With mouth-to-lung e-liquid making up the majority of vape juice, how can you determine the best MTL vape juice options? Worry not, thirsty vapers, because the good folks here at MIST will channel over ten years of experience to help you find the best MTL e-liquid for your taste preferences.
Below, you’ll find the best vape juice for any taste, be it candy or menthol, fruits or puds. Taste is a subjective matter, of course, but we reckon any MTL vaper will find something to treasure among the juices listed below.
The Best MTL Vape Juice Overall Is: MIST Bar Salts Classic Tobacco Leaf
We’ve chosen Classic Tobacco Leaf from MIST Bar Salts as the best MTL vape juice because many vapers will find it helpful for transitioning away from smoking and disposables. The gentle tobacco flavour, paired with smooth nicotine salts and a huge range of nicotine strengths, makes it a great choice for anyone looking to quit smoking or reduce their nicotine intake.
The 10 Best MTL Vape Juice are:
- MIST Bar Salts Classic Tobacco Leaf
- MIST Originals Virginia Tobacco
- MIST Bar Salts Arctic Xtreme
- NastyLiq Mineral Water
- Zap! Bar Salts Gummy Bear
- Supergood Uncommon 6
MIST Bar Salts Classic Tobacco Leaf
Best MTL Vape Juice
9.5/10
Total
Features We Love
Baccy Bae
Authentic tobacco essences used for flavour
Easy Does It
Smooth and gentle throat hit
Nic Pick
Wide selection of nicotine strengths.
While fruit, pudding, and candy flavours are brilliant, the main goal of most vapers is still tobacco smoke reduction. And, Classic Tobacco Leaf from the MIST Bar Salts range delivers a perfect recreation of your old favourite vice in a smooth and multi-strength form.
As a bar salt, Classic Tobacco Leaf uses benzoic acid-enhanced nicotine salts to reduce the alkaline content of the e-liquid, providing a much smoother inhale that both social and seasoned smokers will find satisfying.
The flavour is like an immersive memory of smoking: gentle and soothing, flavoured with genuine tobacco leaf essences to replicate the nostalgic smoky note of cigarettes.
Best of all, unlike most bar salts and nic salts, which only offer 10mg and 20mg, Classic Tobacco Leaf is available in 3mg, 6mg, 12mg, and 18mg to assist you in reducing your nicotine intake. In our opinion, this is the best MTL e-liquid that you can get your hands on today.
Pros
- Authentic tobacco leaf flavour
- Strength options to help you reduce nicotine intake
- Gentle chest and throat hit thanks to nicotine salts
Cons
- Nic salt e-liquids are not to every smoker’s taste
- No 0mg version is available
Price
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£1.99
MIST Originals Virginia Tobacco
Best for: Tobacco
9.4/10
Total
Features We Love
Keep Rolling: Gentle and pleasant taste of rolling tobacco
Thick or Thin: Available in 70PG and 70VG versions
Zero Hero: 0mg version available for those who’ve quit nicotine
While we picked Classic Tobacco Leaf as the winner, we feel it’s essential to acknowledge freebase e-liquid’s unique properties. Bar salts are smooth and easy to inhale, many longtime smokers find them a bit too gentle on the throat and chest and prefer the ‘kick’ provided by traditional freebase nicotine e-liquids.
Virginia, from the MIST Originals range, delivers a subtle rolling tobacco taste and a noticeably strong chest hit.
What’s more, Virginia is available in both Standard (70PG / 30VG) and Extra Vapour (70VG / 30PG) mixes. This makes rich and authentically flavoured tobacco e-liquids available to sub-ohm vapers, usually overlooked in this flavour category.
All the strengths offered by Classic Tobacco Leaf are present, and there are even 0mg bottles for those who are nic-free but nostalgic for old tastes.
