I've been reading the stickies for dyi for a few days now. It's a lot to take in and first off I want to be safe and second I want to order the right products to get a pleasurable vape experience from the juice I produce. After all if you can't vape it what's the point of dyi? The only thing I'm uncertain about is the nic mg to order but I think I'll go conservative and order a 36mg Vg base to start. Thank for your help.
DIY nicotine base solution help!
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I'm certainly not familiar with pure nicotine; I use 100mg. When it goes "off," I don't know that it's the nicotine itself that has gone "off," but the carrier, PG or VG. I don't know if PG can go "off," but I'm pretty sure that VG can. But oxidation actually degrades the nicotine, causing it to lose strength, so I suppose it could go "off" too, if not stored properly (cold darkness -- mainly darkness, but cold probably helps a lot; some folks round here have viable nicotine that's been in "frozen" storage for 2-3 yrs). Pretty much anything organic can become "spoiled" at some point, but that's really the whole point of "processing," extracting active ingredients so that whatever carrier they come in doesn't become corrupted -- aspirin keeps a lot longer than willow bark! Refined sugar keeps FAR longer than sugar cane... Extracted nicotine would certainly have a far longer shelf life than the tobacco plants it came from, but that doesn't mean it's immortal.
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I started with 100mg/ml in 100% VG. This was good for making max vg blends as it didn't dilute with pg. But i have so many more requests from friends for 50/50 mixes so i finally went with 100mg/ml in 50/50 base. I found that i like the 50/50 base more as its easier to work with when mixing since VG tends to be really thick. And i found it mixes in better with 50/50. Sometimes i would get to the end of a nic bottle and notice it being stronger then previous batches at the same percentage. And to reduce oxidation i store mine in a small fridge. It will help prolong the life. Make sure you shake it well before using and if refrigerating it, allow it to get to room temp before using. And i found it really didn't dilute max VG blends much using the 50/50 since most of mine are 6mg or less on a blend.
I started with the 48mg/mL. I got glycerin and pg from them too. I hardly use the PG though because most of the flavors I have are already in PG and my nic base was as well. So I would go with a VG nic base personally and will for my next order. So I can control my PG level beyond how much flavoring/nicotine I want to add.
Nicotine solutions can go bad, and like other's have said because it oxidizes. So keep it in the dark. Be careful when working with it too, that's why I went with 48mg/mL. So I'd have to absorb a mL of it entirely in my body before I was near a lethal level (unlikely).
When I first started out I started at 18mg strength. It was too much once I had a decent atomizer. 10-12mg is a good place for me and I was a 20-30 cigarette a day smoker for about a decade. Sometimes less sometimes more.
Nicotine solutions can go bad, and like other's have said because it oxidizes. So keep it in the dark. Be careful when working with it too, that's why I went with 48mg/mL. So I'd have to absorb a mL of it entirely in my body before I was near a lethal level (unlikely).
When I first started out I started at 18mg strength. It was too much once I had a decent atomizer. 10-12mg is a good place for me and I was a 20-30 cigarette a day smoker for about a decade. Sometimes less sometimes more.
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