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Tetsab · 06-06-2009, 08:13 PM

Wow! You've been busy, and sorry I haven't been back for a couple of days.

10% - that sounds like an awful lot of menthol, I was only sticking one or two small crystals into a little 3.7ml JC sample bottle last time I was playing around with it. I'll have to try again and be braver from what you're saying. Glad the slow heat method for dissolving is working out for you, but suspect that temperature isn't all that critical - it is what you are trying to dissolve it INTO that really matters. The heat just helps it dissolve faster.

I'll confess that each time I've started 'developing' a new flavour I tend to start off with miniscule quantities - literally counting drops. 20 drops of this, 5 drops of that, 5 drops of something else. This does make it possible to 'scale up' for a whole bottleful but for some results it has been worth it. Doesn't waste much either in case it is 'orrible!

There's one thing I should mention though, one of my earliest posts as a newbie was "How many drops in a ml?" and the number of different answers we got for THAT one convinced me that among other things, size DOES matter! A small glass dropper will produce a lot more drops per ml than a large one. Never even got into trying counting drops with the plastic bottles, which I don't much like anyway.

We reckoned the viscosity of the liquid could affect drop size as well, so presumably the temperature could too. To compensate for that I'll use the same dropper size for experiments so at least the proportions should be roughly accurate if it works out to be one I want to mix up a whole batch of.

Very kind of you to check out the Mountain Rose shipping costs for me - I'd had a suspicion those might be a bit of a dealbreaker so it wasn't a huge shock. Fortunately I'm pretty well supplied with dropper bottles etc at present so not a problem.

mamu · 06-06-2009, 09:38 PM

I posted a quick and easy way to make menthol drops to add to your liquid.

Menthol Drops Recipe for Menthol Lovers

Babachoo · 06-14-2009, 02:46 PM

Update!

I figured out a week or so ago that I could take flavors that I tried and didn't like before, and add menthol crystals to them and POOF! Menthol juice. The menthol completely overrides whatever the flavor was before, depending on how much menthol you add. I did it with Flue Cured Tobacco and it tasted pretty good, I made it a tad strong though, but no harm done I vaped it all and enjoyed it.

But I just took my bottle of 18mg Vanilla and just added some crystals and heated until dissolved (sit bottle in bowl of hot water for a few minutes). The first try needed more menthol so I added some more and WOW, this is amazing! It's like a perfect blend of Vanilla and Menthol, which is odd since the original vanilla never tasted like Vanilla at all. So I'm thinking the flavoring was too strong before, but now that I've mixed menthol with it, I'm absolutely loving it. If you have any leftover Vanilla, you should try this out. It's really minty but also sweet and it's smooth tasting, not "one puff opens up every pore in your respiratory tract" type of hit that the last batch gave. Great stuff, I'm so glad I got into DIY liquid.

06-06-2009, 08:13 PM	#21
Tetsab ECF Veteran Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: East Sussex, UK Posts: 143	Wow! You've been busy, and sorry I haven't been back for a couple of days. 10% - that sounds like an awful lot of menthol, I was only sticking one or two small crystals into a little 3.7ml JC sample bottle last time I was playing around with it. I'll have to try again and be braver from what you're saying. Glad the slow heat method for dissolving is working out for you, but suspect that temperature isn't all that critical - it is what you are trying to dissolve it INTO that really matters. The heat just helps it dissolve faster. I'll confess that each time I've started 'developing' a new flavour I tend to start off with miniscule quantities - literally counting drops. 20 drops of this, 5 drops of that, 5 drops of something else. This does make it possible to 'scale up' for a whole bottleful but for some results it has been worth it. Doesn't waste much either in case it is 'orrible! There's one thing I should mention though, one of my earliest posts as a newbie was "How many drops in a ml?" and the number of different answers we got for THAT one convinced me that among other things, size DOES matter! A small glass dropper will produce a lot more drops per ml than a large one. Never even got into trying counting drops with the plastic bottles, which I don't much like anyway. We reckoned the viscosity of the liquid could affect drop size as well, so presumably the temperature could too. To compensate for that I'll use the same dropper size for experiments so at least the proportions should be roughly accurate if it works out to be one I want to mix up a whole batch of. Very kind of you to check out the Mountain Rose shipping costs for me - I'd had a suspicion those might be a bit of a dealbreaker so it wasn't a huge shock. Fortunately I'm pretty well supplied with dropper bottles etc at present so not a problem. __________________ The shin bone is a device for finding furniture in the dark

06-06-2009, 09:38 PM	#22
mamu 6 Volt Vaper!! Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: USA Posts: 1,492	I posted a quick and easy way to make menthol drops to add to your liquid. Menthol Drops Recipe for Menthol Lovers __________________

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06-14-2009, 02:46 PM	#23
Babachoo Moved On Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 327	Update! I figured out a week or so ago that I could take flavors that I tried and didn't like before, and add menthol crystals to them and POOF! Menthol juice. The menthol completely overrides whatever the flavor was before, depending on how much menthol you add. I did it with Flue Cured Tobacco and it tasted pretty good, I made it a tad strong though, but no harm done I vaped it all and enjoyed it. But I just took my bottle of 18mg Vanilla and just added some crystals and heated until dissolved (sit bottle in bowl of hot water for a few minutes). The first try needed more menthol so I added some more and WOW, this is amazing! It's like a perfect blend of Vanilla and Menthol, which is odd since the original vanilla never tasted like Vanilla at all. So I'm thinking the flavoring was too strong before, but now that I've mixed menthol with it, I'm absolutely loving it. If you have any leftover Vanilla, you should try this out. It's really minty but also sweet and it's smooth tasting, not "one puff opens up every pore in your respiratory tract" type of hit that the last batch gave. Great stuff, I'm so glad I got into DIY liquid.