I've been trying to clone my favourite juice, a lemonade tea, but it's always too "dry" and I want a little bit more moisture feeling in my mouth... but since 2017 I never see people using it in their recipes. Has it been replaced with something else/found to be bad for you, or have people simply forgot about saline and/or keep it to themselves (due to beginners, well, vaping pure saline with a tiny bit of vg+pg+flavours added in)?
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cactus is usually okay but in this mixture it changes the flavour profile. marshmallow/EM mutes it too much (and I already have EM+SS in it) and I've gone up to 5% cap SS for shits 'n gigs but it wasn't pleasant.
Nah, it was a fad - salt just builds up on the coil and very little if any ends up in the vapour
I would not say that it's a fad and it's unlikely that salt builds up anywhere. You use a very small amount of it. About 2-5%. A massive number of people and e-liquid companies are using 20% sweetener which absolutely destroys coils within 2 days and builds up an insane amount of gunk. You can't say saline with an insignificant 0.9 percentage of salt content is remotely a consideration.
>and it's unlikely that salt builds up anywhere.
The salt has nowhere else to go but on the coils. It certainly doesn't end up in the vapour, it just precipitates out when it's heated.
I think you are both partly right.
We may call it vapour, but it really isn't, in reality it's an aerosol. So it seems quite plausible to me that even compounds that wouldn't evaporate on the coils can still (in part) be inhaled in an aerosol form.
sucralose has a boiling point of 669.4 °C and that still has an undeniable effect on the juice
I've never used saline, but I've known of experienced mixers that did. My logical assumption is that it would take quite a while to notice any buildup from saline use especially compared to the damage that most e-liquids do to coils without ever using saline.
Idk about saline but ive seen people use small amounts of distilled water. You can pick some up from pretty much any store.
That's for people who are mixing only VG. It doesn't do anything for wetness