My first experiment with lemon. I'm sure there are better places to get a product for what we do but my impatience led me to Kroger where I bought a plastic lemon full of lemon concentrate and a bottle of artificially flavored lemon that had some oil in it. I mixed a small batch of the lemon concentrate with pg vg no nic. It had decent vapor, not much flavor but more importantly did nothing to stimulate my saliva glands. On the other hand it did not dry out my mouth much at all meaning I didn't feel much of a change at all with the moisture in my mouth. Some of the ingredients listed were water, sodium benzoate, sodium metabisulfite, sodium sulfite, lemon oil. This is something I will not try again.
Now the artificial lemon flavoring..same mix with pg vg. First two vapes (again decent vapor) dry-est vapor I have had to date. It was the kind of vapor that sucks all the moisture out of my mouth. My tongue and the roof of my mouth then the sides of my mouth were completely moisture-less. I had to drink water...it honestly was one of those "I must have water" things.
Now, just for kicks, I grabbed some table salt and poured it into the mix. Why? ...When I put salt on my tongue or anywhere in my mouth, the salt makes my mouth create saliva like there is no tomorrow. If I wet my finger(just the palm side of a small area on the index) and shake just a bit of salt on it, touch my tongue with it. It can fill half my mouth with saliva from that.
It took about 2 hours (it seemed) to dissolve. Then I vaped it. The flavor not good, not terrible but the dry
vape had toned down to the point of where I did not feel like I had to run for a glass of water. The salt did help with the dryness.
The concentrate had water and salt with a little oil in it...in terms of NOM NOM-none really...in terms of dryness-not much at all. I believe the water and salt(what is in our saliva already) is what helped with keeping the vapor away from dryness.
The artificially flavor lemon with alcohol and oil (which are not part of my saliva ingredients) was just too dry for me to
vape.
I will not be doing this experiment again because when I woke up the next day my chest was tight and I felt like I had been smoking cigarettes. It took about twelve more hours for this feeling to go away....I feel fine now.
Parallex2....This is my personal definition of NOM NOM....Not a flavor, A vapor that will actually stimulate the saliva glands thus creating the Cujo syndrome and leaving the water for the grass. and as for my atty with the salt vape. I gave it an iso bath immediately after the experiment....so far it's still working fine.
Does this make me an
alien? I bought a real lemon...sucked on it--yuck! it did not create saliva for me at all.It did however make my face weird and wrinkly and made my cheeks tighten up. I put salt in my mouth...I have extra saliva for you guys!!
Hey Red , I got the toothpaste, gel, gum and mouthwash. The gum is really good and so is the mouthwash...I haven't tried the other two yet.
Bovinia, I like your description of NOM NOM better....it sounds so yummy.
Seabrook I saw you said slice of lemon ( now I see candies ) lmao. Me = lemon = no thanks...candies are good though!
Granted, I don't have a real lab, nor an advanced chemistry degree. Just have tried because I'm that guy that when someone says I can't do something, I do it just to confirm that I cannot...
Same here Hoosier and after my first very crude experiment I still believe more in the saliva ingredients (the first part) for creating NOM NOM. Question, what else do we use for food (like maybe some sort of salt substitute or anything that would get the saliva going, that doesn't contain that bad part for the atty? Anything you know of that would be safe? Do you or anyone think the oil could have made me feel the way I did afterwords?
off to work...hag1 guys