LorAnn candy flavours

[Smokin]

Hi Kate

Thanks for the advice on the Lorann, just ordered:

Caramel
Pistaccio
Pralines and Cream (2) Can't wait
English Toffee
Liquorice
Cheesecake

These sound great. I absolutely kill for nuts and anything with Caramel in and these sound yummmmmmmmm! One question if o.k. do you always mix these with distilled water or does it depend on the water content already in the flavouring?

Cheers

[Kate]

Hi Smokin, I hope you'll like the flavours, I've had great fun trying them out, they are pretty yummy.

This is how I make my mixes these days:

10% distilled water
10 - 20% flavouring (some are stronger than others)
20% 36mg commercial eliquid or equivalent
30% glycerine
30% propylene glycol

That makes a 7mg/low nicotine juice which I use most of the day. You can use 60% glycerine instead of using pg or the other way around, use 60% pg and no glycerine. Some people also use small quantities of alcohol and this might increase harshness/throat hit ... I don't know for sure yet. Just adjust flavourings, nicotine and water to suit your tastes and make it a decent consistency for wicking onto the atomiser. If it's too thick it won't wick out of cartridges, if it's too thin it will seep out too quickly.

I started to notice a bit of an after taste with 60% glycerine that I wanted to reduce so started using pg as well.

Let us know how it goes for you

[Smokin]

Kate

You really are a saint (or should be promoted anyway)

Totally new to mixing and like so many noobs ordered 36mg strength (Wicked) on my first order. Only was an eejit for a day mind and then read your other posts about nicotine strength and realised I'd od in about a day!

As a twenty - thirty a day smoker of lights I needed a way to reduce this liquid and these flavoutings seem perfect.

Thanks for the recommendations on percentages, really useful for a noob as a starting point.

I will most certainly let you know how they are!

Many thanks

Pat aka smokin

[Torbleau]

Hello, All. This is my first post, since I've only been e-smoking for about a week now. I love it! This is going to make quiting smoking so easy Anyway, I am trying to refill my used carts with non-nic flavoring. Kate, you were right on with these flavors from LorAnn! They are excellent. I found a place in town that sells them. I'm using cheesecake right now

My question is, do I need the glycerine? Does it make the cart last longer? I put 5 drops of the LorAnn in the cart and it vaped very nicely. I had cleaned the cart and filter before doing so. I thought the glycerine was supposed to make it "smoke", but it did nicely with just the flavoring, though it only lasted about 10 minutes. If I actually mix the two together and fill the cart, will that last longer, like a store bought one?

Thanks for any responses in advance, and thanks for all the advice already on the boards. This site has been a great help!

[PeteMcArthur]

Kate,
where do you get the PG from? I've had a quick scan and all the ones I can see do not say "food grade", some imply it but I suspect most of the ones I've found are for fog machines or humidors.

[Kate]

You're welcome Pat, I hope you enjoy.

Hi Torbleau, welcome to the forum. I find the flavourings too strong to use without diluting but some people use ordinary (Bickfords) food flavours like that. Vapour is produced with glycerine or propylene glycol but I've heard that alcohols also produce a vapour. Lots of the LorAnn flavours have alcohol in them so maybe that's what's giving you vapour. If you're happy with the taste and vapour you are getting I don't see why you shouldn't carry on but if you want more dilute taste or to add nicotine you might want to make a mix. It would work out less expensive to dilute but you may have become used to strong tastes now. Maybe give it a go and see what you think, glycerine isn't expensive.

Pete, I got my pg a while ago from ebay - 500ml MPG , Mono Propylene Glycol USP grade - 99+% on eBay, also Chemicals, Lab Supplies, Medical Lab Equipment, Business, Office Industrial (end time 14-Nov-08 13:01:06 GMT)
I emailed the seller before buying and asked about purity, they said it was as pure as you can get and was food safe. That seller seems to only have larger size bottles currently listed, 2L are the smallest I could find but I think they might sell you a smaller bottle if you email them.

[PeteMcArthur]

You're welcome Pat, I hope you enjoy.


Pete, I got my pg a while ago from ebay - 500ml MPG , Mono Propylene Glycol USP grade - 99+% on eBay, also Chemicals, Lab Supplies, Medical Lab Equipment, Business, Office Industrial (end time 14-Nov-08 13:01:06 GMT)
I emailed the seller before buying and asked about purity, they said it was as pure as you can get and was food safe. That seller seems to only have larger size bottles currently listed, 2L are the smallest I could find but I think they might sell you a smaller bottle if you email them.

Thanks Kate,
I've got a pretty big stock of 36mg liquid that I was using neat until the recent scares / info on the board. I'm too embarrassed to say the amount I was vaping, probably 3-4 times the amount of nic that I was smoking. Glycerine I find gets a bit sweet when you use a lot of it to dilute the juice so I'll give the PG a try.

Thanks

Pete

[TropicalBob]

This takes me back half a year or more, but I vaped pure food coloring -- and lived to tell about it. Look at the ingredients on a bottle of food coloring .. the stuff is propylene glycol with color that is safe to eat. So I saw no health concern. What I wanted was to snort red vapor from each nostril! That didn't exactly work out, but I did find that it turned everything it touched red: the atomizer, cartridge core and my mouth and teeth. I assume my former-smoker's lungs turned a healthy pink also.

I also tried green food coloring, figuring it would be cool to vape clouds of green when talking to some rabid environmentalist friends. Same problems, but green teeth are uglier than red ones.

Our old friend BananaDoc was first to vape pure Bickford's, I believe. I still like the Kahlua and Key Lime flavors. I'm running low on commercial liquid, so I might soon tap into the two Mason jars of home-cooked tobacco liquid combined with VG, liquor and Bickford Kahlua. The stuff is good.

[Kate]

It's a pity colourings don't produce coloured vapour, that would be fantastic with green on St Patricks day

Just a warning about LorAnn key lime ... I've just tried it and it is strooooong stuff! Add it to your mix carefully, you don't need a lot.

[TropicalBob]

Yes on the Key Lime from Bickford's, as well. Quite strong. A few drops will do. If I can ever afford more flavors, I want to try to develop "tropical drink" liquid recipes, mixing Key Lime, mango, pineapple and perhaps orange or tangerine.

I'd vape 'em with my tropical smoothie!