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Adonaros

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First of all im 22 years old , i live in Greece - Crete and now the prices went up a lot.
I want to buy from somewhere a nicotine base with a lot of nic and a few PG 100% - VG 100% Bases so i can do recipes with this
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The problem is i cant find any site with good prices to buy from. Im about to stop vaping and go back to cigar :(
 
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Shipping costs can effect the overall final flavor price. I would try to find all the flavor blenders in the EU and particularly in Greece. I'm sure you have probably check out Atmos Labs. Mixmatch is in Cypress and their pricing look competitive.
re: Flavours | atmoslab.com
http://www.mixnmatcheliquids.com/en/
 
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Hi, I'm not sure about the idea of making 1500 ml of just one flavor (are you sure you want to do that? Once you have your nicotine and vg/pg, they will be stable for quite a long time in a cool dark place, so you can mix with flavors in smaller sizes as you choose).

But anyway, as for nicotine, I wish I had a good inexpensive option. I've ordered quite a bit of 100 mg/ml from Pink Mule, in Spain, most of which I'm freezing for future use over the next few years, as needed. But it's only reasonable because I've ordered large sizes for storing, so the shipping becomes more reasonable, and I cannot find another place that sells 100 mg/ml -- the best concentration for me now that I have to stockpile. (I normally use 36mg/ml for mixing, that I used to order from Poland, but my regular place closed, shipping was too much at other places I checked, if they even still offer this strength these days.)

For VG and PG, I'm still getting that locally in Greece, for 2€ per per 100 ml (by Atmos Lab, available at many places). I can find lower prices elsewhere, but the shipping price vs volume needed makes it too expensive.

I get flavors from different places, but mostly Cloudhouse Vapor (the value packs; particularly for The Perfumers Apprentice flavors) in Germany, and Chefs Flavours in the UK. I also order Inawera flavors from Poland, at e-aromashop.

Locally I've ordered various items from a few places: fabvape.gr (where I usually get my pg/vg, and sometimes flavors), atomizer.gr for emergency flavors, wire, etc., some stuff from vaporsolutions.gr, esmokeguru.com. Local places are much more expensive, so it depends on if it's cheaper than shipping from elsewhere, and how fast I want/need the thing. Plus I've ordered from some other local places for Greek mods and atomizers.

Sadly, the problem is that it takes some money up front to get what you need, but the amount is going to be much less than buying cigarettes over time. It's so crazy that governments all over are making it a lot harder for people to quit smoking. I'm sorry this is more difficult than it should be.
 

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I bought the nicotine base 100ml 100%mg nic and I have two questions!

1.What i do to shelter it , Should i put it on the freezer ?

2.If i want to have 6 nicotine at 100ml 50/50 vg pg base i have to use 6ml of the nicotine base as the caculators say ?

Many threads on treating nicotine: Freeze in glass bottles.

6 is 6% of 100 so yea.
 
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The freezer is the best place to store Nicotine. Keep out only what you think you'll need for the next 3 - 6 months and freeze the rest. Re-bottle the Nicotine in glass bottles before freezing. There's no need to worry about the bottles bursting in the freezer because unlike water that expands when frozen NIC in PG or VG actually shrinks when frozen so fill the bottles to the very bottom of the neck of the bottle.

To answer your next question you are correct to make 100ml of base at 6mg you would need 6ml of 100mg nicotine solution. It's OK to make large quantities of base to use for mixing.

For actually mixing a first time recipe you would want to pour 10mls of that 100ml base you made and make your test batches until you perfect the recipe then once perfected it's OK to make big batches. Always remember to write every thing you do down. It would be a shame to come up with that perfect recipe and not be able to re-create it.

It would be a shame to make a large batch only to find out it don't taste good and you can't fix it and all you can do is pour it down the drain.
 
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