Hey there
so i have recently purchased tpa ripe strawberry , cap custard v1 ,tpa banana cream and tpa vanilla swirl , does anyone have any suggestions for a good diy recipe ? The ones i have made so far are not really to my liking , mostly because i think i am using to much flavouring .
You have two good ones there, I like the strawberry and Capella's custard mixed. I never go over %15 flavoring. One of my favorites, is %10 strawberry, and %5 capellas custard. I haven't tried DIY Bananna, but in my "pseudo-DIY" times, I liked to add %5 ish bananna to strawberry or guava.
I like to use
Steam Engine main page for my ejuice recipes... it is a bit difficult to learn at first, but it is a very precise calculator for both
vaping and
e-liquid making. I still use it as a general guideline.. but not in a precise manner.
For example.
Let's say I am making my strawberry and custard mix... I have a 60mg/ml PG base for nic. I want to make %10 strawberry and %5 vanilla custard mix and a 6mg juice. I head over to steam-engine and then go to the e-juice calculator and get ready to mix.
I put in 30ml for the batch size, since I have 30ml unicorn bottles. I change the output to mg/ml, switch over to target and put in 6mg/ml. In the nicotine base liquid I put in I have 60mg/ml. In the mixing section.
Next, I put in the flavors... I click on the "flavoring" section, and add two flavors. Flavor 1, I put in %10, flavor 2 I put in %5.
Time for me to start mixing... Under the mixing-recipe portion, It says I need to add 3mg of my base, 3mg of flavor 1, and 1.5mg of flavor 2. I add the base, strawberry, and custard. That leaves me with the rest of the bottle as my PG/VG ratio. Since I asked for PG based nic and flavorings, I know that everything I have in there is PG based.. so I have 7.5ml of PG solutions. I personally just fill the rest up with VG, so that should give me a 75VG 25PG solution... which is fine for me. If I wanted a 50/50 mix, I would add 7.5ml of PG and fill the rest with VG.
a little in depth, but that is how my mixing goes... not perfect, but it works. for mixing Nic, I have a dedicated syringe with some long flexible tubing at the end of it. I usually fill the syringe with the nic base, turn the needle upsidown and expel the air while keeping the tube in the bottle. With the tube still submerged, I fill the syringe until I get the ammount I need. Yes, both the tube and needle are filled with the base.. but if I squirt in 3ml according to the syringe, it puts 3ml in the bottle... yes, some base will still be in the tube, but the measurements are still pretty accurate. after I put the rest of unused nic base back int he bottle, I rinse the tube thouroughly with tap water, then rinse again with distilled water. Let it air dry for an hour with the plunger out, then put it in a ziplock bag until next mixing. I do the same with the flavor syringes, but the flavor syringes are dedicated one flavor per syringe... since flavors tend to stay.
if anyone sees any problems with my mixing technique, let me know... I don't see a problem since it's just for myself, but you never know, there might be something I don't know about.
Oh, and vinyl gloves are used for the nicotine part then disposed of. I grab a few from work since I'm a baker.
I should use them for the flavors, but I don't.. so sometimes my fingers smell like strawberries for an hour or so.
