I run 70%VG juices through my kayfun Lite all the time. Oddly enough though, my orchid won't wick fast enough to go over 60%VG.
I run 70%VG juices through my kayfun Lite all the time. Oddly enough though, my orchid won't wick fast enough to go over 60%VG.
These guys tend to start by making it for themselves and their buddies so they can vape 50ml a day on the cheap and so they buy cheap ingredients.
Good, levorotatory (not misspelled, look it up) nicotine is not cheap.
Good laboratory grade PG and VG are not (as) cheap.
Good flavoring cannot be purchased in the food aisle.
Here you are wrong on all but one account:
- Nicotine is cheap, and "gourmet" juices are made from the same nic that is sold on Internet by reputable suppliers for cheap (like $100 per liter of 100 mg nic).
- PG and VG that are used for vaping are not of "lab" grade. Lab grade is not clean enough. We use USP grade VG and PG.
- Only about flavorings you are partially right. But there are a lot of places selling flavorings for DIY - and for commercial users also.
It is good to have Wikipedia. If you read full article on nicotine you'll see that the naturally occurring form of nicotine is levorotatory. It is salts on nic that are usually dextrorotatory, which are of no consern really. I have heard (cannot confirm) that some juice manufacturers treat nic with minor addition of acid to revert part of it into salts, they claim it decreases harshness, if I remember correctly.I would have to argue that a "gourmet" juice is not necessarily a "good" juice. I'll be so bold as to submit that the only "good" juice is a clean juice.
Letting the status quo in the gourmet juice market govern your perception of what makes a juice "good" is unwise.
I might also posit that within a few years or so the gourmet juice market will be heavily scaled back when the FDA steps in due to their laissez faire attitude on cheap nicotine, flavorings and sweeteners.
From Wikipedia
"Nicotine is optically active, having two enantiomeric forms. The naturally occurring form of nicotine is levorotatory with a specific rotation of [α]D = –166.4° ((−)-nicotine). The dextrorotatory form, (+)-nicotine is physiologically less active than (–)-nicotine."
End Wiki article.
So you may glean that nicotine can exist in different states, the natural state being levorotatory. If you were to research further you would find that there is another problem, nitrosamines. Nitrosamines when left in nicotine will steadily build up and cause alkalinity and make you sick. It sticks in your fat cells and is generally recognized and not a good thing.
So, call up one of these juice companies and speak with a rep, ask them if they can describe the type of nicotine they use in their juice. (No cheating, you can't just lead them like a lawyer in court! ie "Hey is your juice levoratatory? Oh it is? Good, click") You may be surprised when they pass the phone around the office and you speak to the boss and then you speak to the boss's boss without a clear answer ever being given.
It seems these days, everyone and their mother (who is now vaping by the way) has an allergy to PG. Its either a sore throat, headaches, this or that....
Is it just mass paranoia, like how everything thinks they are gluten intolerant now?
I KNOW some people are allergic to PG, but I just don't believe its 9 out of 10 vapers.
What do you guys think?
This day and age allergies and sensitivities are cool and trendy for some dumb reason. I'm not trying to say no one has a sensitivity let alone an actual allergy to higher pg, imo the numbers are just over exaggerated.
I don't have an allergy to it, before I went sub-ohm and got a high output tank I could vape 70pg all day, now that my mod produces way more vapor high pg gives me too much of a throat hit. Its that simple.It seems these days, everyone and their mother (who is now vaping by the way) has an allergy to PG. Its either a sore throat, headaches, this or that....
Is it just mass paranoia, like how everything thinks they are gluten intolerant now?
I KNOW some people are allergic to PG, but I just don't believe its 9 out of 10 vapers.
What do you guys think?
Glycerin doesn't sound explosive?Also, pg sounds like an ingredient used in an atomic bomb, vg on the other hand sounds like it belongs in a hipster vegan dish or a fancy drink..