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What's this "goo/gel" that formed in my bottle of e-liquid?
submitted about 9 years ago by Poka105

So, 2 days ago I made 3 bottles of eliquid. 1 of which is strawberry, and is fine, 1 of which is TFA dragonfruit (10%) and TFA Menthol (somewhere around 3-4%), and another bottle of the around the same amount of dragonfruit/menthol. In one of the bottles some wierd goo stuff formed at the top of where the liquid was, stuck to the sides of the bottle (not "floating" on the liquid). Kind of worried to vape this, left some pictures below.

http://imgur.com/a/zCh03

The bottle with the cap on is the one that has the same mix, but looks fine.

EDIT: It's around 70-75% VG

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by TheBeerDudeabout 9 years ago

That's the menthol crystals forming and separating from the juice. I used to be hardcore into The Vapor Chef's Zero Centigrade and if it got too cool the menthol would crystallize out of the mixture. A warm water bath and a good shake should fix it right up though.

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by Poka105about 9 years ago

Thanks. Kind of wierd how only one of the bottles got affected though, they're all stored in the same place.

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by essellarabout 9 years ago

All it takes is a single teeny-tiny speck of dust about the right size and shape to act as a seed, and that makes all the difference in the world.

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by The_Revolutionaryabout 9 years agoMixologist

That's pretty wild

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by iamgr3mabout 9 years ago

From your post it feels like one bottle has more menthol than the other. Nothing sounded too exact in your post. The bottle with the higher concentration of menthol is the one that crystallized.

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by Poka105about 9 years ago

Yeah probably, I wasn't being too exact, I was careful in the beginning (2%?) but it was really weak so I just put what I thought was enough to get it to 4-5%.

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by sircrotch1about 9 years agoMixologist

www.googel.com

???

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by treylekabout 9 years ago

Are the bottles brand new, or have they been used before for something else?

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by Poka105about 9 years ago

Not sure, probably new though. The base liquid came in them from cloudhousevapor.com

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by jacatroabout 9 years agoProud Sidebar Reader!

Menthol- doesn't like VG-

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by thewandererNickabout 9 years ago

Sorry ran out of tube socks.

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