DIY EJuice - What is Needed to Make The Perfect E Liquid Batch?
If you’re ready to stop buying premade e-juice and begin your DIY e-liquid journey, we know that such a prospect can be intimidating at first. After all, making e-liquid from scratch requires some basic culinary skill, a good amount of space for your venture and, most importantly, the right ingredients and equipment.
Luckily, once you have all of those things, you’ll be rewarded with awesome e-juice that you made yourself.
Benefits of DIY Vaping
First, let’s briefly talk about the benefits of making vape juice from scratch, in case you need a bit of convincing. For one thing, making DIY e-liquid will save a tremendous amount of money. That’s because making it from scratch is far cheaper than buying it pre-bottled. Additionally, DIY e-liquids are catered to your unique tastes, meaning that you can make any flavor that you’d like rather than having to choose from what’s on the store’s shelf. And, it’s a great way to engage in a creative hobby that’s catered to your personal interests.
Supplies That You’ll Need
These are the tools so to speak that are needed to get your DIY vaping off the ground.
- VG: One part of the e-juice’s base, and you can’t make e-liquid without it. We recommend going with a pharmaceutical grade (USP) vegetable glycerin as it’s higher in quality and tested thoroughly. You’ll need a large quantity of this, so we recommend buying at least 500mL.
- PG: The other part of the base of any e-liquid formula. Again, you want to go for quality here, so invest in a pharmaceutical grade (USP) propylene glycol. And, again, you’ll be using a lot of this, so we recommend purchasing at least 500mL.
- Flavoring: The bread and butter if you will of any e-juice, so you don’t want to skimp here. Liquid Nicotine Wholesalers makes high-quality flavoring extracts that are specifically for DIY vaping usage. Choose a nice variety of flavors so that you can start experimenting with different profiles right away. Most successful recipes require a minimum of three flavorings. E.g. If you are making a strawberry e-liquid, try using a few different brands or types of strawberry such as sweet strawberry and strawberry ripe. Then try using them at different percentages to identify which you like more of. We also suggest grabbing sweetener, which isn’t technically a flavor, but highly useful.
- Nicotine: If you want to use nicotine in your vape juice, you’ll need to buy concentrated nicotine. We recommend purchasing any of the following nicotine strengths, 48mg, 60mg, or 100mg. You can choose whether you wish to use a salt nic or freebase concentrate based on your needs. Nicotine, bare in mind, must be handled with safety gear.
- Gloves: They’re essential. For one thing, making vape juice can get messy. Additionally, nicotine can be dangerous if it encounters the skin. We recommend a pair that’s thick enough to protect you, but still allows you to move your fingers easily.
- Eye Protection: Very important if you’re working with nicotine. Even if you’re not working with nicotine, goggles come in handy if you accidentally splash some of your formula while mixing the ingredients.
- Measuring Equipment: Such as a collection of beakers or syringes, is important. You need to carefully measure out each ingredient in order to create any vape juice recipe. We recommend going with a few different sizes because you will use different amounts of each ingredient.
- Empty Bottles: Most DIY’ers make their recipe right in the bottle size of their choice. We recommend starting out by making 5-10mL sample sizes because most do not enjoy their first few recipes. A 15mL or 30mL bottle size is perfect as it allows for extra space to shake the ingredients well.
- Labeling Equipment: A label maker is great but you could get away with blank labels or even a sharpie to write on the bottle. It is imperative to document your ingredient percentages for each recipe. It will allow you to identify what changes were made to tailor to your needs in the future.
- LNW DIY Calculator: LNW offers a free online DIY e-juice calculator. This tool takes out any guesswork or calculations on your end. Simply input what you would like to make and it will calculate the exact amount of each ingredient needed for your desired recipe. We recommend playing with this tool before you place an order. This way, you will be sure of what you need and how much of it you will need. The last thing you want is to have everything ready to go and then realize you are missing an ingredient.
Start Creating Some Impressive DIY E-Liquids!
Remember to make sure that all your equipment is in place before starting, while also exercising safety whenever working with nicotine. And, bear in mind that the quality of your supplies matters as much as the supplies themselves.
If you would like to read our COMPLETE GUIDE TO DIY E-JUICE using our DIY Calculator, click here.