What is your process for making e-liquid
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Best tip is to use an online calculator to help you figure out your ratios, then make small samples before you commit to making 30ml at a time... Also, use less flavoring than you think; you can always add more, but it's practically impossible to take it out! Good luck!
You have the basic idea and research is key.
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this will explain a lot of the how's and why's.
Read my blogs before getting started
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then read hoosier's blogs.
E-Cigarette Forum - Hoosier - Blogs
then read the stickies at the top of the page.
this will explain a lot of the how's and why's.
It's easier if you buy your nic solution in concentrations that'll help with the calculation. Say you want to make 24mg juice 50/50 pg vg. Just buy a 48 mg nic solution in PG and just add equal amount of VG to it.If you add flavor, your juice will end up slightly less than 24 mg, but not by much.
I make my juice 50/50 because it's easier to get the ratio right. You also get the best of both cloud and throat hit.
I make my juice 50/50 because it's easier to get the ratio right. You also get the best of both cloud and throat hit.
I buy pre-mixed Nic/PG/VG at a strength of 6 mg (I vape 3) then cut it with the same ratio PG/VG. I keep that in a mason jar. Since it's such low strength, I don't have to worry about highly concentrated nic laying around, though we are still very careful with it and keep it out of reach. Anyway, I just mix up my base using .................... and add it starting at 10% to my nic solution. So if I'm making a 50ml bottle, I put 5mls of my base in the bottle and fill the rest of the bottle with my nic solution. I either then shake the heck out of it for 2 minutes or I have tried microwaving it for 12 seconds, let it cool, then zap it again. That seems to get the steeping process going faster if the color of the liquid is any indication.
Are you just going to make juice for yourself? I buy the 100mg nicotine. I like it about 8 to 12 my gf likes it about 16 a brother at 19. I use a online calculator to figure out how much nicotine to add it's real easy. Also it makes it real easy to cut down your level by 1 or 2 or 3mg at a time.
I've learned a lot from Bill's Magic Vapor in the TFA (The Flavor Apprentice) thread. He deserves all the credit, and none of the blame 
The stubbornness to never use specialty juice calculators is probably just me, however.
Nicotine: 100mg/ml, 100%VG.
Goal: 70% VG liquid (turns out I really don't like PG).
This is easy to work with, when you adopt the viewpoint that everything but the nicotine is simply diluting the nicotine.
Let's say I want 30ml juice that's 24mg/ml.
Nicotine: 2.4ml per 10ml of juice. This is because 2.4/10 = .24 = 24%, and I only want 24% of those 100 mg/ml, that is, 24 mg/ml. This means a grand total of 3*2.4 ml = 7.2 ml.
My flavorings are pure PG. Let's say my recipe calls for 20% of the total mixture to be flavorings. That means the remaining PG, 30% - 20% = 10%, must be pure PG. That is, 0.1*30 = 3ml of PG.
Now I've got flavors (0.2*30 = 6ml), nicotine (0.24*30 = 7.2 ml), and PG (0.1*30 = 3ml), for a grand total of 16.2 ml. The PG had all been added, leaving only VG, 30 - 16.2 = 13.8 ml of it, in fact. Done! No calculator needed.
I've also been brainwashedtongue to believe that good juice should be pretty good straight out of the tap. Shake, let it sit cap off (breathe) for an hour or two, and enjoy. Sitting for a day is recommended, but what I've made so far (fruit mixes) has been good fresh, and quite good a day later. I simply can't wait a week+, and haven't needed to!
I've also learned the magic of "100 drop tests" to avoid making 10ml+ of sub-par juice. Just use one drop for each % of your recipe, nicotine and all. Use the same dropper (or plunge the same syringe very very carefully) and it should be accurate enough to let you know what you're getting yourself into. Tweak (and do another 100 drop test) or abandon if not good enough.
Happy mixing!
The stubbornness to never use specialty juice calculators is probably just me, however.Nicotine: 100mg/ml, 100%VG.
Goal: 70% VG liquid (turns out I really don't like PG).
This is easy to work with, when you adopt the viewpoint that everything but the nicotine is simply diluting the nicotine.
Let's say I want 30ml juice that's 24mg/ml.
