Welcome to the wonderful world of cannabis concentrates! In this blog, we’ll explore the similarities and differences between two of Airo’s best products: live resin and live rosin. These concentrates showcase the best of the cannabis plant: the aroma, the flavor, and the potency of the cannabinoids. But they have a few, subtle differences. Here’s what you need to know.
What is Live Resin?
Live resin is a high-quality cannabis concentrate made from flash-frozen cannabis flower and hydrocarbon extraction. It has a thin, sugar-like texture and is usually amber or light orange in color.
How it’s Made
To make live resin, the cannabis flower must be flash-frozen at the time of harvest, to preserve the cannabinoids and terpenes perfectly. The flower is put through a hydrocarbon extraction, which separates the “diamonds” and the “sauce”. The diamonds are carefully decarbed under controlled conditions to turn into delicious, vape-ready THC.
Live resin is a high-quality, full-spectrum cannabis concentrate because it preserves compounds in the cannabis plant as they are at harvest, creating an enticing aroma and rich flavor profile. When you vape live resin, you’ll notice a complex and flavorful taste.
What is Live Rosin?
Live rosin is a solventless cannabis concentrate made from flash-frozen cannabis flowers with a thicker, stickier texture.
How it’s made
Live rosin is a full-spectrum solventless extract that uses heat and pressure to extract sticky, cannabinoid and terpene-rich rosin from the trichomes of cannabis flower. A solventless extraction does not use a solvent, like CO2 or butane to get the concentrate. After extraction, live rosin is a thick, aromatic concentrate that showcases the best of the cannabis plant.
Live rosin is beloved by cannabis consumers for its pure, complex taste, high potency, and lack of solvents in the extraction process. Live rosin has been compared to hash for its pure extraction process and the way it showcases the taste of the cannabis strain.
What is a full-spectrum concentrate?
A full-spectrum concentrate refers to a cannabis product that has preserved or contains all of the compounds found in a cannabis plant.
Between the cannabinoids and terpenes and minor compounds like flavonoids, there are dozens, if not hundreds of compounds in any given strain. Each compound plays a role in the entourage effect, where all of the compounds in a given cannabis strain work together to create a synergistic experience.
Full-spectrum products are thought to create more balanced experiences than isolate products that only contain THC.
The Difference between Live Resin and Live Rosin
Live resin and live rosin are two high-quality forms of cannabis concentrate. When properly extracted, there isn’t a major difference between the two in terms of flavor profile or potency.
The textures and colors of these live resin and live rosin are different, and some experienced cannabis consumers may be able to tell the difference in taste alone. Depending on where you shop, there may be a small difference in the price.
| Live Resin | Live Rosin | |
| What it’s made from | Flash-frozen cannabis flower | Flash-frozen cannabis flower |
| How it’s made | Hydrocarbon extraction | Solventless extraction |
| Texture | Thinner consistency | Thicker consistency |
How to choose between Live Resin and Live Rosin
Choosing between two similar, delicious cannabis concentrates can be tricky! Consider the following:
- What’s currently available from Airo in my state? Product inventory varies throughout the year, so check what’s in stock at your local dispensary before you set your heart on a particular product.
- What’s your budget? Depending on where you shop, live resin vape cartridges may be slightly less expensive than live rosin.
- Do you prefer solventless extraction? Both live resin and live rosin are high-quality concentrates, but some people prefer live rosin because it is solventless.
Resin vs. Live Resin vs. Cured Resin
All three terms use “resin” but they don’t mean the same product.
Resin is what’s left in your bowls and pipes when you smoke cannabis flower. Specifically, resin is the compounds that get left behind when you light up your weed. It’s a sticky black or brown substance that builds up over time in the corners of your pipes.
Old-school cannabis consumers would save the resin “reclaim” to smoke again because there are cannabinoids left in it – but the taste leaves a lot to be desired.
Live resin is a flavorful concentrate made from flash-frozen weed plants through hydrocarbon extraction. It separates the THC diamonds from the sauce (the rest of the compounds from the plant matter) and the diamonds are turned into pure THC. Live resin smells and tastes just like the cannabis plant – not smokey reclaim.
Cured resin is a cannabis concentrate that is very similar to live resin, but the weed nugs are allowed to cure prior to extraction, rather than being flash-frozen after harvest. The curing process allows the weed to age before extraction, which can change the terpene and cannabinoid profile and subsequently the flavor of the concentrate.
Is there a difference in Airo’s Live Resin and Live Rosin Vapes?
In order to provide the best vaping experience possible, the vapes for Airo’s live resin and live rosin series are slightly different. You don’t need to worry about any changes in the user interface or experience – that’s the same!
The difference is on the inside, in the atomizer. The difference in consistency and texture between live resin and live rosin means they need slightly different atomizing conditions to create your delicious vape experience. These vapes have been optimized for the consistency of each concentrate to ensure that each pull is as smooth and flavorful as the one before it.
You Can’t Go Wrong with Live Resin and Live Rosin
The main difference between live resin and live rosin products is the extraction method. Both concentrates beautifully showcase the unique characteristics of the cannabis plant, highlighting the potency of the THC and the aroma of the terpenes. The most important difference is simply what you prefer – and if you don’t know what you prefer, try them both!
