alcohol in e juice
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Yes, you can actually use pure grain alcohol(PGA) to thin out juices, although some people prefer to use distilled water because the alcohol tends to enhance throat hit and flavors(not always the flavor you want to emphasize). And yes, some flavor extracts are extracted in alcohol, so it just goes along with those particular flavors.
There is also 70%+ alcohol in food extracts, but heat causes it to evaporate quickly, so it doesn't affect the food.
From my experience with organic flavors(they use alcohol) I never felt any sort of intoxication...but I'm a big guy, so who knows.
From my experience with organic flavors(they use alcohol) I never felt any sort of intoxication...but I'm a big guy, so who knows.
To the best of my knowledge, the alcohol is destroyed during vaporization. I've never experienced or heard of anyone having any intoxication reactions to it.
Hi Guys,
Is Alcohol ok to use in diy e juice? I saw someone posted this website for ejuice but there's alcohol in some of the extracts
I'm not allowed to post a link but here's the company's I have been wondering about baytrading bakto and wilton
thanks,
C
You can steep it with the cap off and the alcohol from the flavoring will evaporate.
I doubt that the alcohol contain in e-juice is the one that make you feel tipsy.. It is just a replacement of distilled water and it definetely taste different.. Just my 5 cents..
Clear alcohol in ejuice cannot make you feel anything, if you ever feel dizzy it'll be the nicotine (ever had a cig first thing in the morning?). Alcohol does increase the throat hit and feel a little 'scratchy' (some like this, some hate it). Some prefer using alcohol as it takes less of it to thin liquid then distilled water, I used to use a little vodka when I was DIY-ing
I've been looking at doing some DIY juices myself but I have stuck to 100% VG so far because I'm only after the flavour and I don't like the throat hit. I'm going to start experimenting with Vodka to see how it changes the flavour.
I do NOT add alcohol in my e juice. I make all my own juices and I'm convinced that alcohol is a absolutely unnecessary ingredient! ! I think some companies use it as a filler and quite possibly a thinner.. It in my opinion is absolutely unnecessary. Personally I've had juice when I first started vaping with alcohol in it as a ingredient and in my opinion it is a lesser quality juice. I can imagine why anyone would use it as a ingredient unless they used 100% Vg and needed to thin the juice, even then water might be a better substitute. But that's just my opinion. Some do use vodkas. I've never tried the vodka so I can't comment on that . But I don't really understand why a person would want to cut the juice with the exception of 100% Vg
That I can understand. Those who never tried it, do expirement and see what you personally think. I myself don't care to use it but everyone is different.
That I can understand. Those who never tried it, do expirement and see what you personally think. I myself don't care to use it but everyone is different.
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I've been mixing with 3% Vodka in most of my recipes lately, does help thin high VG juice out, and gives it a nice snap Thinking of trying some scotch in a few recipes too.
Adding alcohol to juices will depend on the flavour concentrates that they are using. Some concentrates are hard to mix with PG/VG so by mixing them with alcohol, they can then be mixed with the PG/VG easier as alcohol being a solvent mixes readily with both. I doubt that any vendor would add alcohol instead of water unless they were having the aforementioned mixing issues as it is more expensive. However i do concede that some vendors might add alcohol to increase throat hit, especially in heavy VG mixes but only at very small percentages of the total volume.
I tried it just a few times, and yes for the 100% VG fellows, it's doing something good with it, VG gives not much TH and some vodka or similar does add it.
I use Vodka in my berry mixtures. It makes the flavor "pop" a little. I typically use .5%
Agree, just a few drops alcohol can work the same as a Vape Wizard, melting flavors together.
vodka or any clear grain alcohol is fine to use, you can probably even use rum
many vapers are unaware of this fact but PG is an alcohol
many vapers are unaware of this fact but PG is an alcohol
Glycerol too, but they don't the have right size and form to interfere with the same receptors as ethanol does. They do readily cross blood-brain barrier, but since 0 nic people aren't getting drunk/baked/strange on vaping... I guess you would probably die of suffocation before reaching the threshold of plasma concentration where it matters. Seems to be the case of alcohol too, since nobody gets drunk by cleaning wounds.
Edit: Scratch that, you can get drunk from inhaling alcohol. It's even more dangerous because you don't have the digestive+liver system metabolizing part of it before it reaches bloodstream. Now someone needs to make the math of how much organic ejuice someone would have to vape to reach one beer can.
I'm still thinking of suffocation happening first here unless companies start to add more alcohol content.
Edit: Scratch that, you can get drunk from inhaling alcohol. It's even more dangerous because you don't have the digestive+liver system metabolizing part of it before it reaches bloodstream. Now someone needs to make the math of how much organic ejuice someone would have to vape to reach one beer can.
I'm still thinking of suffocation happening first here unless companies start to add more alcohol content.
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I just got 5lts of pure grain alcohol for extraction. I`m considering using on my vg juices to check it out.
I can't find good reviews about it though.
I can't find good reviews about it though.
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