See picture Here
The juice is made up of.
0.75% INW vanilla.
5% FA spearmint.
2.5% FLV creme de menthe.
0.75% super sweet.
2.5% koolada.
75/25 VG/PG
In sorry the juice became extremely cloudy and viscosity became near solid
Overflavoring of the mints and coolant. Was it also cool where it was stored?
Interesting. Nope room temperature. The other mix didn't precipitate
I've also found that you need a high amount of pg in your mix to avoid precipitation of mints/menthol/cooling. I make strong (not rediculous) Menthol for a friend. I have to get the nic, pg and Menthol to mix well, and run it under warm water to mix the Menthol fully, then add the vg to stop precipitation, and I've noticed anything less than 30% pg will precipitate, particularly if it's cold
FA Spearmint contains peppermint oil, and you're using it at a pretty high percentage. I'm not sure of the exact reaction that's going on to give you that precipitate, but my guess would be that the spearmint is involved. Did that same thing happen to the juice in the bottle you mixed it in?
No strangely it didn't. Though the mix doesn't have the koolada or sweetner. I was thinking it's more the CAP sweetner. When I put it into a mix it immediately precipitated but then mixed within solution. Damn, peppermint oil is on the safety list and FA peppermint is very good.
If it's turning into a solid I'm betting it has to do with temp of your storage zone (Too Cold)
>2.5% Koolada
When I first seen this I immediately thought it was KoolAid ,🤷♂️😂🤦♂️
Somewhat related, I keep my flavors in the basement now where its about 50-55 degrees F, and my bottle of TFA Koolada has precipitated a bunch of crystals. I don't really use Koolada anymore though, so it doesn't matter much to me, but I assume if I warmed it and shook it up it would go back to normal.
It's the koolada. Try warming it up a bit and shaking it.
It's koolada just menthol crystals?
Menthol is dissolved menthol crystals, Koolada is WS-3, a cooling agent invented Wilkinson Sword. A white crystalline powder, also usually disssolved in PG. While both trigger similar receptors, it's two totally different things.
My guess: It's the high VG. Polar solvents like VG and water are bad to dissolve non-polar substances like WS-3 (and menthol), because the polar atoms like to flock together, like tiny magnets attracting each other. Heat or shaking will only help temporarily. With a non-polar solvent, like PG or ethanol, WS-3 (and also menthol) easily dissolve. If this theory is true, it should be clear at the beginning and crystalize the longer it steeps.