I want to start diy.

[cte72]

My question is where can I find the best starter kit for doing my own ejuice and the best way of calculating it or app calculator. Thanks

 

[Marc411]

This is a nice intuitive piece of software for DIY: eJuice Me Up - Best eJuice Calculator

Sorry I can't help you out on the kit I bought most of my stuff from different sites.

Good luck! I haven't bought a bottle of juice since I started mixing.

 

[cte72]

Thanks. If you don't mind me asking. How did you start, where did you get your stuff to start? I'm mainly concerned about nicotine and flavors

 

[Two_Bears]

My question is where can I find the best starter kit for doing my own ejuice and the best way of calculating it or app calculator. Thanks

I would not buy a kit.

I would get blunt needles, a gallon of VG. A quart if PG or more

I get USP GRADE at Amazon because I have prime.

get some bottkes

Then get a good nicotine. Some nic's are peppery and get your flavors from the Perfumers apprentice, Flavor art, high desert Vapes.

This way you have quality ingredients instead of mediocre or worse.

 

[cte72]

Thanks my friend. You've been of great help

 

[sofarsogood]

You'll feel insecure your first few batches then it's all down hill. Get a vape calculator. If you buy right you can make unflavored liquid for 1 penny per ml. Then it's what do you want to spend on flavoring. I make simple one flavor liquids at under 2%. One flavor I often mix is a pre mix I buy online and cut 4 times. That means take 30 ml of the premix and make a batch of unflavored with the same percent of nic and the same balance of PG and VG and mix 3 parts to one part. Your pallet will adjust to the more muted flavor. The pre mix companies tend to use too much flavoring.

 

[herb]

I recommend buying all the stuff you need at BullCityVapor , they are fantastic and usually have the cheapest prices around .

Here is the ultimate DIY list:


DIY
RECIPIES
DIY E-Liquid | E-Cigarette Forum
E-Liquid Recipes | E-Cigarette Forum
For recipes only!!!!!!! | E-Cigarette Forum
EcigExpress Archive Cookbook | Your favorite e-liquid recipes
Clone Recipes | Homemade E-juice Recipes
E-liquid recipes | dot1ml
diyRecipeBook
Mega TFA / TPA Recipe Thread : DIY_eJuice
Solid list of DIY clones! : DIY_eJuice
hic : cerealkillaclone
ejuicerecipeforum-the place for DIY e-juice lovers
e-Liquid Calculator
TFA_Vendor's Recipes_06_23_14.pdf - Google Drive
E-Liquid Recipes | E-Juice Recipes
E-Liquid Mixing Recipes | Make My Vape
E-Liquid Recipes | Planet of the Vapes
99Juices
Zoho Creator -DIY e-Juice Recipe Book
UK Vapers - Juice Recipes
Recipe mega thread
Accueil - Le DIY pour les Nuls
FLAVOR CHARTS Page | BAKE IT RIGHT
Flavor Profiles that Pair Together in Recipes - Nouveau RawNouveau Raw
Favorite tobacco flavoring discussion - Tobacco flavoring discussion only | E-Cigarette Forum

MANUFACTURERS
The Flavor Apprentice Flavoring Thread | E-Cigarette Forum
The Hangsen Thread | E-Cigarette Forum
Inawera- a few reviews | E-Cigarette Forum
Flavor West DIY flavor review | E-Cigarette Forum
LIST of Capella Flavor Percentages | E-Cigarette Forum
Pure Vapes has 3ml FlavourArt flavorings | E-Cigarette Forum
Inawera Flavor Review - 45 Flavors From InaweraShop - Add Yours Too! | E-Cigarette Forum

DIY SUPPLIERS
Bull City Vapor - Best Prices on DIY e-liquid Supplies (Capella, Flavour Art, Flavor West, Hangsen, Inawera, Flavor Apprentice)
Wizard Labs (Capella, LorAnn, Seedman, Flavor Apprentice, )
DIY E-Liquid, Electronic Cigarettes and Wholesale Nicotine & E-Cig Juice | EcigExpress (Flavour Art, Flavor West, LorAnn, Flavors Express, Natures Flavors,
Signature (TFA), Jungle Flavors, Hangsen, Tasty Puff, Inawera, Capella)
DIY E-Cig Supplies & E-Cigarette Liquid | Make Your Own E-Liquid | RTS Vapes (LorAnn, Capella, Hangsen, Flavour Art, Flavor Apprentice, FLavor Jungle,
Flavor West, Inawera, RTS blends)
Electronic Cigarettes | E-Liquids - MyFreedomSmokes (LorAnn, Flavour Art, Flavor Apprentice, MFS house blends)
http://www.diyflavorshack.com/ (House blends/brands)
Perfumers Apprentice - The Flavor Apprentice - World of Flavors (TPA/TFA)
Capella Flavor Drops - Over 75+ Water Soluble Concentrated Flavorings (Capella)
Flavor West (Flavor West)
DIY E-liquid Supplies - Home (Capella, Flavor West, LorAnn, Flavor Apprentice,House Blends)
Wholesale Nicotine, Bulk e-Liquid, PG, VG and Supplies Heartlandvapes Wholesale (Capellas, Flavor West, LorAnn, Flavor Apprentice, House Blends)
E-liquid Mart (Capellas, Flavour Art)
DIY E Liquid Flavoring - E Cig eGo, E juice, Mods, Cartomizers, Liquid Nicotine, DIY Flavorings (Vaping Zone VG flavor, Hangsen)
All Vaping Flavors (Flavorah)
[Concentrated Flavorings] - Nude Nicotine
Flavor Extracts - DIY e-Liquid Supplies (Madvapes)
DIY Flavors (Ellas, Flavor West, NF Organic, Flavor Apprentice, Capellas)
Product Categories Tasty Puff Flavor Drops | Tastypuff (Tasty Puff)
Vapers Tek (Molin Berry, Inwaera, German Flavors)

