Organic/natural E-Juice

[JudgeDJ]

Hi everyone,
I'm a new member on here and I've been vaping since the early days before all the mods started popping up. I've been making my own e-juice for about a year now but recently I've wanted to make natural flavourings.

These natural flavourings would consist of extracting flavours using Vegetable Glycerin, the same way you'd extract the flavour of cannabis using VG. I've got 2 jars of VG one with lemon zest and the other one full of dried mint leaves. I have a few questions regarding this....

Is it ok/safe to vaporise the flavoured VG extract? Does anyone have any experience with this and if so can you give me any tips?

 

[Racehorse]

I personally prefer lab created flavorings over organic since in organic flavorings there are "naturally occuring" things that can't be removed, like diacetyls, that I do not wish to vape.

Not everyone feels that way, but in a snynthetic flavoring, what stays in and what is taken out CAN be controlled and manipulated.

you can't do that with organics.

AS far as asking anyone here about your "extracts", to my knowledge unless they are chemists, there probably isn't a lot they can tell you, I mean, you are asking someone to *evaluate* a whole lot of substances and that is a very time consuming practice that also requires a good deal of chemistry knowledge.

I'm sure people have done it, i.e., certain extractions, whether or not they are same extractions as you are doing I dunno..........just that I am not sure they can really tell you if it is safe or not, without doing studies.

 

[dannyv45]

Look here for a current discussion on the topic.

Removal of sugars from fruit extracts?

 

[Jdurand]

Danny beat me to it, and as a noob to mixing, this thread had me thinking about stuff I never dreamed would effect vaping. Best question asked in that thread was "how do you intend to keep your flavors from spoiling" Never though that you would need some type additive in a natural flavor that artificials don't require. I feel the preservatives to a natural extract would be less favorable than a synthetic flavor to vape.