It depends, you can always add sweetener. You need to get the right flavors and try some known recipes, adding 2 or 3 flavors together.
A lot of folks feel commercial juices are too sweet, that's why they prefer to DIY.
What flavors do you like?
A lot of folks feel commercial juices are too sweet, that's why they prefer to DIY.
What flavors do you like?
Don't forget, there's a DIY subforum on here with lots of great people and lots of experience who are always ready to answer any questions
I've been vaping for a bit over 9 years now, and I've been making my own eliq and exclusively using it for about the past 7. The money saving benefits of DIY'ing were and still are the same as the general vaping savings, which are both HUGE, but the 'less sweet' factor and being able to customize the flavor and amount of flavor made the decision to venture into DIY land a very good one for me.
I was wondering how long it takes to get used to diy ejuice because I’m coming from commercial ejuice which has excessive flavors and sweetener
Commercial juice has high levels of flavoring as well as being sweet. I guess they are designed for people who are coming off smoking and have jaded taste buds. They need a major flavor blast to get your brain's attention. The longer you stay off the cigs the less flavoring you need. Mixing your own lets you adjust the levels as your taste buds recover.
This might give you an idea as to just how easy it is to make your own e-juice. Finding your favorite flavor(s) is the hardest part of it.
Getting my Breaking Bad on
My DIY kit contains: 1 - 3ml syringe 1 - 5ml syringe 1 each - 20, 30 and 60ml syringes Very important - Put clear packing tape over the markings on your syringes or the markings WILL be gone after just a couple of uses. I learned this the hard...
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follow up on my Breaking Bad-KISS method
Flavoring Conversion Chart converting %'s to mls for mixing up 30 mls 1%---0.3 mls 2%---0.6 mls 3%---0.9 mls 4%---1.2 mls 5%---1.5 mls 6%---1.8 mls 7%---2.1 mls 8%---2.4 mls 9%---2.7 mls 10%--3.0 mls 11%--3.3 mls 12%--3.6 mls 13%--3.9 mls...
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Well if you want to, you can just imitate the stuff if you want. With DIY you can make juice however. Myself I concentrate on low cost and minimum effort, so I use single premix flavors and just guesstimate quantities. This makes for very very cheap ejuice that isn’t particularly great. One can weigh things and follow recipies though and produce juice that is actually better than store bought.
Original ejuice strengths aren’t even available anymore. The top nic strength used to be 24 mg/ml, now it’s more like 6 or 8. Useless for quitting smoking but enough to addict a new victim who has never smoked. If you are not already a nicotine user DO NOT BECOME ONE. I use the original strengths myself. I am a bit unusual in that I started smoking again on purpose because I was under the impression nicotine was an extremely powerful anti-anxiety drug. I have recently been told this may not be the case, so I am going to find out. If it isn’t I’m going to have to quit, and it is going to suck.
In the beginning of DIY and using other'srecipes you will want to use slightly higher % on your flavors & enhancers. Eventually those will start to taste overflavored and too sweet; then if you like the juice you just adjust the flavors/enhancers to lower %. The older recipes on diy sites usually have higher % recipes and their calculators will allow for adjusting as your taste buds start to recover.
Perhaps it's worth considering whether you already have a need for it?
Besides nicotine addiction, you might also be developing a dependency on taste, which is not a good thing. I'll try to write a separate topic about this later.
As people age flavor receptors age too. It’s a bit like hearing. I understand towards the end it’s pretty limited.
