Rocket's E-juice Mixing Tutorial
PREFACE (the beginning of many words to come)
Electronic cigarettes using a liquid ‘vaping’ medium (e-juice) containing Nicotine, Propylene Glycol, Glycerin, and various flavors are helping many break the cigarette habit. While there are several sources for commercial e-juice in hundreds of flavors it is also possible to prepare custom DIY e-juice, sometimes at a substantial savings in cost.
The goal of this tutorial is to show that mixing and vaping your own e-juice is easy and can save you bundles of money, make you smarter, and help you look younger for years. The combination of ingredients I'll use will minimize the risk of potentially dangerous impure or even counterfeit ingredients making their way into your body. I'll outline the simple math steps to determine how much of the raw materials you need and how to mix them to your desired Nicotine strength. Following these methods you should be able to mix a medium strength juice with basic flavors for about 10 cents a ml. Less if you are a proficient shopper.
A few prerequisites I ask the reader to complete before starting DIY mixing will be getting a clear picture of how much 'store bought' juice will cost you over the next year of vaping and how much you might be able to save by mixing your own. I'm going to ask you to practice some of the mixology math before you actually start mixing. While the hardest part of DIY mixing might be shopping for the raw ingredients and juggling the cost of the materials and shipping charges, the most important part is learning about SAFETY when handling Nicotine solutions. Make sure you know what you are doing before doing any real mixing.
Don't try and blend exotic flavors or add extra ingredients to improve Throat Hit or increase sweetness or for any of the various reasons strange chemicals are added to e-juice. The more ingredients you add the higher the risk for making a batch you won't be able to stomach (yuk factor) or making a batch that will go bad before you can use it up. Leave your bulk e-juice stash as simple and uncomplicated as possible. I suggest keeping a reasonable quantity of maybe a 2 or 3 month supply (in 2 or 3 different flavors) for general everyday vaping.
I've been using these techniques for over 2 years to mix consistent tasting juice for a vaping family of 2. My likes and dislikes, methods, and assumptions will probably differ from those of the many experts you will run into. If you do not agree with anything contained in this tutorial I suggest you learn exactly why you don't agree and go forth benefiting from that knowledge.
Although I believe that the information presented is correct and accurate and falls within the purview of generally accepted practices for the use of electronic cigarettes currently in the public domain, I offer no warranty or guarantee that the ingredients and methods presented, or that the vaporization and inhalation of liquid solutions containing Nicotine are indeed safe and will not harm you. The reader is further cautioned that use of this information is completely at your own risk.
The author, known as Rocketman on the VapeAtron.com online forum, requests that dissemination of this tutorial via a website operating as a for-profit, commercial entity include a reference or link to this original website and thread. Corrections/updates to the text will only be maintained in this web space.
This tutorial is organized as follows:
Preface----- You are Here
Chapter 1 Nicotine Safety in the Home
Chapter 2 Units of Measurement, Calculations and Examples
Chapter 3 Ingredients-Time to Shop
Chapter 4 Setting up a Temporary Home Mixing Lab
Chapter 5 Preliminary Mixes
Chapter 6 Final Adjustments and Testing
Chapter 7 Labeling, Storing and Dispensing
Summary----- Don't Go Jumping to the End and Spoil the Surprise
The remainder is on the site linked in the title.
