Hi DIY forum! I am a new vapor (about a week with my ego starter kit) and am really enjoying learning all about vaping, e-liquids and DIY e-liquids. This is such a great forum!
Last night I spent some time with a friend that vapes and makes his own liquid...it was an eye-opening experience. The DIY juice that he makes is so much better then the pre-mixed e-liquid that came with my starter kit from Vape Dudes. Don't get me wrong, vape dudes' flavors are pretty good (I got Blue Honey, No-Bake Cake and Watermelon), but my friends DIY juice was a revelation. It was a completely different vaping experience. Now here is what blew my mind: he said he makes his juice for pennies per bottle and it didn't even have any nic in it. He gave me his recipe and where he buys his ingredients (I will list it below). My question is this: is it really this simple and cheap to make great liquid?
He uses 100% VG that he told me I could buy here: http://www.essentialdepot.com/servlet/the-110/Glycerin-Vegetable-KOSHER-USP/Detail and the flavor I tried was butterscotch by a company called Flavor West http://flavorwest.com/index.php/butterscotch.html and the last ingredient was filtered water.
Here are the amounts for a 30ml bottle:
24 ml VG
4 ml FW butterscotch flavor
2ml filtered water
Now I currently vape juice that contains nic, but I have to tell you that I did not miss the nic when I tried his DIY juice. I would like to eventually get down to 0mg nic for myself anyway, so I was really happy to have tried a 0mg juice and found that it was so good. I am going to buy these ingredients and try to replicate my friends' juice and I'll update this thread if anyone is interested. In the meanwhile (and before I spend some money to do this) I would be curious to hear about what some experienced DIY'ers think of this recipe.
And one last thing (I guess this could be important). When I tried his DIY juice, I vaped from his set-up (which was huge and looked like a police baton - I have a call in to him so he can tell me the name of his model). I currently vape from the ego starter kit from vape dudes. I don't know if it would make that much of a difference, but I thought that maybe the reason I enjoyed his juice so much could possibly be that he has a much better device then I do. I am currently awaiting some EVODs (thanks to forum member aglet for the suggestion to buy these), but right now I have CE4's on a regular EGO battery. Ok...that is everything. I have not posted much on the forum yet and I hope this is a useful/interesting post, or at least not a total waste of everyone's time.
Last night I spent some time with a friend that vapes and makes his own liquid...it was an eye-opening experience. The DIY juice that he makes is so much better then the pre-mixed e-liquid that came with my starter kit from Vape Dudes. Don't get me wrong, vape dudes' flavors are pretty good (I got Blue Honey, No-Bake Cake and Watermelon), but my friends DIY juice was a revelation. It was a completely different vaping experience. Now here is what blew my mind: he said he makes his juice for pennies per bottle and it didn't even have any nic in it. He gave me his recipe and where he buys his ingredients (I will list it below). My question is this: is it really this simple and cheap to make great liquid?
He uses 100% VG that he told me I could buy here: http://www.essentialdepot.com/servlet/the-110/Glycerin-Vegetable-KOSHER-USP/Detail and the flavor I tried was butterscotch by a company called Flavor West http://flavorwest.com/index.php/butterscotch.html and the last ingredient was filtered water.
Here are the amounts for a 30ml bottle:
24 ml VG
4 ml FW butterscotch flavor
2ml filtered water
Now I currently vape juice that contains nic, but I have to tell you that I did not miss the nic when I tried his DIY juice. I would like to eventually get down to 0mg nic for myself anyway, so I was really happy to have tried a 0mg juice and found that it was so good. I am going to buy these ingredients and try to replicate my friends' juice and I'll update this thread if anyone is interested. In the meanwhile (and before I spend some money to do this) I would be curious to hear about what some experienced DIY'ers think of this recipe.
And one last thing (I guess this could be important). When I tried his DIY juice, I vaped from his set-up (which was huge and looked like a police baton - I have a call in to him so he can tell me the name of his model). I currently vape from the ego starter kit from vape dudes. I don't know if it would make that much of a difference, but I thought that maybe the reason I enjoyed his juice so much could possibly be that he has a much better device then I do. I am currently awaiting some EVODs (thanks to forum member aglet for the suggestion to buy these), but right now I have CE4's on a regular EGO battery. Ok...that is everything. I have not posted much on the forum yet and I hope this is a useful/interesting post, or at least not a total waste of everyone's time.
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