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Evening all, I'm a new vaper wanting to get into making my own e-liquids. So I went off to find some vegetable glycerine. What I found was Dolly Varden and a product sold at Dis-Chem. Both are BP grade but neither of them stated if they were "vegetable glycerine" (VG). So I phoned them.The person I spoke to at Dolly Varden (Tiger Brands) could not help me but said she would get their pharmacist to call me, and the pharmacist called.Now it got interesting. Dolly Varden, she told me, is a purely synthetic glycerine, not vegetable based. It may not be taken internally, it is for external use only! I asked her 3 questions and got a "No" answer for all three. Can I rub it onto my kids' gums to alleviate teething pain? No. Can I use it when making fondant? No. Can I put it into a nebulizer and inhale it? No. Still not satisfied, I gave it a day, phoned the Customer Care Line again (0860101107), and got the same responses again. Now the Dis-Chem brand ("Applicant & Packed by Baars Pharmaceutical Industries CC") is called "glycerin". I called them as well (0800201170 - Dis-Chem's careline). The first person I spoke to, after I gave her the batch number on the bottle, could only confirm that it was 99.5% pure, the balance apparently being water. She also promised to get their pharmacist to phone me, but I did not get the call.
As far as I understand, the "BP" on the bottle speaks only of the quality of the manufacture and not the contents.
Can any vaper who makes his own e-liquids tell me where you're getting genuine vegetable based glycerine in South Africa?
The following article is very informative: http://www.e-cigarette-forum.com/forum/diy-e-liquid/52669-pg-vg-labeling-purity-please-read.html.