PG/VG
Essential Depot: Sodium Hydroxide, Lye, Potassium Hydroxide, Argan Oil, Shea Butter, Essential Oil, Fragrance Oil, Vegetable Oils, Food Grade
DudaDiesel - Biodiesel, Chemical & Solar Supplies, Alternative Energy Store
Glycerin | Bulk Apothecary

E JUICE CALCULATOR
eJuice Me Up - Best eJuice Calculator
DIY E-Liquid Calculator Ten Flavors Plus PG/VG Adjusting

GLASS & PLASTIC BOTTLES
Glass Bottle Outlet
Glass Bottles, Jars, Closures & More | Packaging Options Direct
Bulk Glass & Plastic Containers, Bottles, Jars & Drums | Bottle Solutions | Bottle Solutions
wholesalevials
U.S. Plastic Corporation | Plastic Tanks | Plastic Buckets | Plastic Bottles | Labware | Plastic Tubing | PVC Pipe | U.S. Plastic Corp.

And my favorite

My blogs will give insight into all aspects of DYI, from steeping to what supplies to have on hand to a basic walk through mixing your first E-juice.

E-Cigarette Forum - dannyv45 - Blogs

Then read hoosier's blogs. These blogs concentrate on fine tuning your mix and give insight on additives.

E-Cigarette Forum - Hoosier - Blogs

Then read Boletus's blog's. These blogs concentrate on formulation of nicotine bases regarding proper calculations methods for figuring Nicotine concentration as well as safety.

E-Cigarette Forum - Boletus - Blogs

Then read Ginger's book "E-Cigarettes 102: DIY E-Liquid". It is a book which I've contributed to that delivers an in depth easy to follow guide in the art of DYI.

E-Cigarettes 102: DIY E-Liquid

I recommend viewing VPLive Vape Team Episode #82: DIY Safety and bookmark it for future reference. It explains safety in all aspects of DYI.

VPLive Vape Team Episode #82: DIY Safety

List of suppliers and other useful links courtesy of ECF Member Sir2fyablyNutz

List of suppliers and other useful links | E-Cigarette Forum

then read the stickies at the top of the page.

this will explain a lot of the how's and why's.

 

[Two_Bears]

You'll feel insecure your first few batches then it's all down hill. Get a vape calculator. If you buy right you can make unflavored liquid for 1 penny per ml. Then it's what do you want to spend on flavoring. I make simple one flavor liquids at under 2%. One flavor I often mix is a pre mix I buy online and cut 4 times. That means take 30 ml of the premix and make a batch of unflavored with the same percent of nic and the same balance of PG and VG and mix 3 parts to one part. Your pallet will adjust to the more muted flavor. The pre mix companies tend to use too much flavoring.

Absolutely! I recommend new to DIY start with 3-5 ml bottles. If something is unvapeable throwing out 3 ml is less cost prohibitive than throwing out 30+ ml. When you create a fantastic vape do your happy dance then expand to 30, 50, 120 ml batch.

 

[classwife]

Moved to DIY E-Liquid from General E-Liquid Discussion

 

[Jdurand]

I second Herbs suggestion on Bull city, they rock and deliver fast. Only downside is they don't sell nicotine. I get my nic from My Freedom Smokes. Watch out, everyone thinks the brand of Nic they use is the best, and some are better than others. Just go to one of the nic comparison threads, it's like a war zone in there! lol

 

[Hans Wermhat]

MFS has good nic. I can't offer a comparison because it's all I've ever used. (If it ain't broke, don't try to fix it. Right?) They run a sale on 1 liter bottles of 100 mg/ml for $40 every couple of months. That's a 2 year supply for me and I vape 20ish ml/day at 3 mg/ml. Sign up for their emails and they will let you know when it's on sale. Third for BCV for flavors. Great selection, great prices. Don't worry about a kit. I mix up a couple hundred milliliters about every 2 weeks and my whole set up consists of:

2 - 10 ml graduated cylinders
1 - 50 ml cylinder
2 - 3 ml syringes
2 - 100 ml tri-pour beakers.

If you go to MFS and look at their starter kit, you can select what you want in it and weed out all the crap you don't need and get a small discount. If you have several glass bottles left from juice you bought, just wash with dish soap and reuse. Plastic bottles can hold on to flavors that were in them and bleed into your new juice, so avoid them if you can. When nail down a couple of recipes and want to start making them in bigger batches, you might think about some large beakers with stoppers. But start small. 10 ml batches (or less) are good for testing new mixes.