Grocery bought extracts...

[skurys]

Hi all,

I bought me some flavor extracts I found at some local supermarket and they list the ingredients as: Water, (Flavor) Extract, Propylene Glycol

Where "flavor" is the corresponding flavor. I have bananna, coffee and vanilla.

Now they are 5oz bottles, and "water" is the first ingredient so I suspect that they are abit watered down, but at least they dont appear to contain any oils.

Anyone know if boiling would remove only water and leave me with a condensed flavor/PG solution? Or will I simply have to use alot of this in my diy mixes?

Thanks
-Shawn

 

[Scottes]

It might be better to note the brand name and do a search for that word. I'd recommend an Advanced Search and selecting the DIY Liquid forum.

 

[doots]

most of it is most likely water so there wouldnt be much left and where would you know to stop boiling. Id try them out full strength by adding drops of them to a small amount of liquid to test first.

 

[Jim Davis]

Just an FYI;
Months ago, I tried Vanilla extract. It had sugar in it. After a week, the inside of my atty was clogged with what looked like cotton candy. It cleaned out nicely, and the atty still works, but be careful.

 

[cmdrmaxwell]

Hi all,

I bought me some flavor extracts I found at some local supermarket and they list the ingredients as: Water, (Flavor) Extract, Propylene Glycol

Where "flavor" is the corresponding flavor. I have bananna, coffee and vanilla.

Now they are 5oz bottles, and "water" is the first ingredient so I suspect that they are abit watered down, but at least they dont appear to contain any oils.

Anyone know if boiling would remove only water and leave me with a condensed flavor/PG solution? Or will I simply have to use alot of this in my diy mixes?

Thanks
-Shawn

i use the mint, peppermint, orange and rum from walmart and only the rum has PG, the rest are oil based and i have used them with no problems. just yesterday i put orange in my mint flavor combined in a 3ml bottle that is 24mg Nic PG and Humco glycerine and it kicks you know what8-o and its got one hell of a throat hit with the orange added. just my .02 but i hope this helps.

 

[skurys]

Yeah they had 2 vanillas, one was marked artificial vanilla extract and had inverted sugar, the one i took only says water, PG and natural vanilla extract.. sugared one was clear and mine is a bit dark... we shall see!

 

[skurys]

maxwell where at walmart, i couldnt find any in the food or pharmacy sections...

 

[kardjunkie]

Just my opinion, it's flavoring suspended in water and PG and should be perfect for eliquid. Did you try it with one of the eliquid recipes? Was it to weak? I would try it in liquid before trying to boil it down, just my opinion.

 

[skurys]

Yeah will try that soon.. I suspect it will take alot, I mean if Loranns is tiny lil bottles, and these are a whopping 5oz... and ingredients are always in order of percentage.... so if its water, then extract, then PG.... theres prolly 50%+ water in it.

Heres a question I havent seen and just thought of.... WHY PG/VG? Do atty's not like straight up water?

 

[cmdrmaxwell]

maxwell where at walmart, i couldnt find any in the food or pharmacy sections...

the baking aisle, sometimes they are by the spices!

 

[skurys]

Well I tried some of the coffe extract... not bad... very mild taste. I used 3 drops extract and 30 of PG (was trying for 10% flavor, 90% PG, should have been 27 drops PG, looks like I fail math lol) .... next gonna up it to 10 extract and 20 PG. I suspect this will be more what I am looking for