After looking around here for a few days I've decided to order my supplies from WL but when I went to add the nic juice to my cart it asked for a carrier base liquid and I'm wondering if that means they just add a bit to the nicotine or if they add the nicotine to the pg or vg and if so would I still have to order the pg or vg?
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You will have to have PG or VG. Unless you have a license to handle nicotine, you have to have it in a carrier base.
If you order the higher nic bases, you need to cut it with, again, either PG or VG, or a combination of the 2.
It also depends on what nic level you are ordering. For me, if I ordered 24mg nic, I would be fine and could actually vape it straight.
I normally order 48mg in PG or higher and have to cut it with the same amount of VG
If you order the higher nic bases, you need to cut it with, again, either PG or VG, or a combination of the 2.
It also depends on what nic level you are ordering. For me, if I ordered 24mg nic, I would be fine and could actually vape it straight.
I normally order 48mg in PG or higher and have to cut it with the same amount of VG
Unless you have the proper equipment/authorization, handling pure nicotine is extremely dangerous. The pure nicotine is mixed with either PG or VG (sometimes a combination of the two) and then sold. Usually you would purchase a liquid at a higher level than what would be safe to vape and then cut it down with pure VG or PG add flavoring, and then vape.
If you bought 100mg/ml nicotine liquid, and put 1ml of it in a bottle with say 8ml of VG and then 1ml of flavoring, you would have a 10mg liquid with 10% flavoring.
If you bought 100mg/ml nicotine liquid, and put 1ml of it in a bottle with say 8ml of VG and then 1ml of flavoring, you would have a 10mg liquid with 10% flavoring.
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I'm new too so I did it the easy way. I ordered (from WL) 1 250ml of 18mg nicotine in PG and 1 250ml of 18mg nicotine in VG. I then mixed them together in a 4 cup measuring cup (and stirred with a glass candy thermometer) and poured them back in the bottles they came in. I did mix back and forth between the bottles to get the best total mix.
So now I have 18mg nicotine at 50/50. Adding my flavoring will change the ratio to somewhere around 60 pg/ 40 vg or maybe a little higher on the pg depending on how much flavoring I add. It will also lower the nicotine to around 14.5mg (at a 20% flavoring mix).
I'm really not that concerned about the exact pg/vg ratio or the exact nicotine level at this point (although I may be later). I've made two small batches of ry4, changing the second one a little, and they both turned out very good. Of course I got my starting recipe on this site, which helped. A lot!
Also, be sure to get some graduated cylinders and syringes. I should have bought a few more the first time around. Oh well, it's a learning process, and lot's of fun too!
So now I have 18mg nicotine at 50/50. Adding my flavoring will change the ratio to somewhere around 60 pg/ 40 vg or maybe a little higher on the pg depending on how much flavoring I add. It will also lower the nicotine to around 14.5mg (at a 20% flavoring mix).
I'm really not that concerned about the exact pg/vg ratio or the exact nicotine level at this point (although I may be later). I've made two small batches of ry4, changing the second one a little, and they both turned out very good. Of course I got my starting recipe on this site, which helped. A lot!
Also, be sure to get some graduated cylinders and syringes. I should have bought a few more the first time around. Oh well, it's a learning process, and lot's of fun too!
I'd go with lower nic for a beginner, 100MG is touchy stuff. You do not want it on your skin, in your eyes or droplets of it left on surfaces. You have to measure accurately a tenth of a ml does matter with that stuff. Try double what you vape, that's plenty strong to get any flavor and PG/VG ratio you want. The 100mg stuff is for mixing in larger batches, like 50 mils at a time finished juice.
the carrier can be pg or vg. PG is easier to work with . WHat ratio of pg/vg do you vape normally? Yes, unless you order a nic value very close to your nic value you vape at you will still need to order pg and vg plain no nic
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