17 June 2019
Nicotine shots are not a new thing – they have been with us since the introduction of the TPD. Typically a nic shot comes in a 10ml bottle and contains up to 20mg/ml nicotine content as required by the Tobacco Products Directive. Nic shots are used to add nicotine to nicotine free e-liquids, turning them into a ready to vape e-liquid.
At the beginning calculating the strength of your final e-liquid was pretty simple. Short fill e-liquids typically contained 20ml of nicotine free liquid in a 30ml bottle. Adding an 18mg nic shot to 20ml short fill results in a 6mg e-liquid, a 9mg nic shot results in a 3mg ready to vape e-liquid. Currently, short fill e-liquids come in different bottle sizes with a different amount of liquid inside, making calculating your required nicotine shots strength more difficult.
Having problems figuring out what strength nic shots you will need to add to your short fill to receive a desired nicotine strength? We have prepared a simple reference chart that should make mixing your shortfills quick and simple.
2 April 2019
Nicotine salts (nicsalts for short) are getting more popular among vapers. Every day more people are trying to figure out if nic salts are any good for them. Should you use nicsalt shots or stick to the good old nic shots? Let us try and explain a few things regarding nicotine salts and compare nic salt shots to regular, freebase nicotine shots.
Vaping started as a way for people to quit smoking but came a long way since then. When we started vaping, the market was limited to basic tobacco, mint and fruit e-liquids with nicotine strengths of up to 36mg/ml being vaped on leaking vape pens. The industry was growing, more and more people were successfully quitting smoking with the help of their trusty e-cigarette. read more »
21 March 2019
Chemnovatic is a recognized manufacturer and supplier of highest quality pure nicotine, nicotine salts, bases, flavourings and other vaping products. Among many products well known to the vaping community, we also manufacture a range of natural products for vaping.
Take a look at what natural vaping products we currently supply:
Usually, a nicotine base (or unflavored nicotine liquid as some call it) consists of pure nicotine diluted in a mixture of Propylene Glycol (PG) and Vegetable Glycerin (VG).
When manufacturing our bio bases, we use PDO (Propanediol – Vegetable Propylene Glycol) in place of well known PG. PDO is a natural equivalent of propylene glycol that has been manufactured from vegetable glycerin instead of crude oil. read more »
3 September 2018
Hey everyone!
In case you didn’t know, Chemnovatic has been featured in Asia Tobacco magazine’s article “Nicotine Suppliers to e-Juice Manufacturers”.
The article covers Chemnovatic’s pure nicotine manufacturing now and in the future, TPD regulations and many other aspects of nicotine manufacturing and export.
If you haven’t seen this yet check out this link: https://www.tobaccoasia.com/features/nicotine-suppliers-to-e-juice-manufacturers/
4 April 2018
Most vapers value the quality of NicBase nicotine bases and there is a reason for that. A simple nicotine base is much more than 3 ingredients mixed in a certain ratio. What are the thing to look out for when making a nicotine base? A simple checklist we made:
Nicotine bases are usually made of three main ingredients – pure nicotine, Propylene Glycol and Vegetable Glycerin. Although the quality of pure nicotine is very important, do not overlook the other two – they make up most of the final product. PG and VG we use at Chemnovatic are only of pharmaceutical grade with the highest purity available on the market.
What is very important in vaping industry in scope of PG and VG is that they differ in taste and smell depending on the manufacturer. Chemnovatic has tested most of PG and VG brands available on European market and has chosen ingredients best fitted to vaping products. Some PG/VG also change the color to light red when mixing with nicotine, even if they are pharmaceutical grade. Experience of Chemnovatic in vaping industry is also the extra benefit compared to standard laboratories or chemical ingredients resellers.
Even highest purity ingredients are no good without a clean production environment. Make sure you are using the right equipment, employees use required protective gear and perform quality checks for every batch. Otherwise, the final product could be contaminated and include undesirable ingredients and pollutants.
The packaging and closure is very important. Assure “clean supply chain” of the bottles or clean them at the production room before filling. You don’t want any residue getting to your bases from dirty packaging.
It is very easy to create a low quality product with high quality ingredients when you have no experience in handling nicotine. Very often you are unknowingly damaging the quality by exposing the ingredients or final product to oxygen. It causes nicotine to deteriorate quicker and may make your product go off sooner.
To sum up – good nicotine bases are not “only” pharmaceutical grade and accepted by vaping industry. We manufacture our products with the highest standards of quality and cleanliness that is confirmed by certification the company provides.
