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Thanks for your replies it seems a little clearer now, I didn't think about it until ancient hermit started a thread earlier about % of cutting VG & I thought about my new bottle looking a bit gloopy so thought about diluting it.

Haha we have a game called In Your Face it's mint for bbq's / boozy parties, with a group of peeps a question is asked & has to be answered in a few seconds, the first not to have an answer gets squirted in the face with water from the device & then has to drink a shot of whatever you have in shot glasses, it's hilarious everyone loves the game & goes on to buy it themselves for their next party, (sorry Sammy I forgot it yesterday for dreamy's party lol)

Boots gylycerine was ok for me bazzer i didn't dilute it as my nic base was in pg & when i added my 10% flavour plus the glycerine to make total mix it was fine, 3 of my family & myself have been using it for the last few months with no problems

Yes i thought that myself digiw0rx but i would have thought after reading the above its a safer option of the two, thats only my opinion though i'll see what others might answer on this thread.

I have just read the following while searching for some de-ionised water closer to home as my nearest Halfords is approx 8 miles away, i copied & pasted it to see what anyone thought.


I have just bought all my various bottles for the next batch of mixing. but this time around I bought the VG glycerine from boots.

As many people do for a 100% VG mix, i want to thin the Glycerine down with some Distilled water.

So I read on here and other forums that people are using De-ionised water for car batteries or the like. But thought to myself that this is an industrial water - De-ionised is filtered not heated or distilled, so could potentially, and probably does contain microorganisms of some kind, it would be put in unsterilized containers and stored as an industrial product not a food.

The reason for making this thread is to bring this up:

I spoke to the Boots pharmacist today and asked if de-ionised water from hardware/car shops is safe to drink or inhale as vapour?
His answer was a straight NO!
De-ionised water from a car or hardware shop, is not fit for human consumption, by drinking or otherwise consumed.

I asked him what the alternative would be?
He suggested purified water, which is distilled and bottled in a sanitary manner.
This is available to order from boots, but only in 5 litre bottles!

LLyoyds chemist and tesco pharmacy can order them in 2ltr (still a huge amount)

I went up to tesco to see if they had any off the shelf, but ended up ordering a 2ltr bottle from them @ £2.47 so even its 100 times the amount I need its a good enough price, I think I will freeze the remaining to keep it fresh till the next time I need 20ml.


I wanted to flag this up as I realise that its widely accepted to use De-ionised water. I Know there are also alternatives such as Voka and of course PG. but for those who dont want to or cant use either of those, purified water is the safe option.

I hope this thread can become a resource for knowledge. please dont just post Ive been vaping de-ionised water for Xyears and its never done me any harm. as thats not the point!!

I would say based on the advice I received it is probably not safe and certainly not necessary to consume a water made for industry

Alternatives are:

Distilling your own
Buy some purified water from a pharmacy
Use injectable water(if you have access to such a thing!)
Vodka or PGA


Vape this! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Not this!

I have used the Boots one since starting vaping & been ok with it Romelee, but i did check the newest bottle & it was very gloopy so do i need to dilute that & can you cut it with vodka as well as DW, also where would i get DW from?

Hi Gilliandrea well done on getting off the fags, you stopped completely just before me, i had been using a cigalike from March 20th but was still smoking four stinkies each day, i packed it in for two weeks as it was getting to be too much of a struggle, after a fortnight i found this forum purely by chance & through recommendations on here i had my last stinkie on May 19th & have not been interested in smoking since that day.
My daughter & S.I.L, sister & nehew & his G.F. have all stopped too so its a right family affair in our home town