Natural Homemade Additives; vanilla extract, peppermint tea, cinnamon sticks in hot water???

[dragonfish]

I was wondering if anyone has had good results with the following, or sees any problems in using these added to vg or pg? or as a substitute for vodka or distilled water. or any other ideas that they tried or were thinking of trying. I'm using blank 808 cartridges.

Vanilla extract-vanilla beans in vodka-shake over time-(3 weeks plus) then filtered?

Cinnamon Stick plus hot distilled water-wait- filtered?

Peppermint Tea (100% peppermint leaves) in tea bag plus hot distilled water?

Tea or naturally flavored tea?

[Kurt]

Tried the vanilla extract sold in alcohol...tends to be weak, but not absent in a juice made with it. there are also vanilla flavorings that are in VG, but these also tend to be rather weak.

Cinn stick in hot water, never tried it, but it seems ok, and then use the water to thin say a VG juice. Might work, but cinn oil is not water soluble, so likely this will be weak...but then that might be the ticket for you.

Actual tea made with hot water and tea leaves I would not recommend. Tea will mold very quickly, even in the fridge, and I wouldn't want to vape mold spores.

There are standardized food flavorings avail for all these examples you ask about. IMHO, with vaping, since we are actively inhaling materials into our lungs, sinuses, etc, I think its best to stick with flavorings themselves, bought as such, rather than water extractions of plant materials, which will tend to add lots more substances than just flavors to the water, such as sugars, proteins, etc. these are not only hard on attys, but they are bug food, so to speak, and likely to grow things in them. Actual flavorings, which use flavor compounds dissolved in PG, VG and/or alcohol, do not grow bugs, and are much less an unknown than bio-extractions, especially in water.