Since these questions get asked quite a bit, I thought I'd share who I believe the top vendors are for various DIY equipment and materials. Hopefully this will decrease some of the clutter over this holiday weekend. Other experience guys around here can throw in their two cents as well. Hope this helps!
United States
Bull City Vapor and Ecig Express for flavors
WizardLabs if you want a bunch of small bottles of a lot of different flavors
TFA/TPA for bulk TFA flavors (4oz+)
E-Liquid Mart for small (and large) FlavorArt and Capella bottles
Flavorah is good for... Flavorah flavors
Bull City Vapor also has good plastic bottles if you need less than 100.
Heartland Vapes is good for more than 100 plastic bottles
NudeNicotine or Vapers Tek for nicotine (get 50/50 or more PG than VG) -- Bull City Vapor also sells Vapers Tek
Amazon for VG/PG (Essential Depot), glass bottles, scale, pippettes, VG/PG squeeze bottles
Essential Depot or Bulk Apothecary for bulk VG/PG
eLiquid Recipes for recipes. Input your flavors after you create an account
Here are the most popular flavors for your first order
Europe
Chefs Vapour and Just Vape for flavors
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Glycerin Vegetable Kosher USP 43 oz
Current $13.97
High $19.75
Low $6.81
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Essential Depot Propylene Glycol 1 Quart
Current $13.04
High $21.95
Low $9.95
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American Weigh Digital Kitchen Scale with Removable Weighing Bowl 500 ...
Current $29.97 Amazon (New)
High $54.99 Drugstore.com (New)
Low $29.97 Amazon (New)
Eliquid Mart is better for Flavour Art sample sizes.
5ml for $1.79
Edit: It seems like ELM is better than Mama JS for all sizes of Flavor Art.
Edit 2: This thread from 8 months ago has a whole bunch more vendors listed.
Thanks, I'll check out eliquid mart.
The other post is useful for some but isnt the same thing I'm trying to accomplish here. New guys come here and want to know who the best vendors are right now, not eight months ago. Also, by listing my top 2 flavor vendors, we can avoid "which vendor would you recommend". A large list would be overwhelming
Edit: Replaced Mama J's with E-liquid Mart. Thanks!
> ... Flavorah flavors
I'd like to alter that to "Good variety packs for beginners." I only started a week or so ago and have only worked with Flavorah flavors so far. Not a single thing I've mixed has been unvapable. Seven "make it up as I go" flavors, and 14 single-notes have all been good enough to vape. Nothing has gone down the drain. Once we get the Flavorah recipes rolling in, this should become an even better experience for someone new.
I'm fairly certain I'm not some sort of savant. If anything, my palate is probably not a quarter as developed as most of the high fliers in this sub. It's not as though I'm working from a place of chemical, culinary or specific experience, so I can only attribute this to whatever voodoo is in Flavorah's lineup. I haven't done anything crazy like 6% black cherry and 10% watermelon - but my gist should be got here - these are super easy to mix with.
Not to be undervalued for the beginner who doesn't want to spend a lot of money making butthole crab juice.
I mostly use TFA and it boggles my mind the number of people that post for help, because they can't make a "vapeable" juice. I've made >50 mixes and not one has been bad. Moreover, quite a few have been excellent. It's really not very difficult to make a decent juice. Sure it takes several versions to perfect a mix, but my first attempt is generally pretty good too.
There are a few TPA gotchas. Taro is one. That stuff is DAMN strong. Anything above 2% and I can taste it for 20 minutes after I vape it. And even 2% tends to linger.
There are definitley a few that you dont need much of, but for most someone has already done the leg work. I always google TFA "flavor" percentage and taste a drop on a toothpick before I use a flavor for the first time. For most TFA if you stay under 5% there wont be an issue. For the rest (graham cracker, raisin, additives), stay around 1-2% and it'll be fine. It's always easier to add more flavor than to dilute and add more nic. I'm not bothered by 3mg/ml vs 2.8mg/ml if i need to add a bit more flavor. I always keep my total flavor under 15% and that seems to work well for me.
Interesting. With all the posts I've seen asking specifically for help on making liquid that doesn't taste bad, or doesn't taste like they expect it to, I assumed there was some difficulty to it! Well, like I said, inexperienced. Thanks for the heads up.
Can we mention that this is us based? I don't think there is a sub reddit for eu Diy but I always got a bit confused at first, trying to find decent eu vendors.
Good idea. If any EU or Canada guys out there could point out their top vendors, I'll add it to the OP
I think the main ones for the uk are chefsvapour.co.uk and justvape247.com. I use the latter and they're always very good, although I've heard good things about chefsvapour.
No idea about the rest of Europe though.
Thanks btw mate. 👍
RTD Vapor has a nice selection of bottles, needles, and tips. They even have the Unicorn bottles in both 15ml and 30ml sizes.
If we can get another to vouch for this site I'll add it. Looking mainly to add a site related to syringe style mixing for those who prefer that route. Thanks for your suggestion
In Canada, I like these vendors:
- http://www.diy-ejuice.com/ (NO Nicotine)
- http://vaperbc.com/ (Has Nicotine)
- http://www.canvape.com/ (Has Nicotine)
- http://www.eastcoastvape.ca/ (Has Nicotine)
- http://e-cigsupply.ca/ (Has Nicotine)
I am planning to do a review of some of the Canadian nicotine vendors. I am currently waiting for nicotine from 3 of the 4. Canvape has already arrived (They are closest to me geographically) along with the NikiTest kit, and the other 3 should be here by next Friday.
Do you think I should do one big review, or split it up by vendor?
I really appreciate these links. Most newbies ask "who has the best nicotine" so it would be helpful if we could narrow the nic options to one or two vendors.
What are your top 2 sites for flavors? Is there a specific site that has better options for supplies like bottles, or is all sort of the same. Also, do you all use the same vendors as the U.S. for vg/pg?
Your welcome. It was due to the exhaustive hunt I had trying to find Canadian nicotine vendors that inspired me to order 60 or 120ml samples to review and share here. I will also have a years supply of Nic when it all arrives LOL.
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Diy-ejuice has a large selection of flavors (mostly FA, TPA, FW and CAP. Small selction of LA, INW, and others) and has the best prices for flavors and empty bottles. I wish they sold Nicotine, mods, carts and batteries too. Them being in BC though it takes 5-7 business days get to me in semi-rural Ontario.
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Canvape.com is a little more expensive but much closer to home. Lots of flavors as well but lower number of vendors to choose from (FA, CAP, TPA, decent LA selection) No bulk bottle deals like diy-ejuice, but a large selection of general vaping supplies like carts, mods and batteries. Deliveries usually only take a couple days and I will throw a couple flavors in with my general supplies.
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For the rest, this will be a first time purchase. I have heard good things about all of them. All sell some flavorings but the top two seem to have the best selection.
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VG/PG - I get 1L jugs of kosher USP VG from canvape for $28. Yes it's expensive. Yes I can get it cheaper elsewhere. I don't care, this stuff tastes better than the stuff in the pharmacy at walmart. And it still works out to about 2 cents a ml. PG I get a 500ml bottle from the walmart pharmacy for $8. I'm still only half way through the first bottle I bought thanks to my religous adherence to 70/30vg/pg mixing.
What about VG based flavors? Most places I see are mainly PG.
Medicine Flower is VG based. I didn't add it because that isn't a common newbie request