Do you add your pg & vg first or your flavors first?

[DaveP]

With all the bottles I open, dispense and close all while working. Can't spill a closed bottle.

I do the same, but I add the nic to 6 bottles and then I'm done with nic for the session. Just me. PG and VG are in condiment style squeeze bottles. Flavors are in factory squeeze bottles with dropper tips. It's the liter nic bottle that's top heavy and likely to tip easily!

I get to remove the gloves after the nic bottle is closed down and zip locked in the big bag. Shortly after that the 60ml mix bottles are filled with PG/VG and flavor, capped, shaken, and set out to steep, one at a time.

In the next week or two I'll transfer all my nic to glass bottles with polycone caps and freeze all but one. I've procrastinated for a few months on that activity. I have the Boston Rounds bottles sitting ready to fill.

 

[SteveS45]

Even if I mix up a few recipes during one mixing session I do them one at a time. I guess it could be more efficient if I was constantly making multiple flavors but I normally only do one or two at a time.

 

[Capt.shay]

I try to have dedicated syringes for each flavor because even after washing them it seems I can still smell residual flavor. But I will probably end up ordering a cylinder (or 2) after reading all of your comments!


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I really don't think order matters in regards to the mix but I find Flavor/nic./PG/VG most convenient.

 

[mattiem]

I add flavorings first. Then add the nic. I cap the bottle and give it a quick shake. My nic is suspended in pg and my flavorings are all pg based. I try to keep my mixes close to 50/50 so sometimes I have to add a bit more pg. I will add it before capping and shaking. Then I add my vg. I make my favorite mixes 110ml at a time. That 10ml head space in a 120ml bottle gives me plenty of mixing room while shaking.

When I first started making my own e-liquid I would occasionally have a bottle turn out really cloudy. It was driving me crazy trying to figure out what was causing it. I posted the problem over on the Flavor Apprentice thread and discovered it was cause by the way I was adding my ingredients. At that time I was just adding flavor, nic, pg and then vg. The cloudyness formed when I shook it up. Now that I cap and shake before adding the vg I never get the cloudyness.

 

[Jdurand]

Not sure if it matters but....
1. Nic
2. PG (if required)
3. Flavors
4. VG

 

[smacuser]

I use the PG squeeze bottle last to knock down the sticky flavors and VG off the insides of the funnel.

 

[WillyZee]

I mix in this order ... VG, flavouring, nicotine base, then PG.