How many ml can I make?

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bloodless2010

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Okay, so I plan on making some eliquid, 75VG/25PG, 10% flavour, and 12mg nicotine.
I plan on purchasing the following nicotine:
72mg/ml Liquid Nicotine in VG for use in E-Liquids & E-Liquid DIY - The Purest Available, UK Made
I'm wondering how many ml this nicotine can make, assuming there is enough VG/PG and flavouring available? I'm pretty new to this :) Thanks

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Just did some playing around with a eliquid calculator, does everything look right on here?
(I gradually increased the batch size until the nicotine base was 50ml in the recipe :p)
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While your calculations may be accurate, I would suggest making a smaller test batch first to make certain 10% flavor is the proper strength. Different flavor manufacturers use different strength concentration flavors. Knowing how it turns out in a small batch will allow any adjustments you may need to make.
 
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While your calculations may be accurate, I would suggest making a smaller test batch first to make certain 10% flavor is the proper strength. Different flavor manufacturers use different strength concentration flavors. Knowing how it turns out in a small batch will allow any adjustments you may need to make.
I've made a batch of it before with the same flavouring (without nicotine) and it tasted just absolutely amazing. My recent experience with trying to find a new favourite eliquid has failed, and I'm going to make some of my favourite I made before but this time with nicotine, I have no idea why I didn't do it before. Thank you :)
 

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You can make 300ml 12mg base from that 50ml 72mg bottle. Personally, I would rather buy from e.g. vapers emporium, which is a little over twice as cheap and also from uk, but they use nicselect nic from alchem, and your place uses I guess, nicobrand, as they state "from the leading uk pharma nic manufacturer", which is nicobrand, allthough i've read from another source that they don't make there nic themselves but imports it from somewhere they won't disclose, I dunno. Also, if there coa is still valid, then they use 20% water in there vg nic...

Btw, Vapers emporium used to sell nicobrand before 2015, but changed to alchem(nicselect) because they prefered selling nic from a fda approved source with full tractability. Also, they are among the cheapest in eu, has no water in there vg nic, have certifications on site and batch numbers on bottles to compare against, + have great custommer service...

Oh, I just saw your edit... Yes, it does look OK :)
 
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You can make 300ml 12mg base from that 50ml 72mg bottle. Personally, I would rather buy from e.g. vapers emporium, which is a little over twice as cheap and also from uk, but they use nicselect nic from alchem, and your place uses I guess, nicobrand, as they state "from the leading uk pharma nic manufacturer", which is nicobrand, allthough i've read from another source that they don't make there nic themselves but imports it from somewhere they won't disclose, I dunno. Also, if there coa is still valid, then they use 20% water in there vg nic...

Btw, Vapers emporium used to sell nicobrand before 2015, but changed to alchem(nicselect) because they prefered selling nic from a fda approved source with full tractability. Also, they are among the cheapest in eu, has no water in there vg nic, have certifications on site and batch numbers on bottles to compare against, + have great custommer service...

Oh, I just saw your edit... Yes, it does look OK :)

It's outrageously expensive. Do not know about UK prices, but from US point of view it does not worth the money. Check US sites, you may find much better deals
Thank you both for the posts, I'll take it into consideration. I'm also wondering what I can use as a mixing container, considering I'm going to be having around 300ml, what would be the best way to do this?
 

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Just a question, but your ni is 72mg/ml... why are you not switching steam engine to mg/ml instead of % for the nic base?
Because technically it's less accurate, and they're exactly the same
72mg/ml is 7.2%, and using the mg/ml on steam engine it gives me this message
Mixing nicotine by weight is only supported for convenience of input. The density of nicotine is 1.01 g/cm³. This calculator assumes a density of 1.00 g/cm³.
So I'd rather just use % rather than mg/ml it's exactly the same anyway :p
 

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I've made a batch of it before with the same flavouring (without nicotine) and it tasted just absolutely amazing.

All above suggestions are right on target. The only thing I would add is if you've made that mix before without NIC then I think you should make a 10ml test sample with NIC to make sure what you are tasting is your expected result. Mixes without NIC are very different tasting then mixes with NIC. So if you do find it different then your expected result you can adjust the recipe without wasting 300 ml's.
 
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Because technically it's less accurate, and they're exactly the same
72mg/ml is 7.2%, and using the mg/ml on steam engine it gives me this message

So I'd rather just use % rather than mg/ml it's exactly the same anyway :p

So if my nic is 100mg/ml then I would just plug in 10% for my nic strength?

I ask because I plug in my mix. 100mg/ml for a 10ml batch that is 3mg strength. Tells me to add .3ml of nic base.

Then I use the %, run it at 10% for base, same 10ml batch at 3mg strength and it says add .3ml...

Or do I not move the decimal.. I moved it one spot as you had (72mg/ml base adn you used 7.2%....)
 
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