You will regret this decision. Put on your blinders[emoji44] [emoji41]Now that I have that thought in my head, every time someone posts a picture of their gear, I'm gonna be checking out
the smegma factor on their mouthpiece!
Is your tip all crusty?
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Interesting. I thought it was from dirty mouths... Don't do that, either...
The inside of your lips are wet with saliva, bacteria, dead skin cells, food residue, juice residue and all kinds of other things. Every time you put your lips around your drip tip you leave a very thin wet layer on the drip tip that quickly dries. Every time you exhale from a vape you are blowing more moisture and juice residue on the inside of your lips. Every time you lick your lips you add food particles, saliva, etc to the inside of your lips.
Repeat this process a few hundred/thousand times over the course of a day or days without washing or cleaning the drip tip and you will eventually create a dry visible layer of the saliva mixture you leave on the drip tip every time you take a puff. Just as dried spit on the sidewalk turns white and crusty after it dries, so does the drip tip.
As for the inside of the drip tip, small amounts of saliva also drain into the drip tip with each puff. Collected with the vapor traveling through the drip tip, the same thing happens over time. So basically it boils down to clean your drip tip often or deal with dried spit.
Repeat this process a few hundred/thousand times over the course of a day or days without washing or cleaning the drip tip and you will eventually create a dry visible layer of the saliva mixture you leave on the drip tip every time you take a puff. Just as dried spit on the sidewalk turns white and crusty after it dries, so does the drip tip.
As for the inside of the drip tip, small amounts of saliva also drain into the drip tip with each puff. Collected with the vapor traveling through the drip tip, the same thing happens over time. So basically it boils down to clean your drip tip often or deal with dried spit.
The lip buggers seem to appear most often with metal drip tips. Drip tips made of delrin, plastic, ceramic, or pyrex don't appear to attract them as much, or at least they are not as noticeable.
As stated previously, it is from the natural accumulation of dead mucosal cells from the lips and mouth in the saliva.
As stated previously, it is from the natural accumulation of dead mucosal cells from the lips and mouth in the saliva.
I clean it off by licking around the drip tip and wiping it off with a paper towel or my tee shirt. Then use my fingernail to get the big stuff off like Judge Dreed said.
I hear ya Racehorse. You're being safe the way you see fit and there's nothing wrong with that
. I know I have a normal, healthy immune system and I feel it's better for my health to give it something to do to keep it in top shape. There are bacteria and viruses everywhere, there is simply no way to avoid them.To each their own. Vape on my friend
Crusty? Pffffftttt
Mines like a big stinky woolybear catapillar crawlin on your lips lol
Mines like a big stinky woolybear catapillar crawlin on your lips lol
I've had this too, but only with metal tips. I use acrylic and it doesn't happen unless I use chapstick. Plus, metal seems to "dry out" the vape a bit for me. Much more warm and full feeling with an acrylic tip. My 2 cents.
I have never seen anything like that on mine, but if I ever feel the SLIGHTEST "greasiness" like ejuice, I wipe it immediately, inside and out; I don't want ejuice in my mouth unless it's in vapor form! So maybe that keeps them clear of anything like that "crust." Ewww. And mostly I use acrylic tips, sometimes glass which requires even more frequent wiping because I can *see* all that condensate building up inside. The one metal I use pretty much daily, a "gun metal" chromed stainless, I do notice that sometimes it doesn't feel quite as smooth as it should, so I wipe it carefully with a wet papertowel, then with a dry one. It fixes it.
I noticed many years ago, however, that my "smoking" technique was very different from most peoples'. I have very thin lips, so maybe that's why, but my cigarette, and now my driptips, do not ever go inside my lips; I hold them to the outside of my lips, always. My filtertips were NEVER wet, and if I happened to slobber on one, I put it out immediately because that's just gross. I feel much the same about my driptips, but thankfully, they can be wiped and dried off.
Andria
I noticed many years ago, however, that my "smoking" technique was very different from most peoples'. I have very thin lips, so maybe that's why, but my cigarette, and now my driptips, do not ever go inside my lips; I hold them to the outside of my lips, always. My filtertips were NEVER wet, and if I happened to slobber on one, I put it out immediately because that's just gross. I feel much the same about my driptips, but thankfully, they can be wiped and dried off.
Andria
In metal is more noticeable, but it also happens in plastic and teflon, I can tell the texture with my tongue. I clean the inside too with a small round brush or a toothbrush.
I call it lip gunk.
I just cut up paper towels into small squares and roll them up; my husband always laughs because he says it looks like I'm doing something else entirely.
Andria
Q-tips! Never leave home without them. Been buying Q-tips from Costco since I've been vaping.I just cut up paper towels into small squares and roll them up; my husband always laughs because he says it looks like I'm doing something else entirely.
Andria
This thread was hilarious. 
Cheap teflon drip tips, if anyone is interested:
4 Pack PTFE 510 Drip Tip Teflon 4 Different Size Tips US Seller Fast SHIP | eBay
Impulse buy when I bought a different tip. That small one is REALLY small. It's like sucking on a....nvm...
Cheap teflon drip tips, if anyone is interested:
4 Pack PTFE 510 Drip Tip Teflon 4 Different Size Tips US Seller Fast SHIP | eBay
Impulse buy when I bought a different tip. That small one is REALLY small. It's like sucking on a....nvm...
Nah, they leave the same stray fibers that my cotton and rayon wicks do. Sparkle papertowels leave no lint or fibers at all.
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