Ecigexpress Eliquid Cook Book

[Perpetua]

It's 26mg plain nicotine base is it Beauty?

What strength do you normally vape at, as unless it's in the 20's you'll need to dilute it down before adding your flavouring.

[beautycat]

I think it is perps, it says no flavour 26mg then pg I do have some no nic juice I can add but think this may dilute the flavour am I right .

As I understand it I think I could have 10 mls of the 26mg and 5 mls of flavour and make 56mg divided by three = 18.6mg

[Perpetua]

You've lost me Beauty, really you need to look at a mixing calculator and decide what percentage you want to mix your flavour at.

You won't need 5ml and you'll need either some plain PG or VG to dilute your nicotine base down with.

Rough calculation, assuming you mix your flavouring at 20% to make 10mls of 18mg eliquid.

Base nic - 6.9ml

VG or PG - 1.1ml

Flavouring - 2ml

[beautycat]

Aha I have plain pg

Thank you for your help Perpy

I will have to look into getting flavours

[OneDay]

Beauty there's a quick mixing calculator here

[beautycat]

Oh wow, just had a go oneday that's amazing

[Roger]

Nov 2, 2012 23:41:41 GMT beautycat said:

I think it is perps, it says no flavour 26mg then pg I do have some no nic juice I can add but think this may dilute the flavour am I right .

As I understand it I think I could have 10 mls of the 26mg and 5 mls of flavour and make 56mg divided by three = 18.6mg

?? How do you get 56mg out of 26mg

[beautycat]

I timesed 2lots of 5ml of 26mg

5ml of 26mg and 5ml of 26mg and 5ml of 0nic flavoured = 52mg. Ohhhhhh I see I made it 56mg

Is that the right type of formula though

[Roger]

Nov 3, 2012 15:53:06 GMT beautycat said:

I timesed 2lots of 5ml of 26mg

5ml of 26mg and 5ml of 26mg and 5ml of 0nic flavoured = 52mg. Ohhhhhh I see I made it 56mg

Is that the right type of formula though

NO. 5ml of 26mg and 5ml of 26mg = 10ml of 26mg
+ 5ml of 0 = 15ml of about 17.33mg.

[beautycat]

Aha thanks Roger, really want to have a go but need to get it sorted in my head first that would suit me though 17.33mg as tend to vape 18mg

[Frogster (The Alchemist)]

Hey BC,

Nov 3, 2012 16:16:31 GMT beautycat said:

Aha thanks Roger, really want to have a go but need to get it sorted in my head first that would suit me though 17.33mg as tend to vape 18mg

Yes..... but that is without flavourings added, when you add flavourings it will lower it a lot more.....

let me try and explain....

I think I read somewhere you are using 26mg PG Nic Base….

If your flavours are all PG base as well you are going to have a hard time getting above a 90%PG/10%VG mix.

To get 10ml of 18mg juice at 90PG/10VG you need the following:-
6.92 ml 26mg Nic Base
0.08ml of PG
1.00ml of VG
This will leave you with 2.00ml of flavours you can add (20% Flavouring)

If you want to add more flavouring you could get up to about 30% total flavourings, by adding another 1.08ml more (10.8%) of flavouring, instead of the PG and VG, but then it will make the mix 100% PG…. any other additions will start to weaken / devalue the Nic strength of 18mg.

If that helps

[beautycat]

Thanks Kev , that does help, keep thinking I would like to do it but chemistry has never been my strong point

[Frogster (The Alchemist)]

Just remember you can never get above the level your Nic Base is to start with….

So if you vaped it neat, you would be vaping at 26mg 100% PG

Everything you add, PG, VG, Flavours etc, will reduce this level….. depending on the amount you add.

For example, if you mixed 50% of 26mg Nic, and 50% of any combination of (flavours, PG, VG, etc) you would get a final mix that was 13mg strength.

So... for 18mg strength you will always start with 69.2% (Call it 70%) of nic base, and then add 30% of other stuff.

Simple…..

[Pacer]

Nov 2, 2012 23:49:17 GMT Perpetua said:

You've lost me Beauty, really you need to look at a mixing calculator and decide what percentage you want to mix your flavour at.

You won't need 5ml and you'll need either some plain PG or VG to dilute your nicotine base down with.

Rough calculation, assuming you mix your flavouring at 20% to make 10mls of 18mg eliquid.

Base nic - 6.9ml

VG or PG - 1.1ml

Flavouring - 2ml

I had no idea that the bulk of what we vape was nicotine I thought the bulk was in a 70/30 was PG I was going to have a go at mixing my own, but see I have a load to learn. if not to much to learn.

[Roger]

Nov 3, 2012 16:46:48 GMT Frogster (The Alchemist) said:

Hey BC,

Nov 3, 2012 16:16:31 GMT beautycat said:

Aha thanks Roger, really want to have a go but need to get it sorted in my head first that would suit me though 17.33mg as tend to vape 18mg

Yes..... but that is without flavourings added, when you add flavourings it will lower it a lot more.....

let me try and explain....

I think I read somewhere you are using 26mg PG Nic Base….

If your flavours are all PG base as well you are going to have a hard time getting above a 90%PG/10%VG mix.

To get 10ml of 18mg juice at 90PG/10VG you need the following:-
6.92 ml 26mg Nic Base
0.08ml of PG
1.00ml of VG
This will leave you with 2.00ml of flavours you can add (20% Flavouring)

If you want to add more flavouring you could get up to about 30% total flavourings, by adding another 1.08ml more (10.8%) of flavouring, instead of the PG and VG, but then it will make the mix 100% PG…. any other additions will start to weaken / devalue the Nic strength of 18mg.

If that helps

The 5ml 0nic was a flavour as BC mentioned in an earlier post. However your point about the PG/VG is a good one, unless she wanted a 100% PG liquid. I was just trying to correct the 26mg + 26mg =52mg