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[MP2012]

So, I'm dedicated to streamlining my vaping experience as much as possible. I am happy that I have reached a place presently where I only spend on vaping half of what I spent on smoking a month. I have started to rebuild my Kanger heads and whilst it hasn't been awesome so far, I am confident I will get better in time and further reduce my monthly spend on kit.

Now, I'm seriously thinking about starting mixing my own juice, I hear that it can be vastly cheaper in the long run, though I confess I don't know by how much.

What I need to know is this:

1) What is the absolute minimum I need to spend to have a workable mixing kit and able to start producing my own juices?
2) Can I get flavourings that are 100% natural and organic as I have no interest in anything artificial?
3) Once I start producing my own juices, how much around about would I actually be saving?

I realise that this is quite a big topic and that there is a lot of info on the forum but I wanted to condense the answers into one forum post that also reflected today's pricing.

All help massively appreciated.

MP.

 

[Purplefowler]

DIY saves loads of money. My most expensive mixes cost about 70p for 10ml. I don't know anywhere that does organic natural flavours though. I'm sure someone worked out they could pick up a basic starter set up fo about £21 using leisureliquids I hope that helps in some way.

 

[BfcDanny]

How much would that £21 produce in ml ?

 

[the jester]

we'd need to know what nic level you vape at to work that out properly

my menthol mix at 18mg makes around 160ml for £14 and thats not shopping round to find best deals as its early days for me too

 

[Purplefowler]

Right maths is not my favourite subject so stick with me! He sells 52mg Nic in 50ml bottles for £8.99 which is enough for 140ml of eliquid at 18mg or 200ml at 12mg. Vg can be bought at boots for £1.29 for 200ml. Then you just need some dionised water which is around £1. A bottle of flavour at 20% (which is quite high for most flavours, so at its most expensive) will make 100ml. So for around £18 you could make between 140-200ml of liquid. You would also need a couple of syringes but they are about 25-30p each. If someone wants to double check my maths though

 

[the jester]

all bought from leisure liquids

£8.99 50ml nic base 52mg
£1.99 x2 pg dilute
£1.99 x2 vg dilute
£2.95 x3 concentrate (strawberry for instance)


this diluted to 12mg mixed 50/50 pg/vg will make roughly 217 ml of finished juice at 15% flavour with about 25 ml dilute of each pg/vg leftover

so 217ml for about £26....this is of course without the bottles you may need and syringes etc


of course this all revolves around my maths being right

 

[MP2012]

When I said organic I meant not artificial. I am hoping to make 50/50 12mg juices.

 

[the jester]

When I said organic I meant not artificial. I am hoping to make 50/50 12mg juices.

well thats my sums buggered then

 

[MP2012]

Sorry jester i think we posted at the same time, but i still get your point and well presented.

 

[Purplefowler]

When I said organic I meant not artificial. I am hoping to make 50/50 12mg juices.

That's the tricky bit, I don't know anyone that supplies DIY natural flavours. There are natural ready mixed though so unless they make their own flavouring they must be getting it from somewhere