Dripping- on my skin

[Jobear]

So I'm sure this has been addressed before, but I'm having trouble getting good search results.
I know when you are DIYing your juice, it's bad to get highly concentrated nicotine liquid on your skin. There are some jokes in some of the forums I've perused about getting poisoning from getting already mixed on you, licking it off, etc.- but I can't tell how serious it is. I recently started filling up my own cartos and have a couple atty's on the way. I'm anticipating a learning curve in which I will get liquid on myself. I don't diy and generally vape 12mgs or lower. Is it really bad if this gets on my fingers? Is it sufficient to just wipe it off with a paper towel or should I wash with soap and water every time this happens?

Thanks in advance for helping out a probably over paranoid noob.

 

[glasseye]

I always make a big sloppy mess filling up cartos. lol Just wipe it up with a paper towel and wash your hands before you rub your eyes or some other delicate area and you'll be OK. I don't think I've read of anyone licking it off. Eeeewww! Don't do that. hahaha

 

[Jobear]

Thanks Glasseye!

Most of the "licking" I read about were in rave reviews of eliquids- things like "I'm going to poison myself because I can't resist licking it off if I spill it...", or ones that taste so good they wanted to drink it up instead of vaping it, etc- which even this noob recognized as a joke but worried me a little.

 

[cherrycakes]

yea don't lick it off.
wash your hands.
but unless you're dealing with high mg nicotine concentrate, it shouldn't be a problem.

not a day goes by when I *don't* get juice on my hands some way or another

 

[glasseye]

Oh OK, I've seen reviews like that, I know what you mean now! Crazy jokesters. lol If you haven't gotten juice in your mouth by accident yet, you will, it happens to everybody. It is not even close pleasant tasting, just sorta peppery with a bit of a quick numbing quality maybe. I get unlady-like and spit. My dogs don't care.

 

[Jerms]

I've dripped many a drops on my skin and never had any symptoms of nic overload. Wipe it off and you'll be fine.

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[Mr.Mann]

You'll be fine, but I have a newborn and a dog that weighs less than my newborn, so I have to be careful.

 

[bfrie]

i work at a vapestore and get juice all over my hand while im making peoples orders. by the end of the day im near bouncing off the walls, but ive never had any side effects id seriously be concerned about. and i get A LOT of juice on me throughout the day

 

[Jerms]

You'll be fine, but I have a newborn and a dog that weighs less than my newborn, so I have to be careful.

That's a good point, while it's not enough to hurt adults, especially nic addicts, nicotine does get absorbed through the skin so be extra careful with babies and pets.

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[Mr.Mann]

i work at a vapestore and get juice all over my hand while im making peoples orders. by the end of the day im near bouncing off the walls, but ive never had any side effects id seriously be concerned about. and i get A LOT of juice on me throughout the day

You bottle liquids and it gets on your bare hands? Sounds messy. Must be cool to work at a vape store. Is it a pretty relaxed environment?

 

[bfrie]

You bottle liquids and it gets on your bare hands? Sounds messy. Must be cool to work at a vape store. Is it a pretty relaxed environment?

yea it gets pretty messy. thats why no one but a select few qualified individuals work with the 100mg nic, and even fewer get to even look at the 1000mg nic. pretty scary having pure nicotine in my workplace. but yes it is more relaxed than you could even imagine

 

[Mr.Mann]

yea it gets pretty messy. thats why no one but a select few qualified individuals work with the 100mg nic, and even fewer get to even look at the 1000mg nic. pretty scary having pure nicotine in my workplace. but yes it is more relaxed than you could even imagine

Yeah, I've heard of a place where everything was sooooo restricted and regimented that it was like working at a hospital.

 

[bfrie]

Yeah, I've heard of a place where everything was sooooo restricted and regimented that it was like working at a hospital.

thats the type of place you want to buy from, but never want to work at. we are extremely restricted on what we can do with the product (for our own safety) but we are allowed to do just about anything. if someone walks in with very little money but actually really wants to start vaping and needs it or they just broke their device and cant afford a replacement, they wont leave dissapointed. we have had people cry because we treat them with so much respect

 

[Mr.Mann]

thats the type of place you want to buy from, but never want to work at. we are extremely restricted on what we can do with the product (for our own safety) but we are allowed to do just about anything. if someone walks in with very little money but actually really wants to start vaping and needs it or they just broke their device and cant afford a replacement, they wont leave dissapointed. we have had people cry because we treat them with so much respect

More power to you all!

 

[scarf-ace]

If it is a drop or two I wipe it off. Any more than that and I wash. I'm not worried so much about nic overload as I am about hives... I have ridiculously allergic skin that gets red at the slightest provocation and I don't want to take any chances.

 

[Randy C]

I'm a bit "slower" than most... I learned about vaping the hard way and had absolutely no idea what I was doing when I first started. I think I wasted (and drank) more juice than I vaped; I've taken many a "juice bath" in my day! Tanks falling apart; juice running down my arms... etc.

Thank God I didn't have access to 1000mg of nic.

 

[Jobear]

Thanks everybody!

I started on my atty today, and yeah my fingers got a bit sticky (and my battery, my case, the bottles, my cellphone- they all got wipedowns) but I didn't feel too wired when I was done. Most of my juice is pretty low nic anyway. My dad was a chemist for years, and there are plenty of scary things out there.

 

[jakl_53]

Just so long as it's not a highly concentrated juice you should be fine. I would say 36mg and below you shouldn't worry too much. Don't let it soak for 20+ min but you don't have to worry about washing immediately. A paper towel to contain spills will suffice.