I<\/span>n a little over a year, Chelsea Dudgeon has gone from whipping up experimental topicals for her grandma to an Emerald Cup winner ready to take her company to the next level.<\/p>\n The first batch of Deep Skin topical was made around March 2016, and forms the backbone of the quickly growing Newell\u2019s Botanicals line.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cI just explicitly made it for my grandma,\u201d Dudgeon said.<\/p>\n At the time she had no regards for the cost of production and used herbs from her garden she had on hand.<\/p>\n \u201cI just knew I wanted to formulate something that was going to work because there was a lot of skepticism directed at me by my family,\u201d Dudgeon said. \u201cI\u2019ve spent that last several years trying to convince them [cannabis] is a medicinal plant.\u201d<\/p>\n Dudgeon \u2019s grandmother was in her 70s dealing with the results of a life of hard work. She\u2019d spent the last 40 years working on her hands and knees scrubbing as a cleaning lady, this had led to a lot of joint deterioration, a new hip and arthritis.<\/a> She has recently retired.<\/p>\n We asked Dudgeon, just a regular young woman from Sonoma far from the face of the green rush these days, if part of the process in developing her product line was due to a lack of satisfaction with what was already on the market.<\/p>\n \u201cA lot of stuff smelled like weed,\u201d she said. \u201cThat was a nonstarter.\u201d<\/p>\n Her past exposure to the topical <\/a>industry also had a certain lack of consistency.<\/p>\n \u201cI wanted what I gave her to be both personal and effective,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n The first batch she made lasted months. Dudgeon provided it to her grandmother in mason jars, then came batch two. She noted the first batch was a quart of this, a quart of that, and batch two was a lot more refined.<\/p>\n \u201cWe ended up going with the roll on so people won\u2019t get greasy.\u201d<\/p>\n The second batch was prepared about a month before the cup<\/a> and she was torn over whether she would enter her experiment alongside some flowers she thought might have a chance at the Sustainability Award.<\/p>\n \u201cIn the aftermath of winning it was pretty funny,\u201d said Dudgeon. \u201cThe reason I wanted to put a second product in was because I wanted two VIP competitor passes. I made this thing for grandma, [I thought] we can put it in a nice little bottle and make it all official.\u201d<\/p>\n She wasn\u2019t expecting to win but entering, \u201cseemed like a good idea at the time.\u201d<\/p>\n It was the first cup she had entered and the first time she had attended the Emerald Cup.<\/a> the definitive outdoor cannabis world championship. Even placing in the prestigious contest that spans flowers, hash, edibles and topicals, is a huge notch in the belt of any grower, processor, or brand.<\/p>\n \u201cI had no idea I was going to be competing against big name companies,\u201d she said while noting the organic farming aspects were what got her most excited about the event she was essentially clueless on.<\/p>\n To this day she tells the tale without expectation, as if she didn\u2019t take home one of the most competitive awards in America\u2019s fastest growing industry, saying she wasn\u2019t taking herself very seriously.<\/p>\n At the awards ceremony when they called her name she couldn\u2019t believe it. She thought she\u2019d heard the announcer say third but someone said, \u201cNo that was the last one\u2026 You won.\u201d She made her way to the stage confused as she told security she believed she just won. She was right, grandma\u2019s topical now called Deep Skin was the Emerald Cup champion.<\/p>\n \u201cI wasn\u2019t even sure we\u2019d won until I was standing on the stage,\u201d said she said. \u201dI didn\u2019t know what to say.\u201d<\/p>\n We asked Dudgeon about scaling up as she, in that moment, became extremely well positioned in the cannabis world with an Emerald Cup-winning topical she controlled 100 percent stake in.<\/p>\n \u201cI didn\u2019t sleep for two days,\u201d she said. \u201cI couldn\u2019t stop shaking with excitement and terror.\u201d<\/p>\n Now, six months later, she\u2019s finally getting caught up. The excitement around the cup win and various write ups have had her working overtime. With the exception of a small loan from her father and her partner providing production assistance, she\u2019s continued to build the brand solo. She now, like many, stand on the edge of California\u2019s forthcoming regulated adult market ready to be a big winner\u2026 just with a better trophy case to back the effort than most.<\/p>\n TELL US, <\/strong>do you use cannabis topicals?<\/p>\n The post When Helping Grandma\u2019s Aches Turns Into an Emerald Cup Victory<\/a> appeared first on Cannabis Now<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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