Electronic cigarettes are cool and people are tampering and trying to modify/improve things all the time. For anyone who has been following me, you know I’m pretty new to this e cig smoking thing. I was amazed when I came across a “How To” tutorial on making your own cigarette juice. Say What? You can make your own electronic cigarette juice? Yes sir!
I haven’t tried any of this stuff out, and I probably never will because it looks time consuming and…..most recipes make 2 gallons at a time! You’d have to be smoking like a choo choo to consume all of that! But for the sake of argument let’s say you run on vapo fumes. You breath, sleep, and live it. A simple recipe might look like this:
First let’s look at what the electronic cigarette juice is made up of. The base is Water, Propylene Glycol commonly referred to as (PG) or vegetable glycerin (VG). Flavorings and nicotine make up the rest of the cocktail.
To begin the process of making your own liquid you have to get the above mentioned ingredients. Some can be purchased as SAMs club pharmacy etc. So grab you a bottle of:
1. Propylene Glycol (PG) or Vegetable Glycerin (VG): These are the cool ingredients responsible for all that smoke. And no you can’t buy any old one, for some reason it’s supposed to be FOOD GRADE….whatever that means.
2. Some Distilled Water: Some say you can use any old water as long as it’s clean but distilled water is supposedly better for your lungs. Faucet water may contain chlorine and other crap that isn’t good to inhale.
3. Give it da Flavor!: Water soluble flavorings. Favoring that contain sugar oil or other junk could end up clogging the atomizer giving you an added expense.
4. Optional additives: You can put herbs, boil some tobacco and and strain the flavor/nicotine in.
Now for some stuff you learned in science class (well hopefully if not you’ll have problems with this next step). The composition of e liquid needs to be balanced. Take your base ingredients, flavorings and whatever else you’ve decided to put in based on the above and measure out this junk.
Compositions for zero nicotine E-Liquid as an example:
* 70% Vegetable Glycerin or Propylene Glycol
* 15% Water
* 15% Flavoring
If you feel up to it, you can add some nicotine which would look like:
* 10% Water
* 10% Flavoring
* 20% 24mg Commercial Nicotine Liquid
* 60% Vegetable Glycerin or Propylene Glycol
If you want to DENSIFY your smoke (make it thicker) then you’ll need to limit the amount of water you use. Summer time it’s more difficult to see smoke so you’ll want to definitely use less water if you’re looking for summer smoke. To get it just right you should experiment.
IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are making a nicotine based liquid, then you need to use your thinking cap. Don’t make this while you’re drunk for example. Nicotine is seriously poisonous and under large dosages it has been proven to take lives. Nicotine is an alkaloid found in certain plants, predominantly tobacco, and in much lower quantities in tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant and green peppers. Although the standalone chemical of Nicotine has not been analyzed by the International Agency for Research for Cancer, there is some evidence that it can develop into cancer.
I also ran across a cool recipe calculator which you might find useful. If you want to hit that up follow the link.
http://www.todmuller.com/ejuice/ejuice.php
Again I’m not going to be making this juice. It’s too much trouble and looks slightly dangerous if you’re mixing ones with nicotine. But I’d be curious to know how it came out on your first time. So hit me back!
