sleep, without sedatives.

cbd is not a sleep aid. it does not sedate you. if it did, it would be a different molecule and the fsa would have classified it under a different shelf. what it does do — we notice this time of year, especially — is remove one or two of the small frictions that stop a body from settling. tight shoulders. an overactive thought about tomorrow's shipping schedule. the thing about the email you forgot to send at five.

nobody puts that on a label, because it would sound like a claim, and because it doesn't happen for everyone. but if you've been trying cbd for sleep and been disappointed, this letter is for you.

full spectrum, in the cold.

winter routines lean on warmth and rhythm. a shorter day, a longer evening, food later, lights lower. the hemp plant we work with ripens through a similar arc, and its full-spectrum oil — cbd, cbg, cbn, plus the minor cannabinoids and the native terpenes — tends, in our notes, to land differently at the end of a winter day than at the middle of a summer one.

there's no single compound doing the work. linalool and myrcene (both present in our full-spectrum at trace levels) are the same terpenes you find in lavender and hops. cbn — which rises as a cannabis sample ages — has a quiet reputation for evening use. we don't claim any of them make you sleep. what we observe is a gentle un-clenching, about forty minutes in. whether that translates to sleep is up to your body. we just try to give it a fair chance.

mg is not a dose.

this is the single most common misunderstanding we see in our inbox. a customer buys our 1200mg full-spectrum oil and takes one dropper-full (roughly 1ml — 80mg) and finds it too much, too little, nothing at all. the number on the bottle is the total the bottle contains. the number you take in any given moment is a fraction of that.

a reasonable starting point, per fsa guidance, is 10mg cbd per day. in our full-spectrum 1200mg/15ml bottle, that's a quarter of a dropper. tiny. less than you'd think looking at the bottle. the instinct is to take more. resist it for the first week. if 10mg does nothing, add 5mg. if 15mg does nothing, add 5mg. you are calibrating, not dosing.

we are not pharmacists. if you are on medication, please ask one before you start.

the night we nearly scrapped the mystery box.

our december mystery box was supposed to ship from the 1st. on the 27th of november we realised the supplier for the small muslin pouches we were going to include had failed to send them, and would not be able to. we had 140 pre-orders and four days.

the conversation, about 11pm that tuesday, was whether to: a) delay the box two weeks and email every customer, b) ship without the pouches, or c) scrap it and refund. we landed on (b), with a note in every box saying the pouch would arrive separately in january. of the 140 boxes that went out, six customers emailed back. four to say they didn't mind, two to say they actively preferred the honesty to silence. one of those replies included the line "i wasn't expecting the letter to be part of the gift" which, if we are being vain, is the nicest thing anyone said to us in 2025.

what's on the shelf, and what isn't.

stock-wise: the feco (1ml / 1000mg) is our quiet winter best-seller, probably because it outperforms its size in joint-ache application. the balm is also good for this. the vapes are currently on a longer lead-time because we switched battery supplier. the mystery box is back for january (new pouches in hand, we checked).

— the bhp team
brereton heath · 21 december 2025