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So I was getting a half gallon of PG, and one of the things the Amazon site does is show you what other people buying that item bought. Apparently VG and chubby gorilla bottles. So vaping seems to be a primary use of PG. More than soap. Which I wasn’t expecting.
 

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Any reqs?.
I'd get this PG by the gallon, which is less than the PG you linked to, if you'd buy a gallon jug.


Nature's Oil brand PG and VG are Bulk Apothecary products. Many of us have been using theirs and buying it right from the Bulk Apothecary website for many years. But, on Amazon you can get the free S/H whether you have Prime or not, because of the $38.99 per gallon price.

Here's the Nature's Oil VG, for $26.74 per gallon and free S/H, too, if you have it in the same order.

 

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    I'd get this PG by the gallon, which is less than the PG you linked to, if you'd buy a gallon jug.
    Thanks, JC!

    A quart of PG and a pint of VG lasts me a year, and I moved into a tiny house. lol

    Nature's Oil brand PG and VG are Bulk Apothecary products. Many of us have been using theirs and buying it right from the Bulk Apothecary website for many years. But, on Amazon you can get the free S/H whether you have Prime or not, because of the $38.99 per gallon price.
    I looked at BA and the shipping is almost the same as the purchase with the 15% coupon; $26.
    I probably end up there anyway since BCF stopped selling VG.
     

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    I hope the powers that be don't figure this out, or they will start treating vg and pg as vape products and ban them.
    If they try it there will be a problem. They’re food additives. The only things that aren’t also used for Other things are atomizers and liquid nicotine, and even that is theoretically a last-line-of-defense insecticide. So it’s basically impossible to ban any of them. Mods can be cordless soldering irons btw. They even work really well for it. Disposables are pretty easy to single out though. They aren’t used for anything else.
     

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    I'd get this PG by the gallon, which is less than the PG you linked to, if you'd buy a gallon jug.


    Nature's Oil brand PG and VG are Bulk Apothecary products. Many of us have been using theirs and buying it right from the Bulk Apothecary website for many years. But, on Amazon you can get the free S/H whether you have Prime or not, because of the $38.99 per gallon price.

    Here's the Nature's Oil VG, for $26.74 per gallon and free S/H, too, if you have it in the same order.

    For me the cheapest one was fleet farm. Cattle laxitive. Getting down there is a pain though so i just order it. VG went with nic though for me. Now Its all pg and a bit of flavoring.
     

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    I was going to round up my next order from Amazon with some VG and PG for free shipping
    Any reqs?. Here's what Im looking at so far. Thx

    Amazon. PG
    Amazon VG

    I may have had an isolated VERY bad experience, but no Amazon for me where PG & VG are concerned.

    I just got a VERY HEAVY delivery, actually, containing both. Should last me quite a while. :lol:

    Not cheap, but good. Due to the bad Amazon exp (garbage), I'll only buy from Nic River or Bulk Apothecary. Both have been excellent for me (for many years).

    Amazon is here every Monday, like clockwork, but never again for PG/VG.
    :oops:

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    I may have had an isolated VERY bad experience, but no Amazon for me where PG & VG are concerned.

    I just got a VERY HEAVY delivery, actually, containing both. Should last me quite a while. :lol:

    Not cheap, but good. Due to the bad Amazon exp (garbage), I'll only buy from Nic River or Bulk Apothecary. Both have been excellent for me (for many years).

    Amazon is here every Monday, like clockwork, but never again for PG/VG.
    :oops:

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    Yeah, 5 gallons should weigh a lot. Neither VG or PG are quite as heavy as water, but they’re close. Each of those is 5 times the size I got. I don’t even try to lift 5 gallon buckets any more. Used to be no big deal, but no longer.
     

