I was hoping someone could help me...

[TropicalBob]

I can answer the food color question, because I've vaped pure food color (it's just propylene glycol and color). I wanted to snort out red vapor. I wanted to blow green "smoke" at environmentalists. It just didn't work well. Not much color in the vapor, but it colored everything it touched: The cig cart, atomizer and my mouth and teeth. No harm, but mission not accomplished. I gave the idea to E-Cig a year ago and they didn't get it to work either.

P.S. I did it again (and I've done it many times before). I answered a post at the bottom of page one without even noticing there was a page two. And Kate had responded. Sorry for answering twice.

 

[Ripley]

Danny,

First, I'd be very careful with "peppermint oil" and start in very small doses (1drop per 10ml) since there's been some speculation that oil + atomizer = dead atomizer. I've done some experiments with clove oil, and no dead atomizer (YET). I'll keep my fingers crossed. If you want the minty/menthol taste it might be safer to use menthol crystals. Lorann's "creme de menthe" is really good an is more menthol-like than some of the other mints IMO.

Second, I've been vaping 99.5% USP glycerin "skin protectant" for over a month, no bad side effects, and it's cheap easily available at my local Wally-World, beats paying twice as much for half the amount at the craft store.

 

[cucurucho]

Well that's a shame. I too was thinking it would be great to exhale plumes of green vapour on paddy's day.

 

[GabbyD]

I got that Walmart stuff at first and I called the 800 number and was told there is no guarantee that it's vegetable glycerin as sometimes their source is synthetic glycerin. I don't know if that makes a difference or not but the synthetic stuff kinda scared me. I went to Hobby Lobby (no Michael's here) and picked up some vegetable glycerin from the cake/candy aisle and I'm using that instead.

 

[Sun Vaporer]

Yes--why risk it--if it does not say right on the bottle 100% vegetable glycerin pure Food Grade USP I would not use it. You can get it in most health food stores. I notice the one you bought is 99.5% so what is the other .5%?? I do not know and do not what to know when I can get a 16 oz bottle for $8.95. The one I use is made by Now available at many health food stores and says right on the bottle safe for topical and INTERNAL USE!!! you can see it at nowfoods.com

 

[Danny]

gah! You guys are freaking me out! I already started using it! I'm definitely going to stop now and make sure that I buy some 100% Vegetable glycerin. Thanks for the info. I definitely don't want to do anything that could be dangerous.

 

[Sun Vaporer]

Glade to hear it. As I said very easy to find Pure VG--we all just never had a need for it before so we had no info about where to get it--that is why this forum is a must for all of us!!

 

[Kate]

I didn't think it was technically possible to get a 100% pure substance. 99.9% pure is as good as it gets?

I use 99.5% BP glycerine and am happy that it's good stuff.

 

[Danny]

Well, I couldn't find 100% vegetable glycerin anywhere local. I did visit a Pilot a few miles away and they had njoy kits and refill cartridges. I bought a package of the cartridges and they were too big for my e-cig (I have the health mini e-pack thing from DealXtreme). I didn't really expect them to fit but it was worth a shot. What I did was just emptied a cartridge for my e-cig and put the filter-thing from one of the njoy carts into it. Works just fine and tastes a heck of a lot better. It's a lot more smooth too. The cartridges were a little pricy though - $19.99 per pack of 10.

 

[rhyddereh]

The cartridges were a little pricy though - $19.99 per pack of 10.

Yea, that's pretty high, if you are going to refill just order the liquid from a supplier near you and I'll promise it'll be cheaper than buying carts for something else and taking the liquid out. (or buying filled carts for your device for that matter).