I wanted to give a small review since someone recommended this site and said I should leave my 2 cents. I couldn't do an order from carolina because they were really out of my price range for dollar/ml. I ordered last friday, they shipped on a Monday and it took around 2 or so days to get to me. I ordered 3, 1000ml bottles for around 215 dollars. It came in plastic amber bottles with a push screw lid. A label with all the info, date mixed, exp date, warnings and lot number. The nic itself was crystal clear and didn't have any odor from what I can tell. I mixed up a small batch of my normal stuff and it was great. Theres not much else to say, fast shipping, decent price, solid nic.
Pics of the bottle and nic.
Awesome, thanks. I have a liter coming Monday so this is good to hear. I was going to grab 2-3 but wanted to make sure it was good first. This is reassuring. With my replacements, I have 60 years worth of unusable nic from a certain vendor now.
> I have 60 years worth of unusable nic from a certain vendor now.
Can’t you/ we extract the Nicotine from your/ our Supply?
Like a Distillation?
I would totally be down if that’s possible and you know how.
> I have 60 years worth of unusable nic from a certain vendor now.
Assuming you aren't talking about oxidized/peppery nic but rather the newest shroomy/earthy nic -- If you want to see if you can make it usable, you could try to turn it into a salt nic.
I've posted before the recipe to convert freebase into salts using citric acid, which is what I do when I mix for my sister. That recipe comes directly from a vape shop that was around from the very early days of vaping - back when you didn't have a dozen options for clear, odorless, tasteless lovely nicotine from so many vendors - back when liquid nic for retail could be pretty skunky - the year known as 2009, before juul was even a light in some hedge funds eye.
That shop was Vermont Vapor and they developed it mainly to get rid of the nasty odor of the nic, which is just what you need to do. All you need is some citric acid powder and distilled water. If you want to give it a shot, I'll dig up the recipe for you or just search this sub for Vermont Vapor, cuz I have posted it before.
It'll take you 5 minutes to do and if it doesn't work for you, you haven't lost anything and if it does work, you've got 60 years worth of nic to look forward to ;)
Yeah man, if you can find it easily I’d love to give it a try. Like you said, I really have nothing to loose at this point. I looked briefly for it but didn’t have any luck.
My previous post:
I did mine using the 'recipes' and calculations from Vermont Vapor.
Citric Acid Solution
1 g Citric Acid USP (anhydrous)
1 ml Distilled Water
Heat water to above 120 deg. F., slowly add citric acid while stirring until all is dissolved and solution is clear (a very, very pale yellow).
According to their recipe, the amount of that solution used was 0.0007566 x (total mg of Nic). ie if I were going to make 100mL of 50mg, I would add 3.78mL of the 1:1 CA Solution.
So I grab a glass measuring cup, fill with 100ml of distilled water and heat in the microwave (I have a candy thermometer to get temp). Take it out and slowly stir in 100g of CA. Takes less than a minute for it to completely dissolve. Then pour that into a glass bottle and put it with the rest of my ingredients.
When I make salt nic, I start with 100mg/mL nic, so I can just plug that 3.78% CA in the calc and mix down to 50mg/mL
It sounds more complicated than it is - it took me longer to type this than it takes to actually do it LOL
You can mix a much smaller amount of the solution if you just want to do a test first obviously
Wish they had it in smooth salts. It's starting to look like my order from nude nicotine I placed on the 24th of last month isn't going to get shipped.
Nude Nic said next week shipments ordered around that date will be shipped.
I think Carolina is extremely overrated, and their prices are obnoxious. Hopefully this company will consistently ship good nic for you guys. I bought 4L from vaperstek before they went out of business so I'm good, sucks to see others, especially new mixers, struggling to get good nic without being ripped off.
E: FYI for any new mixers that do buy from Carolina... Some part of their process makes their nic 8 sanely peppery for a very small amount of people. It's like vaping fresh ground peppercorns. So if you buy that shit and it hurts to vape don't give up, just try another vendor.