Ok, I got my order today. I bought 500mg of 100mg nicotine with a 50/50 pg/vg ratio. I want to mix it down so it is 50 mg nicotine. I do have PG and VG. I am getting confused because of the base of 50/50 pg/vg. My ultimate goal will be to use 50/50 or 60/40 VG/PG base as a final result. Should I just mix nicotine and ?? to make it 50 mg? Thanks in advance for help.
Make sure you get this right. You didn't
buy 500mg of 100mg NIC, you probably bought 500ml of 100mg/ml of NIC. Don't get the volume (500ml) confused with the NIC concentration (always mg/ml and specifically 100mg/ml in your case). Also, 50mg/ml NIC is a
very high concentration. I use 18mg/ml and most juice vendors top out at 24 mg/ml. I think you're pushing way beyond the envelope of safety at 50 mg/ml. Consider that an average cigarette has 1 mg of nicotine. 1 ml of your mix at 50mg/ml would contain the same nicotine as 2.5 packs of cigarettes. You can blow through 4 ml of
eliquid in one day which, at 50mg/ml, would be the equivalent of a carton of cigarettes. Don't do that!
As a quick sanity check when you mix, consider that the NIC level is directly correlated to the percentage of NIC solution in your final product. The NIC level will be the NIC level in your base (100mg/ml for your case) multiplied by the percentage of that base in your final product. For example, say you made a 40ml batch using 10ml of NIC base plus 30ml of flavoring, plain PG and/or VG. Your final NIC level would be 100mg/ml multiplied by 10ml/40ml = 100mg/ml times 0.25 = 25mg/ml.
If you aren't sure about the math, get a recipe calculator and learn how to use it. It'll keep the NIC level straight as well as determine how much PG and VG to add to get exactly the right PG/VG ratio you want in the final product.
