DIY e-liquid:
Everything you need to know
to make your e-liquid

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DIY (Do It Yourself) is a whole universe in the vape world.

Indeed, making an e-liquid for electronic cigarettes by yourself is expressing all your creativity while making savings!

DIY is a fun approach to vaping that consists of making your e-liquid for electronic cigarettes from start to end. The objective is to make your own recipe, gathering all the ingredients like the flavorings, the base, and the nicotine, and mix them to get the e-liquid that suits you! The e-liquid you're proud of!

Revolute 30/70 1L Base Liquid

Revolute 30/70 1L Base Liquid

A liter of neutral base, 30PG/70VG, for DIY preparations
Inawera DNB Additive

Inawera DNB Additive

Add smoked tobacco hints in all your preparations!
Savourea Glace Diana...

Savourea Glace Diana Concentrate

Apple, lychee, and blue raspberry in a 100% French concentrate
A&L 50/50 Nicotine Salt...

A&L 50/50 Nicotine Salt Easy DIY 200ml Pack

All you need to make your nicotine base with nicotine salts
French Vape Nicotine Booster

French Vape Nicotine Booster

Easily add nicotine to your shortfill e-liquid or your DIYs
A&L Custard Concentrate Pack

A&L Custard Concentrate Pack

A selection of three vanilla custard DIYs by A&L!
Blazing Street Line...

Blazing Street Line Concentrate

A fruity fresh concentrate: watermelon, strawberry, lemon
A&L Green Banana 200ml DIY...

A&L Green Banana 200ml DIY Pack

Make your life easier with this complete DIY pack!
Go-Rilla Temple Lawless...

Go-Rilla Temple Lawless Concentrate

A 30ml DIY with a fresh flavor of blackcurrant, blueberry, and pear
PURE 200ml 50/50 Base DIY Pack

PURE 200ml 50/50 Base DIY Pack

Easily make your nicotine base with this DIY pack
A&L Valkyrie 200ml DIY Pack

A&L Valkyrie 200ml DIY Pack

A ready-to-DIY pack, in Sweet or Green version!
Full Moon Love Concentrate

Full Moon Love Concentrate

A strawberry flavor matched with a candy apple for your DIYs
A&L Melon Concentrate

A&L Melon Concentrate

The flavor of ripe melons in a premium DIY recipe!
A&L 50/50 Vegetal Base Liquid

A&L 50/50 Vegetal Base Liquid

A quality and 100% vegetal base liquid
Petit Nuage Nicotine Booster

Petit Nuage Nicotine Booster

Boost your e-liquids with this 50PG/50VG booster
Savourea Feu Milos Concentrate

Savourea Feu Milos Concentrate

A fresh mix of mango, pineapple, and coconut for a 30ml DIY
Blazing Street Vaut...

Blazing Street Vaut Concentrate

Fig, melon, and dragon fruit for a fresh and fruity DIY!
Blazing Street Edy Concentrate

Blazing Street Edy Concentrate

Red fruits, mint, anise, and candy in a DIY concentrate
A&L Myrtille Concentrate

A&L Myrtille Concentrate

A fruity flavor of blueberries for your DIYs
Versus Juice Dog San...

Versus Juice Dog San Concentrate

A fresh duo of candy-like strawberry and grape in 30ml!
Savourea Feu Baru Concentrate

Savourea Feu Baru Concentrate

Pineapple and passion fruit in a fresh mix for DIYs
Blazing Street Enry...

Blazing Street Enry Concentrate

A fruity and fresh mix of raspberry, blackcurrant, grapes
A&L Shaker Discovery Pack

A&L Shaker Discovery Pack

A 10ml DIY trio from the Shaker collection!
Savourea Feu Esteli...

Savourea Feu Esteli Concentrate

Blue raspberries and lemonade in a fresh mix for DIYs
Savourea Glace Lomar...

