Blue Ridge Hemp is based out of Asheville North Carolina. The main focus of this brand is on muscle and joint pain and the products they offer do well to reflect this focus.
This company sells a variety of pain-relieving creams, salves, and other topicals made with high-quality locally-sourced hemp, essential oils, and various other oils and natural ingredients. They also offer some simple CBD tinctures, and some more interesting options like their line of raw hemp flower and their CBD-infused superfoods that consist of CBD ghee and coconut oil in both raw forms and flavored with dark chocolate or “golden spice” flavor (turmeric, cinnamon, and cardamom).
Overall this brand has put together some top-notch products at a fair and affordable price point. This brand is worth checking out if you’re living in the United States.
Mission/Charity5/5
Blue Ridge Hemp’s mission is clear, to combat pain through the use of CBD products. They also give back to the community through the “reduced price program.” We like that Blue Ridge Hemp has chosen a specific area of focus for their products, as we believe companies that do this can more easily put together the right formulations and product types to excel in one particular area.
They also offer a reduced price assistance program that anybody can apply for. This is designed to help people who have the most to benefit from CBD products like this but can’t afford it get their hands on some to help with their condition. This is a one of a kind assistance program in theory — however, we’re not sure how this plays out in real life.
Hemp Source4/5
This company sources its hemp from all around the United States. The hemp this brand is using is top-notch. You can even order the raw hemp flower itself. We ordered a sample of this flower and were blown away at the quality. The flowers were covered in CBD-rich resin, had an excellent feel and color, and had a pleasant terpene-rich aroma.
The only way this company could score higher in this category is by sourcing certified organic hemp.
Product Range5/5
This company offers an extensive product range covering a variety of different categories — including topicals, superfoods, tinctures, raw flower, and bath bombs. The vast majority of the products offered are specific for alleviating muscle and joint pain.
Innovation5/5
Blue Ridge Hemp are true innovators in the CBD space. They offer a handful of unique and highly specialized products such as their CBD alchemy chocolate bar — which contains adaptogenic herbs like chaga, reishi, and calamus. These herbs are stone-ground the old-fashioned way to optimize absorption through the gut wall (smaller particles absorb faster).
There are a lot of other examples we could use here, but overall this company appears to be adventurous with their products, offering things most other companies haven’t yet tried.
Safety5/5
Blue Ridge Hemp offers all the necessary safety measures we look for in a CBD brand. They’re a certified manufacturing facility in the US and provide extensive third-party testing for every batch of hemp flower and hemp extract.
Customer Service5/5
Blue Ridge Hemp has a helpful and professional customer service team that’s reachable via email, social media, and telephone 365 days a year.
The Blue Ridge Hemp website does not have an
“About Us” page, with this it is difficult to find the story behind the
company. It is hard to tell who the founders are and when this company was
started. However, the mission is very well elaborated and it is easy to buy
into what they believe in.
This company is driven by a desire to change
how pain is viewed, assessed and managed by tapping into the pain-relieving
benefits of cannabis.
The company is based out of Asheville North Carolina. It’s not clear where they source their hemp from or how the compounds are extracted from hemp. They are only clear that their phytocannabinoids are sourced from hemp.
They also mention in passing that they combine CBD with other terpene-rich botanicals that have been ethically and sustainably sourced. A lot of information is generally missing which includes: farming practices, third-party testing, and extraction process. However, they state that their products are vegan, non-GMO, not tested on animals and they use eco-friendly.
Their product range is extensive and innovative; They offer a few unique products that include CBD bath bombs and an exciting mix of CBD superfoods.
What Does Blue Ridge Hemp Sell?
Blue Ridge Hemp sells a wide array of CBD infused products that include:
CBD hemp flower is the rawest form of the hemp plant you can get. It consists of the freshly harvested, dried, and cured flowering tops of the hemp plant.
You can smoke, vape, or even eat raw hemp flower to use it. It’s completely non-psychoactive but offers all the benefits of a high-quality full-spectrum hemp product.
There are many different types of CBD edibles on the market — from CBD chocolates to CBD gummies. Blue Ridge Hemp only offers two edibles at the moment — a CBD coconut cooking oil, CBD salted caramel truffles, and a CBD chocolate.
While this form of CBD isn’t the most cost-effective, it makes for an enjoyable way to use CBD and is a perfect gift for your CBD-connoisseur friends and family.
Pets have just as much to gain from using CBD products as humans. Pet owners are using CBD-infused pet oils to support chronic joint pain, separation anxiety and stress, nausea or motion sickness, and much more in their animals.
Blue Ridge Hemp offers a pet tincture in one concentration; 250 mg. It comes in a 1 oz bottle and it is sold at $40. The tincture contains 99.7% pure CBD isolate, however, third-party testing results are not available to prove this.
The cost per mg of CBD is $0.17 which is on the borderline of being expensive.
The potency is 8.45 mg/mL which is on the lower end of the spectrum. But being a pet tincture, this is fair enough.
5. CBD Topicals
Topical CBD products are the best option for conditions affecting the skin, muscles, and joints. It allows you to deliver high doses of active CBD directly to the site — helping to reduce inflammation, pain, and more.
Blue Ridge Hemp has an impressive selection of topical CBD products and CBD cosmetics to offer.
Rosehip fruit essential oil (Breathe Easy & Concentrate)
White willow bark (Joint Care)
Cypress essential Oil (Joint Care)
Amethyst (All)
6. CBD Bath Bombs
There are few things as relaxing as a high-quality CBD bath bomb. As you soak in the bath, CBD and various essential oils absorb into the skin to relax the mind and the muscles, reduce skin irritation and inflammation, and relieve stress.
Blue Ridge Bath bombs are some of the best CBD bath bombs we’ve found on the market to date.
These products come in different strengths and are each intended for a unique purpose. We shall review each product independently in a separate review. But to give us a feel of the pricing of these topicals, let’s look at the bath bombs.
Going by the industry pricing, these bath bombs are cheap.
Key Ingredients:
Pacific sea salt (All)
Tangerine essential oil (Calm & Relax)
Patchouli essential oil (Calm & Relax)
Cypress essential oil (Joint Care)
Pine essential oil (Joint Care)
Black pepper essential oil (Muscle Care)
Citronella essential oil (Muscle Care)
What Does Blue Ridge Hemp Do
Well?
1. They Offer a Wide Range of Unique Products
Blue Ridge Hemp has a wide variety of products. This is not always a good thing because a company can overstretch itself trying to offer each and every conceivable CBD product. What stands out about this company is the fact that they have charted their own pathway, they do not even offer CBD tinctures save from one for pets. They have instead focused on unique CBD topicals such as bath bombs and roll-ons and CBD-infused superfoods.
2. They Have A Reduced Price Program
This program allows patients who are not
economically empowered to purchase products at discounted prices.
3. They Offer Educational Content On Their Website
Their website has educational blogs to educate
patients on the endocannabinoid system and cannabinoids. They also have a page
dedicated to sharing links related to published studies on the benefits of CBD
for addressing different conditions. We also noted that they give caution for
each of their products telling patients when not to use their products.
Final Verdict: A Great Source of CBD Products Overall
In conclusion, this company offers a wide range of hemp-derived CBD products that come in different strengths. Their mission is clear and believable since they have tailored their practices to support it.
Their products are fairly priced and are
shipped throughout the US.
We consider this company a safe option for CBD products in all categories. They meet all the criteria we require before we can recommend a brand — including complete third-party testing, strong attention to detail, clever formulation, and fair and affordable pricing.