Am I to assume that if you take the identical recipe for a 6mg nic but wanted to raise the recipe to a 24mg nic, the nicotine base needs to be higher?
Just trying to make sense of this, I do not understand why there are several base nicotine ratios/%. My mind just thinks to add more base to get a higher nic amount.
Yes. you can dilute down but you can't concentrate up unless you're a mad scientist. If you measure out 4mls of 6mg/ml you do have 24mg nicotine total, but you don't have one mil, you have 4 mls. Same as you started with, right? You knew that.
for 24mg/ml, let's start with 48mg/ml base. 48 is 2x24. Keeping it simple and not even talking flavorings, dilute with PG or VG by 50/50. 10ml x 48mg = 480mg nicotine. Add 10ml plain = 10ml + 10ml = 20ml and 480 + 0 = 480mg/20ml = 24mg/ml
Let's look at 60mg/ml base. 24 is 2/5ths of 60. or 4/10ths. So let's make 10mls instead of one. 4ml of 60mg = 240mg in 4 mls. Add 6 mls of plain PG/VG = 4mls + 6mls =10mls, and 240mg + plain =240mg = 240mg/10ml = 24mg/ml.
You can order your base nicotine in VG or PG and sometimes even percentages of each. It gets more complicated when you decide to customize. If you want a final recipe that is 70% PG or 91% PG or 43% VG, whatever you can think of, that is where the calculators come in handy. Calculators will also adjust the amount of PG/VG to compensate for flavoring amounts, so you can come out at exactly 24mg/ml or exactly 6mg/ml, and exactly 10mls or 100mls, etc.
Good luck, and I know you guys won't listen to me on this, but only buy enough flavoring for a few recipes at first or you'll end up ordering the store because everything will sound good and there are soooo many flavoring companies out there (says the person with 90 bottles of flavoring - grin !). Some great recipes can be found in the DIY threads. Work with care, write everything down so you can replicate your work, but most of all - have fun!
