Additives

[Kate]

So far I've been making my liquid from squeezed high nicotine cartridges, veg. glycerine, distilled water and vanilla extract. What I'm wondering is what other additives are being used in home brew. My understanding of ingredients considered probably safe (for health and atomiser) are:

propylene glycol
vegetable glycerine
alcohol
flavourings and extracts

I'm trying out xylitol in my mix now because it's good for teeth among other things.
I bought some organic coconut milk which is coconut extract, water and xanthan gum. I didn't realise it had xanthan gum in it until I checked the can at home. I'm thinking of trying it in a mix anyway and hoping that the gum doesn't gum up my lungs or atomiser.

Someone on the forum said s/he was inhaling a liquid that had vitamin E in it. Is anyone inhaling anything else that might be useful to know about? I'm particularly interested in healthy additives although interesting flavours or good stuff for vapour would be good to know about too.

 

[DeviLFisH]

yup I also heard before Vit E !

and actually even real cig got vit E if I am not wrong is from germany tabocca company ..but most countries don;t encourage it ...
cos is misleading like a health cig. smoke and give vit e !

I was thinking now ....hope dr loi got redman extract soon to analsyia how it go and next hope frds in here can give some extract which is healthy example purely vit e or vit c ..which easy to find in many countries.

becos I don;t wish to order any nicotine cart when my cart run up soon

so far I find is not the nicotine ....I seem miss some kind of strong smell I want which will stay in my nose after e puff...

I believe I can go without nicotine..as long it simlutate smoking is good .

 

[Kate]

Good for you Fishy, cutting down on nicotine is a good thing to do for your health. I hope you can find the ingredients you need to make your own juice.

 

[DeviLFisH]

Good for you Fishy, cutting down on nicotine is a good thing to do for your health. I hope you can find the ingredients you need to make your own juice.

problem is I still don;t know where to find , which brand or IS IT THERE IS one in liquid form

 

[Kate]

I've been dripping a mix containing xylitol onto my atomiser for a few hours now. It isn't sickly sweet as I expected, it's smooth, subtle and pleasant. What's interesting is that my mouth isn't dry as it usually is, I think the xylitol is making me salivate more. It's a bit too soon to tell if it's doing anything else. So far I don't think it's messing up my atomiser.

 

[Strider]

Newbie questions..Is Glycerine the main ingredient of soaps and is there a non vegetable Glycerine.

 

[Kate]

Glycerine is in loads of stuff, including soap. I think that propylene glycol is a synthetic compound equivilent to glycerine but I'm mostly guessing that. Someone else might be able to tell us more.

Hello and welcome to the forum by the way.

 

[Strider]

Thank you for the welcome. The reason I asked is that my daughter has a tub of glycerine I think for making soaps at home. If it is usable I have a enough to last years. It does not say on the label if it is vegetable or not

 

[Kate]

Oh Strider, be careful. I wouldn't use that to inhale if I was you, there might be allsorts of impurities in it. You want food or pharmaceutical grade vegetable glycerine, the purer the better. I found some on ebay. Somebody here had advice on where to get it in the States but I can't remember where that information is. I'll let you know if I find it.

 

[Strider]

Thanks for the advise...I will around for some....

 

[ThatPoshGirl]

Has anyone considered adding a couple of drops of liquid caffeine?

 

[Oliver]

Has anyone considered adding a couple of drops of liquid caffeine?

To be honest, no, mainly because I want to be inhaling as little as possible!

Be careful with any experiments with stimulant chemicals - they may be introduced into your body very rapidly.

 

[Kate]

I think caffeine is addictive, you won't be doing yourself any favours by taking up another potentially harmful addiction. There are less dodgy ways to get a caffeine buzz just like there are other ways to get a nicotine fix.

 

[Fat B*stard]

Oh Strider, be careful. I wouldn't use that to inhale if I was you, there might be allsorts of impurities in it. You want food or pharmaceutical grade vegetable glycerine, the purer the better. I found some on ebay. Somebody here had advice on where to get it in the States but I can't remember where that information is. I'll let you know if I find it.

I bought some liquid labelled "Glycerin B.P. (Glycerol)" from Boots the Chemist that they assured me was vegetable glycerine. Haven't used it yet, waiting to clear my first batch of nicotine juice, but it was dirt cheap at £2 for 200ml.

 

[Kate]

BP means it's (British) Pharmaceutical grade.

 

[Fat B*stard]

BP means it's (British) Pharmaceutical grade.

So I guess relatively safe?

 

[Kate]

Well, I use BP veg glycerine. I believe it's 99.5% pure. I can't say if it's safe but like I say, I use it.

 

[Fat B*stard]

Thanks for the info Kate. This stuff says it's 100% glycerol so I'll go with it.

I used to brew beers and wines and wondered about trying some of that technology on making e-juice. I ran my cooked tobacco juice through a couple of wine-making filters and it took out a lot of the crap, but it's still not clear enough to simmer down yet. Anyone know if wine finings would work?

 

[paxes]

you could try eggwhite lol.

 

[Kate]

What are wine finings Fatty?

You probably come accross lots of flavourings and additives if you're a home brewer. Is there such thing as liquid wine flavouring? If so is it free of junk or is it full of additives?