Vape Juice & E-Liquids

Vape juice is a slang term for e-liquid, which is specially formulated to work with your vaporizer to create an inhalable aerosol vapor.

The base ingredients of e-liquid are vegetable glycerin (VG), and propylene glycol (PG). VG is often derived from palm or soy, and is a common ingredient in many food products. It's thick, slightly sweet, and largely responsible for the production of visible clouds of vapor when you vape. PG is thinner, viscous, and again a common ingredient in many consumer products including pharmaceutical inhalers. If you've heard vape juice is made from 'antifreeze' that's the PG, as it's often added to vehicle coolant in order to make the substance less toxic in case an animal finds a spilled puddle of the sweet-smelling liquid on the ground and attempts to drink it. Other e-liquid ingredients include food-grade flavor extract and, optionally, nicotine that's either created in a laboratory or extracted from tobacco leaves.

Yes, ejuice is available in literally thousands of flavors. While tobacco- and menthol-flavored blends are available, these tend to be by far the least popular choices among adult ex-smokers. The vast majority of vapers go for flavor profiles including fruits, bakery/desserts, candy, or recreations of popular beverages.

While many e-liquids do contain nicotine, most liquid manufacturers also offer nicotine-free options for users seeking to curtail their nicotine use or those who've already stopped using nicotine but choose to continue to vape.

Understanding PG/VG ratios selection will be based on a combination of personal preference and your device's demands. Vapers who prefer a smooth inhale and thick, fluffy clouds will want a VG-heavy liquid, while those who don't care about cloud production but want more of the 'throat hit' combustible cigarettes deliver will look instead toward liquids with more PG.

Choosing the right nicotine levels vary a lot based on the device you're using, nicotine type, and how much you currently smoke or formerly smoked.

Choosing the right e-liquid is both one of the biggest challenges and the greatest pleasures of vaping.

While most manufacturers will specify a shelf life of six months to a year, e-liquid stored under the right conditions can be preserved for two years or more.

Yes and no. While many different tobacco blends do exist, they tend to taste more like a fresh, natural tobacco leaf than one that's been lit on fire and left to smolder along with a paper wrapper and thousands of added chemicals.

Nicotine salts are kind of a misnomer - they're not salt at all, but this is a way to describe the chemical makeup of a fairly recent method of extracting nicotine.