Several weeks back I purchased some 100mg nicotine from Liquid Nicotine Wholesalers. To my dismay when I received the product, the nicotine was a dark pink/reddish color.
I gave the company a call and the rep who answered asked me what color the bottle was that it came in. I told him they were white opaque containers. He told me that the container color can make the nic appear pinkish and not to worry. I advised him that even when drawing it into a syringe, it was that same color...
His explanation changed, saying that because the nic has so few impurities a little bit of oxidation will cause the color change. I live about 20 minutes away from their business and offered to stop by to make an exchange. He said they couldn't do that as they don't have a storefront.
If he just came out and said "yeah, it must be oxidized to hell" instead of pulling excuse after excuse out of his ass, it wouldn't have been as big of a deal.
Just a heads up to anyone thinking of purchasing from this company.
Picture of the nic in a syringe.
Here are some of the juices I've made with it. You can obviously tell which ones contain that nic.
Note: yes, it's peppery and getting more so by the week.
Pink nicotine isn't oxidized, it's nitrogenated. This is normal for a lot of nicotine now since many vendors top off the bottle with nitrogen to prevent oxidation and that nitrogen gets into the nicotine.
Pink diamonds occur when nitrogen mixes in with the carbon purity. Pink = nitrogen.
Now, if it's orange or amber...that is oxygen and oxidation.
Pink nicotine shouldn't taste funny or be an issue. It's just what it is when you buy small quantities and they need to ship them in cheap bottles with nitrogen protection versus in expensive industrial dispensing equipment.
All the nicotine I get from Nude Nicotine is always Crystal clear. Small or large bottles. I have an open gallon that's going on 16 months old. Still looks perfectly clear and taste free.
Same here, have been using a 100mg 500ml from Wizard Labs(which falls under a small personal bottle IMO) for a year+ and when I refill my 'in use' table bottle from the one in the freezer its always clear, pink doesn't happen unless I really don't mix for a loooong time and it's warm out. Even with slight pink, I've only had harshness or pepper once maybe twice when the table bottle was mostly empty for a month or two and I just said screw it.
He has a pic of it it don't have the typical pink tint to it. Looks like it's orange on the verge of turning brown eventually.
It's basically a dark reddish orange now. The bottle in the pic with the syringe was literally just opened for the pic.
Thats what my nicotine looks like. Got mine from Liquid Barn. At first I thought it was terribly peppery and too strong, but then I got used to it. I still have the same bottle after almost 1 1/2 years. Its 100mg/ml so I don't use it much but it is the same color as yours.
I'd buy a liter of 100mg/ml and put it in 30ml glass bottles. after i use up the bottle i move on to my next glass bottle. After all my bottles are empty i go to full up my 5 or so glass bottles and there is a couple mls of pink/red nic (definitely not orange or amber its very pink) sitting at the bottom. Wouldn't this be a case of oxidized nic? Or how could it get nitrogenate from just sitting on a table? This has happened with many batches and every batch starts crystal clear.
We don't have a storefront so you can't stop by is kind of scary. Sounds like he's buying nic and selling it out of his garage and don't want you to know.
Thats how most sites online are. They move completely to virtual selling instead of physical selling because its more profitable most times. All you need is a storage space and a catalog.
Yeah I get that he has no reason for a actual storefront, but selling something like nicotine it needs to be handled under certain conditions. Not just a storage space. Nicotine in bulk is considered a hazmat product. He's not selling electronics or pillows or something. It's the fact the vendor doesn't want OP to see how he's handling his supplies. I'm sure if he did, OP would be on here telling another story about how their horribly storing nicotine.
Interesting. I purchased some nic from LNW about a month or so ago, but my nic came in a clear bottle. I've had it sitting in a drawer in my desk at home in a pretty much constant 70^o room, and have only just opened it this evening. The nic is not quite clear, but has a very slight pink champagne type of tinge to it bordering on clear (like very watered down champagne). Maybe I was lucky and got the first of a fresh batch?
> Maybe I was lucky and got the first of a fresh batch?
That could certainly be the case. If it's pink, like you say, it's been exposed to nitrogen (see the bottom of the Carolina Xtract FAQ). It's likely fine if it tastes and smells fine.
Yeah that's oxidized as fuck. That has to have been stored wrong or sealed incorrectly when filled. Did you send them those pictures?