Savourea Glace Lomar Concentrate

Pomegranate, blueberries, and blackberries in a 30ml DIY
Blazing Street Rio Concentrate

Blazing Street Rio Concentrate

A concentrate with flavors of red fruits and anise!
Swoke Tilt Concentrate

Swoke Tilt Concentrate

Lemonade, lime, and pomegranate for this mix in a DIY version
VDLV 70/30 Base Liquid 500ml

VDLV 70/30 Base Liquid 500ml

100% French base, in 70PG/30VG, in big and nicotine-free format
Make DIY e-liquid

How to make
your DIY e-liquid?

To start crafting your own e-liquid at home, you'll need specific equipment and follow these simple preparation steps.

But don't be discouraged: DIY is within everyone's reach. If you follow our advice, you'll get it right the first time!

What do you need to make
your DIY e-liquid?

  • DIY syringe

    Syringe

    A 10 to 30ml syringe for the base

  • DIY bottle

    Bottle

    Plastic or glass bottle of 10ml or 30ml to make your preparations

  • DIY gloves

    Gloves

    Protection gloves

  • DIY goggles

    Goggles

    Protection goggles

  • DIY labels

    Label

    Label to write the name, date, and dosage of your preparation

The preparation steps
of DIY e-liquid

  1. Setting up to make e-liquid

    1. Setting up

    Wash your hands, find a clean work surface out of reach for children.

  2. Prepare e-liquid base

    2. Prepare the base

    With a syringe or a pipette, fill an empty bottle with your ready-made base.

  3. Nicotine DIY

    3. Add nicotine

    The base with nicotine has to be handled with many precautions. We recommend using latex gloves and protection goggles.

  4. Shake the concentrate

    4. Shake your concentrate bottle

    before using it.

  5. Add concentrate in e-liquid base

    5. Add the concentrate

    Add some drops of concentrates (see dosage recommendations in the product description or the label).

  6. Add additives in e-liquid

    6. Add one or more additives

    (Optional)

  7. Shake e-liquid

    7. Close and shake

    Energetically shake for 10 to 20 seconds and let it sit for steeping.

  8. Clean DIY e-liquid

    8. Clean and store

    Wash your hands, clean your equipment and your work surface.

  9. DIY recipe

    9. Note the recipe

    Note your recipe to do it again.

Why should you make your
own e-liquid?

There are at least 4 good reasons to make its e-liquid in DIY:

  • Make
    savings
  • Customize
    the e-liquid
  • Handle
    the manufacture
  • The pleasure of making
    things by yourself

First, the price is a good motivation when you want to start in the Do It Yourself. Indeed, separately buying each ingredient before mixing them is cheaper.

Then, it’s the mastery of all manufacturing steps. From the choice of ingredients to dosages, you can create an e-liquid that suits you, and have fun imagining new recipes!

It's also an opportunity to create your favorite recipes in large format. Unlike ready-made e-liquids, which are limited to 10ml, with DIY you can make your e-liquid by the liter if you like!

Choose the base for your e-liquid

Which base liquid for your DIY?

The base is an essential ingredient in making your DIY e-liquid. Associated with a concentrate and eventually nicotine, it allows you to create your e-liquid.

An e-liquid base is the association of two elements:

  • The propylene glycol (PG)
  • The vegetable glycerin (VG)

You'll find bases with different PG/VG ratios, such as 20/80, 50/50, or 30/70. There are also bases made from 100% VG, but not vice versa.

Both PG and VG have unique properties that will influence the result of your DIY e-liquids:

  • PG liquefies the liquid and improves flavor rendering
  • VG thickens the liquid and helps produce more vapor

We generally adjust the PG/VG ratio according to your needs, equipment, or simply desires..

For an e-liquid with a marked throat hit and precise flavors on a small clearomizer or podmod, increase the PG rate

On the contrary, on a sub-ohm clearomizer (coil below 1ohm), increase the VG to avoid leaks but also improve vapor production.