Pros
- Subtle rolling tobacco profile
- Available in DTL and MTL e-liquid mixes
- Great value 10-packs
Cons
- No shortfill options
- Not sold as nic salt e-liquids
Price
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£3.50
MIST Bar Salts Arctic Xtreme
Best for: Menthol
9.4/10
Total
Features We Love
Pure Frost: No unnecessary distracting sweetness
Botanical Beauty: Lightly flavoured with herbal menthol
Cheap Chill: Only £2.50 per bottle when buying ten or more
Cool menthol vapes have the dual effect of both satisfying nicotine cravings and providing you with an invigorating frosty chill every time you puff. Arctic Xtreme from the MIST Bar Salts line delivers cool hits without letting any superfluous flavours get in the way of the icy refreshment.
While menthol usually has to play guest star in a fruity vape blend, Arctic Xtreme cuts to the chase and provides straightforward ice with every inhale.
Subtly flavoured with botanical menthol, the cooling waves of vapour cascade down the throat delightfully, ensuring refreshment without any lingering sugary taste.
Much like the Classic Tobacco Leaf above, Arctic Xtreme has four distinct nicotine strengths that suit different levels of need.
Pros
- Pure, unadulterated chills
- Huge range of different nic salt strengths
- Very affordably priced
Cons
- Lack of sweetness may disappoint some vapers
- A bit too cold for outdoor winter mouth-to-lung vaping
Price
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£1.99
NastyLiq Mineral Water
Best for: Fruity
9.2/10
Total
Features We Love
Citrus Splash: Zesty mixed-citrus fruit soda flavour
Ice & Easy: Restrained ice grants a chilled satisfaction
Malay Mog: Malaysian-style sweeteners grant a memorable taste
Mineral Water by NastyLiq carries a fascinating flavour of mixed citrus that seems similar to a particular brand of American fizzy drinks known for their green cans and bottles.
The fruity rich flavour is delicious, enhanced with the Malaysian sweetness that Nasty Juice is known and loved for, with a remarkably well-balanced ice note which frosts the throat without ever feeling too strong or uncomfortably cold.
There’s a really delightful edge of soda to Mineral Water, and when we got our hands on NastyLiq juices for the first time this was the flavour that blew away everyone in the MIST office.
Admittedly, it has a somewhat synthetic taste profile, and fans of pure fruit flavours might want to try something with fewer sweeteners, but in our opinion, Mineral Water by NastyLiq is possibly the best-tasting fruity e-liquid we’ve encountered in a long time.
Pros
- Extremely moreish citrus soda e-liquid
- Perfectly balanced additional ice
- Reminiscent of a popular soda brand
Cons
- Too sweet for some vapers
- Nasty doesn’t offer nicotine-free MTL e-liquids
Price
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£3.99
Zap! Bar Salts Gummy Bear
Best for: Sweets & Candy
9/10
Total
Features We Love
Neat Sweet: Delicious mixed-fruit chewy sweet taste
Sweet Salts: Benzoic acid ensures a smooth inhale every time
ZAP! Attack: ZAP! is one of the longest-running e-liquid ranges
While pudding vapes like Uncommon 6 Nic Salt above are deliciously decadent, many vapers with a sweet tooth prefer e-liquids that lean in more of a candy direction, and Gummy Bear Nic Salt by ZAP! Bar Salts does so delightfully.
With every puff you get a zesty burst of mixed-fruit chewy sweets, an immediately nostalgic flavour which sends you reeling back down the pick & mix aisle of your youth. ZAP! has been careful to balance the sugary candy note well, so that it doesn’t feel too sherberty or saccharine.
With ZAP! breaking ground in the disposable world with their Instafill 3500 Disposable Vape, it’s awesome to see them bringing those rich and tangy flavours to refillable kits as well.
Pros
- Zesty mixed-fruit candy flavour
- Available in two different nic strengths
- Up to five tank/pod refills per bottle
Cons
- Ice might have been a nice addition
- No nic-free version available
Price
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£3.49
Supergood Uncommon 6
Best for: Pastry & Dessert
8.9/10
Total
Features We Love
Puddin’ Puffs: Creamy and delicious blend of dessert flavours
Worlds Collide: Savoury peanut meets heavenly white chocolate
Versatile Vape: Also sold in a 70VG shortfill for sub-ohmers
We’ve looked at menthols and tobaccos, but if you prefer a sweet treat, fear not; delicious pudding flavours like Supergood’s Uncommon 6 aren’t just for sub-ohm vapers anymore.
