E-Juice life?
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The vendors I use that put a born on date, also put an expiration date of a year later. So, I guess a year as long as it's kept in a cool, dim space.
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Its not really possible to quantify the lifespan of some random bottle of e-liquid. The date it was made really doesn't help, as alls that would mean is the date the various ingredients were compounded together and bottled. It doesn't inform you how old those raw ingredients already were before being comixed with eachother.
The primary thing I think you would wanna be aware of spoiling is the nicotine freebase in the e-liquid, because thats what your most interested in getting out of your e-liquid right? If your e-liquid states 14mg/ml but has nicotine thats heavily oxidized and degraded by 50%, then really your e-liquid is only 7mg/ml, unbeknown to you.
You'd really need to know when the batch of nicotine freebase was produced that the e-liquid ultimately utilized in its final composition. Id guess 99% of e-liquid vendors probably do not know the date the nicotine they use was manufactured.
How serious is/could nicotine degredation be? I contracted an independent laboratory to perform quality control on nicotine I was compounding, and during that process discovered a batch of older nicotine I had purchased from a manufacturer was hitting nearly 25% off its mark according to gas chromotography and analysis with a mass spectrometer. This nicotine freebase was nearly 1 year old from date of manufacture, and despite being stored under ideal conditions, had degraded by nearly a quarter its potency for reasons not really resolved (other than alluding to it being age-related). Food for thought, seen it with my own two eyes.
Now thats just nicotine, to then quantify the lifespan of the flavorings, PG/VG, any anything else included in the e-liquid, would require the same variables to be known (when those raw ingredients were made, how long till they themselves expire).
Example; If someone is using VG thats 1 month from expiration, and they make e-liquid with it, does that e-liquids lifespan till expiration suddenly become 1 year or 2 years? No of course not, its lifespan is only as good as the lifespan of the first-to-expire ingredient, in this example, the VG, which would expire just 1 month after production of the e-liquid (even if all its other ingredients don't expire for 2 years!).
The primary thing I think you would wanna be aware of spoiling is the nicotine freebase in the e-liquid, because thats what your most interested in getting out of your e-liquid right? If your e-liquid states 14mg/ml but has nicotine thats heavily oxidized and degraded by 50%, then really your e-liquid is only 7mg/ml, unbeknown to you.
You'd really need to know when the batch of nicotine freebase was produced that the e-liquid ultimately utilized in its final composition. Id guess 99% of e-liquid vendors probably do not know the date the nicotine they use was manufactured.
How serious is/could nicotine degredation be? I contracted an independent laboratory to perform quality control on nicotine I was compounding, and during that process discovered a batch of older nicotine I had purchased from a manufacturer was hitting nearly 25% off its mark according to gas chromotography and analysis with a mass spectrometer. This nicotine freebase was nearly 1 year old from date of manufacture, and despite being stored under ideal conditions, had degraded by nearly a quarter its potency for reasons not really resolved (other than alluding to it being age-related). Food for thought, seen it with my own two eyes.
Now thats just nicotine, to then quantify the lifespan of the flavorings, PG/VG, any anything else included in the e-liquid, would require the same variables to be known (when those raw ingredients were made, how long till they themselves expire).
Example; If someone is using VG thats 1 month from expiration, and they make e-liquid with it, does that e-liquids lifespan till expiration suddenly become 1 year or 2 years? No of course not, its lifespan is only as good as the lifespan of the first-to-expire ingredient, in this example, the VG, which would expire just 1 month after production of the e-liquid (even if all its other ingredients don't expire for 2 years!).
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