I make my own vape juice. I get food-grade VG from amazon, I skip the PG because it gives me a headache, and I get the flavoring from an online store in Missouri. I buy a gallon of VG, and either a half or full liter of Spearmint flavoring and the same size of Extreme Ice (or Extreme Chill since it was renamed) from that store, along with some nicotine. Then I mix my recipe using a vape calculator, a couple of gallon jugs, and a food scale (I go by grams instead of ml). Lasts me a year and a half or so. I can control the nic level, and I was doing zero nic for 2-3 years until covid hit. I upped it to the level of the old ultra-light cigarettes once I heard about the nicotine receptors and nicotine helping block covid and likely other stuff.
By making my own juice I save a ton of money, and I know what I'm putting in - I'm not buying Chinese poison in a 30ml bottle or getting "popcorn lung" from chemicals they put in. I can't tell you exactly what it would cost now since it lasts me so long and who knows what inflation is doing to that stuff at the moment, but It averaged me about $120ish the last couple of times I made it. I get about 1.3 gallons of vape juice when I add the flavoring and nicotine, which comes to about 4920 ml. That would be enough to make 164 of the 30ml bottles. Since those pre-made bottles of juice go for around $15 online it would cost $2460 to buy the same amount I make for around $120.
What's really cool is if I happen to get bronchitis or a bad cold or something, I can add a little more flavoring to give it a much more minty and cool flavor and it absolutely clears me out. I figured that out about 10 years ago when I had bad pneumonia and coughed constantly. The mint and the cool flavor helped my cough right away and my chest didn't hurt anymore.
Oh - there is also one other significant benefit a lot of people don't think about. I have a bunch of 18650 batteries for vaping, and they can be used in several other things like the small super-bright tactical flashlights, some emergency radios, and I even have a couple small personal fans about 6 inches high that use 18650s. It is great having all those batteries in a power outage - I have bright light, radio, and my wife doesn't complain that she's too hot without the AC.
When the 18650 batteries start holding less of a charge I buy new ones and put the old ones in the plastic holders and in a box for power outage use. I probably have about 80 of them so they would last me for days to weeks if necessary.
One warning though. If you start making your own juice make sure you wash up after making a batch if you are going to be getting on an airplane that day. If you are unlucky enough to be picked for extra screening and they swab you, the explosive detector may go off. Don't freak - it does the same with some hand lotions - it is the Glycerin (VG is Vegetable Glycerin). The explosive detectors often mistake it with nitroglycerin. I almost missed a flight because of it, until I showed the TSA goon that it was what I said it was by putting drops on my tongue. He then smelled the juice and asked for the recipe. He also told me a lot of blacks would set it off if they were using certain lotions on their (dry) skin.
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I make my own vape juice. I get food-grade VG from amazon, I skip the PG because it gives me a headache, and I get the flavoring from an online store in Missouri. I buy a gallon of VG, and either a half or full liter of Spearmint flavoring and the same size of Extreme Ice (or Extreme Chill since it was renamed) from that store, along with some nicotine. Then I mix my recipe using a vape calculator, a couple of gallon jugs, and a food scale (I go by grams instead of ml). Lasts me a year and a half or so. I can control the nic level, and I was doing zero nic for 2-3 years until covid hit. I upped it to the level of the old ultra-light cigarettes once I heard about the nicotine receptors and nicotine helping block covid and likely other stuff.
By making my own juice I save a ton of money, and I know what I'm putting in - I'm not buying Chinese poison in a 30ml bottle or getting "popcorn lung" from chemicals they put in. I can't tell you exactly what it would cost now since it lasts me so long and who knows what inflation is doing to that stuff at the moment, but It averaged me about $120ish the last couple of times I made it. I get about 1.3 gallons of vape juice when I add the flavoring and nicotine, which comes to about 4920 ml. That would be enough to make 164 of the 30ml bottles. Since those pre-made bottles of juice go for around $15 online it would cost $2460 to buy the same amount I make for around $120.
What's really cool is if I happen to get bronchitis or a bad cold or something, I can add a little more flavoring to give it a much more minty and cool flavor and it absolutely clears me out. I figured that out about 10 years ago when I had bad pneumonia and coughed constantly. The mint and the cool flavor helped my cough right away and my chest didn't hurt anymore.
Oh - there is also one other significant benefit a lot of people don't think about. I have a bunch of 18650 batteries for vaping, and they can be used in several other things like the small super-bright tactical flashlights, some emergency radios, and I even have a couple small personal fans about 6 inches high that use 18650s. It is great having all those batteries in a power outage - I have bright light, radio, and my wife doesn't complain that she's too hot without the AC.
When the 18650 batteries start holding less of a charge I buy new ones and put the old ones in the plastic holders and in a box for power outage use. I probably have about 80 of them so they would last me for days to weeks if necessary.
One warning though. If you start making your own juice make sure you wash up after making a batch if you are going to be getting on an airplane that day. If you are unlucky enough to be picked for extra screening and they swab you, the explosive detector may go off. Don't freak - it does the same with some hand lotions - it is the Glycerin (VG is Vegetable Glycerin). The explosive detectors often mistake it with nitroglycerin. I almost missed a flight because of it, until I showed the TSA goon that it was what I said it was by putting drops on my tongue. He then smelled the juice and asked for the recipe. He also told me a lot of blacks would set it off if they were using certain lotions on their (dry) skin.