About the shelf life of e-liquid
I don’t think the shelf life of e-liquid is that simple. We know that the bottle body of e-liquid will be marked with the shelf life of e-liquid for 24 months, but it will be questioned by the public. e-liquid is a physical mixture of glycerin, propylene glycol and essence, and they must have been stored for a long time before being made into e-liquid. Is it reasonable to mark the shelf life of each bottle of e-liquid?
Although e-liquid is not a food, it is also a product that is ingested by the human body, so it should also have a shelf life. Some regular products will print the production date, shelf life or recommended use date with spray code on the bottle body, but because our current e-liquid market is very complicated, and there are no clear regulations, at least the big ones I have seen. Most e-liquids don't have an expiration date, and even the manufacturer's information is hard to find.
Official Explanation of Shelf Life
To discuss the issue of shelf life, we first need to know what is the definition of shelf life? Let's take a look at what the shelf life is:
The shelf life of a product refers to the best edible period of the product. The shelf life of the product is provided by the manufacturer and marked on the product for a limited time. During the warranty period, the manufacturer of the product is responsible for the quality of the product that meets the relevant standards or expressly guaranteed quality conditions. Sellers can sell these products with confidence and consumers can use them safely.
Shelf life is not the only criterion for identifying whether food and other products have deteriorated, and it may be due to premature deterioration of substances due to changes in storage methods, environment, etc. Therefore, try to eat food in time before the expiration date has expired.
The shelf life of opened foods will be shortened, so use them up as soon as possible to avoid product quality deterioration. This is indeed the case in daily life. If a bottle of milk looks and smells fine, chances are you're going to drink it even if it's 2 days past its expiration date, right? But if a piece of cake is sour, you're bound to throw it away, even before the expiration date.
These dates are largely indicative and ancillary. Yet most of us put too much faith in shelf life to give up some conventional judgment.
How long does e-liquid last?
Old vape users may find a phenomenon that e-liquid does not seem to have any shelf life. After we store some e-liquid that has not been used up for a long time, you will find that the taste of e-liquid has not deteriorated, very Might get better.
In fact, no matter what product has a shelf life, the actual shelf life of e-liquid is more than 24 months, and the taste of e-liquid will not have much problem after the shelf life marked by the manufacturer, so this will create another industry. , that is, the merchants who recycle expired e-liquids. They collect the e-liquids that have passed the shelf life from the merchants at a very low price. It is conceivable who the last e-liquid will be transferred to. Therefore, Here again, I advise all vape users not to buy these expired e-liquids because of their potential for bodily harm.
As a relatively large e-liquid manufacturer, its e-liquid raw materials are relatively bulky, which means that their raw materials are relatively fresh, and there is no possibility of long-term inventory, so try to buy e-liquid as much as possible. Choose a relatively large-scale e-liquid factory, the e-liquid produced by these factories is absolutely every problem within 24 months.