Shoppers Drugmart Glycerin Heads up...FYI

[Bullmastiffguy]

Read on the forum that USP Glycerin and USP Veg Glycerin are both fine. I bought some USP Glycerin from Shoppers thinking it would be fine, and when I mixed my first batch of juice I found it really coated my mouth and throat and masked the flavor I had made, not to mention a soar throat. I looked into the CAS 56-81-5 glycerin MSDS, and WOW didn't like what I read.

http://www.sciencelab.com/msds.php?msdsId=9927350

"May cause adverse reproductive effects......including sperm morphology........May effect genetic material.

I have all the kids I want, but still, I think I will make sure to get USP Veg Glycerin, and not just any Glycerin that says USP.
I guess its worth the wait to order online USP VG rather than to buy USP G that's easy to find....
Just make sure it's Vegetable not Animal.

 

[ChellyNelly]

Thanks for the heads up!

 

[Hitmetwice]

This may partially explain the low hemoglobin counts from my last blood tests.

Though it also warns against skin contact but is used as a moisturizer.

Vegetable/kosher USP "ONLY" it is.

Fortunate I wasn't using much in my mixes...20-30%.

THANK-YOU!!

 

[DevilFishPhil]

Damn I've been vaping that for almost a month now, and I do want more kids Time to throw that out and get a new source.

 

[Cokeybill]

MSD sheets are law by Canada M8. They have to be produced so anyone can read them. They have to have every miniscule effect reported in them. Most of it is important and some not so much. I was a supervisor in a plant and had extensive training on MSD. MSD sheets are a godsend for workers when companies try to force workers into an unsafe predicament. 1 values are low.

 

[Bullmastiffguy]

True, but when compared to true VG MSD sheets that I saw, I didn't see any of the bad effects listed on them.
That's why I listed the CAS number of the product in question.

 

[DevilFishPhil]

That really sucks, I really enjoyed the convenience of being able to pick it up at Shoppers.

Well here's an alternative:
Buy NOW Foods Vegetable Glycerine from Canada at Well.ca - Free Shipping

 

[Hitmetwice]

Take base "A" (may cause cancer), add to Catalyst "B" (may cause cancer),
then add solvent "C" (may cause cancer).

Trouble is they have no MSDS for "MIXES"!
At least when I worked with chems in the past.
In the food packaging industry.

 

[mojojo]

and I just bought a bottle of it yesterday but still better than the soap glycerin I almost bought by accident..lol

guess I need to start looking around better..

 

[Samyaza]

Well.ca is a good company. I actually use them quite a bit, they have free shipping and whatever I order normally arrives in 2 days max.

(I don't DIY so I can't say if that VG is ok, I had a quick look and it doesn't mention USP anywhere on the well.ca site or the company website even though it says it is food grade ^^)

 

[Freaknugget]

Hmm I have "99% Vegetable Glycerin USP" BUT it has the same CAS #, sold by Galenova. I haven't noticed any issues but I only use it at about 10% concentration. My pharmacist ordered it for me specifically because it was the only Vegetable he could find.

 

[vise]

"May cause adverse reproductive effects......including sperm morphology........May effect genetic material.

Yikes! That is not good!

 

[Cokeybill]

Everything we eat, touch or breathe has effects to us. We only become "feared" if it comes to our attention. Vape on, it's not an analog.

 

[ChellyNelly]

Is it not good to "become feared" if something is or could be bad for you? Just because it's not a cigarette doesn't mean that it's not dangerous to your health. Even if they list every little side effect - I know I wouldn't want to be the 1 in a million person who got that side effect because I was too naive to just buy something that is safer for me.

 

[torozzgrl]

VG can be purchased at a health food store and it will state vegetable on the label. When I went to shoppers the pharmacist couldn't tell me if the glycerine they had was vegetable or not. So, off to the health food store I went.

 

[Not Iris]

I get my DIY VG from well.ca too. Free shipping and free samples. Great company and their Avalon skin lotion is so very nice.

 

[TotalTiffy]

The guy from shoppers said that they only sell VG.

 

[Mindfield]

Where is this CAS number found? I have two different brands that I use (Exact from Real Canadian Superstore, and Rexall from Pharma Plus) but they don't list a CAS number. They do have an NPN number (same number on both bottles) and they are both "prepared" by the same company (RW Packaging), so probably sourced from the same supplier. They're both sold as topical treatments for dry skin so I can't see them as being particularly harmful in any statistically significant way.

 

[Cokeybill]

Oh well, seems like everyone that has vaped USP VG in the past 2 or so years will have to rediscover a new VG for all their DIYs. Seems the overboards are going overboard by something that has been viewed a long time ago. Remember the scare of eating bran muffins a while ago. News reports said they were great for you. Two weeks later they were poor for your health. Now we're not sure what is OK. Ppl still eat bran muffins and ppl here still use USP VG. Maybe try asking the vendors that have been around, they are the one's that use USP VG in their recipes that sell to you and I. They know, it's their business. They depend on it... try ECTA, they are attempting to get Can. vendors to regulate a safe product.

 

[Cokeybill]

Is it not good to "become feared" if something is or could be bad for you? Just because it's not a cigarette doesn't mean that it's not dangerous to your health. Even if they list every little side effect - I know I wouldn't want to be the 1 in a million person who got that side effect because I was too naive to just buy something that is safer for me.

True, but you are vaping a product that has not been proven 100% safe by any means. We vape because it is an alternative to a bad thing. You never know what your premade juice is made of, but you vape it with no standards to keep you 100% safe.