Salt nicotine juice, as some may call it, is e-juice that contains nicotine salts. Nic salts, as they’re commonly known among vapers, are a type of nicotine used in e-liquid that allows for high concentrations of nicotine to be used without the vapor produced becoming too harsh to inhale.
Why Nic Salts Work At Higher Strengths
Nicotine salts used in today’s e-liquids have been crafted with a few things in mind. First, there’s flavor. Then there’s smoothness. And then there’s absorption. Now let’s run through these aspects to better understand what scientists have improved in nic salts to create the modern variants used by e-liquid manufacturers to create nic salt juice.
Flavor is important, clearly. That’s what why modern nicotine salts have been engineered to provide stellar flavor when vaped.
Nic salts must be really smooth when vaped in order for them to be used at higher concentrations, which is why nic salts are often found in strengths that far exceed what freebase nicotine e-liquids are found in. For example, you might find a 50mg/ml nic salt vape juice, but you won’t hear of any vapers trying to vape anywhere near that concentration with freebase nicotine because it would be way too harsh.
That last bit, absorption, is the rate at which the nicotine is absorbed by the user. Today’s nic salts absorb fast, making them great for former smokers who need a quick nic fix from their vape.
What Is Vape Juice?
If you’ve read this far and you’re still wondering what the “juice” is, then you’ll want to read this as well. Vape juice, as it’s known, goes by other names: e-liquid, e-juice, and juice. It’s the vaping liquid that e-cigarettes use. E-cigarettes go by other names as well, such as vapes. The juice that’s found inside of them is what’s being heated to produce vapor that’s then inhaled when a vaper takes a puff off their e-cig.
Vape juice contains various ingredients, but most commonly it contains PG, VG, water, flavoring, and nicotine. The flavoring part is where things get interesting because there are a wide range of flavors out there and subsequently a wide range of flavorings that are used to create them.
PG and VG, which are short for propylene glycol and vegetable glycerin, are solvents commonly used in vape juices to dissolve nicotine so that it can be inhaled.
Sweeteners like ethyl maltol and sucralose are also used, which can improve the flavor of vaping liquids.