True water percentage?

[Sneak]

When I buy vegetable glycerin in the drug store, there is already 15% water in the product. This leaves me to believe that high nicotine VG bases also contain a certain amount of water.

How do you adapt to that, if at all, when mixing your own liquids?

 

[Kay1959]

Are you buying USP Kosher grade VG? It should be anywhere from 97-100% pure.

 

[Sneak]

Nah. I am buying the one kind of VG you can get in Norway. 85%.
That being said, I plan to make VG only juice. It seems I will need to add more water, since the VG is not as liquid as normal PG based e-juice.

I am just concerned with the calculation of the percentage. Does it really matter or do you guys kinda "eye" it?

 

[Yves]

I only use USP Kosher grade VG so would not be able to advise. I think it is important to use good quality base ingredients.

 

[elfstone]

I don't know either.

Just pitching in to say if you add water, make sure it is the "most distilled" you can find for a reasonable price. It helps keeping your coils working - deposits from regular water kills them off fast.

 

[Kay1959]

Nah. I am buying the one kind of VG you can get in Norway. 85%.
That being said, I plan to make VG only juice. It seems I will need to add more water, since the VG is not as liquid as normal PG based e-juice.

I am just concerned with the calculation of the percentage. Does it really matter or do you guys kinda "eye" it?

I'm afraid you're going to have to play around with it. I'd suggest you measure out your VG to water ratio and see how that does with your atty...and take it from there. If you keep tabs on what % of what you add, you'll know what to do the next time....alot better than just 'eyeing it'. Good luck!

 

[fed71]

You can rely on such a structure.

The composition of a mixture of Velvet cloud:
80% USP vegetable glycerin (VG)
20% distilled water

Soft steam without the expressed trothit, poor taste. The components of plant origin only. It is recommended if you are hypersensitive propylene glycol.

Important! Keep tightly closed. Store in a cool, dry place. Avoid direct sunlight. For prolonged storage, put in fresh-zone refrigerator. Shake well before use.

If you can not get distilled water, use boiled. Give her a sludge or filter.

 

[Mroutlaw]

Make sure you are using USB grade VG. When you buy a 100% vg juice online, it is diluted with distilled water. You need to "water it down" with distilled water or grain alcohol. Personally, I used distilled water.

Many people like to dilute it until it becomes close to the viscosity of pg, maybe a little thicker. Use a juice calculator and there is a spot on it that says, "water/PGA". Put in the % you want for water. I usually dilute with 10% - 15% water.

If you need a lot of vg, I suggest http://wizardlabs.us/. They have good service and make the vg and pg fresh. You can get a 60ml bottle of vg for $2 and a 240ml bottle for $5.


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