All right, I just made my first ever e-liquid. Not from scratch, it still scares the hell out of me to add the poison that extracts the other poison. I bought a big thing of liquid nicotine, some flavors, beakers, and some of thick Vegetable Glycerin. I have more flavors and some of the propelyne glycol coming too.
My first batch is going to be Key Lime coconut.
Yes, it is cheaper to make it yourself, given the price of tobacco I think even if I had the nerve to extract the nicotine myself, it’s cheaper buying it already extracted (They must not pay tobacco tax before juicing it, so far they don’t charge tobacco tax post juicing it either). Yes, I am cheap, but that’s not why I’m doing it myself. I mean it’s cheaper to cook for yourself and yet I eat out often enough.
I’m making my own for the following reasons in order of importance; 1) I have a lot more control over the actual nicotine level and the quality of ingredients 2)I was damn curious 3) I want to do flavors I can’t find (if my tastes hadn’t changed I was going to mix latakia, perique and Virginia tobacco flavors to make a real English blend pipe flavor. You’d think there would be a market for it since so many vapers are quitting smoking, but, for the most part, the tobacco flavors kind of suck and they lean towards either sweet or bitter. You can get a juice with any one of the three flavors I listed, but not all three, yet they make all kinds of multi-fruit flavors.) 4) I’m compulsive, I try to immerse myself in “hobbies” and yeah, smoking isn’t a hobby, try telling my pipe collection and all my humidors and pipe/cigar lighters, tampers, cutters, etc. If I had gone to one of the cigar shows you can be damn sure I’d go to the seminar where they show you how and then let you roll one yourself.
If I get good at it I might just smoke my own blends exclusively. If I get real good at it and they don’t start putting restrictions on the juice anytime soon I suppose I could sell my own juices. Yeah, the mark-up is high enough where you could buy supplies at retail and make a profit selling the finished product and still be reasonably priced. It’s the only tobacco product not taxed almost to the point of extinction; sin taxs exceed 100 percent. Seriously, even with gross profit a pack of smokes would be under three bucks, the rest is tax, I mean specific tax above and beyond the normal tax that, say, a loaf of bread has built into it.
So yeah, in a couple of days I’ll let you know how the key lime coconut came out. Or, you know, I’ll be all dead and shit. That’d suck.
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