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Hi and welcome,
DIY is a great way to control what you vape (and what is IN your vape) and is much less expensive than buying retail juice.
In general, the flavours used for DIY e-liquids are originally produced as food flavourings.
Many folks have been making juice at home for close to a decade. It is in your best interest to use "vetted" flavours that are widely and readily available for that purpose.
We have a DIY section that should help you with the process. DIY E-Liquid
Would you still be using nicotine in your mix?
Do you have a source for PG and or VG?
What kind of equipment are you using?
Where are you located?
cheers
I
DIY is a great way to control what you vape (and what is IN your vape) and is much less expensive than buying retail juice.
In general, the flavours used for DIY e-liquids are originally produced as food flavourings.
Many folks have been making juice at home for close to a decade. It is in your best interest to use "vetted" flavours that are widely and readily available for that purpose.
We have a DIY section that should help you with the process. DIY E-Liquid
Would you still be using nicotine in your mix?
Do you have a source for PG and or VG?
What kind of equipment are you using?
Where are you located?
cheers
I
I wouldn't do it, tbh.
Actual food flavor manufacturers care little about what vapers can have in their flavors, and what not.
Concerning vanilla flavor...
Actual food flavor manufacturers care little about what vapers can have in their flavors, and what not.
Concerning vanilla flavor...
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Unless you are willing to do the research and reading I would recommend staying with flavors for diy e liquid. Most of the companies have made adjustments to their flavors to accommodate us.
The problems with buying flavors in the supermarket or where ever that is meant for ingestion and not inhalation are the impurities. Supermarket vanilla for example has fillers, alcohol and preservative type of ingredients that you really do not want in your lungs. You could cook and purify them but why go to the expense and work when for a few dollars it is already done for you when buying them from a vendor that sells for vapers?
jmho
You could use all DX-flavors from The Flavor Apprentice. Those are 'vape' designed:
Perfumer's Apprentice
Pretty much anything FlavourArt has available in the US has been modified for us. On their home site they are clear in stating if a flavor is not for use in e liquids in the flavor description.
There are very few things that are safe to vape "in the wild" so to speak they contain substances such as oils and many other things that could be harmful to the lungs.
The few things I know can be used like certain teas, herbs, (perhaps) coffee and actual tobacco flavoring require special preparation and handling in order to be safe for inhalation and it's often complicated and time consuming to do at home.
Flavors created for vaping really are going to be your best bet, and while it's certainly arguable that we don't know every single thing in those flavors ,they have been in use for quite some time (and when certain substances have been tested for in theory harmfulness, most flavor companies will remove those flavors) and that at least gives you a certain baseline for safety.
Just using vanilla in that fashion is 100% guaranteed to lead to a probably undesirable outcome . Oh it kind of makes sense in "theory" but what we inhale is very, very different than what we ingest in other ways.
Good luck and happy flavoring!
Anna
The few things I know can be used like certain teas, herbs, (perhaps) coffee and actual tobacco flavoring require special preparation and handling in order to be safe for inhalation and it's often complicated and time consuming to do at home.
Flavors created for vaping really are going to be your best bet, and while it's certainly arguable that we don't know every single thing in those flavors ,they have been in use for quite some time (and when certain substances have been tested for in theory harmfulness, most flavor companies will remove those flavors) and that at least gives you a certain baseline for safety.
Just using vanilla in that fashion is 100% guaranteed to lead to a probably undesirable outcome . Oh it kind of makes sense in "theory" but what we inhale is very, very different than what we ingest in other ways.
Good luck and happy flavoring!
Anna
Welcome and glad you joined.
Flavors should only be added to existing e-juice when the vaper knows what he or she is doing.
One shot flavors are starting to gain momentum for those interested in mixing their own and want to start out simple. One shot flavors (OS/Flavor Blends) are premixed flavors that are only designed to be used on their own and mixed with a base of Propylene Glycol, Vegetable Glycerin and Nicotine (at least one/two/all of the three). One shot mixing is supposed to be close to the flavor promoted on the bottle. These mixes may allow some adjustment of the strength (percentage) of the mix. OS Mixing can be a good introductory to DIY. One shots and flavor blends are simply added per directions to the mixer's desired mixing base, Shake and Vape (SnV) or steep as directed.
Might like to visit:
http://www.ecigexpress.com/shop/diy-e-liquid/one-shot-concentrates/diyordie-concentrates.html
https://www.liquidbarn.com/products/flavor-cartridge
One Shot Concentrates
Flavors - Gremlin - Gremlin DIY --- Known as "Gremlin DIY" = one shot?
Flavor Shots Vape Juice | Mt Baker Vapor
E-Liquid Mixing Kits | DIY Vape Juice
http://www.juicefactory.com.au/tags/-one-shot-concentrates
https://www.oooflavors.com/collections/one-shot-flavor-concentrates
http://www.onestopdiyshop.com/category-s/141.htm
Those DX-flavors I mentioned, are free from diketones, so without diacetyl, acetoin, acetyl propionyl and/or butyric acid.
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