CBD Topicals

What Are CBD Topicals?

Did you know that the largest organ on your body is your skin?

As a result, you might as well treat it right. From our CBD Balm Sticks, Creams, and other topicals, THC-free CBD oil has a way of addressing specific areas, skin conditions, and other medical conditions to deliver a positive effect.

Working to leave your skin feeling fresh and moisturised, whether you’re experiencing discomfort or you just want to bring a new self-care ritual to your days and nights, there’s a CBD topical just for you.

CBD topicals are skin products designed to nourish, moisturise, soothe, and alleviate areas of muscle and joint pain in your body through the inherent properties of CBD. Combining a host of natural skincare botanical extracts with hemp extract (CBD), CBD topicals can be the perfect solution for minor aches and pains, sore muscles, and other skin or muscle conditions.

Arriving in a variety of unique forms, our most popular forms of CBD topicals are our best CBD Creams, CBD Face and Foot Masks, CBD Balm Sticks, salves, and others.

CBD Creams (or CBD Lotions)

Utilising the powerful moisturising ability of high-quality nourishing ingredients like essential oils, along with natural botanicals like arnica, Vitamin E, aloe, white willow bark, shea butter, and menthol, creams like our CBD-infused Muscle & Joint Cream target common daily muscle aches and pains.

In most topical industry contexts, a “cream” is a topical that’s made with a water base. Using water as a base for a topical has a number of advantages: Water-based topicals absorb better into the skin, meaning they can take advantage of transdermal absorption, which is a mainstream application method for active ingredients and other substances.

Topicals that have been formulated with water bases absorb into your skin rapidly—which can be advantageous when looking to treat sore muscles—and may or may not be what you’re looking for depending on your circumstances. Rapid absorption times ensure that you won’t end up with any residue on your skin and faster-acting benefits, but if your goal is to have a topical that remains on your skin's surface for a longer period of time, you’ll want to choose an oil-based topical instead.

CBD Balm Sticks

With two unique vegan formulations using plant-based wax—not beeswax—our CBD Balm Sticks offer a variety of ways to address areas of discomfort across your body. Using a host of curated botanicals and top-quality skin care ingredients, our CBD Balm Sticks are handy to use and travel easily to the gym and beyond.

Typically, “balm” is used to describe topicals that are oil-based, and CBDfx balms are no different. Oil-based topicals offer a variety of unique advantages; because these types of topical products don’t absorb into your skin quickly, they remain on the surface of your dermis and leave behind an oil barrier on your skin to prolong its effectiveness and skin-softening benefits.

In the winter, for instance, balms can protect your skin from getting dry and chapped while water-based topicals don’t offer this advantage. Plus, smoothing a dab of balm onto your skin just feels good. There’s nothing more relaxing than applying your favorite Balm Stick before bed or after a workout, and here at CBDfx, we have two different formulations of CBD-infused Balm Sticks for you to choose from: Calming & Moisturising and Muscle & Joint.

CBD Masks

Our CBD Foot and Face Masks are a fantastic way to moisturise and clean your skin while giving your skin a healthy glow so you can look and feel your best. With five variations of our Face Masks and two variations of our Foot Masks—all with 50mg of CBD—each offers a different set of topical ingredients and unique aromatics for your skin’s pleasure!

CBD Bath Bombs

All of our CBD topicals are made to deliver a host of benefits using natural and supportive ingredients for optimal skincare. Our CBD Bath Bombs are a customer favourite—with skin-softening botanical extracts and your choice of energizing or soothing formulas—due to their fun, fizzy qualities and refreshing aroma.

How We Make Our CBD Topicals

To make high-quality products, you need to use high-quality ingredients.

To start, we only use cannabidiol (CBD) extracted from the highest quality industrial hemp oil. That hemp is grown in state-of-the-art farms in the United States of America (USA). To make our high-quality CBD oil, our CBD topical creams are made with non-GMO hemp plants, that are selected by our team of expert growers.

Our hemp stalks are selected personally by master hemp growers, and when the best stalks are filtered from the “good” stalks, we grind them up into a pulp and ready them for extraction. Leveraging the highly-efficient CO2-extraction method—due to its cleanliness in deriving highly-purified CBD oil—we then blend our hemp extract with the beneficial carrier oil, coconut oil, for a final formulation that hosts a range of wellness benefits.

After finishing the initial batch, we shoot our oil over to third-party manufacturers that use American Current Good Manufacturing Practices (CGMP) to produce hemp products at the pinnacle of quality under some of the strictest quality standards in the world. 

Finally to ensure our CBD topicals are of the high-quality consistently, we keep going from there. Sending our finished products to a third-party lab for testing, we use these unbiased entities to test and re-test our products under some of the strictest standards in the world. We then add their findings to our products’ labels so our customers can verify the quality of their products themselves.

As a result, our topical CBD products and topicals are free from harmful toxins, pesticides, solvents, chemical contaminants, heavy metals, and other impurities.

Giving our customers the ability to see when their products were made, as well as where, our CBD topicals are among the most high-quality products in the industry. We go through all of these quality assurance tests to ensure that our customers are only—and always—getting the possible products.

And we do it because we believe in the power of what we put into our bodies, and that whatever it is should be of the cleanest and most effective quality possible.

What’s In CBD Topicals?

Every CBD topical starts with a hemp plant.

When the plants are ready for harvest, they’re processed into CBD oil. This oil can be in three distinct variations: full spectrum (prohibited in the United Kingdom), broad spectrum, or CBD isolate.

Once the topicals are made and combined with the CBD oil (we use CBD isolate in our CBD topicals) the topicals are given third-party lab tests for quality assurance. In fact, you can actually check the test results yourself by scanning the barcode of your CBD topicals to ensure you’re getting hemp products of the highest quality with safe lab testing.

