i want to buy from wizard labs. i want to start making my own liquids, but i dont get how you add the nicotine to the pg/vg mix or how you know how much nicotine would be in the juice. and how much of the 6 mL concentrate bottles would i have to add to say a 30 mL bottle of juice? like would that concentrate last a long time? or do i need multiple bottles. if you have any suggestions please help me out, or if you have a better website or flavors or even recipies just leave a comment
Some of the recipe sites that you might like and I use are:
ECF's Wellness: Wrecked & Bonkers DIY Recipe Book
I'm sure there are a lot more, I just can't remember them off hand right now. I'll update if I do and good luck! :)
personally I have never gone straight from a recipe, I have prefered to invent greater satisfaction of a job well done, just remember they wont all taste great all the time, I ran into this with my root beer mixes, they tasted great till they gunked up my atty till I figured outthe right amount of distilled water to add!
E-Juice Me Up is a wonderful program. It will do the calculations for you. Just add in the base of nicotine and strength. Your desire result of nicotine, PG and VG levels, % of flavor (several options for a mix batch).
Example of how I make a 10ml batch.
- 3ml 60mg Nicotine (PG Base)
- 2ml Vegetable Glycerin
- 3ml PG
- 2ml Watermlon
Result is 18mg DIY watermelon. It use to be 50/50 PG/VG mix but it was to think for my taste, so I just substituted 2ml of VG for PG.
Side note. If you can get your recipes to be whole or half ML amounts, get some pipettes from Amazon and it will make mixing a breeze.
1ml syringes are a must for fine tuning, I use a 3ml or 10ml for coarser measurements! and remember don't be afraid to experiment!
I like 10ml (they go to 12ml) syringes for nic, PG, & VG. That VG is a bitch through even large-gauge needles. :)
I like 5ml (they go to 6ml) syringes for flavorings. Then I'll use smaller dropper bottles of lesser % flavors by hand to get the recipe perfect.
I mix in 50ml (for 30ml bottles) glass beakers. They're good for mixing when done, and great for easy hot-water pre-steeping before going into bottles. I've found mixing in those tall plastic cylinders just doesn't make sense for me. Too hard to get things to blend properly without switching containers just to finish the mixing process.
I make 18mg juice with 10% flavoring usually.
In order to get this right, I need to buy 36mg and cut it by 1/2 with PG/VG + flavors. If I bought 18mg, there'd be no way to get 10% flavor and still have 18mg - I'd end up with 16.2%.
So to make 10ml of 18mg juice with 10% flavor:
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5ml 36mg unflavored PG/VG nicotine base
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4 ml PG/VG
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1 ml flavoring
For personal juice, I mix at 20nic. I used to purchase at 18nic, but @ 20, it just makes the calculations easier to remember. For customer orders, I do keep my recipes in E-Juice Me Up.
My personal mix - 30ml / 20nic: *PG: 4ml *VG: 10ml *Nic: 10ml *Combined Flavors: 6ml (@20% overall)