Welcome to the Nexus! Feel free to write an introduction essay if you want.
Check our
Eco-friendly extraction teks subforum. You can use limonene as solvent (limonene = orange essential oil), or even some vegetable/cooking oils. BLAB tek, q21 tek and Amor fati all use (or have as an option to use) limonene as a solvent, and you can find all of them in our
Wiki, in the
extraction teks area
You can also use, as a base, calcium hydroxide, which is very good to handle base and is often use in food products (making tortillas if im not mistaken).
Make sure you udnerstand which tek/chemical you are using because you cant substitute them equally (for example limonene or vegetable oils dont evaporate neither freeze precipitate, you have to salt out your solvent and later reconvert to freebase if you want to smoke, as explained in BLAB tek for example). Or calcium hydroxide isnt very soluble in water so you need to do a dry tek (like q21/amor fati)
In any case there is nothing to 'fear' chemicals, natural products are also made up of chemicals, some of which are poisonous. Just learn what you're dealing with, and how to handle it. If you perform the teks correctly, there shouldnt be any traces of chemical products in your dmt, just perform easy clean up steps.
Oh and, be sure to check our
FAQGood luck