Simply E Liquid UK: The Best UK Vape Shop for E-liquid Vape Juice & Vape Gear

Choosing from all of the different nicotine strengths that are available isn’t easy if you’re new to vaping and are buying vape juice for the first time. That’s because different vaping devices work best with different ranges of nicotine strengths. Your personal nicotine requirements come into play here as well.

You can group vape juice nicotine strengths loosely into two groups: low nicotine (0-6 mg/ml) and high nicotine (higher than 6 mg/ml). Vape kits designed for the direct-to-lung inhaling style will generally work best with lower-strength e-liquids, and starter kits designed for mouth-to-lung inhaling will work best with higher-strength e-liquids.

To ensure that you’ll always buy vape juice with the correct nicotine strength for your needs, start by looking at the physical characteristics of your vaping device. After that, all you need to do is listen to what your body tells you as you vape.

You can always tell whether a vaping device will work best with higher- or lower-nicotine e-liquid by looking at the device’s mouthpiece. Is the mouthpiece narrow like a cigarette filter? The device will probably work best with higher-nicotine vape juice. If the mouthpiece is wider than a cigarette filter, the device will probably work best with lower-nicotine vape juice. There’s no need to worry that you’ll find the experience of using a lower-nicotine e-liquid unsatisfying. If you’re using a device designed to produce very large vapour clouds, you’re going to absorb plenty of nicotine thanks to the large volume of e-liquid you’ll be inhaling with each puff.

Buying e-liquid with a nicotine strength that’s in the correct range for your vaping hardware is only one part of the equation. The other part is listening to what your body tells you as you vape. Are you having trouble getting rid of your cigarette cravings regardless of how much you vape? Your nicotine strength is probably too low. Do you feel jittery or experience an overwhelming level of throat hit when vaping? Your nicotine strength is probably too high.

The VG/PG ratio of an e-liquid expresses what percentage of vegetable glycerine and propylene glycol the vape liquid contains as a base. The VG/PG ratio doesn’t include the vape juice other ingredients. For example, a 50/50 e-liquid contains a base consisting of half VG and half PG along with nicotine and flavourings. A VG/PG ratio of 50/50 is, in fact, ideal for most types of vaping equipment and will allow you to enjoy many of the benefits of both VG and PG. Some people, however, prefer e-liquid with a VG/PG ratio skewed in favour of either VG or PG. The two liquids both have certain benefits that they contribute to a vape juice.

Propylene glycol is one of the world’s most useful chemicals. It’s an emulsifier that keeps the ingredients in a solution mixed. Because it attracts and retains moisture, it can help to prevent a product from drying out. Propylene glycol is also antimicrobial, so it helps to keep products from spoiling. Some of the products that commonly include propylene glycol include moisturizers and lotions, medications, deodorants, shampoos and cosmetics. Propylene glycol is also used in the fluid for commercial smoke machines, which might be the reason why it has been used as the primary component of e-liquid since the days of the first e-cigarettes.

In terms of how they perform in an e-liquid, the primary differences between propylene glycol and vegetable glycerine are that propylene glycol is thinner and generates a slightly scratchier sensation in the throat when it’s inhaled. With that in mind, you can expect a high-PG e-liquid to produce smaller vapour clouds and to give you a stronger throat hit. The smallest vaping devices work best with high-PG e-liquids because a device with a very small atomizer coil needs a thin vape juice in order to work reliably.

Vegetable glycerine is a product resulting from the creation of soap. The chemical reaction that takes place in soap creation is called saponification, and it happens when lye is mixed with oil. The reaction transforms the oil into soap and glycerine. Since people need lots of soap, there’s also plenty of glycerine to go around – and like propylene glycol, vegetable glycerine has a number of interesting uses. Like PG, VG is also an excellent absorber of moisture. It tastes slightly sweet, so it’s used as a preservative and as a sweetener in shelf-stable foods and snacks. It’s also extremely common for VG to be added to lotions, cosmetics and soaps as a moisturising agent.

VG tastes slightly sweet, whereas PG is almost flavourless. For that reason, VG can enhance an e-liquid with a sweet flavour profile. VG is also significantly thicker than PG, and that thickness allows high-VG e-liquids to produce very large vapour clouds. The final major difference between VG and PG is that VG is a bit smoother when it’s inhaled. If you prefer a mild vaping experience that’s low in throat hit, you’ll want to choose a vape juice that’s higher in VG. Because high-VG e-liquids are very thick, they work best with bigger vaping devices that have very large wick openings for their atomizer coils.

If you’re buying e-liquid to use in a small vape starter kit designed for mouth-to-lung inhaling – such as a pod system – you should buy nicotine salt vape juice. When you shop for nic salts, you’ll find that the products are usually available in two strengths: a lower strength around 10 mg/ml and a higher strength of up to 20 mg/ml. If you’re new to vaping and are buying e-liquid for the first time, we suggest trying the higher strength first because it’ll give you an assertive throat hit reminiscent of smoking a cigarette.

Pod-based vaping devices are incredibly popular within the vaping community, and manufacturers of vaping hardware have made consistent improvements to their pod-based offerings over the years. These days, you can find pod systems that produce much more vapour per puff than a cigarette produces smoke. If you buy such a device, you may find the 20 mg/ml nicotine strength a bit too strong for your needs. In that case, you should consider stepping down to the 10 mg/ml strength.

We’re very glad that you’ve decided to buy your vape juice from Simply ELiquid. We offer only the best e-liquid in the UK, and you can trust in the safety of what you buy here because we source e-liquid only from the original manufacturers and authorised distributors of those products. In addition, we ensure that every bottle of vape juice sold on this site is completely TPD compliant.