What Is This Substance?

[Frenchfry1942]

In east central Africa, they make stuff out of animal dung. Just asking...

 

[xanderxman]

I call it dead lip. Sadly, skin cells are a casualty of vaping.

 

[alisa1970]

Mine get that too, and no, I don't lick or otherwise "deposit" mouth-stuff on my drip tip. I also don't have mouth boogers.... Seriously, no one else gets it??

I use 50/50 juice, so maybe it's the VG collecting, cuz it also gets in the center tube. Unless you're actually spitting into the thing, I really think it's vapor residue--the film that you get on your windshield? Same stuff. It washes off just fine though.

 

[EvilZoe]

Mine get that too, and no, I don't lick or otherwise "deposit" mouth-stuff on my drip tip. I also don't have mouth boogers.... Seriously, no one else gets it??

I use 50/50 juice, so maybe it's the VG collecting. I really think it's vapor residue--the film that you get on your windshield? Same stuff. It washes off just fine though.

Of course other people get it. It just depends on what material the drip tip is made out of as to whether it clings to the tip or just hangs around their actual mouths, straws, whatever else they're putting their mouths on.....lol


And y'all have dirty minds.

 

[ch2468]

Lip fungus.

Kyocera // Lip Fungus on Vimeo

 

[lightbud404]

cotton-mouth residue?!

 

[Visus]

It happens inside plastic drip tip not so much on the exterior.
I used to soak my drip tips in hydrogen and after leaving it for a few days I would have a circular plastic like crust thingys after shaking it..

The metal driptips, it forms on the top ring around where your lips are, it happens with vg heavy juices moreso..

Its definitely the vg, I DIY and do not add sweetener. I do not notice it as fast using 60vg/40pg

IF you have a clear plastic drip tip soak it in hydrogen, it will become opaque. I use a piece of tin foil roughed up to scratch it out..

 

[Land0Calrissian]

Its partially saliva and juice that has spat up

 

[Bunnykiller]

cotton-mouth residue?!

but I use silica wicks not cotton.... maybe the stuff is PG ( pretty gross) related instead of VG
besides I vape thru my nose ( like a Vicks Inhaler for sinuses) its more fun

 

[Visus]

but I use silica wicks not cotton.... maybe the stuff is PG ( pretty gross) related instead of VG
besides I vape thru my nose ( like a Vicks Inhaler for sinuses) its more fun

I do not notice it with pg as much as vg.

Definitely may be both 8-o

 

[lightbud404]

Did u say white stuff on tip, or drip tip??

 

[EBates]

Yep, agree I call it mouth crud. Never noticed it on plastic drip tips but it definitely rears it's ugly head on metal tips.
Moisten the tip and wipe with a paper towel, t-shirt, etc. Good to go again.
Oh, and don't worry it's also all over the inside of your mouth, so it's Ok.

 

[Nermal]

I'd guess some solid deposits from the condensate of the e-liquid, dead skin, and various small organisms, such as bacteria, mold spores, and dust mites.

I think some call them lip boogers, or some such euphemism.

That's your idea of a euphemism? I'd rather hear about dust mites and stuff.

 

[AlB53]

It's lip jam...

 

[Brian Bien]

I have been vaping for a few months and do not ever get that stuff on mine

sent from samsung galaxy note 3

 

[catlady60]

I just call it lip gunk.

 

[Arnie H]

Lotta good responses. Thanks.

Might be skin cells, or condensed VG, though seems like at least one person in this thread reported something collecting inside of the drip tip, which would more likely be a deposit from vapor condensation i.e. from the ingredients in the E-liquid.

 

[bones1274]

The inside of your lips are wet with saliva, bacteria, dead skin cells, food residue, juice residue and all kinds of other things. Every time you put your lips around your drip tip you leave a very thin wet layer on the drip tip that quickly dries. Every time you exhale from a vape you are blowing more moisture and juice residue on the inside of your lips. Every time you lick your lips you add food particles, saliva, etc to the inside of your lips.

Repeat this process a few hundred/thousand times over the course of a day or days without washing or cleaning the drip tip and you will eventually create a dry visible layer of the saliva mixture you leave on the drip tip every time you take a puff. Just as dried spit on the sidewalk turns white and crusty after it dries, so does the drip tip.

As for the inside of the drip tip, small amounts of saliva also drain into the drip tip with each puff. Collected with the vapor traveling through the drip tip, the same thing happens over time. So basically it boils down to clean your drip tip often or deal with dried spit.

 

[EvilZoe]

The inside of your lips are wet with saliva, bacteria, dead skin cells, food residue, juice residue and all kinds of other things. Every time you put your lips around your drip tip you leave a very thin wet layer on the drip tip that quickly dries. Every time you exhale from a vape you are blowing more moisture and juice residue on the inside of your lips. Every time you lick your lips you add food particles, saliva, etc to the inside of your lips.

Repeat this process a few hundred/thousand times over the course of a day or days without washing or cleaning the drip tip and you will eventually create a dry visible layer of the saliva mixture you leave on the drip tip every time you take a puff. Just as dried spit on the sidewalk turns white and crusty after it dries, so does the drip tip.

As for the inside of the drip tip, small amounts of saliva also drain into the drip tip with each puff. Collected with the vapor traveling through the drip tip, the same thing happens over time. So basically it boils down to clean your drip tip often or deal with dried spit.

Yum NUMMERS....lol