Here we are steemian and vapers, all ready for new eàliquids tips?
Are you tired of vaping your usual liquid and want to try something different? In this guide I will explain how to create a liquid for the electronic cigarette that fits perfectly to your favorite tastes, and where to buy the main products that make up an e-liquid.
There are many reasons why a vaper should start making liquids at home:
Many of you living in the suburbs will not always have time and desire to go to the center of the city to stock up liquid in their store of trust, so the solution could be to do a little 'stock to keep at home, but the feeling spending too much money at once is not exciting.
By making liquids directly to your home, you will no longer have the worry of remaining without them because they will be at your fingertips at any time.
Benefits of DIY liquids:
Which ingredients are needed
The basic ingredients for creating the base of a liquid are:
In addition to the basic ingredients you can add to your liquid also:
Purified water, to lengthen mixing and to cool operating temperatures
Nicotine, if you like the feeling of the so-called "hit in the throat" generally called hit
It is possible to buy the separated ingredients to mix them later, or to take already prepared neutral bases and mix them with the standard percentages in which only the flavor you prefer should be added.
Now I will explain to you, step by step, the ingredients that form a neutral base and the function of each individual ingredient.
Propylene glycol
The propylene glycol also known by the abbreviation PG, is plant glycerol based on synthetic propylene oxide.
It is a viscous, odorless and colorless liquid that is widely used in the industrial field.
It is possible to find it in any pharmacy, but if you are lazy as the undersigned you can easily buy it on Amazon.
The material of the bottles can be made of glass or plastic. I suggest to always buy glass bottles because the products contained in it do not leave residues.
If properly rinsed they can be reused for future work, even for liquids with contrasting flavors.
With the plastic bottles, cleaning is less effective due to the easy sticking of the surfaces, sometimes compromising the aroma of the liquid produced.
Vegetable glycerine
Note with the abbreviation VG, vegetable glycerin or glycerol is an organic compound that derives from plants.
This vegetable oil at room temperature is presented as a thick liquid and, like glycol, is viscous, odorless and colorless. It is used in the cosmetic, pharmaceutical and food field with which creams and syrups are realized above all.
Also in this case Amazon offers you a wide choice of bottles with different capacities.
Quantity and doses
First of all, we have to determine if the liquid you want to produce is for an electronic cigarette with a mouth hit or lung hit.
Mouth Hit
If nicotine is not desired in the mixture, a proportion of the well-balanced ingredients is certainly this:
Personally for a base without nicotine I prefer to eliminate the distilled water getting even more balance from my compound which then will be:
Adding a 10% aroma the mixture will become:
If instead you prefer to add nicotine to your compound you will need to take into account the amount of liquid you want to create and the value of nicotine you are used to taking.
Simply buy the base with the nicotine mg you prefer in any e-cigarette store. You can find bases with 3, 6, 8, 18, 20, 36 mg of nicotine.
For example, if you have a base of 36 mg of nicotine and are used to vape with gradation to 6 you will have to calculate 36: 6 = 6 It means that one part out of 6 of the liquid must be of nicotine, that is, on 60 ml of total liquid, 10 ml must be basic nicotine 36 mg. If you are used to vape with gradation to 3 you will have to calculate 36: 3 = 12 It means that one part out of 12 should be nicotine, so on the previous 60 ml of total liquid, 5 ml should be basic nicotine 36 mg. Obviously the more liquid you will produce and the more stock you will have to keep at home and use at any time.
Obviously more liquid you will produce and more stock you will have to keep at home and use at any time.
Lung Hit
The mixture that I recommend for vaping to the lung is as follows:
Adding the concentrated aroma that you prefer, the resulting mixture will be an 80/20 in my opinion perfect both for the amount of steam due to glycerol, both for the aromatic balance given by glycol and the addition of aroma.
FLAVOURS
The aroma is a fundamental element in the preparation of DIY liquids. Normally the advice is to add to the mixture 10% to 15% of the aroma, so if you decide to get 100 ml of liquid to have some spare in the future add 10 ml of the concentrated flavor you prefer. The possibility to choose from is really endless, but to help you decide on which or which to show you I will show those available on Amazon among the most appreciated by the vapors. Flavors, like liquids on the market, are divided into three main categories:
Tobacco aromas bring back the smells and flavors of cigarette, cigar or pipe tobacco. Those who like me have been a tobacco addict in the past, know very well that there are many types of tobacco: the dry and the softer, the sweetish taste with the most bitter, the most intense and the lightest. In general they tend to be less sweet than creamy and fruity, but you can find tobaccos mixed with chocolate, coffee, cream, some types of fruit and even with rum or whiskey. If you love the taste of tobacco, will fully satisfy your desire to smoke guaranteeing you an experience of vape original and similar to a cigarette.
Fruity aromas tend to be sweet, but you can find someone who remembers the sour taste of certain citrus fruits.
Strawberry, peach, raspberry, watermelon, banana, mango, lemon, apple and so on and so forth!
From the most exotic fruits to those that we find all year round in our supermarkets the choice is really wide.
You can mix it with almost any type of aroma, as long as it is compatible with the taste of the fruit you want to combine it with. Among the most popular are for example the chocolate biscuit, strawberry and cereals, a lemon cake and many others.
Equipment
In addition to the liquid compounds I showed you, you will need some tools to help you contain the ingredients as you create your own recipe.
You do not need a lot of equipment, but you need to have the bare minimum so that you can work in complete safety and comfort.
Whether you want to make small or large amounts of liquid you will need a graduated cylinder, so as to keep under control the doses that you will pour during the mixing phase.
Once the liquid has been prepared, you will have to pour it all into a clean and resealable glass jar or in plastic or glass bottles.
Unlike plastic, glass is more hygienic, easy to wash and hardly impregnates odors that in the long run can be unpleasant, but I will link both so you can make your choice.
Very important are the graduated syringes to carry the various liquids with extreme comfort. There are more or less large syringes so you will have to buy the ones you will need based on the amount of liquid you need to move.
In conclusion I remember you that it is better to wear latex gloves while doing the mixing operation and that all the liquids do it yourself, go agitated inside the container for a couple of minutes and above all they must be left to macerate for one or better two weeks in order that the ingredients mix well together. The container of the liquid must be stored in the dark and possibly in a place without humidity so as to have the maximum yield already from the first vape.
