Help Me Keep It Simple

[Liz!]

I swore I'd never try to mix my own. Swore I'd just use prefilled cartomizers. Ha!

I did buy some flavored juice and refilled my cartomizers and it was successful.

Now I've bought some flavorings and glycerine. I've read your stickies and recipes but it all seems a bit intimidating. What I'd like to try to at first is this:

1) make some 0 nic juice for evening vaping. Can I do this with just Loranne flavorings and vegetable glycerine?

2) order some high quality nic liquid and flavor it myself. I know a lot of you save money by buying high concentration nic liquid and then diluting but I think I'd just like to buy the concentration I like (between 11-18) and add flavoring. Do I add VG to that too. Or do the nic liquids already have it?

Do I *need* to buy PG? I'd rather keep it as simple as possible.

You can see that I am mightily confused, so thanks!

 

[just-a-nobody]

Hey Liz..yes you can make 0mg just using vg and flavoring. If you buy the eliquid at the strength you like, then you do not want to add VG or PG as that will dilute the nicotine strength. If you buy a higher nicotine strength, than you want, then you would dilute with VG or PG.

 

[Scottes]

It's usually cheaper to buy nic-juice in the lowest strength that allows you to mix up the desired e-juice strength. If you bought 24mg nic-juice and mixed with LorAnn's and nothing else, you'd end up with e-juice somewhere between 12mg and 20mg, depending on the flavor used.

It sounds like you want/need VG though, so you'd need to buy VG-based nic-juice, which is a little rare, but can be found. My Freedom Smokes has great prices and very high-quality nic-juice, and I *think* he makes VG nic-juice. It won't be pure VG, since he gets his nicotine mixed with PG. Since the the flavoring also has PG you'd probably end up with e-juice that's about 40-60% VG.

To avoid PG even more than this, you'd have to go with EcoPure, which does not contain PG. It's 36mg, so to get your e-juice down to 12-20mg you will have to add some VG to the mix of EcoPure + flavoring.

 

[Liz!]

Thanks for the info! It's not that I have any real preference for pg or vg. I've tried carts prefilled with both and don't really see a difference that matters to me.

It's just that I'm somehow convinced of Ecopure's quality control claims.