DYI Juice ingredients (Would you vape it?)

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Blade646

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Found some gems at a local liquidators.

Would you use these in your vape DYI solutions?

since you cant make out the images text:
Cherry flavoring
Ingredients:
PG, Alcohol, Caramel color, natural and artificial flavor, water

Lemon Extract
Ingredients
: 85% Alcohol, Lemon Oils
 
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Those type of products are meant to be used in baking/food preparation NOT DIY and vaping.

For all things DIY head on over to the DIY ELiquid Forum. You will not be able to post there until you get in your first 5 posts and the servers update at :25 past the hour. Make sure to read all the "stickies". Also check out the blogs by ECF members Hoosier & dannyv45.

dannyv45 just posted this thread a few days ago. Wonderful information here: I've updated my recommended reading for people new to DYI. Please have a look.

For a juice mixing calculator consider using eJuiceMeUp
 

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With the exception of some tobacco flavors, the vast majority of e-juice flavorings are re-purposed food flavorings. But the advantage of buying something that is specifically marketed as e-juice flavoring is that you can (usually) assume that others have already vaped it before you, and not gotten sick or had other obvious problems. But even that is only true in the short term, and no one can really say that any of the flavorings we use has no possibility of causing problems a few years down the road. Most of us shrug that off knowing that we used to inhale really, obviously nasty stuff to satisfy our nicotine habits.

So the fact is that what you have may or may not be any worse than flavorings that are sold for DIY e-juice, but do you want to be the first guinea pig? Anytime the word "oil" is used in the ingredients list, that sets off some alarm bells because lipids are definitely not something you want in your lungs. But many of the flavor extractions are called oils, but do not contain lipids. In that sense, they would be more accurately defined as essences or resins, but the term oil is used somewhat loosely when it comes to flavorings. Artificial colorings are another potential cause for concern, although I expect that some pre-made juice and perhaps some flavorings contain one or more. But again, do you want to be the guinea pig? If so, let us know how it works, assuming you survive to tell the tale.
 
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Blade646

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http://www.reddit.com/r/DIY_eJuice/comments/1sost6/creating_extracts_to_be_used_in_ejuice/


I just found this and gave it a read through. The lemon product from what this article describes is an ester and is what commercial products are typically made of.
They also say that Lemon juice at 1% or Citric acid is what gives E liquid the vitamin c fortifications :) .

With this information in hand I would like to state that I intend to create an acidicly decarboxylated "Herbal" extraction in 98%VG/2% Pure lemon esters.
The herbs will remain in the solution for 2 weeks before being pressed. I will report back with the results if anyone is interested in the types of herbs I use or more information just pm me!
 
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