About Lazarus Naturals
Lazarus Naturals started in 2014 in Seattle, Washington, and took an unusual route for a CBD company: instead of buying extract on the open market, it bought farmland. The company grows its hemp in Central Oregon and handles everything from the plant to the finished bottle, a model it calls farm-to-door.
A brand that buys extract is at the mercy of whatever its supplier delivers that season. A brand that grows its own decides the genetics, the harvest and the extraction. Lazarus uses cryo-ethanol extraction and produces under cGMP standards.
It shows in the catalog. Lazarus is one of the few brands that sells CBG on its own, and one of the few that will put 200mg of CBD in a single softgel. Neither is a product you make if you are buying extract by the drum.
The company is employee-owned, unusual in an industry where most brands of this size have outside investors.
Pros and cons
What we like
- Grows and processes its own hemp instead of buying extract, and says where: Central Oregon.
- High potency per piece: 200mg of CBD in one softgel, 150mg in one gummy. Most brands do not reach either figure.
- Sells CBG on its own at 300mg per milliliter, with no CBD alongside it.
- Keeps an unflavored Classic profile for people who would rather not have flavoring added.
- Vegan formulas throughout, with pectin gummies and plant-based softgel shells rather than gelatin.
What to know before you buy
- Most of the range is full spectrum, which means it carries THC. Only a few isolate products are suitable if you are drug tested.
- Coconut MCT oil is the carrier in most tinctures and softgels, so the range carries a tree nut allergen. Several topicals add sweet almond oil, lanolin and beeswax.
- The Classic profile tastes of hemp. That is the point, but it surprises people who expect a flavored oil.
- The Unwind Mints do not publish how many mints are in a pack, so there is no way to work out the cost per milligram.
- The Joint Support pet tincture uses wild salmon and pollock oil, which rules it out for an animal with a fish sensitivity.