DIY flavours

I have a bottle of 'coconut' flavour essence. Ingrediants water, propylene glycol , glycerine and coconut flavour. Can i add this to nic and PG/VG to make a juice, or will the glycerine mess things up??

 

glycerine is just vg so should be fine

 

oh my... now im excited... So i take it you can buy whatever 'essence' at the supermarket and use it to make juice?

 

Be careful with the supermarket 'essence', always check out the Ingrediants first, then research the ingrediants.

I've also read in this forum that they are very weak.

Good luck.

 

thanks.. yeah.. ill be sure to check the ingrediants.. i just made a 5ml sampler.. 1ml essence 1.5ml vg and 2.5ml 50mg vg100 nic.. ill see how it goes. mmmm.... coconut vape... lol.... im like a kid again...

 

Is that like 25mg nic?

 

end result to be 25 mg nic... yes... OMG>>.... i just mixed it.. and wow.. what a pleasant surprise.. Very nice and smooth, subtle hint of coconut.. Ive gone all out and added another 1ml of essence to kick up the flavour.. Im a very happy camper at the moment.

this is what i used

 

just check for sugars in your essences.........all the essences have some sugar in them....check the ingredients....sugar will kill your atty's, carto's, and anything else

 

Too funny. I did the exact same thing yesterday after checking queen's ingredients fact sheet. I made 3ml of no nic with 0.5ml coconut at 70/30 pg/vg. Tasted just like bought stuff.

I tried the coconut be.comse it was one of the few without alcohol.


sent from the future.

 

is alcohol a 'no no' if you are DIY flavouring??

 

No . . . .

 

That's right, but the queen ones I was interested in were 30 and 40% alcohol.

I have some vanilla 'airing out' atm to see if evaporation affects the flavour

sent from the future.

 

it seems great minds think alike Jetpants

 

I think the supermarket flavours high in alcohol are the ones using oils which need to be dissolved in alcohol such as Queens Orange which contains orange oil. Coconut and Imitation Rum seem to be the only ones safe to vape but are very weak (and Yukky in the case of rum). Coconut seems ok.

 

I have a friend in the food industry.. whom can supply a vast array of essence (commercial grade). So we are gonna suss out some trials there. I just need to get confirmation of the ingrediants of our prospective flavours. Stay tuned.

 

It works. ...i did the exact thing when i had only one bottle of nic left...desperado..lol..coconut and rum...rum.was disgusting but only two of queens range without sugar or alcohol on the label...got love the local IGA..

 

I was really just practicing in anticipation of my lifetime supply of menthol crystals arriving heh. The plain coconut is vapable but far from awesome.

sent from the future.

 

i like it.

 

Be very careful with this , as an ex-industrial chemist , there are many food safe products that turn into a completely different beasty when subjected to high temps and catalysation on an element . Make sure they have no colourings and espescially that they do not contain artificial sweeteners ( Aspartame , phenylalanine etc) these dont like temperatures much over 85 degrees and in the case of Aspatame can liberate formaldehyde ( this actually happens in the body anyway , but it is then tranformed into formic acid , but this occurs in the bowels and bloodstream normally , not in the lungs , which is where this vapour would end up )
Not being alarmist at all . as the amounts inhaled would be minimal ,and probably harmless, but isnt vaping all about a healthier way to smoke ?
I would avoid those flavourings anyway if it were me

 

thanks for the heads up.. ill put that on the list with other ingrediants to avoid. I wont go vaping anything unless its pretty much PG/VG, water and flavour. i will be Avoiding sugar, artificial sweeteners and colourings.