I never boiled any of the 40 to 50 analogs I was using a day for forty years. I just don't boil my wick may try it just to see what it's like.
Cotton Wicking Question... A simple one this time
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The comparison to cigarettes isn't really helpful - cigarette filters are designed to have smoke sucked through them, and will have been processed accordingly.
Cotton for normal use (e.g. removing cosmetics) could have all kinds of pesticides or bleaches in it.
Is it necessary to boil it? Nobody knows, and probably depends upon the supplier. But it takes so little effort, so why not?
Cotton for normal use (e.g. removing cosmetics) could have all kinds of pesticides or bleaches in it.
Is it necessary to boil it? Nobody knows, and probably depends upon the supplier. But it takes so little effort, so why not?
Plus that many of us view vaping as safer or a healthier alternative, to reduce the possibility of anything more being added... who knows?
Funk Dracula, if you try out that XC, post your thoughts?
You use a lot of gauze tattooing, right? Haven't I heard people using guaze as yet another alternative? Seems I saw that on YouTube, even.
My friend just informed me of how the local shop told him how to prep cotton balls:
-boil them once or twice for 10-15 minutes
-after boiling them wash that water out with fresh water to get rid of the chemicals that have freed out of the cotton
(if you do not rinse them after boiling them the balls will still have residues from the boiled water.)
-boil them once or twice for 10-15 minutes
-after boiling them wash that water out with fresh water to get rid of the chemicals that have freed out of the cotton
(if you do not rinse them after boiling them the balls will still have residues from the boiled water.)
To me any cotton used for wicking material gives me a cleaner taste if it has been boiled in distilled water. If I don't boil it, I get a "cotton" funny taste for the first half tank of juice.
I use distilled water so as not to add any chemicals from the treatment of tap water. I boil in distilled water for twenty minutes, rinse in distilled water and then boil again for twenty minutes in distilled water. I then lay the cotton on a piece of stainless steel mesh sitting on top of an empty pot and let it stay there for a couple of days to make sure it is dry throughout.
After the cotton is boiled I never touch it without washing my hands first. The wicking action of the cotton can and will pickup the oils from your skin.
I use distilled water so as not to add any chemicals from the treatment of tap water. I boil in distilled water for twenty minutes, rinse in distilled water and then boil again for twenty minutes in distilled water. I then lay the cotton on a piece of stainless steel mesh sitting on top of an empty pot and let it stay there for a couple of days to make sure it is dry throughout.
After the cotton is boiled I never touch it without washing my hands first. The wicking action of the cotton can and will pickup the oils from your skin.
I've been using cotton from some supermarket q-tips (or as we call 'em - 'cotton buds' 
) - it's 100% cotton and the first time I tried it without boiling it was... ok - but definitely tasted of something - linen-like maybe? So I pulled a bunch of cotton off the buds and boiled it for 10-15 minutes then dried it out and now I can't discern any taste from it at all.
From a taste perspective alone, I'm going to be boiling all my cotton from now on - organic or not
) - it's 100% cotton and the first time I tried it without boiling it was... ok - but definitely tasted of something - linen-like maybe? So I pulled a bunch of cotton off the buds and boiled it for 10-15 minutes then dried it out and now I can't discern any taste from it at all.From a taste perspective alone, I'm going to be boiling all my cotton from now on - organic or not
First I like to say hydrogen peroxide is H2O2 and not H2O3, That doesn"t exist. When people say there are some left over chemicals in anything, boiling that will only remove some and you"ll have some leftovers again. In the lab where I work I use hydrogen peroxide on a daily basis and any chemist will be able to tell you that H2O2 Will become H2O in minutes in our normal atmosphere. Definately when you let the cotton dry. You wouldn"t believe what they put on things to get something sold. Just try it out. My sterile cotton tasted a bit funny without boiling. After two boils in a.d. (distilled water) it was better
UPDATE:
So I decided to go ahead and boil a few cotton balls. I have done one boil, 15 minutes, in distilled water, rinsed with distilled water. This was done on the organic cotton I previously posted pictures of. They are now in with fresh distilled water for the second 15 minute boil, and will again be rinsed with fresh distilled water.
I can say at this point, I can notice a clear change in the smell (Oder) of the cotton. Before the first boil, there was an ever so faint aroma, can't really put my finger on it to describe it as more then the smell of cotton. LOL. However, after the first boil, there is no Oder to which I can make out. This leads me to the assumption, that something was infact removed from the organic cotton. What was removed? Who knows. I will update with more details after the second boil, second rinse, and a build using boiled, and unboiled on Kanger Protank single coils built as micro coils.
So I decided to go ahead and boil a few cotton balls. I have done one boil, 15 minutes, in distilled water, rinsed with distilled water. This was done on the organic cotton I previously posted pictures of. They are now in with fresh distilled water for the second 15 minute boil, and will again be rinsed with fresh distilled water.
I can say at this point, I can notice a clear change in the smell (Oder) of the cotton. Before the first boil, there was an ever so faint aroma, can't really put my finger on it to describe it as more then the smell of cotton. LOL. However, after the first boil, there is no Oder to which I can make out. This leads me to the assumption, that something was infact removed from the organic cotton. What was removed? Who knows. I will update with more details after the second boil, second rinse, and a build using boiled, and unboiled on Kanger Protank single coils built as micro coils.
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