Sample Day in the Vape Lab

Bill's Magic Vapor;14249809 said:

Sample Day in the vape Lab. Here's a picture of my process:

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Notice that I have base PG flavorings in the Reagent bottles. This is the 30% PG portion of the juice. Also, I take those bases and turn them into different strength nicotine samples. In this case, I'm making 35 ml of 0 Nicotine, and 65 ml of 6 mg Nicotine. You can see the separation in the beakers in front of five different eJuices. One rather full reagent bottle, I made only 6 mg/ml strength, and won't need to make smaller beaker batches. Because flavorings do take a day or two for the flavor bonds to fully form, I made these bases over the last week, including five of them yesterday. All I add to them is VG and 6mg/ml VG Nic. I use a spreadsheet to make all of these calculations, though I use the eJuiceMeUp Calculator to record all my recipes and to make the initial PG bases. Anyway, thought you might want to see the actual application in progress.

From the beakers, these 30 ml bases will go into 7 different bottles with custom labels, making 100 ml of eJuice:

2 - 0 mg/ml 10 ml samples
2 - 6 mg/ml 10 ml samples
1 - 0 mg/ml 15 ml amber glass dropper bottles (Sample)
1 - 6 mg/ml 15 ml amber glass dropper bottles (Sample), and
1 - 6 mg/ml 30 ml amber glass capped bottles (for my stash)

Labels are all cut from a single label sheet of color laser produced labels, 21 to the sheet. Each label will provide the strength, ratio, bottle size, flavor, ingredients list, and warning label. In other words, the contents.

These samples will be on the strip for taste testing with tourists this afternoon. If they are a hit, I'll likely make more. The only reason I mention this is to let you know that these juices are sampled by a wide variety of vapers in the real world. Often times, first time vapers will find some of the odd flavorings quite attractive. It's an interesting process. This entire process is done without compensation. I benefit from knowing what is working in the marketplace. It helps me make better juice, and then I come here and give it to you!

If the family likes a particular flavoring, I will then make a larger batch, and generally not less than 150 ml's that I will store in 240 ml glass bottles. If the juice becomes a big, big hit, I'll make up a base flavoring and put it into a 500 ml re-agent bottle. Just my process, that I developed for myself over time, and that works for my needs. Most people will not have these same requirements, though, so, just sharing the BMV way. Ciao!

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