DIY liquids dont taste good at all

[Joh123]

Hi! I've been vaping since February. I've made about 1.5-2 litres of eliquid myself but still can't get it taste right. When I buy a ready eliquid, it tastes nice and doesnt make my tongue feel weird. When I mix a liquid myself, it doesn't have much taste and kinda burns my tongue. I use Inawera base liquids and flavors. At first I mostly used 50/50 VG/PG. Now I've made many liquids 70/30 VG/PG, but it's still the same - my tongue feels weird... What's the case :S? It would be sooo much cheaper to mix the liquids myself but I just cant seem to succeed in mixing them.

Any good pointers?
Ah, btw, the nic level is usually 12mg to 18mg.

 

[BlueMoods]

That sounds like your sweetener, or lack there of. I like glycerine or Sorbitol but that's me, you may like another. With juice, sweet is like salt in cooking, even if it isn't supposed to be sweet, you add a touch to make it right.

 

[lilmrsyeti]

Does your tongue feel like it has a layer of something on it? If so, you are probably using too much VG for your taste buds. Not sure why your tongue would feel like its burning though. Usually if I get a juice with too much VG, it feels like I have a layer of oil on my tongue.

I'm not familiar with the brands you listed as what you use...but you didn't say what % you are mixing your flavors at?? I have to mix mine at 15-20% to get it to taste good for me and my husband. Again, I've never used the brands you are using, so don't know. Also, if you use to much of one flavor, instead of it making the flavor stronger, it will actually make it weaker. Are the flavors you are using just regular flavors, or super concentrated?

There's a couple e-juice calculators out there that you can download for free that you just put in your #s and flavorings, and it will tell you how much of everything to put in your mix. I don't use them, but I believe one of them is called ejuice me up...or something along those lines. Do a google search and you should find one.

Good luck!

 

[tj99959]

Bet it's the brand of flavorings you use. PG, VG, and even nicotine are pretty consistent with how they taste. I don't buy flavorings from e-liquid suppliers anymore. Instead I buy flavor extracts.

 

[Daniel E]

Sweetener should help, and also let it steep in a light-free environment and just store it the same way.
That sensation on your tongue might be to high nicotine level also?

 

[cyberwolf]

I've never noticed the symptoms you are mentioning, but I have mixed my share of bad juice. You might want to start a process of elimination. Try vaping your VG and PG by themselves and see if you get bad results from either. Then mix up a little of just your VG and PG, and then add in your nic. Finally, start adding flavoring very slowly.

One more question, how does your concentrated nicotine look and smell? Clear with very little odor is what I look for.

 

[zoiDman]

Hi! I've been vaping since February. I've made about 1.5-2 litres of eliquid myself but still can't get it taste right. When I buy a ready eliquid, it tastes nice and doesnt make my tongue feel weird. When I mix a liquid myself, it doesn't have much taste and kinda burns my tongue. I use Inawera base liquids and flavors. At first I mostly used 50/50 VG/PG. Now I've made many liquids 70/30 VG/PG, but it's still the same - my tongue feels weird... What's the case :S? It would be sooo much cheaper to mix the liquids myself but I just cant seem to succeed in mixing them.

Any good pointers?
Ah, btw, the nic level is usually 12mg to 18mg.

Hard to say without know Exactly What and How Much of Each you are putting into a DIY Mix.

Have you tried to Vape your Unflavored Nicotine Base at 12 and 18mg so you can Rule that Out?

 

[Electronic_Nog]

I've never heard of that company, granted I live in the US (their prices are in Euros, I deduce they must be European).

I'd try buying supplies from a different website and see if that solves the problem. Maybe just a few ML of everything, just enough to determine whether or not it's the products from that specific vendor. Some people are allergic to PG, but if you can vape ready-made liquid with PG in it, I doubt it's that.

 

[Bill's Magic Vapor]

Not sure about the burning sensation you are describing. Never experienced that myself. As the last few posts have indicated, use a process of elimination, by making just a PG/VG base. Vape. Then add the nicotine. Vape. Then add the flavor. Vape. Between each step you need to allow the juice to steep. Steeping is the most important part of flavoring. It literally takes days for the flavor molecules to form their flavor bonds. My juice takes a minimum of three days, but I'm usually out a week or so, before I ever vape it. I can't stand the chemical taste, and that comes from a lack of steeping. Many of my juices have steeped for weeks and even months, before I can say whether I like them or not. I tend to use more flavoring, rather than less, the exception being tobacco concentrates. A little goes a long way. My ADV is a cinnamon Danish with 46% flavoring. Everyone is different and I do not have a good sense of taste or smell, so YMMV. Most of my concoctions are around 8% - 20% flavoring, though. Use the process of elimination method.

By the way, 95% of everything I make just sucks. I have to endlessly tweak to get a new flavor that I like. What I have found works best is to buy a flavor I like, figure out the ingredients, then buy the concentrates and tinker until I get it. This can take many days to "perfect." Extreme patience and careful record keeping. Steeping throws these flavor efforts way out time-wise. But if I'm only shooting for one particular flavor, I can eventually match it. When I first started DIY, I tried to make everything, and everything sucked. Now I just target one mixture and stay with it until I get it. Flavoring is both an art and a science, but more of an art than a science imho. I have the base chemicals to make most concentrates, and this is just way too hard for me. I just don't have the talent. But with the concentrates I can get there, eventually. Good luck to you. Be patient. Keep meticulous records for when you "stumble" across a winner, and Vape On!

Btw, I use The Flavor Apprentice (TFA) mostly for concentrates and Wizard Labs for nicotine and bases.

 

[chellemmm]

Burning? Are you using cinnamon? Are you using too much flavouring?

 

[Marjolein]

I use the base from Inawera too. Never felt something on my tongue. I also use the 50/50 and the 70/30. Maybe it's the flavours you're using? Try a flavour from a different brand maybe?