10 litres of VG & customs at airport - help

[toots]

My husband is going back to the UK tomorrow with hand luggage, but will be returning home with a suitcase containing 2 x 5 litre bottles of VG + 2-300ml of concentrates.

I know (obviously) that VG is non-toxic but if he is stopped at customs and grilled about it what else (other than e-cigs) can he say that amount of VG is going to be used for? He will say it's for the wife, but I'm just wondering if he can say something like it's being used for this or that reason. I don't want it all to be taken off him, it is sooooo damn hard to get the stuff to this island which is why I've ordered so much for him to bring back.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated

[Dave]

Sept 12, 2016 21:02:03 GMT toots said:

My husband is going back to the UK tomorrow with hand luggage, but will be returning home with a suitcase containing 2 x 5 litre bottles of VG + 2-300ml of concentrates.

I know (obviously) that VG is non-toxic but if he is stopped at customs and grilled about it what else (other than e-cigs) can he say that amount of VG is going to be used for? He will say it's for the wife, but I'm just wondering if he can say something like it's being used for this or that reason. I don't want it all to be taken off him, it is sooooo damn hard to get the stuff to this island which is why I've ordered so much for him to bring back.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated

If he's coming back to the island with only hand luggage, he won't get through security as you can only take 100ml of liquid through?

[joeten]

It's also used for making hand creams balms etc

[TJ]

He could say the VG is moisturiser for you, it is used quite widely in moisturisers and soap and suchlike.

The flavourings are easy, they are for baking and cake making.

[Dave]

Sept 12, 2016 21:16:45 GMT Dave said:

Sept 12, 2016 21:02:03 GMT toots said:

My husband is going back to the UK tomorrow with hand luggage, but will be returning home with a suitcase containing 2 x 5 litre bottles of VG + 2-300ml of concentrates.

I know (obviously) that VG is non-toxic but if he is stopped at customs and grilled about it what else (other than e-cigs) can he say that amount of VG is going to be used for? He will say it's for the wife, but I'm just wondering if he can say something like it's being used for this or that reason. I don't want it all to be taken off him, it is sooooo damn hard to get the stuff to this island which is why I've ordered so much for him to bring back.

Any suggestions would be most appreciated

If he's coming back to the island with only hand luggage, he won't get through security as you can only take 100ml of liquid through?

oops just read the thread again, if he's going back with a case in the hold he should be ok, I'd label the containers up correctly with the product name and carry an msds (material safety data sheet) which will explain what it is. These can be downloaded from the net

HTH 

Cheers Dave 

[toots]

Sept 12, 2016 21:20:41 GMT Dave said:

Sept 12, 2016 21:16:45 GMT Dave said:

If he's coming back to the island with only hand luggage, he won't get through security as you can only take 100ml of liquid through?

oops just read the thread again, if he's going back with a case in the hold he should be ok, I'd label the containers up correctly with the product name and carry an msds (material safety data sheet) which will explain what it is. These can be downloaded from the net

HTH 

Cheers Dave 

I've just googled safety data sheet for VG but haven't a clue which one is best to use, any suggestions or do I have to get it from where I've actually bought the 10 litres from?

[toots]

Sept 12, 2016 21:19:59 GMT TJ said:

He could say the VG is moisturiser for you, it is used quite widely in moisturisers and soap and suchlike.

The flavourings are easy, they are for baking and cake making.

Haha, rather a lot of moisturiser I get through to bring back 10 litres normal bottles of moisturisers are only a couple hundred mls

Is there something like aromatherapy or the like that it can be used for, you know some sort of massage thingy, or would the VG be too sticky and messy for that sort of thing

[TJ]

Nope it can be used for that as well, to be honest there are multiple and I mean multiple uses for VG, it is such a versatile ingredient for anything really, adds sweetness, adds thickness, adds softness etc etc. And to be fair if you had a skin complaint and the only thing you could use is VG then 10 litres isn't actually going to last you that long if you have to slather it on every day, day in day out!

[Postmodern Smoking]

Also be aware of your poor hubby's baggage weight allowance toots , 2X5L, of VG, is likely to be about 13kg ... excess baggage probably isn't cheap per kilo over.

[domesticextremist]

IIRC it's used as the basis for a lot of cosmetics. He could spin a yarn about his wife having sensitive skin and having to make her own anti-wrinkle creams or whatever...

[tim]

If it's in the hold toots Tish, he's unlikely to get stopped, and if he does, the above answers are enough. It's not toxic, so he needs to give no reason for carrying it. It's hardly heroin!!!!!

Chill

Or you could tell him to say "I helps with a certain sexual activity". That'll shut them up

[toots]

Sept 12, 2016 21:56:07 GMT Postmodern Smoking said:

Also be aware of your poor hubby's baggage weight allowance toots , 2X5L, of VG, is likely to be about 13kg ... excess baggage probably isn't cheap per kilo over.

His allowance is 20kg Postmodern Smoking so there's no worries about excess baggage, I had already done a rough calculation to make sure it wasn't too heavy.

[toots]

Sept 12, 2016 22:14:00 GMT tim said:

If it's in the hold toots Tish, he's unlikely to get stopped, and if he does, the above answers are enough. It's not toxic, so he needs to give no reason for carrying it. It's hardly heroin!!!!!

Chill

Or you could tell him to say "I helps with a certain sexual activity". That'll shut them up

Trust you tim to think of something like that

Seriously - if it was only a litre or even 2 litres I wouldn't be panicking, I just wouldn't want to lose all 10 litres of the stuff coz he didn't give a suitable explanation for having so much liquid in the case.  Plus I've only got around 100ml left now so I am panicking that I won't have any if he can't get it home to me

[toots]

Ok, I think I get it now. I'll just get him to say something like "my wife suffers with some sort of skin complaint and she uses this stuff to ease it". That should suffice I reckon.

They might guess it's used for e-cigs though when they see a lot of the concentrates are from T-Juice, that might just give the game away

[Q]

VG is also great as a cleaner... have you never spilt a drop or two on your desk and then wiped it off, gives a lovely shine to laminate surfaces