LEEF Organics is a California hemp brand that makes whole-plant CBD topicals — a roll-on, a body scrub and a clay masque — sold direct from its own shop. This is body care, not smokeable cannabis. The scrub carries a THC-free label and external-use-only instructions, and the line as a whole sits on the wellness and skincare side of the plant rather than the dispensary side.
The brand started with dogs. Three friends were home-cooking organic, non-GMO, human-grade food for their pups — Cash, Kaia, Kona and Maui — and that turned into Paleo Paw, a CBD line for pets. LEEF is the next step from there: the same obsession with what goes into the jar, pointed at people instead.
The farming came first and still sets the tone. Micah Anderson, an organic agricultural farmer with more than thirty years in soil-based growing, started LEEF's farms and set the standards the brand works to. The farms are boutique and honed for high-potency CBD. The company's line on it is blunt: quality products start from the soil up.
Emily Heitman runs the creative side. She came out of the pharma and beauty industries, has led marketing for multimillion-dollar brands, and has designed every package in the LEEF line to date. She stays close to the products themselves, from education through packaging.
Behind the retail line is LEEF Labs, a 12,000-square-foot extraction facility in Willits, California, at the gateway to the redwoods. LEEF steers away from traditional CO2 extraction in favor of a whole-plant method that keeps the full set of plant compounds — cannabinoids, terpenes, flavonoids, amino acids, proteins, enzymes and fatty acids — in their natural form.
The Recover CBD Roll On is the anchor product: a two-ounce roller ball at $40 carrying 200 mg of cold-pressed, broad-spectrum whole-plant CBD blended with wild-crafted herbs. The ingredient list reads like a herbalist's shelf — achyranthes bidentata root, peony root, ligusticum chuanxiong, poria cocos and licorice root, with camphor and menthol in the mix.
The Exfoliant CBD Body Scrub runs $36 with 225 mg of CBD in a base of organic cane sugar and organic jojoba, avocado and coconut oils, finished with neroli, grapefruit, rose absolute and lavender essential oils. It is a fine-grain physical exfoliant rather than an acid treatment.
The Shroom and Clay Masque is the most loaded formula on the shelf: nine ounces, $36, 280 mg CBD and 140 mg CBG for 420 mg of total cannabinoids. It is built on kaolin and bentonite clays, walnut shell powder and kokum seed butter, plus a house herbal blend of astragalus, angelica sinensis, goji berry, schisandra, licorice and ashwagandha.
The catalog is deliberately small — seven products at a time, with a citrus and tropical terpene room spray, a raglan pullover and a branded lighter rounding out the topicals. Every product page posts a certificate of analysis you can download, and standard shipping is free on orders over $75.
What you are buying here is a farm-to-jar hemp line with a narrow shelf and an unusual amount of information attached to it: who grew the material, where it was extracted, what is in the jar and what the lab found. In a category crowded with white-label CBD, that traceability is the pitch.