Beginner to DIY E Juice

[gcalv]

Hey everyone!

I'm sort of some what experienced with the whole vaping community. However, I want to start building my own mods and experimenting with coils. However, I'll take baby steps. That first step being that I want to make my own e juice. I know the basic ingredients; PG, VG, Nicotine and flavorings (sometimes water). My question is, does anyone have pointers when it comes to making e juice? Anything beyond ratios, percentages, mg to ml nicotine ratio? For example, I really don't know anything about what flavors I can and can't use. Or the steep times (if any juice needs it). Any advice would be helpful y'all. Oh and if you can happen to share a link where I can buy stuff or have literature to read, I would be much obliged. Thanks to y'all! Have a safe Wednesday haha!

 

[Train2]

I think you need a few more posts to get there but there's a HUGE DIY section of ECF with tips, recipes, and more than you want to read, lol.

There's threads about vendors, about steeping, etc...

Here's ONE tip -
I recommend a recipe calculator, like eJuiceMeUp, to help assure you get %'s right.

 

[Susan~S]

Hello and welcome to the forum gcalv. Glad to have you here!

For all things DIY head on over to the DIY ELiquid Forum. You will not be able to post there until you get in your first 5 posts and the servers update at :25 past the hour. Lots of great info in all the "stickies"

Recommended Reading For People New to DYI

For a juice mixing calculator consider using eJuiceMeUp

Here are some threads you may like to read through for different flavoring companies. Many of the posts include recipes and comments about a specific flavor.

http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/diy-e-liquid/298547-nicotine-comparisons.html <= They don't all taste the same.

1. Flavor Arts (FA) - Pure Vapes has 3ml FlavourArt flavorings
2. The Flavor Apprentice (TFA) - The Flavor Apprentice Flavoring Thread => Also see Bill's Magic Vapor Blogs
3. Inawera (IW) - Inawera - a few reviews
4. Capella (CAP) - http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/diy-e-liquid/637270-diy-capellas-recipe-thread-v2-0-a.html
5. Hangsen (HS) - The Hangsen Thread
6. VapingZone (VZ) - New Super Concentrated Flavors & New Super Concentrated Flavors - Part 2
7. Flavor West (FW) - Flavor West DIY flavor review

DIY Recipe Sites

* ECF E-Liquid Recipes <= Feel free to post your recipes here for all members to enjoy
* EcigExpress Archive Cookbook
* E-Liquid-Recipes: http*:*//e-liquid-recipes - (Remove *'s - forum automatically striped this link)
* UK E-Liquid Recipes
* kritikalmass - E-Liquid Recipes
* One Stop DIY Shop - Recipes
* Reddit Recipes - Read the Sidebar

 

[mavap]

Thanks Susan, i guess this post is everything to know for a diy newb like me
A lot of helpful members around here

 

[Rsunderl]

Hi mavap and welcome to ECF!

General consensus is that for long-term storage of nic base, you should transfer it into glass bottles with very little air at the top and store in the freezer. To have some ready to use, transfer from the larger bottles to smaller bottles.

Also, it seems to be a good idea to thoroughly mix up the liquid before any transferring or use. Seems the nic isn't always evenly disbursed in the liquid.

Hope it helps and Happy Vaping!

 

[rancor]

I will share some equipment tips I learned the hard way:
Use a graduated cylinder to measure - I have a 10ml with .2ml increments - very accurate.
You can "graduate" your own mixing bottle one you have the ratios you like. For an easy example, you could mix 5ml of 3mg juice with 10mg of 0mg juice to end up with 15ml of 1mg juice, so you can mark your bottle at 5, 10, and 15ml with a sharpie and save yourself some time in the future.

 

[Asbestos4004]

Huh? Why not just mix a bottle of juice?

 

[93gc40]

Huh? Why not just mix a bottle of juice?

What if you want to repeat a mixture????? Little bit of this and a little of that is fun, but if you want to repeat a recipe, or achieve an objective... You might want to measure stuff.

 

[Asbestos4004]

I'm with you 93......100%. All of my juices are my exact recipes and mixtures. I was trying to figure out the logic behind rancor's method.

Rancors post:

"I will share some equipment tips I learned the hard way:
Use a graduated cylinder to measure - I have a 10ml with .2ml increments - very accurate.
You can "graduate" your own mixing bottle one you have the ratios you like. For an easy example, you could mix 5ml of 3mg juice with 10mg of 0mg juice to end up with 15ml of 1mg juice, so you can mark your bottle at 5, 10, and 15ml with a sharpie and save yourself some time in the future. "

this makes no sense to me

 

[dhood]

Always start small when trying to mix something. You don't want to throw out too much because of a bad flavor mix. I like the 100 drop method. It makes it easy to do percentages and you only make about 2.5 ml at a time. If it doesn't work you don't waste too much.

 

[gcalv]

Thanks for telling me about eJuice me up, it's my first choice for juice making now!