The State Of E-Juice
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I hate to point this out, but nicotine (once it's mixed with a base liquid) only has a shelf-life of about 2 years. You can extend that somewhat by freezing it, but not indefinitely. The base liquids themselves break down as well.
We can stockpile nicotine in advance of the inevitable "protect us from ourselves" government intrusion, but only so much.
That said, a certain leafy green plant is still highly illegal at the federal level... though you wouldn't know it in California or Colorado. Or any other state, come to think of it.
We can stockpile nicotine in advance of the inevitable "protect us from ourselves" government intrusion, but only so much.
That said, a certain leafy green plant is still highly illegal at the federal level... though you wouldn't know it in California or Colorado. Or any other state, come to think of it.
Are we really sure about that? How about that cold a vapor gets or the flew. Can we really say they caught it at work or somewhere else or could it possibly be juices produced in a warehouse with no sight of a clean room? Just a thought!
Not sure what you mean by "base liquid"... I store my 100mg Pg nicotine in the freezer, and have heard reports of 4-10 yrs, still being just fine.
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All nicotine that you buy comes diluted in a base liquid of either PG or VG unless you're buying 100% Nicotine, which you can't do unless you're a commercial entity as far as I'm aware of. That would be strongly recommended NOT to do as a very small amount is a deadly poison at that kind of concentration.
Here is the link to the form on storing.
Search Results for Query: Storing nicotine | E-Cigarette Forum
It basically boils down to break it up into smaller bottles that are brown glass and freeze it doubled up in plastic bags to prevent leakage. You should be good for at least two years and there have been poster saying their's has lasted longer. Hey worst case scenario, until they outlaw tobacco completely as you can process your own tobacco leaves to get your juice.
I'm fairly certain that the Flu virus wouldn't survive being heated to the temperatures our coils reach, could be wrong though. BTW when was the last time you saw people in a restaurant kitchen wearing face masks? You know who usually makes your salad? The server, who works in the front of the house, in contact with all of the customers, touching everything including their money.
Wow, it seems like at least half this forum is sitting in their bunkers just waiting civilization to break down while they perfect the tinfoil hats
I keep my tinfoil hat in my bug out bag. Okay, I'm joking about the tinfoil hat. Nothing wrong with being prepared
Only half? Well if we are all going to turn into survivalists, we better add vaping to the list of things you got to have: food, water, guns, bullets, Gold, silver, Eliquids, and most of all solar cell charging systems to charge our vaping equipment!
sCharger 5 usb solar charger...weighs 8.4 ounces...5 volts, 1 Amp (1000mA), 5-Watts. Not for my bunker though. I camp and fish in remote areasOnly half? Well if we are all going to turn into survivalists, we better add vaping to the list of things you got to have: food, water, guns, bullets, Gold, silver, Eliquids, and most of all solar cell charging systems to charge our vaping equipment!
Y'all remember what happened with Y2K?
NOTHING. NOTHING AT ALL.
Andria
But that's only because the alarm was sounding early so they went in and reprogrammed all those huge legacy systems for all the banks and stuff are running because they're too damn cheap to upgrade. Otherwise it would've been a massive disaster (according to them)
I guess that depends on your definition of 'fine'. Potency starts dropping off after the two year mark. You can still vape it, of course, you'll just have to keep upping the percentage of the nicotine base in the final mix. I'm not sure what PG and VG break down into naturally over time, but they DO have shelf lives of their own.
Well that's the beauty of storing it at 100mg... even if it loses a small amount of potency over extended storage, it's still so strong that it makes very little difference.
It's in a freezer, so I'm pretty sure the shelf-life of the PG is "indefinitely" -- I'm 54, so likely I won't even live long enough for that PG to go past its shelf-life, stored in a freezer.
Andria
Nude Nicotine has an excellent article on their website entitled "Storing Your Nicotine Solutions". I believe you can access the article from the home page.
Not, I'm rooting for you to last long enough so that Nic degenerates into basically nothing, or you vaped it up and bought more many times. and most of all, we last long enough for all The anti-smoking crazy nut cases out there to leave us vapors alone.
I'm afraid that one may be a massive stretch though. 
I think the majority of vendors do their best to be safe. Here in Utah we have an organization that self regulates the local juice vendors. Any vendor with the organization uses professional kitchens and follows pretty strict guidelines including random testing. Any vendor not with the organization doesn't get sold in local shops.
I make 90% of all my juices. Other 10% is from my local vape shop that has a lab make all their juice and i knowingly trust and love the product.
Compared to analogs that cant be sold in flavors, taxed out the wazoo, and the fact that i can mix this stuff in my shed (no division of weights and measures mind you) and sell it on the net.... its the wild west bro.
You mean like those people that sell homemade cake pops online? Or the little kids selling lemonade on the sidewalk?
E-liquid doesn't have the level of regulations that tobacco has, true, because as of yet it's not a tobacco product(and really isn't for that matter), but it is still subject to all general consumer product regulations.
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