Mark GillilanFounder, 794 Capital, LLC · Founder, Kyoto Botanicals | Wellness Writer | Author on Wellness Transparency | Helping Independent Wellness Shops Grow with Premium Botanical Products

Organic CBD oil: is it worth it?

15 Jul 2026 · 1 min

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In this short YouTube monologue, Mark Gillilan explains how consumers can evaluate whether to purchase organic CBD oil. He emphasizes that the most critical factor is a brand’s transparency: the company should conduct third‑party lab tests on every batch and publish the full Certificate of Analysis (COA) on its website. Such COAs confirm the product is free of pesticides, residual solvents, microbiological contaminants, and herbicide residues, and they verify potency. While certified organic products undergo an additional verification step and tend to be slightly more expensive, Gillilan argues that a non‑organic product with a complete, publicly available COA offers essentially the same level of purity and safety. Therefore, the decision to buy organic comes down to personal preference and willingness to pay a premium, but regardless of the label, consumers should always ensure the lab results are accessible.

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Talking organic CBD oil today and if it's worth it, and it really comes down to just being a personal decision. Um, with this category, if you find a reputable brand that conducts lab tests on every batch and clearly posts those results on their website so you can access them, you're going to be getting basically the same thing as organic. It won't be certified, but you'll see that it's free from pesticides, free from residual solvents, microbiology, any herbicide residue, and that it has the content. So it's a really unique category in that I expect most products you buy don't do full tests and certainly don't publish them like that. Um, so you're getting high-quality products that are pure and clean if they're published. If organic is important to you, definitely go buy it. Um, but the key thing is just to make sure those lab reports are out there. So we do some products organic, some products not organic. It's just kind of how that works with our product development process. So yeah, as long as the labs are there, you're getting a product that basically was grown to organic standards and is clean because you can see all the lab results in the COA. So it's really a personal decision, but whether or not you're buying a product that's organic or not, make sure the lab results are there. Organic is just kind of that extra little safety step, a little higher quality. It's going to be a little more expensive, so if that's important to you, get it. So that's it for today.