menthol

Gr8Scott;9623802 said:

Don't forget about Koolada. For a real menthol, you will need it. Plus Koolada is a flavor-neutral solution. It cools but has no flavor. It's very powerful.

I would advise getting the dry crystals and making your own flavoring. I haven't done a "cent per milliliter" cost analysis, but I am pretty sure it's cheaper.

Get a little digital scale on ebay, one that measures grams, 10 or 15 bucks, some even cheaper. They have ones with little cups which come in handy.

Anyway, get the dry crystals measure out 1 gram (according to the scale) and put that 1g in 10ml of PG.
Menthol crystals are very soluble in PG, if you are in a hurry you can turn the crystals in to powder first and/or take the mixture of bottled crystals/PG and let the bottle soak in a warm water bath, then shake.
But, I have found crushing not to be necessary as the PG dissolves the crystals pretty well just with shaking.

As for safety, yes menthol is safe, but wear gloves when you handle dry crystals. You don't want to touch your face/eyes.
Just act as if you are handling Habanero peppers and use the same precautions.

Here what I have on menthol. (I vape straight menthol a lot of the time.):

The first menthol recipe I got here on ECF:

50/50 PG/VG
6mg Nic
6% Menthol
2% Sweetener
1% Koolada


Then my modified "MMM Menthol" which was well received: (In truth, the only real flavor that jumps out here is the menthol. The others just smooth it out)

70/30 PG/VG
5% Menthol
1% Caramel
0.5% DoubleChocolate
0.5% Whipped Cream
0.5% Spearmint

or
8.5% Menthol







Then we have my "Gr8Menthol" series: (I discovered 5% water makes the flavors "brighter", your vodka addition will probably do the same)

Gr8MentholV1:

53/47 PG/VG (or whatever)

6% Menthol
2% Ethyl Maltol
1% Koolada
5% Water





Gr8MentholV2:

62/38 PG/VG

8.38% Menthol
2% Ethyl Maltol
1% Koolada
5% Water





Gr8Mint-tholV3 (Backed off on the water a wee bit here, added a little peppermint, which was pretty noticeable even at only 1%)


62/38 PG/VG

8.38% Menthol
2% Ethyl Maltol
1% Koolada
1% Peppermint
2.5% Water

Gr8Menthol Fourth Edition AKA Crazy Menthol (because of the percentages, but hey, it really works ) What evolved here was backing off the Ethyl Maltol and letting just "pure cool" happen.


64/36 PG/VG

8.4% Menthol
.85% Ethyl Maltol
1.67% Koolada
5% Water


Now, what I currently have and vape Gr8MentholV5, which is pretty close to perfection, for me re: menthol. The menthol is high,but you can drip this on another flavor in your atty and it melds quite nicely.

62/38 PG/VG

10% Menthol
.6% Ethyl Maltol
1.68% Koolada
4% Water


All these were made at either 24 or 25mg nic.



Happy DIYing!

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