As with anything new, questions are coming up like...
Why is it so runny?
Why do I need more PG?
What's the difference between this and the "normal" range?
I can answer those questions for you.

All eliquid is made up out of 3 components:
- Vegetable Glycerine (VG)
- Propylene Glycol (PG)
- Food Grade Flavourings
And people have the option of having nicotine in their e-liquid.

VG is considerably thicker than PG, therefore it has a slower absorption rate for wicks and atomisers. Because of this thick consistency, it can clog up your coils faster, requiring more cleaning. On the upside, this thick consistency means high VG eliquids produce significantly more vapour!

So why do we use it in our eliquid?

VG itself is sweeter than PG, and while PG carries the flavour better, more and more people are using higher VG eliquid due to allergies with PG. Vg tends to be a lot less allergenic.

VG is a lot smoother on the throat, some people refer to this as a throat hit and everyone has different needs when it comes to the throat hit they are looking for.

As for PG, due to the fact that higher PG eliquid is thinner than high VG eliquid, it is easily absorbed into wicks and the organic cotton you find withing your coil. Although higher PG can dry out your throat and mouth when used consistently;y, Pg produces a stronger throat hit and isn't as smooth as the higher VG eliquids.

The biggest downside to high PG eliquids is that PG has been known to cause allergic reactions in some vapers.

Theses reactions can vary from mild irritations, like an itchy throat to serious irritations on various parts of your body.

The vaping community is fairly evenly divided between vapers who enjoy the stronger throat hit that comes with higher PG eliquids, while others enjoy the sweet thick vapour they get from using higher VG eliquid.

 The Vapourium's main eliquid range is Max VG, this means that besides the food grade flavourings, we do not add any PG to our eliquids.

Now, this can become an issue if you are using a small vape or e-cig. With the thick consistency of VG, it can be hard for the high VG eliquids to absorb into the cotton or wicking material of your smaller vapouriser.

And so we bring you, our new range of eliquid!

With 40/60 PG/VG, you can be assured that your eliquid can keep up with the most consistent vaper and the smallest ecig.

If you have any questions, or just want some more information, feel free to leave a comment below.

Until next time!

Over the weeks we've talked a lot about the different aspects of a basic vaporizer and where they come from. But we have a product coming back in that I, personally, am very excited about.

The RDA Starter Kit.

These take building your very own coils in an RDA straight back to the basics.

Now, you may say, Maia.. This is shameless advertising! and you would probably be right. But every day we have customers who come into the store, or email through because they've bought a beautiful flashy RDA online and can't for the life of them see how this could be easier than premade coils.

Now every person has their own opinion on dripping, some people like the customizability that comes from a small amount of practice, others can't handle the maintenance of having to drip e-liquid on the cotton whenever they want to use their vape.

I love RDA's, dripping is almost second nature to me now, so much so that I have developed a technique of dripping and vaping one handed.

These kits come with everything you need to build your first coil, a simple 3 post RDA, cotton, wire, a coil winder, ceramic tipped tweezers and wire cutters.

Now each person has their own way of building, for example, I only use half of the coil winder because I find using the top half to wrap my coils annoying, where others use drill bits or screw drivers. Some even just use their ceramic rods. To anyone who hasn't built before, so much of this will sound like absolute jargin, which is why I've included the links to more information about each item, just click on the item in question and it will take you to our website where you can find out what is what.

I could spend the next 10 minutes trying to explain how to build a perfect coil, but instead I'm going include a YouTube video by GrimmGreen, who is a relatively famous coil builder from way back, below.

It's about 22minutes long, but he goes into great detail about what you need and how everything works.

I'm currently listening to it as I type, to double check that I won't be putting you through all kinds of suffering watching a builder wank on for hours.

I wish I had something along these lines when I first started building, I wasted so much money on random stuff I heard I would definitely need, and even more on RDA's that I still haven't put a build in to this day.

The key is to not give up, take your time and have a little patience. You won't regret it.

Until next time!

There are three generations of vapes, starting with the ecig, a small cigarette styled vape that traditionally come with replaceable cartridges but now can also come with refillable atomisers.

The second generation of vapes are the more pen styled vapes, which provide a larger capacity battery and connect with the old school ego threads.

The third generation gets a bit more complicated, the key element is a mod. These come in a variety of shapes and sizes, which makes it difficult to specify which exactly is a third generation vape. They break down to two sub-categories, the mechanical mod (Also referred to as a “mech mod”. A mechanical mod  has no inbuilt circuitry, but rather a direct circuit to the Atomiser. These are not recommended for beginner vapers, see our mechanical mod guide for more information.) and regulated mods (A regulated mod has inbuilt circuitry for battery protection and generally allows for adjustment of voltage/wattage. It may feature a screen to display information. It may also feature different “modes”, e.g. temperature control mode or power mode.)

When you're buying your first vape, a lot of people are looking for something that resembles a cigarette with mouth to lung capabilities (when you take the vapour into your mouth before inhaling to your lungs, closely resembling a cigarette). All first and second generation vaporisers are primarily used like this, although almost any device below 30 watts has the mouth to lung capability, whether they have specially designed drip tips like the eGo AIO or eGo AIO Box Mod, or variable wattage like the 20watt iStick(featured in our Easy Vape Starter Kit). In store I would normally get you to try and range of starter kits, feel how they are in your hand, how comfortable it is to push the button and how you feel about the resistance of the draw. Online, unfortunately, that isn't an option. It will always be a luck of the draw type scenario when you're buying something online, but the more information you have, the easier it gets.

But this is when it gets a little trickier, with vape tech moving so quickly, we're getting smaller, cheaper more powerful units every month! Where a standard starter kit used to be a pen style vape, like the Beginner Starter Kit, we now have a huge range of starter kits that run sub ohm coils (the resistance of the coil is below one ohm, meaning it heats up faster and naturally produces more vapor) such as the iStick Basic by eLeaf that we featured in our last newsletter, which although only runs up to 25 watts hits like a small car.

Until next time!

Are you new to vaping?

Have you been vaping for a while but terminology still escapes you?

Looking to upgrade? Just looking to understand what the hell these blog posts are about?

Let me break it down for you.

Back to the beginning, did you know Herbert A. Gilbert patented the idea in 1963?!

Why haven’t you heard of this before?

Because it was the 60’s, cigarettes were still advertised on TV, people smoked everywhere. Therefore Herbert’s ingenious design was abandonned.

The next stop in this timeline of events was 2006! Hon Lik released his own alternative to smoking, which consisted of an ultrasonic atomiser and a nicotine/PG (propylene glycol) solution in a plastic cartridge.

Now the ecigs you see today don’t feature ultrasonic atomisers but something else entirely. Brothers by the name of Sheikh invented the cartomiser! A heating element surrounded by poly fill, the poly fill would soak up the eliquid and the heating element would vaporise it, making the cartomiser the future of vaping.

Throughout 2000 ecigs were found in more and more places around the world, with such a simple concept people started experimenting with more power, bigger elements and thus the modded flashlight was born. First of it’s kind, it kept the same basic principles (battery, heating element and eliquid), and is the ancestor of the Mechanical Mods you see featured in so many brick and mortars today.

Once a culture started building around vaping, more and more people wanted to get involved with this more advanced side of vaping and we watched as the technology grew exponentially every month.

Vaping is just as much a hobby for some people as it is a method of quitting smoking for others, atomisers are customisable and regulated mods featuring more intricate circuit boards than my old Nokia.

Each week we’re going to look deeper and deeper into vaping, the culture around it and why it works.

See you next time!