The taste is particularly decadent; rich, thick, chunky peanut butter is covered in crumbled sugar cookies and a scattering of white chocolate pieces. The resulting flavour is a gorgeous, sweet contrast of creamy, buttery and nutty tastes melding together to form the tastiest baked treat you’ve ever tasted.
Ordinarily, it’s a flavour that would result in a surge of calories and potentially some tooth discomfort, but the beauty of mouth-to-lung vaping is in allowing you to indulge in sumptuously sweet flavours without worrying about consequences!
And if any lost sub-ohmers are reading this, you can also enjoy Uncommon 6 as a 70VG shortfill.
Pros
- Sumptuous dessert flavour blend
- Innovative use of savoury peanut butter
- Also available in 70VG for DTL vapers
Cons
- Cookie flavour could be a bit stronger
- Only two nicotine strengths
Price
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£3.95
MTL E-Liquid FAQ
We hope this roundup of the best e-liquids for mouth-to-lung vaping has been informative and left you feeling better informed as to what to expect from MTL e-liquid.
We do, however, appreciate that many vapers, new and seasoned, may be confused by some of the terminology used, so please read on for a helpful FAQ on MTL e-juice.
What is MTL E-liquid?
MTL e-liquid, put simply, is e-liquid intended to be used through an MTL vape kit, vape pen, or pod kit.
Mouth-to-lung vape juice is generally ‘thinner’ and runnier than DTL vape liquid, which is comparatively thick and viscous due to the higher VG content present in DTL vape liquid.
Another interesting difference is that high-PG e-liquids tend to provide a noticeable throat hit and chest kick, whereas high-VG e-liquid is often a lot smoother to inhale.
MTL, to help break down the anagram, stands for “mouth to lung.” This simply describes the way in which mouth-to-lung vape liquid is usually inhaled – similarly to a cigarette, the vapour is drawn into the mouth by way of expanding pressure, before being taken down to the lung with a subsequent intake of breath.
DTL, for comparison, stands for “direct to lung,” and DTL vape juice is usually inhaled similarly to how people use an inhaler; you breathe directly into your chest without any stopover in the mouth.
What’s the Difference Between Nic Salts and MTL E-liquids?
Not every mouth-to-lung e-liquid is a nicotine salt, but every nicotine salt is a mouth-to-lung vape juice. Nic salts use benzoic acid to smooth out the inhale, whereas traditional MTL e-liquids use standard ‘freebase’ nicotine, which has a notable rasp in the throat and chest that some enjoy, whereas others find it offputting in MTL vape juices.
If the nic salts in this list have your attention, you’ll love our more focused list of the best nic salt vape juice options.
What is the Best PG/VG Ratio for MTL E-Liquid?
MTL e-liquid and nic salt e-liquids will almost always have a vegetable glycerine ratio of 50 or less, though there are a few outliers, like the Orange County CBD range. If a vape juice has a vegetable glycerine ratio of 70 or more, that’s not going to work well in a mouth-to-lung vaping tank.
| PG/VG Ratio | Vaping Experience |
|---|---|
| 50VG/50PG | Noticeable chest and throat hit and clear flavour |
| 70PG/30VG | Very powerful chest and throat hit with deep, rich flavour and low cloud production |
| 70VG/30PG | Smooth inhale with massive cloud but somewhat lessened flavour |
If you’re uncertain as to whether you’re looking at an MTL or DTL vape juice, the best way is to check the VG/PG ratio. Vegetable glycerine (VG) and propylene glycol (PG) are the ‘base blocks’ of 99% of e-liquids, and the mix ratio of VG and PG determines both the viscosity and purpose of the e-liquid in question.
Any e-liquid with a VG ratio of higher than 50% is generally considered a DTL e-liquid and is often too thick and gloopy to absorb efficiently into coils designed for mouth-to-lung e-liquid.
If you’d like a more in-depth study of these compounds, then please take a moment to check out our Ultimate Guide to PG/VG.
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We hope this roundup of amazing MTL vape juices has you salivating for some great flavours! If so, you can buy the best MTL e-liquids right now on the MIST online store!
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