so i just mixed up a few batches, really impressed honestly. why was i paying so much before? feel like a kid in a candy store!
vaping 3 percent cream and 1 percent dragonfruit, really subtle really nice. i was a bit worried about my nicotine being bad but it came clear and is perfectly fine. i'm still waiting for a scale to arrive that's .01g and not 1g like i'm using now (yes i know, bad, but couldn't wait another few days)
thanks again for all the help guys and entertaining my dumb questions like "how do i weigh my juice", really happy this community is so helpful
I'll tell you something else I noticed too. With the store bought juice I was having to change my cotton and clean coils about every 3 days. Since I been vaping my own juice I've only once changed the cotton and then it was because I figured it was time. When I took my RBA apart the cotton was still almost white and NO black gunk on the coils. It was 2 weeks!
That’s because store bought juice is filled with sweetener. Diy juices (the good ones at least) generally don’t need it, or very little.
Why ? How does someone sweeten diy juice then or are most diy "bland" ? Gonna take plunge soon to DIY and curious. Thanks.
Super Sweet has it's purposes in a recipe but once you wean yourself off of it with DIY you will notice with a decent recipe there's no need for it at all. Many flavors are already sweet on their own and super sweet just kind of gives that sugar lips taste. Many people on this sub believe SS is just a quick and easy cure for a bad recipe
Various sweeteners like sucralose, stevia, or ethyl maltol areb commonly used, and can be purchased in different forms from different vendors.
To that end though, I've never found any of my recipes bland. Less sweet than most I've done l found in shops? Yes. Bland? No.
If I think a recipe needs extra sweetness (beyond the inherent sweetness of VG and some flavors) I'll add some stevia (it's a better choice than sucralose, since it's coil-friendly) but really it's only needed for recipes trying for a seriously candy vibe. And I've done candy flavors without needing to add any sweetener, as well.
I also have just began mixing and I too ordered the wrong scale, had to send it back and get one that reads 0.00g. I followed a recipe I found and made a 60ml bottle that I let steep for almost 2 weeks. At first I wasn't getting much flavor, then the more it steeped the better it got. By the time I finished up the bottle it was fantastic. I made more of that same recipe and have it steeping now. It was as good if not better than store bought juice and a lot cheaper too.
Hello beginner! I purchase some materials locally to avoid shipping and get a better rate!
PG come from a tractor supply company, probably sold at any large farming goods place near you. Like 20$ for a gallon.
VG I get from sprouts, I think about 9$ for 500ml.
Cotton pads are purchased at Sephora in a bag big enough to last a year for under 20$
Does anyone else have tips similar? Locally sourced wire? Nic? Flavoring?
As far as the cotton goes, I've tried cotton balls, organic cotton balls, cotton that comes out of a medicine bottle-boiled and dried, Japanese cotton pads. To me, cotton balls have a waxy taste that won't go away. Japanese cotton pads tasted harsh. The cotton out of a medicine bottle was fairly smooth with little break in time but hard to work with. I finally got a bag of Cotton Bacon Prime for $5.00 6 months ago and still have most of it. It's very clean, nice cut strips, very easy to work with and no break in time. I would recomened cotton bacon prime any day.
> cotton out of a medicine bottle was fairly smooth
I just got some Native Wicks brand recently. It's called Platinum Plus I think. When I opened it I laughed. It looks exactly like the cotton that comes out of an Ibuprofen bottle. When I thin it out on the tails it comes off in chuncks. Paid like eight dollars when I could have just used pill bottle cotton. (I wouldn't do that though)
I live in Japan so I get unbleached cotton from the make-up store. It's a bit embarrassing though, for a guy buying make-up supplies
I use cotton from Mujirushi and it works perfect.
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