If you’re only starting with DIY or electronic cigarettes, nwe recommend starting with a 50PG/50VG base. This ratio represents the perfect balance between all the advantages of these two ingredients. You can try different base ratios to explore all the possibilities that are offered to you!

Comparative PG / VG

Which concentrate to make
myour DIY e-liquid?

The concentrate is the main ingredient of a DIY e-liquid as it’s the one bringing flavor to your preparation. The concentrates play an important role in smoking withdrawal. Without them, studies have shown that the percentage of success for vapers is much lower! The success rate for a vaper to quit smoking decreases.

That's why it's so important to choose the right e-liquids, both to stop smoking and to make an e-liquid you love.

As you'll have noticed, there are a huge number of different flavor concentrates available for making e-liquid. To simplify your choice, we've divided them into 5 main families:

If beginners with electronic cigarettes usually turn to tobacco or mentholated concentrates, it’s not a hard-and-fast rule.

To choose your concentrate, we recommend choosing something you like in your daily life like a fruit or a drink for example

However, vaping an apple is not like eating an apple. That’s why we recommend testing as many flavors as possible to define your tastes with more precision. Try and don’t be scared to be wrong!

In this sense, it may be interesting to not make high quantities of e-liquid with a new concentrate to avoid waste. Start with low quantities and if you like it, you can make more liters later!

Why add
additives to DIYs?

The additives allow you to improve your e-liquid recipes. They are not essential, but like salt and pepper in a dish, they will help you to emphasize your e-liquids and transform them into top-notch recipes!

However, the additives are not meant to be used on their own in your recipes or at least not in the same dosages.

Among the most used additives, you’ll find:

  • The Sweetener to boost your recipe with a sweet hint.
  • The Menthol adds a fresh and mentholated flavor.
  • The Vanilline that sugars the recipe while giving it a vanilla note.
  • The Koolada is a refreshing additive for your DIY e-liquids.

The additives are highly concentrated in flavors. The dosage is generally recommended to be less than 1% of the total volume of your DIY e-liquid.

To let additive flavors fully express themselves, you need to observe a steep time:

  • 15 days minimum for desserts additives
  • 1 week for sweetening additives like the Sweetener
  • 24 to 48 hours for fruity additives

What is the use
of nicotine boosters?

The nicotine boosters are bottles of neutral base with the maximum rate authorized by the European legislation (TPD) being 20mg/ml.

The law forbids the sale of pure nicotine to private individuals but also products with nicotine in contents higher than 10ml.

The main asset of DIY is making e-liquids in large quantities.

That’s why we use nicotine boosters.
By diluting it with your base and concentrates, you’ll get an e-liquid with the nicotine rate of your choice.

To give you an example, if you wish to make a 100ml base in 6mg/ml of nicotine, you’ll need:

  • 70ml of nicotine-free base
  • 30ml of booster in 20mg/ml which equals 3 nicotine boosters of 10ml in 20mg/ml
Proportions to make your nicotine e-liquid

A DIY calculator
to help you

Now that you know the basics to make an e-liquid in DIY, it is time to mix the ingredients but with dosages to respect.

Indeed, to get an optimal result, it is necessary to respect the concentrate dosages, but also nicotine doses if there are any.

That’s why we created a

What is it? It is a tool that we thought would help you with the dosages.

Whether it is to nicotine a base or to entirely make a DIY e-liquid, you won’t have to make any calculations, the tool uses it for you!

You can even mix several flavors in the same liquid, the calculator is capable of adjusting the dosages to get the perfect liquid!

E-liquid DIY calculator

Handy DIY packs
to get started

Do you wish to make your e-liquid in DIY and savings at the same time but you don’t feel ready to make all the steps?

There’s a simpler waye to make your own e-liquid without dosage and handling!

To simplify the process, we’ve made complete packs that will avoid boring calculations.

You’ll find all the necessary to make your first DIYs with or without nicotine. The packs hold:

  • A bottle of pre-filled neutral base
  • A concentrat
  • Boosters to nicotine your liquid (optional)

How to make a
DIY e-liquid with a DIY pack?

By ordering a DIY pack on the A&L website, you’ll receive a pre-filled base bottle, a concentrate, and boosters according to the chosen nicotine rate. Upon receipt, you only have to pour all the concentrate and boosters in the big bottle and it’s done!

We’ve made the dosage calculations for you, you don’t have anything to do apart from appreciating your e-liquid!

  • Step 1 : pour boosters

    1Pour boosters

  • Step 2 : add the concentrate

    2Add the concentrate

  • Step 3 : close and shake

    3Close and shake

DIY e-liquid steep

How to steep a DIY e-liquid?

Once the preparation of your DIY e-liquid is over, there’s an ultimate step to respect before tasting it.

This step is the steeping of flavors which consists of letting the preparation sit so the flavors develop and express all their potential.

Why should the e-liquid steep?

In the same way, you let wine age to express all its notes, you let the e-liquids sit so the flavors develop and harmonize.

Letting its DIY steep is an essential step if you wish to get the best result with your e-liquid.

Like good wine, according to the flavors used to make your DIY e-liquid, you’ll have to adapt the steeping time.

Steep time per
flavor categories

There’s no hard-and-fast rule, here are the steep times that we recommend observing according to the category of your flavors:

  • Mentholated
    flavors
    1 to 2 days
  • Fruity
    flavors
    2 to 3 days
  • Drink
    flavors
    1 week
  • Dessert
    flavors
    2 weeks
    minimum
  • Tobacco
    flavors
    2 weeks
    minimum,
    1 month
    for an optimal result

How to steep your e-liquid?

Even though there are different ways of steeping an e-liquid - some of which are more grandmotherly than scientific - only patience will allow you to get the optimal result.

The secret is the way you can stock your e-liquids. To let the flavors sit, there are three stocking rules to respect:

  • A dry place
  • Away from the light
  • To room temperature

You only have to summon your patience so the flavors develop and are naturally enhanced. To slightly speed up the process, you can shake the bottle from time to time.

We recommend regularly tasting your preparation during the steep process as the DIY should be to your liking. You might like your liquid with a shorter or longer steep time.

How much time can you keep
a DIY e-liquid?

If there’s no limit consumption date for your own e-liquids, the flavors still have a DDM: Date of Minimum Durability.

This length of time of around 2 years guarantees the flavor quality. Beyond the date written on the bottle, the flavors can lose some of their qualities, they can soften, lose intensity, and change color. Even with a passed DDM, they still are perfectly consumable.

You should also watch the storage of your e-liquids to maintain all their qualities. Some ingredients are sensitive to their environment like the UV or the heat for example. Here are 5 storage rules to respect so the e-liquids are preserved:

  • Always in the dark, because the nicotine is sensible to UV
  • Away from the light to not alter the flavors
  • In a dry place because the humidity also alters the flavors
  • Closed bottle because the room temperature will oxide your e-liquid
  • Out of reach of children and animals, it’s a safety measure
Make your own CBD e-liquid

The DIY CBD e-liquid

Do you vape CBD e-liquids and wish to make them in DIY to master the dosage, price, and volume?

DIYing will help you thanks to CBD boosters!

The CBD boosters are offered and used in the same way as nicotine boosters. They are mixed with the nicotine-free PG/VG base and the concentrates of your choice.

There are different dosages of CBD boosters:

  • 500mg/10ml (being 50mg/ml)
  • 1000mg/10ml (being 100mg/ml)
  • 2000mg/ml (being 200mg/ml)

The DIY preparation of CBD e-liquid is the same as for a traditional e-liquid.

However, we recommend using CBD boosters with a nicotine e-liquid.

To learn more, follow our guide to make your DIY CBD e-liquid.