it would also deliver the max potency.

Cannabinoid concentration can be upwards of 80+%. Especially with how strong our starting plants already are, we know rosing pressing contributes to the product’s potency.

When you use rosin-pressed extracts for your products like we do, you get the maximum level of terpenes, cannabinoids, and other hemp compounds. Overall, this helps contribute to the taste, smell, and high of the extract.

In fact, there’s a synergy involved when all hemp compounds are working together. Called the entourage effect, you’ll feel a better, more intense high from the overall product as a result.

Fast Acting

It’s a powerful concentrate, so it makes sense that it’s also fast-acting. Edibles do add to the time the rosin takes, however. Our vape cartridges are an excellent example of rosin products that are fast-acting, though.

We mention the max potency rosin-pressed products have. Our vape cartridges have between 80% to 88% delta 8 THC, or 800 to 880mg, per cartridge. When it comes to rosin, a little can go a long way.

The effects take hold quickly and can last longer than a high from smoking may last. It’s also why it’s best to dose a small amount at a time. This way, you can work your way up to and find your sweet spot for our products.

Safer to Produce

Opposed to any solvent-based product, rosin is automatically safer to produce. Precautions must be taken when producing butane extractions, for example.

Butane is also susceptible to explosion and is incredibly flammable, making it a risky process. Extremely volatile, it’s an easy way for accidents to happen. Rosin avoids these risks entirely.

Final Thoughts

As we wrap up, we want to brag on rosin some more. Both medical and recreational patients are learning that pure rosin offers a wide variety of benefits.

It could be pain relief or relief from other symptoms for some.

For others, it could be the concentrate's full flavor and powerful effects.

Regardless, we hope this guide helps you see the benefits of the rosin press a bit more. In the meantime, be sure to check out our decadent cannabis products. Many are made using the cannabis rosin we've spoken so highly of in this guide today.