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What is vape juice? E–juice or vape juice is the fluid used in vaporizers and electronic cigarettes that creates the actual vapor. It contains nicotine but can be made without nicotine depending on personal preference. Vape juice is the liquid used in electronic cigarettes that gets turned into vapor.

What is vape juice?

It’s also referred to as:

• E-liquid
• E-juice (or ejuice)
• Vaping liquid
• E-cig juice
  All vaping, no matter the size or look of the vape device, requires the presence of e-liquid to make vapor. Vape juice comes in a plethora of flavors, different viscosities, and wide array of nicotine strengths.

What’s in vape juice: ingredients
E-liquid is made out of some essential and some optional ingredients. These ingredients can be categorized into base liquids (PG/VG), flavorings and sweeteners, and nicotine.

The base of vape juice contains propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin, otherwise known as PG and VG. Some juices come in 100% VG, but this is not very common—just as 100% PG is also uncommon. VG and PG also form the ratio you will usually find on an e-liquid bottle, like 70/30 or 50/50 with VG typically being first.

Flavorings:
Flavor concentrates are water-soluble and usually made by companies that manufacture food flavorings and/or fragrances. They range from tobaccos to fruits to chocolate glazed donuts—and everything in between. Many of the commercial e-juices will also contain sweeteners, with the most common of these being sucralose.

Nicotine:
Nicotine is optional and always the choice of the user. It’s included in e-liquid in various concentrations, ranging from less than 1% up to 5%. If the user does not want to use nicotine, non-nicotine e-liquid is sold in most e-juice lines.

E-liquid comes in a variety of nicotine strengths. Here are the most common ones:

• 3 mg/mL or 0.3% = super low
• 6 mg/mL or 0.6% = low
• 12 mg/mL or 1.2% = low to medium
• 18-24 mg/mL or 1.8% – 2.4% = medium to high
• 36 mg/mL or 3.6% and above = super high