Advice with 18mg nic base mixing

[JayJ]

I try and order my e-liquids in 18mg nic content and a 70pg/30vg ratio but it's proving expensive. I'm not ready for full blown mixing yet, using calculators etc, I just don't get enough hours in a day. 

What I'd like to know without getting too deep into mixing is this. If I buy this PG NICOTINE BASE 18mg and this VG NICOTINE BASE 18mg and mix them at a ratio of 70/30 % would I be getting my desired pg/vg ratio of 70pg/30vg ? I would assume so. I know I'd have to add flavour concentrate and this would effect the ratio and strength slightly but would I be correct assuming this ?

I know the same site offers an 18mg 50/50 pg/vg mix but I feel that may be to high vg for me.

If I'm wrong and if anybody would like to point me in the right direction thats great. But please make it idiot proof.

Jay

[chykensa]

JayJ - I'm afraid my maths isn't up to much, but that looks about right to me. Bearing in mind that the flavouring could be as much as 25% of the finished juice, that would lower your strength to about 13.5mg, and as all flavourings are PG-based, you will need to factor that in too.
To be frank and honest, mixing from recipe is so easy, and takes only a few minutes, and is so much cheaper than buying ready-made, that I would thoroughly recommend it. OK, you will have start-up costs for bottles, syringes, etc., but once purchased these will last for months, if not years. Mix sufficiently ahead so that your juices can steep for a couple of weeks before you use them. If you mix once a fortnight, and do around 50ml each time, you will not only avoid having to vape un-steeped juices, but you will over the passage of time earn yourself a mixing holiday, as you will end up with stock to spare, and not need to mix for say a month.
There is masses of good information over in the 'Mixology' thread, and we are always here to help and advise if you need us!
Have a cruise through the recipes, pick two or three which you like the look of, and then spend an hour pricing it up - you will be pleasantly surprised. I can mix 10ml of juice for just over £1 - nowhere can you buy juice that cheap, and the satisfaction of making your own is fantastic.

[remnant]

Mixing two liquids of the same nic strength will give you a result with that same nic strength, regardless of pg/vg ratio. Whatever is added in the way of flavours will reduce the nic strength and skew the pg/vg ratio, usually towards more pg, because almost all flavours come in pg solution. If you want to maintain nic strength, you will need to add some nic base at a greater strength - and this is the point you are beginning to dabble in "full-blown" mixing. I wouldn't stress over it, though - it really isn't that scary, or particularly time-consuming (unless you want it to be) and lots of nice people here to help.

[Frogster (The Alchemist)]

^^^^^^^^ What he says ^^^^^^^^

[remnant]

Lordy's introduction to mixing is 36 minutes very well spent. I picked up a couple of things from this that I'd never seen anywhere else: