Cotton vs Rayon

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borno

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I was never exactly sure why, but from the moment it hit the vape scene, my brain equated rayon with those old, horrid double-knit pants and suits that somewhere made it to "Bigs" status back in the early 1970s.

Possibly related, I was never able to fully embrace it as a vape option. To me, it always tasted like Tang, or maybe Tab soda. RC Cola, possibly (etc., etc.). ;)

"Less filling. Tastes great."




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Can you get that with a nehru jacket and a walther ppk?
 

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Seems like rayon requires a witches brew of chemicals in its production.
From Wikipedia:
Rayon is a synthetic fiber, made from natural sources of regenerated cellulose, such as wood and related agricultural products. It has the same molecular structure as cellulose. It is also called Viscose. Many types and grades of viscose fibers and films exist. Some imitate the feel and texture of natural fibers such as silk, wool, cotton, and linen. The types that resemble silk are often called artificial silk.
The fibre is used to make textiles for clothing and other purposes. Rayon production involves solubilizing cellulose to allow turning the fibers into required form. Three common ways to solubilize are the Cupro process, not in use today, using ammoniacal solutions of copper salts; the Viscose process, the most common today, using alkali and carbon sulfide; and the Lyocell process, using amine oxide. The last avoids the neurotoxic carbon sulfide of the viscose process but is also more expensive.

Back when I was still stocking up, I bought nearly a pallet of cotton bacon, so I'll be using that for the foreseeable future.

In the discussion above, I'm surprised no one has tried turkey bacon.


But cotton, even organic cotton, needs pesticide in order to save the crop from various insects that will decimate the crop otherwise. The difference between organic and regular cotton (same goes for food crops) is that for organic cotton they use pesticides that are approved for organic usage by a government agency, which may be deemed generally "safe" when comes in contact with skin, but may or may not be safe for vaping.

Nothing is pure and clean in this world especially when we're talking about an application that involves heating and inhaling. Rayon may be worse or better than cotton in terms of chemicals and vaping, I have no idea.
 
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Nothing is pure and clean in this world especially when we're talking about an application that involves heating and inhaling. Rayon may be worse or better than cotton in terms of chemicals and vaping, I have no idea.

Yup Uncle, you got it :thumb:

I've seen all the panic people have experienced over a lot of things we use in vaping since 2012. All good stuff, as long as you do a little research, think things through sensibly and learn from it. In less than a month I will have been vaping for ten years. My bet is that had I continued to smoke I would either have serious health issues now or be dead. This works for me :)
 

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I may or may not have worn a pair of plaid pants back in the day.

I plead that I do not recall if my mother bought me some of those horrid things back when I was heading into Junior High.

Or maybe I've just blocked it from memory to preserve what little sanity I have left ;)

I got the parents back when I added a few years, later on. Oh, did I ever. :rolleyes::lol: The looks (of absolute disgust) I got from them were truly priceless. :cool:

1976-79 were some good years, other than sucking way too much gasoline into my system (due to necessity). Hey - who knew it'd be practice for all these decades later! :ohmy:

Cotton rules, for both t-shirts & vape-wicks!!! :vapor::headbang:

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When I think of rayon I think of the mid 80's--
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If only we had saved those shirts. Oh what could have been:

In this build I am using an aqua and orange colored rayon, Miami Vice edition shirt I found at JC Penny in 1987. A portion of the shirt is unusable because of the terrible acne I suffered during my senior year in high school.
 
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