About 8 days into vaping and my lips are painfully chapping....

[TomD]

8 days into "real" vaping that is....In some spots almost looks like burns from when small amounts of liquid has touched my lips. Have been using 50/50 juices. Just picked up some chap stick which obviously helped but is this something I will adjust to or an unfornate reality of vaping. I did some reading before posting about people's skin drying out but not so much on the chapped (splitting painfully) lips!

Would like to hear more experienced vapors experiences!

 

[Jimmyhat]

What brand of liquid are you using I heard some people having reactions like that to certain kinds of nicotine for diy.

 

[berkay1907]

i guess pg is cousing that. try vg based liquids. i am sure it will help your problem=)

 

[Coldpunk]

Also you could be dehydrated. I had to start drinking more water when I started vaping.

 

[peraspera]

Are you using a drip tip? When I first started vaping I was using cartos with no drip tip. It didn't do happy things to my lips. A drip tip fixed the problem.

 

[Darkstrike]

When I first started I had chapped lips so bad they cracked!! Lasted about 3 weeks. I used a blistex moisturizing balm on my lips and it really helped. After about 3 weeks it subsided. Drink plenty of fluids and it should pass. Don't give up!!!!

 

[Schnarph]

Not to insult you, but if you have gotten small amounts of e-liquid on your lips, some part of your setup is not at all right. You should not be getting e-liquid itself on your skin and definitely not on any of your membranes. The juice makers wear gloves, many vapers wear them when touching juicy equipment, cleaning, filling, etc.. I got the tiniest splashback in my eye once when blowing out a carto (not doing the condom fill method ever again), it was worse than pepper spray. What device are you using to vape with? Did you fill it with e-liquid yourself, and what strength e-liquid are you using?

 

[jfalbanese]

chap stix, and hydrate like your life depends on it. chapped lips are sure signs of dehydration

 

[tenshi]

As a smoker, I had perpetual dry and chapped lips. Sometimes pulling the cig away from my lips, it'd stick to the filter and... um, ouch? lol. I still had chapped lips when vaping with 50/50 pg/vg (not nearly as bad as when I regularly smoked) but nonetheless, I still had to put on lip balm often. When I switched to mainly vg juice, my chapped lips went away, but I still like vaping the pg/vg blends so I just use lip balm when I'm not vaping. I also had to drink more water.

Someone mentioned it here in the thread already but yeah, something is wrong with your set up if you get small amounts of liquid on your lips. It should only be vapor ^^

 

[Schnarph]

I should have mentioned, I quit using my entry entry into vaping, those Smoke Stiks were regularly spitting out e-liquid. However, it didn't mess up my lips. Interested in what the OP is using to vaping with. TomD, congratulations on quitting smoking, sorry for your pain. Please use the forums to learn what is going on with your problem vaping, this is probably the most helpful place to learn how to alleviate your issues. IMHO, getting e-liquid on your lips while vaping is a major factor. When I get any of it on me anywhere on my body I wash it off ASAP.

 

[LKnives]

Drink more water, you must. Chapstix in your vape case, yes.

 

[Kanj.nguyen]

Both PG and VG are known as humectants, meaning they attract and absorb water, which they will do in your body. Thus vaping is quite dehydrating. Drink lots of water.

 

[smalltwig]

True, but I doubt they would be able to absorb any more than 1ml out of the 40L we have in our bodies. I find it more likely that the irritation is being caused by applying nicotine and glycol to the lips, due to incomplete vaporization. You could try a different cartomizer/atomizer or driptip.

 

[Ajoi57]

drink more water and try not to use SS driptip

 

[cookiejar]

Not to insult you, but if you have gotten small amounts of e-liquid on your lips, some part of your setup is not at all right. You should not be getting e-liquid itself on your skin and definitely not on any of your membranes. The juice makers wear gloves, many vapers wear them when touching juicy equipment, cleaning, filling, etc.. I got the tiniest splashback in my eye once when blowing out a carto (not doing the condom fill method ever again), it was worse than pepper spray. What device are you using to vape with? Did you fill it with e-liquid yourself, and what strength e-liquid are you using?

Hi I'm newbie, pardon me if I may not ask an appropriate question.
But what's with the e-juice?

 

[cookiejar]

drink more water and try not to use SS driptip

what happen with ss driptip?

 

[Pathology]

I had this same problem!

I even got blisters!

Try switching to 100% VG juice. That's what I did, and it worked.

AVE and HHV both have a good selection of 100% VG juices for a start for you.

 

[lladnar550]

First, Blistex, chapstick, and water. Make sure you are rehydrating as most of the other posters are mentioning. Vaping does dry you out, so drink more water than you normally do. I switched 2 of my normal 4 soda's a day to 20oz water bottles, and it helps alot.

Second, do whatever you can to avoid getting eliquid on your lips. Depending on the nic level and your skin's sensitivity, a small drop can blister. I have had a few blisters when I was using 24mg nic liquids from not being careful enough and allowing liquid to touch my lips once or twice. I am more careful now, but still ocasionally have a small drop that I forget to wipe from a drip tip, but it is mush less of a problem since switching to 10-12mg nic liquid.

What delivery device are you using? If you are using carto's, a drip tip really helps. There are plenty of people here that can help you avoid spits in your delivery device if you post what you are using.

 

[TomD]

Not insulted at all, in fact that is probably what I did. I have been using chapstick here and there and all has been fine. Thanks for all the replies!

 

[tbx59]

yea, I've been getting chapped lips too here and there, but not too bad, just sort of irritating.