I am trying my hand at DIY e-juice and am not having much luck at all.Bought some nic from nude nicotine ,70/30 base from nude nicotine and flavors from flavour art.This .... taste some kind of nasty.I tasted the 70/30 base and it taste just like the end result.Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I must have done something wrong!!
- Thread starter rks959
- Start date
- th_trl_thread_readers 0
- Status
What is the nic level of your base? It will be written as XXX mg/ml. I notice you got base and flavors but no PG or VG.
did you dilute to the base ? usually you want to end up with 3mg,6mg etc
You have to cut that 100mg waaaay down with more PG and VG.
Use a juice calculator like this one.
DIY e-juice | Steam Engine | free vaping calculators
Use a juice calculator like this one.
DIY e-juice | Steam Engine | free vaping calculators
That makes me feel better, how much PG and/or VG are you using and what is your flavoring percentage?
For a 50 ml bottle you will need around 5 mils or so of flavoring.
Minimum for most folks.
Most will need more like 7.5 ml of flavoring for that sized batch.
Minimum for most folks.
Most will need more like 7.5 ml of flavoring for that sized batch.
I have to apologize, after going back and re reading you OP, I misunderstood what you were saying. Wasn't trying to come across as rude.
The base could be bad but my guess is it is due to flavoring percentages. My suggestion, start low in small batches and work up slowly.
I've only been mixing a few months but when I mixed my pg n vg together for a sample taster before I made my first juice I tested it in a dripper and it was almost flavourless, then I added nic to .6 level and vaped that all afternoon just to get a feel for the taste I was building on, again it was almost tasteless with just a hint of pepper in the throat hit and a slight sweetness from the vg. Acually it was better then some juices I've bought.
If I understand your post the base by itself tastes nasty and the base is 70/30 mix of pg/vg with no nicotine. If that is the case you may want to consider contacting the vendor in the spirit of informing them that they may have a quailty control issue that they are unaware of. Hopefully they will either refund or replace the product as if the base is bad there is no way you will be able to make a decent juice with it.
Thank you all very much for the help.I guess my problem might be my vg/pg base.I really appreciate it.Probably gonna try some more tonight.I'll let you know how it comes out.
Please do come back and let us know what you are doing.
I'm just getting in to DIY and we can all learn from each other.
just my 2 cents
I have been through your posts...
you do mention you are vaping unflavored nic base (dilluted) &
also you do have another batch or sample size with flavors....
My post is for the later...most of the flavors do take time to mix with your nic base
...i.e., steeping.
You could try hot steeping or steeping with a crock pot couple of times (shaking the bottle regularly) and see if it makes any difference to your flavored portion of the batch in a test rda.
I have been through your posts...
you do mention you are vaping unflavored nic base (dilluted) &
also you do have another batch or sample size with flavors....
My post is for the later...most of the flavors do take time to mix with your nic base
...i.e., steeping.
You could try hot steeping or steeping with a crock pot couple of times (shaking the bottle regularly) and see if it makes any difference to your flavored portion of the batch in a test rda.
- Status
