New to DIY, and have questions about alcohol base in my flavorings.

[mattop8]

Don't neglect to measure and record the amount of VG/nic you use to get it where you like it. That can be used to back-calculate what you should use in the future.

I use 100% VG Nicotine Base with 100 MG strength. At RTS Vapes, it was either 100% VG or 100% PG Nicotine, no 50/50, so I went with the VG since my mixes are almost always high VG. And I always count my Nicotine as part of my overall VG. But I AM ALWAYS EXTREMELY CAREFUL WITH THE NICOTINE, AND USE SYRINGES & GLOVES BECAUSE OF THE HIGH NICOTINE STRENGTH!

 

[mattop8]

Note that 6% nicotine is equivalent to 60 mg/ml.

When I say 6%, I mean by total volume. For 10 ml I put .6ml.

 

[Boletus]

When I say 6%, I mean by total volume. For 10 ml I put .6ml.

Well then, just to be precise, and please do ignore me if this is annoying, it is 6% nicotine base solution. I only belabor the point because I have seen plenty of people confuse % nicotine with mg/ml nicotine concentration, and there is a very important difference.

 

[mattop8]

Well then, just to be precise, and please do ignore me if this is annoying, it is 6% nicotine base solution. I only belabor the point because I have seen plenty of people confuse % nicotine with mg/ml nicotine concentration, and there is a very important difference.

I have 100 MG VG base solution. Which is 10% nicotine. If I am making 10 ml of E-juice, and I want what the store bought juice calls 6 MG, I add 0.6 ml of my Nicotine to the 10 ml to achieve that strength. Correct?

 

[BigBoyBlue]

I have 100 MG VG base solution. Which is 10% nicotine. If I am making 10 ml of E-juice, and I want what the store bought juice calls 6 MG, I add 0.6 ml of my Nicotine to the 10 ml to achieve that strength. Correct?

Correct

 

[mattop8]

Thank you. The Nicotine part of DIY is the BIGGEST SAFETY CONCERN. Especially when someone, relatively new like me, gets 100 MG strength. Even the smallest miscalculation can result in disastrous effects. Thanks for helping me make sure I got it straight.

 

[Corncob]

I just got some Cinnamon Coffee Cake by Capella as well and I'm also fighting that Schnapps/Red Hot spice. @15% it smells promising after a few days' steep (complex sweet notes, slightly mellowing cinnamon, hint of bakery exhale), but the taste is ambiguously sweett while the bite remains. I've had plain Cinnamon and couldn't get it to play nice with anything (gave up years ago on trying to mixing with that), and the CCC reminds me of it a lot. If I have to drop the % so low to get rid of the bite that it can't work as a standalone, I'll try some cake batter or vanilla cupcake and/or maybe some brown sugar flavor. One thing I haven't tried is clobbering it with sucralose (>2%). Maybe I can use it to spike pastry recipes in the ballpark of 2%. I wonder how it behaves with creams and custards in this additive range.

That artificial cinnamon kick yields mixed reviews. As such it stays unpopular and no one's really figured it out yet it that I've read. Most reviews love it or hate it - I think fans accept the bite rather than try to blend it out, IDK.

Green Apple and Cinnamon anything is going to be a very very tough mix. I tried 3 or 4 different ratios of Granny Smith and Cinnamon and then I never wanted to taste them together again lol. Both have a bite that conflicts horribly - maybe try a red or fuji apple, something less tart and acidic tasting. IMO get some caramel or dulce de leche, it's delicious at almost any ratio with apple. Caramel Apple (7% and 7% will get you close) was one of my EDV for my first year of vaping DIY liquids. The dark body of caramel and the bite of green apple mix well enough to shake and vape decent even. Never tried caramel with anything cinnamon but the odds are in your favor I think.