Mixing
For beginners, it is best to begin with a simple recipe or a one-shot concentration. We will look at getting these in more detail below. Or if you have a good idea for a flavor blend, you can jump right in. However make sure to get detailed notes so that you can tweak future versions.
1) Recipe And Percentages
The first step is to find a recipe you prefer the sound of, and buy the relevant concentrates. For this example, we will use the recipe for Mustard Milk, a fashionable strawberry milkshake flavor, made by reddit user and leading Diy e-juice brewer Fizzmustard:
Strawberry 6%
Vanilla Bean Ice Cream 6%
Now we need to determine what PG/VG percentage to use. Fizzmustard suggests VG/PG 70/30, which makes it suited to sub ohm vaping. You could also try out max VG, or if you need a version that works in a plus-ohm tank consider using a higher ratio of PG like 50/50. If you change the VG/PG percentage you may want to change the quantity of flavor concentrate added to get a similar taste.
Next, choose your nicotine liquid base levels. Here, we will make a 10 ml bottle of Mustard Milk with 6 mg nicotine liquid base and VG/PG at a 70/30 ratio, but you may change to your personal taste.
2) Measurements
Now we have our choices we have to figure out the amounts to use. This can be complicated to do by hand, but don¡¯t worry, there are many online juice calculators which do it automatically. For best results, set up an account on eLR ¨C it is simple to operate and you can access your own recipes it from any online device. (Other more-comprehensive juice calculators just like EjuiceMeUp and Steam Engine also are recommended.) Visit the create recipe page, enter the relevant details and hit save. This will create a table displaying the volume, weight and percentage of each ingredient. Another good all-in-one calculator is at e-liquid-recipes.com. You will be able to keep your e-liquid recipes as public or private (so other users could see it).
3) Mixing
Time to get your hands dirty. First, and most importantly, set aside a safe hygienic area in a clean room without any pets or kids around. Use rubber gloves and a plastic material tray in the event of spillage.
By Weight, If youare using scales, you must focus on the grams. Put your empty 10 ml bottle on the scales and set it to zero. Now add your flavors by dripping in the correct amount in grams. Then add nicotine liquid base using a dropper or syringe and also be careful not leak any. Use your squeezy bottles to add the PG and VG. If you like to use syringes, be sure you use a fresh one for each ingredient to avoid cross-contamination. The final weight should go with which shown on eLR table.
By Volume, If youare blending by volume it is a little trickier. Using separate syringes for each component, check the measurements on the syringe to measure the ml and add these to the empty 10 ml bottle. Each flavor concentrate and nicotine liquid base will need an individual 1 ml syringe. Be aware that this process is less accurate than using scales.
Note: Another way to use volume, and maybe the simplest (although maybe not the most easy to convey for other people to duplicate or to scale up) is by using drops as your measurements. It works really well with flavorings, and if you make a small investment in empty plastic dropper bottles (ideally with all the same size droppers) it will go well with you fine. This is the least precise way of measuring for nicotine liquid base, so we caution towards using drops to get your nic ratio bang-on.
Congratulation, so now you you've got your first do-it-yourself bottle of Diy e-juice! What now?
