Lowering nic level of premade e-juice

[jaysterl]

I have some bottles of 50/50 6mg e-juice I bought at a B&M. I would like to reduce the nic level to 3mg without changing the flavor profile too much. I know I could buy a bottle of 0mg and mix but it's not available at the shop.
What would be another way. Distilled water?

 

[EBates]

Welcome aboard

 

[*deleon517*]

Like ebates said your only real shot at keeping the flavor profile and diluting down the nic concentration would be to find the same brand/flavor in 0mg and mix them 50/50. Anything else that you add to the mix will cut down on some of the flavoring the mix has.

 

[Warpigs]

Welcome to ECF!

 

[Rat2chat2]

to ecf jaysterl. So glad that you are here and congrats on the vaping. One thing that I have done before is to add vg to the liquid. You can get a bottle of it at Walmart in the bandaid section of the pharmacy. You would be changing the percentage but also reducing the nic amount. I have done this with success and have really not noticed a drastic change in flavor. The only other way is to buy a 0 nic and add the same amount. Here is a calculator that will allow you to see exactly what you are mixing. Hope it helps.

DIY E-Liquid Combining Calculator

Good luck to you and happy vaping.

 

[jaysterl]

Thanks, for the advice. I think I'm going to venture into DIY and buy some flavors to experiment with. I'll make some small batches of 0mg and and add to the premixed.

 

[p7willm]

The 50/05 refers to Propylene Glycol (PG) and Vegetable Glycerine (VG) and they are the principle ingredients of all juice. The 50/50 means that there is 50% PG and 50% VG. 30/70 would be a juice with 30% PG and 70% VG.

Of course there is other stuff in there, flavor and nic, but they are a really small part of the juice. When you look at recipes you will see that flavor might make up 20% of the mix, but that is deceiving. Most flavors come mixed in PG and the actual flavor is only a tiny part of the flavor mix so when you add 10% of a flavor you are really adding almost 10% PG with a tiny bit of flavoring. Only a few flavors come mixed with VG or something else.

PG carries flavor and VG makes vapor. Actually they do both but each is better at one thing. Those looking for clouds will generally use a high VG liquid and if you want more flavor go for a higher PG.

VG is also thicker and a juice high in VG may give dry hits in a clearo. A little water or alcohol will thin it but in general high VG is used in drippers to get the big clouds.