What is the best method to clean the bottle and reuse it safely ?

[Eskie]

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Thanks for the answer ! I have to say that i did tossed a few plastic bottles as it seemed impossible to take out that smell of the previous substance sometimes and it makes me feel that the next ejuice i put might react on the previous someone and not give 100% the taste that you are expecting.

Also a sub question, when you say rince and wash, do i wash it with just water ? or with Dish liquid as i do the dishs ?

Finally, is there some kind of chemical substance that kills off that intense smell ? or lets say if i leave it open for days i guess the smell is gonna completely clean out ?

Like everyone else, a mild dish liquid and a good, long rinse. Not sure what you mean about an intense smell, if it's glass and washed, there should no longer be any odor. If there is, something is wrong.

Bottle sources? I'm partial to Amazon for prime free shipping.

 

[skoony]

So if you have some studies documenting any antimicrobial effect of nicotine, please share them as I'm stumped in finding any such evidence.

antimicrobial effect of nicotine - Google Search

regards
mike

 

[englishmick]

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Also a sub question, when you say rince and wash, do i wash it with just water ? or with Dish liquid as i do the dishs ?

All I ever did with glass bottles was run them under the faucet for a while, with the water as hot as my hands could handle. And fill them half way and shake them a bit. I figure glass comes clean fairly easily.

The caps are a little harder. With the cone tops I take the cone out and wash the top and the cone separately. Otherwise whatever was in the bottle could remain under the cone. A few times I've not been able to get the cone out without damaging it. But new tops are cheap.

Some tops have a flat piece of papery stuff instead of a cone. They tend to disintegrate after you take them out and clean them a few times.

Dropper tops are even more work. I've run hot water through droppers for a long time and still had residue in the dropper. I could see it because it was colored, so I assume there may be clear residue sometimes that I can't see. I use a dental brush to clean out the inside of the dropper. I worry a bit about the rubber bulb. Being black it's hard to see what's inside, and being rubber it probably doesn't come clean as well as glass. I use a small brush to clean inside the bulbs. The plastic part that holds the dropper and the bulb are a pain, especially the childproof ones. They are made of 2 parts that can't be separated. I generally pour some dish soap in them and sit them in soapy water for a few minutes while I wash the rest of the stuff. Then rinse.

I used to put all the pieces in the UC with a little soap. Can't remember why I stopped doing that, maybe it was too much bother.

Generally I'm not worried about nicotine or bacteria as much as flavors.

 

[Capt.shay]

Yeah, sure Capt.
"Different bacterial species were incubated for 2-4 days in an anaerobic chamber and the growth in the presence of various test reagents was evaluated. ANE, arecoline, nicotine and combinations of nicotine and arecoline did not inhibit the growth of any of the tested bacteria."
from: The effects of areca nut extract and nicotine on selected periodontal pathogens: in vitro study authors: YU-TANG HUNG1 LEIN-TUAN HOU1 MAN-YING WONG in Chin Dent J 2005‧Vol 24‧No 2
So sorry, no go on growth inhibition against a bunch of different bacteria on petri dishes.

"Two natural products that presented themselves as ideal core structures for this investigation were quinine and nicotine (Figure 1b). Each presents a pyridine nitrogen, as well as a separate tertiary amine with only modest steric hindrance. Each compound is naturally abundant, therefore, making it inexpensive, and presents no significant reported antibacterial property as the unmodified natural product"
from: Natural product-derived quaternary ammonium compounds with potent antimicrobial activity,authors: Maureen D Joyce1, Megan C Jennings2, Celina N Santiago1, Madison H Fletcher2, William M Wuest2 and Kevin PC Minbiole1 in The Journal of Antibiotics (2016) 69, 344–347; doi:10.1038/ja.2015.107; published online 18 November 2015

So if you have some studies documenting any antimicrobial effect of nicotine, please share them as I'm stumped in finding any such evidence.

I found a bacterium that actually eats nicotine

I've been wrong before and it looks like I am this time.

 

[Eskie]

I found a bacterium that actually eats nicotine

I've been wrong before and it looks like I am this time.

It's amazing the stuff bacteria can eat and even survive in. There are ways of making new chemicals out of nicotine which can have antibacterial properties, but nothing to my knowledge that ever made in out for sale as an antibiotic.

I will say out of all the worries I have about long term storage of nicotine (and I have several, especially when hoping this stuff will last me maybe decades) bacterial contamination is low on my list. Clean, cold, and dark seems to be the best approach. Now I just need to live long enough to find out if that's true.