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    I forgot about VR. Truly, I’m not buying gallons. In fact, I just broke into my last 500ml of nic.
    A gallon of base will last me about a year and a half. My nic isn’t gallons. The biggest I ever got was quarts of that (a quart and a liter are comparable). Most are 500ml bottles in the freezer. Still in the packing material. Things get heavy and bulky after a while. Gallons fit poorly in the freezer as well. Generally with a gallon I will decant it into something smaller. It’s sort of the economy sized container.
     

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    Yeah, 5 gallons should weigh a lot. Neither VG or PG are quite as heavy as water, but they’re close. Each of those is 5 times the size I got. I don’t even try to lift 5 gallon buckets any more. Used to be no big deal, but no longer.

    When I went out to grab the box, my initial thought was, "What the HECK did I order??"

    :blush:

    1 gallon lasts me around 2 years (juice for four vapers), so I figured, why not.

    Well, "Weight" might be one reason ("Things I've learned this week.") :oops:

    Vape to live, and live to vape.
     

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    A gallon of base will last me about a year and a half. My nic isn’t gallons. The biggest I ever got was quarts of that (a quart and a liter are comparable). Most are 500ml bottles in the freezer. Still in the packing material. Things get heavy and bulky after a while. Gallons fit poorly in the freezer as well. Generally with a gallon I will decant it into something smaller. It’s sort of the economy sized container.
    Decanting nic brings back memories. First time I got a liter of nic I needed to get it into smaller bottles. I read up on it here and came up with a plan. Got one of those large flat tupperware tubs you use to store shoes under a bed. Set that up on a table next to the kitchen sink to catch any spills while I worked. Wore protective gloves and a respirator and goggles. Had a pile of paper towels and water ready for emergencies like getting nic on my skin or nic drips escaping from the tub.

    It did seem scary first time out.

    Now I just do it on my computer desk and wash my hands afterwards.
     

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    Now I just do it on my computer desk and wash my hands afterwards.

    Same.

    I dump a liter into eight 125s, in about as much time as it used to take me to smoke a Marlboro. Clean it all up, then seven go back into the freezer.
     

    bombastinator

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    When I went out to grab the box, my initial thought was, "What the HECK did I order??"

    :blush:

    1 gallon lasts me around 2 years (juice for four vapers), so I figured, why not.

    Well, "Weight" might be one reason ("Things I've learned this week.") :oops:

    Vape to live, and live to vape.
    When i was forty some i had a hundred pound bag of rock salt on one shoulder i plopped down on tthe driveway for the tenants one late fall. Come spring i try and pick the thing up again. It might as well hhave been nailed down. I couldn’t budge it. Andropause is real, and it has a massive effect on upper body strength as well as reaction time and whatnot.
     

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    Decanting nic brings back memories. First time I got a liter of nic I needed to get it into smaller bottles. I read up on it here and came up with a plan. Got one of those large flat tupperware tubs you use to store shoes under a bed. Set that up on a table next to the kitchen sink to catch any spills while I worked. Wore protective gloves and a respirator and goggles. Had a pile of paper towels and water ready for emergencies like getting nic on my skin or nic drips escaping from the tub.

    It did seem scary first time out.

    Now I just do it on my computer desk and wash my hands afterwards.
    Yeah. The step step fall behavior is pure nic on a non-smoker.
    The more cut it is the slower it works. The heftiest stuff consumers can buy is 100mg/ml which is about 1 to 10. Pure nic is a white crystal and i understand it is normally dealt with wearing a bunny suit with O2 tanks. So hellishly dangerous. Its something like 1050 mg per so about the same weight as water, which is of course 1000mg. Theres a lot of literature that confuses 100mg/ml with 1000mg ml. If 100mg/ml stuff hits a smokers hands it’s a good idea to wash it off fairly soon and if any of it got on your clothes change them. Not at all the same thing.
    5% peroxide is good for cleaning your face if youve got zits. 50% peroxide is rocket fuel and you dont want to dab it on your face if you still want to have one afterwards.
    And, no. You cant just buy that either.
     
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