Hi All
Want to thank everyone so so much for all the advice. I am now hoping to make my own juice. What is the best place to purchase from?
Thank you
Jamie
I seemed to have settled on My Freedom Smokes.com. They're not expensive, but they're not the cheapest either. I've had nothing but good experience with them, and they offer a variety of flavors to choose from. I imagine they buy in bulk, sell in lower quantities at about the same price you can get from the makers themselves. The good thing is, you have a variety of flavors from multiple companies.
here's my method of DIY juice.
Get some Syringes. I get some free from the Pharmacy. I get the 10ML versions. I shopped around and found some empty 100ml bottles. Then I buy the 100mg/ml nicotine base in PG. Then I buy the PG, VG, and preferably PG based flavors.
First, I find out exactly where the 100ML level is. I do a test when I get a new bottle, and see where 100ml of water ends up to be. In my bottle, it starts just before the curve at the top where it tapers down for the nozzle. After that, I decide on the recipe. One of my go to's is %5 guava (LorAnnes) and %5 vanilla custard (Capellas) and I use a 6mg/ml of nicotine. First, I add 6MG of nicotine from the syringe... use gloves for this. I then wrinse out that syringe and put the nicotine and syringe in a ziplock bag and put back in the fridge. Then I add 5mg of Guava, and 5mg of Vanilla custard, and again, rinse those out and put the syringes with the corresponding flavors. I should have 16mg of "flavored base" in the 100ml bottle. Usually, I just fill the rest with VG for a heavy VG based juice, but if I wanted a 50/50 based juice, I add 34ml of PG and then fill the rest with VG. Since I stick with multiples of 100 (100mg/ml nicotine base, and 100ml bottle), there's not much math involved and makes it easy to replicate. If I wanted to make a smaller batch, I could, but it would require a calculator. I tend to use just two size bottles (100ml as the main mixing bottle, and 30ml for the pocket version)... I've done the math to at least approximate a mixture in a 30ml bottle (1.8ml for the nic strength, and in my above example 1.5ml of each flavor. Throwing an odd size bottle would just make things tough.
Just my way of mixing, everyone has their own. The only thing everyone would probably agree with, is use Nitrile gloves when handling the Nicotine. You don't need the gloves for the flavor, but if you don't, your hands may end up smelling like custard or guava for the rest of the day.
Also, keep in mind, every flavor has it's own % to make it good. Just because Guava is good at %5, doesn't mean that menthol or anise would be good at those levels... for any new flavors, start low and add to it.
Funny related story... I gave my friend some menthol crystals to add some menthol to his store bought juices. Even though I warned him to put very little in, he didn't understand what "little" meant. he put a fairly large menthol crystal (about the size of a pin) in his 30ML bottle and mixed. One vape and his sinuses were cleared ... along with his tear ducts... he had to get a new coil for his atomizer after that.