How much for your 30ml of DIY e-Juice?

[iVapeDIY]

Excluding mixing gear (some of you have exotic industrial hardware, lol). I'll start ...

My AVERAGE COST*
Nic (48mg): $25/120ml = $0.208/ml
Flavor: $4/30ml = $0.133/ml
PG/VG: $12/1000ml = $0.012/ml

My Typical Mix = $0.83* ($0.62 USD) per 30ml bottle
Nic (0.3mg/ml): 0.2 ml/30ml = $0.04/30ml
Flavor (15%): 4.5 ml/30ml = $0.53/30ml
PG/VG (85%) : 22.0 ml/30ml = $0.26/30ml

$1 CAD = $0.75 USD (multiply by 0.75 to get USD)

 

[bombastinator]

I buy larger quantities which makes it hard to track

I buy 100mg/ml nic by the liter ($50)
Vg by the 2 liter jug ($16?)
Flavoring in 4oz bottles direct from the manufacturer ($8-$16)
I use Japanese cotton and currently 200 mesh SS screen (no numbers on these but they’re very very low)

I’m guessing maybe $70-80/year? Maybe? Hard to know.

 

[somdcomputerguy]

USD

I'm just into my last liter of pre-made base, so less than .95 cents if I vape just the base, less than a buck fifty if I add some flavor to it. In a year and a half or so I'll mix up a liter of 100 mg/ml into 4 liters of base liquid. I'd have to add in the cost of PG and VG to that, and I don't have either of those so I'm not sure how much 30 mls of the end product will be then.

 

[dennism]

Excluding mixing gear (some of you have exotic industrial hardware, lol). I'll start ...

My AVERAGE COST*
Nic (48mg): $25/120ml = $0.208/ml
Flavor: $4/30ml = $0.133/ml
PG/VG: $12/1000ml = $0.012/ml

My Typical Mix = $0.83* ($0.62 USD) per 30ml bottle
Nic (0.3mg/ml): 0.2 ml/30ml = $0.04/30ml
Flavor (15%): 4.5 ml/30ml = $0.53/30ml
PG/VG (85%) : 22.0 ml/30ml = $0.26/30ml

$1 CAD = $0.75 USD (multiply by 0.75 to get USD)

Factoring in the cost of the bottles it works out to about $1.00 per 30 ml's. I can live with that!

 

[susieqz]

mine is lots more expensive.
my nic is 12
flavorings are 25- 30%.
i don't see great big savings.

 

[Letitia]

No clue for cost, don't really care. Tastes better and have enough nic, flavors, and bottles to last for years.

 

[GOMuniEsq]

For regular juice, between $1.00 and $1.20 / 30mL depending on the flavors.
High mg salt juice is $6.00 / 30mL.

 

[bombastinator]

mine is lots more expensive.
my nic is 12
flavorings are 25- 30%.
i don't see great big savings.

25-30% flavoring is an insanely large amount of flavoring, but ok.

According to listed specs:
flavoring: 13¢/ml
48mg Nic 21¢/ml (kinda high)
Base 1¢/ml

for a 30ml bottle of 12mg/ml you need 360mg of nic or 7.5ml of nic base or $1.57 worth of nic. Also 7.5ml of flavoring got 97.5¢ and 15ml of base (only half base! Ugh!) for 15¢.

So your 30ml bottle of unbelievably highly flavored juice is $2.70 not including the bottle. I reuse bottles myself.

Now. IF there is a commercial juice that uses 25% flavoring (I very much doubt it) AND that juice sells for $6/bottle (I also very much doubt it, but I’ve heard of juice selling that cheap on sale online) your savings is a mere ~60%. Not including bottles or shipping.
So if you buy really expensive bottles, have found a juice company that makes their juice double plus flavor, don’t reuse the bottles, and get your juice on amazon prime, I suppose it would possibly be nearly the same.

You could be buying really expensive flavorings though (again not something a commercial juice company generally does) so let’s double that flavoring cost. Actually let’s more than double it for an even $2.00 of flavoring a bottle.

2.00 + 1.57 + 0.15= $3.72 to fill a bottle. Still a lot less than the pre mentioned $6.

 

[susieqz]

well, i meant mine costs at least 10 times as much as most.

 

[bombastinator]

well, i meant mine costs at least 10 times as much as most.

Then your materials costs have to be a lot different. What are they?

 

[Letitia]

The recipe looks like a stone recipe. The stone would be used at a much lower percentage. Could also be a recipe for a very large batch.

 

[mikepetro]

All in, I am spending about $1.50 for a 60ml bottle.
But I buy in bulk.

 

[dwcraig1]

About $1.20 per 30 ml without the bottle for 12 mg mix

 

[DeloresRose]

O have all this calculated in one of my notebooks, I’ll have to report back. Some are cheaper than others, if the flavor is available in larger bottles. I’ve gotten some 120 mls for $6

I get my nic 100 mg/ ml by the liter, pg and vg by the gallon and I reuse as many bottles as possible.

If I was to calculate how much I actually spend though, I added a few liters to the freezer this year, plus a bunch of other stuff. I bet I spent $500 easy. But I probably vape about $100 - 150 a year.

 

[Dudeman]

The unflavored that I normally vape works out to around 57 cents for 60ml.
If I add "cig" flavor it comes out to around 85 cents for 60ml.
My bottles are marked so it's just pour, shake and vape.

Since that's so cheap, I purchase premade flavored juices I like. I tend to buy double flavor 120ml juice at twice my preferred nic level and mix them 50/50 with straight VG which then works out to 240ml's for $12.50 or technically 480mls for $25 for the free shipping.

I haven't found a way to make any cheaper or easier.

 

[Jebbn]

40c or 50c
3mg nic, VG, water.
30ml lasts about 8days.

ridonkulous, really.

Edited because, decimal point.

 

[stols001]

Good god people actually calculate this.

You know, I'd like a better handle on how to use an electronic calculator effectively. Not to mention, a better handle on my finances.

The problem is my mom and dad like, used to have these horrific screaming fights when the budgeted, I need to get over that and learn to budget with another human being.

So, I'm going to just say I have saved money, because I know I have. Provided I vape nicotine for the rest of my born days which I am planning to.

Eliquid is going to get a lot more expensive, is my prediction.

If I die tomorrow, well, you know, I would have lost money. For sure.

Anna

 

[DaveOno]

Not counting the bottle, under 95¢. (with the pricing I paid some 3 years ago). But I've got enough for the next 3 or 4 years.

I'll figure it's about $1.25 per 30ml at today's prices. (I found a special sale, got a gallon each of pg and vg, delivered for $44, it's now about $72).

And that's NOT figuring in the box-full of different flavors i bought and tried once.

 

[DaveOno]

Good god people actually calculate this.

Actually, the online vape calculator I use figures it out. You just put in what you paid for vg, pg, nic, etc. and it figures it out for you. (e-liquid recipes dot com)

 

[John Phoenix]

Excluding mixing gear (some of you have exotic industrial hardware, lol). I'll start ...

My AVERAGE COST*
Nic (48mg): $25/120ml = $0.208/ml

Your Nic price is a little high IMO. I get a 120ml bottle of 100mg liquid nicotine for $9.00 US. You may want to shop around a bit more and use online coupon when you can. I use a 500ml bottle of VG and PG (6 dollars each) and the 3 last me about 4 to 6 months. I use drops not ML when mixing as I'm only making enough for 5 ml's at a time the size of my tank.