Nicotine: 2.4ml per 10ml of juice. This is because 2.4/10 = .24 = 24%, and I only want 24% of those 100 mg/ml, that is, 24 mg/ml. This means a grand total of 3*2.4 ml = 7.2 ml.
My flavorings are pure PG. Let's say my recipe calls for 20% of the total mixture to be flavorings. That means the remaining PG, 30% - 20% = 10%, must be pure PG. That is, 0.1*30 = 3ml of PG.
Now I've got flavors (0.2*30 = 6ml), nicotine (0.24*30 = 7.2 ml), and PG (0.1*30 = 3ml), for a grand total of 16.2 ml. The PG had all been added, leaving only VG, 30 - 16.2 = 13.8 ml of it, in fact. Done! No calculator needed.
I've also been brainwashed
tongue to believe that good juice should be pretty good straight out of the tap. Shake, let it sit cap off (breathe) for an hour or two, and enjoy. Sitting for a day is recommended, but what I've made so far (fruit mixes) has been good fresh, and quite good a day later. I simply can't wait a week+, and haven't needed to!I've also learned the magic of "100 drop tests" to avoid making 10ml+ of sub-par juice. Just use one drop for each % of your recipe, nicotine and all. Use the same dropper (or plunge the same syringe very very carefully) and it should be accurate enough to let you know what you're getting yourself into. Tweak (and do another 100 drop test) or abandon if not good enough.
Happy mixing!
Flavors and PG, VG and nic to my left when I start to mix a flavor. As I use each ingredient, it gets re-capped, and moved to the right of the desk. Separate syringes for nic, VG and PG/flavor.
Come up with a procedure that works for you, and do it the same way every time. It is the best way to avoid mistakes.
Taste everything right after you make it. You cannot tell if steeping is doing anything if you don't have a baseline point of reference.
Take notes, and document everything you do. I find the notes section in ejuice me up to be very handy for this as it allows me to note any changes to the recipe without having to alter the original.
Come up with a procedure that works for you, and do it the same way every time. It is the best way to avoid mistakes.
Taste everything right after you make it. You cannot tell if steeping is doing anything if you don't have a baseline point of reference.
Take notes, and document everything you do. I find the notes section in ejuice me up to be very handy for this as it allows me to note any changes to the recipe without having to alter the original.
I like juice that is 50% PG / 50% VG and 18mg Nic.
So, to make it easy, I buy unflavored 100% PG liquid that is 60mg Nicotine.
When making the juice, using 30% of this unflavored PG that is 60mg Nicotine will make the completed juice 18mg Nic ..... Easy
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And if I use 50% Veg Glycerine in the juice, that will make the juice 50% PG / 50% VG since the flavorings I use is PG based.
That leaves 20% left for the flavorings.
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If I only want to use 15% flavoring, I just increase the Glycerine to 55% instead of 50% ..... That gives me a juice that is 45% PG / 55% VG, and still 18mg Nic
Easy
So, to make it easy, I buy unflavored 100% PG liquid that is 60mg Nicotine.
When making the juice, using 30% of this unflavored PG that is 60mg Nicotine will make the completed juice 18mg Nic ..... Easy
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And if I use 50% Veg Glycerine in the juice, that will make the juice 50% PG / 50% VG since the flavorings I use is PG based.
That leaves 20% left for the flavorings.
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If I only want to use 15% flavoring, I just increase the Glycerine to 55% instead of 50% ..... That gives me a juice that is 45% PG / 55% VG, and still 18mg Nic
Easy
Figuring your Nicotine in your completed juice is easy ...
Take the juice I talked about above ...
Like I said, I start out with unflavored 60mg Nicotine PG liquid ... And I use 30% of it in the completed juice
If I make lets say 120ml of completed juice, I need 30% of the Nicotine VG which is 36 ml
36 x 60 = 2160
2160 divided by 120 = 18.0 (18mg Nic) in the finished juice
Take the juice I talked about above ...
Like I said, I start out with unflavored 60mg Nicotine PG liquid ... And I use 30% of it in the completed juice
If I make lets say 120ml of completed juice, I need 30% of the Nicotine VG which is 36 ml
36 x 60 = 2160
2160 divided by 120 = 18.0 (18mg Nic) in the finished juice
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