Today, there are more than 100 different types of cannabinoids known to the cannabis plant. As it stands, researchers are constantly learning about the additional benefits of CBD, and what they may be able to do for the human body’s experience. 

Once the CBD oil is properly derived, a host of additional botanicals and other active ingredients will be added to topical for added benefit.

How Do CBD Topicals Work?

As we mentioned before, CBD topicals are products infused with cannabinoids and applied topically to the skin for therapeutic benefits.

Take a look online for CBD topicals, and you’ll run across lotions, balms, creams, bath bombs, oils, and much more. Furthermore, many topicals contain nourishing blends of plant botanicals and nutrients (ex. aloe vera) that work to complement the CBD.

Today, many people struggle with daily aches and pains and use topicals for relief. As a result, these topicals have grown in popularity because they have begun to take advantage of the myriad ways that CBD can be harnessed.

Although there are a ton of CBD products on the market—gummies, teas, capsules, tinctures, and more—CBD topicals are in a league of their own.

Why?

Because of the way they enter and interact with the body.

You see, the biggest difference between topicals and ingestibles is that topicals don’t enter the bloodstream. For some, this is a major reason to choose topicals when they’re looking for acute relief in targeted areas. It’s also a straightforward approach many feel comfortable with as opposed to vaping or ingesting CBD directly into their bodies.

All you need to do is rub the CBD topical into the affected area and voila! The cannabinoids are already at work entering multiple layers of the skin to reach the heart of the problem. 

As the CBD starts to get into the dermal and subdermal layers of skin, the cannabinoids bind to cell receptors there. This ultimately produces effects felt through skin, tissue, nerves, and muscles, thanks to the endocannabinoid system (ECS).  

The main function of the Endocannabinoid system is to balance out the primary functions of the body. This process is possible through the synergistic relationship between cannabinoids, receptors, and enzymes. 

Topicals not only address discomfort where it sits, but many of these formulations hold nourishing blends of oils and other natural ingredients that provide deep degrees of moisturisation.

What Is Bioavailability?

Bioavailability is a term that describes the potency of a substance by its ability to be absorbed into the bloodstream. And it’s important to note that different CBD products have varying levels of bioavailability. 

For example, CBD topicals have a lower level of bioavailability due to the fact that they need to pass through the upper layers of your skin.

The Benefits of CBD Topicals

CBD topicals are CBD creams, CBD Foot Masks, and other rub-on uses of CBD. The way these methods work is that they penetrate layers of the skin, and may ease minor aches and pains. The benefit of CBD topicals is their familiarity with the user. Most people have used lotion or some other body cream for purposes of moisturisation or muscle pain & fatigue. Similarly, CBD topicals operate in a similar manner while providing additional benefits found only in CBD.

We try to align our topicals with active botanicals, including everything from helpful compounds to essential vitamins and nutrients. For example, the peppermint and menthol that provides a natural cooling sensation in our Muscle & Joint Cream.

When Should You Use CBD Topicals?

Ideally, you want to use CBD topicals when you’re stuck with discomfort—such as muscle and joint pain, skin irritation, and dryness. However, if you’re dealing with a recurring discomfort, you can go ahead and apply in the morning as you start your day or when you experience flare-ups. 

Alternatively, you can apply your topicals after a long, warm bath when your muscles are relaxed. This increases your ability to get a good night's rest and wake up feeling refreshed and limber. 

The good thing about CBD topicals is you don’t have to worry about intoxication. First off, CBD is never entering your bloodstream. It’s making its way through multiple layers of skin and touching the target area for relief.

Learning More About CBD Skin Care

On your quest to find the best CBD topicals for general discomfort, aches and pains, irritated skin and hotspot and even headaches you’re likely going to want to find more information. Here are a few things to keep in mind as you begin your search for the perfect CBD topical.

Check Out the Studies

There are countless healthcare studies on CBD on the Internet. There you can read in-depth explanations of what makes oils such as lavender and chamomile so effective when included in topicals, and the potential effect they can have on your body.

Check the Reviews

Basic product reviews often leave you wanting more. To satisfy your desire for hands-on knowledge about how CBD works, check out some of the long-form reviews and testimonials on our website and elsewhere.

Try It for Yourself!

Experience is the best teacher. That’s why we offer a wider range of products than virtually any other retailer on the market. This means you have dozens of ways to try CBD for whatever you’re interested in and you can always reach out to us directly for more information and questions.

How to Add CBD Topicals into Your Daily Routine

Try a Face Mask in the Morning

If there’s one routine that many have ingrained into their days, it’s washing your face. Doing it once in the morning/night and perhaps again before bed, there is no better time to try our CBD Face Mask with special activating botanicals than during your normal day-to-day routine.

At the Mall

Ever go to the mall for a date or gathering with friends and realise you’ve got a dry or puffy face. The first case is due to natural dryness of your skin, and the other is due to inflammation. With a little bit of CBD in one of our helpful Calming & Moisturizing Balm Sticks, you can keep your skin properly hydrated and smooth.

After The Gym

Perfect for a post-workout cooldown, our Muscle & Joint Balm Stick: Cooling Formula or Muscle & Joint Cream are great for relieving not only minor aches and pains but also reducing muscle soreness. Whether you’ve had a long night at the gym or the office, be sure to grab one of these CBD products and use it as frequently as you need!

End Of Day

When the day is done, before you hop in the bed for that beauty rest, you need to hop in the bathroom for your beauty routine. This means a face wash, a foot wash, and then throwing on a CBD Face Mask and CBD Foot Mask to seal in the moisture and detoxify your skin and pores. Dry skin may be inevitable at times but hydrating it for healthier and beautiful skin is a choice. A little preemptive self-care can do a world of good.

Grab a Few of Our CBD Topicals Today!