LEEF Organics is a California whole-plant hemp and CBD brand making topical body care and botanical formulas, sold direct to consumers and through spas, hotels and wellness retailers. It is not a licensed intoxicating-cannabis brand or a dispensary operator; its products sit in the hemp-derived market.
Micah Anderson and Emily Heitman
The company grew out of Paleo Paw, a CBD line three friends began home-cooking for their dogs Cash, Kaia, Kona and Maui. Micah Anderson, a soil science specialist with more than three decades of farming behind him, established LEEF's farms and cultivation practices and grew its raw material. Emily Heitman, the creative director, came from the pharmaceutical and beauty industries and oversees product development, education and packaging across the line.
Farm and extraction
LEEF runs boutique farms on non-GMO, organic soil-based cultivation, on the principle that quality products start from the soil up. LEEF Labs, its extraction facility, occupies 12,000 square feet in Willits, California, near the redwoods. The company works from a whole-plant extraction approach and states it has steered away from traditional CO2 extraction techniques, on the reasoning that nothing does well in isolation.
The catalog
The store carries seven products: the Recover CBD Roll On at $40, a two-ounce formula with 200 mg of CBD built from cold-pressed broad-spectrum whole-plant CBD and wild-crafted herbs; The Exfoliant CBD Body Scrub and the Shroom & Clay Masque at $36 each; Best Before Bed Crop at $40; nooks + crannies mini case packs at $24; a Citrus + Tropical Terpene Room Spray at $16; and a LEEF Lighter at $3.50. Certificates of analysis are published as downloadable PDFs on the product pages.
Where it sells
LEEF sells through its own Shopify storefront and through health and wellness locations across the United States, including hotel and resort spas run by Ritz-Carlton, Westin, Hyatt, Marriott and Omni, plus natural boutiques and independent wellness centers. A store locator on the site lists current stockists, and retailers can apply through a wholesale inquiry.
Athlete ambassadors
The brand runs ambassador pages pairing named products with athletes including Jimmy Butler and Jerami Grant.