IVG Original Salts
IVG Original Salts is the heritage nic salt line: ten flavours in 10ml bottles on a 50/50 base, offered at 10mg/ml and 20mg/ml, from £3.99 a bottle. It is built for refillable MTL pod kits with coils above 0.8 ohm, where a salt gives a satisfying draw at low power without the harshness a freebase would bring at the same strength.
The line-up runs from Forest Berries Ice and Strawberry Watermelon through Sour Green Apple and Riberry Lemonade to the dessert profile Vanilla Biscuit. At roughly 40p per millilitre it is the lowest-cost route into the IVG flavour house. Sold to adults aged 18 and over only.
What IVG Original Salts are
IVG Original Salts is a range of ten 10ml nicotine salt e-liquids built on a 50/50 base and offered at 10mg/ml and 20mg/ml. Bottles list at £3.99 each, with a multi-bottle bundle listed at £9.99. It is the heritage salt line — the flavours IVG built its name on, translated into salt form for refillable pod kits.
The proposition is simple. If you own a refillable pod device with a coil somewhere above 0.8 ohm, this is the liquid it was designed around: thin enough to wick through a narrow port, strong enough to satisfy at low power, and smooth enough on the throat that 20mg is comfortable rather than punishing. It is also the cheapest way into the IVG flavour house by a wide margin, at roughly 40p per millilitre against the several pounds per millilitre a sealed prefilled pod works out at.
Everything on this page is sold to adults aged 18 and over. We age-verify every order, all bottles carry the required nicotine warnings and child-resistant closures, and nicotine is an addictive substance.
Who Original Salts suit
- Vapers using a refillable pod kit who want the running cost of bottles rather than the convenience premium of sealed pods.
- Anyone moving from prefilled pods who wants familiar flavours in a format they can control.
- Adults who want a firm, satisfying draw from small, low-power hardware rather than a large sub-ohm device.
- People who like to keep two or three flavours open and rotate between them.
They are not the right liquid for a sub-ohm tank. If your coil is below 0.6 ohm and you run 30 watts or more, you want a 70/30 shortfill from IVG 100ml Shortfills 70/30 instead, finished with nic shots to around 3mg.
Nicotine salt chemistry, explained plainly
The word "salt" confuses people, so it is worth dealing with directly. It has nothing to do with table salt or with sodium. In chemistry, a salt is simply what you get when an acid and a base react. Nicotine is a base. Add an acid to it and you have a nicotine salt.
What the acid does
Freebase nicotine — nicotine in its unbound form — is alkaline. When it vaporises and hits the back of the throat, that alkalinity produces the sharp, peppery sensation vapers call throat hit. The higher the strength, the harsher it gets, which is why freebase liquids above about 12mg/ml become unpleasant for most people.
Nicotine salt e-liquid adds an acid, typically benzoic acid, which lowers the pH of the blend. A lower pH means less of that alkaline sting. The result is that 20mg of nicotine per millilitre can be drawn comfortably in a way that 20mg of freebase simply could not. That single property is the entire reason salts exist and the reason compact pod devices work at all.
What it does not change
The nicotine itself is identical. A salt is not a different or modified nicotine; it is the same molecule in a lower-pH carrier. It is also not a flavour enhancer — the acid affects throat sensation, not sweetness or fruit character. And it is not a licence to vape more: a smoother 20mg is still 20mg.
The practical consequence
Salts belong in low-power, high-resistance hardware where you inhale a small volume of vapour per draw. Freebase at lower strength belongs in high-power hardware where each draw delivers a much larger volume. Putting a 20mg salt into a sub-ohm tank delivers far more nicotine per puff than any sensible setup intends, and it is the mistake worth avoiding above all others. The full bottled catalogue is grouped under IVG Vape Juice, and every salt line across IVG sits in IVG Nic Salts.
The 10ml bottle and UK rules
Original Salts come in 10ml bottles because UK law does not permit anything larger for a nicotine-containing e-liquid. Three limits govern the category and none of them has changed:
- 10ml maximum for any bottle of nicotine-containing e-liquid sold to consumers.
- 20mg/ml maximum nicotine strength.
- 2ml maximum capacity for any tank or pod that holds nicotine-containing liquid.
Alongside the size limits, every nicotine-containing product must be notified to the regulator before sale, carry the mandatory nicotine warning, list its ingredients, and use child-resistant and tamper-evident packaging with a flow-restricted nozzle. That is why a 10ml bottle costs what it does and why the caps take a firm press-and-turn: those features are legal requirements, not design choices.
This is also the reason 100ml bottles exist only as 0mg shortfills. Remove the nicotine and the 10ml cap no longer applies, which is what allows a large bottle to be sold at all. It is a neat regulatory workaround and it explains the entire structure of UK e-liquid retail.
10mg or 20mg: choosing your strength
Original Salts are offered at 10mg/ml and 20mg/ml, and this is the decision that determines whether you get on with the range or not.
| 10mg/ml | 20mg/ml | |
|---|---|---|
| Throat sensation | Soft, easy over long sessions | Firm and immediately noticeable |
| Typical user | Established vapers and lighter users | Heavier users wanting the UK maximum strength |
| Usage pattern | Often more frequent draws | Often shorter, less frequent sessions |
| Bottle longevity | Often empties faster through higher usage | Often lasts longer in practice |
| Works well with | Sweet fruit and dessert profiles | Iced and menthol profiles that carry their own bite |
Getting it right
Two signals tell you the strength is wrong. If you are drawing on the device constantly and still feel unsatisfied, you are probably too low. If the draw makes you cough or feel lightheaded, you are too high. Neither is a failure and neither is permanent — buy a single bottle of the other strength and find out, rather than committing to a bundle of something that does not suit you.
Filtered views for each strength are available at 10mg Vape Kits & Refill Pods and 20mg Vape Kits & Refill Pods, covering both bottles and pods.
The Original Salts flavour line-up in detail
Ten flavours, all at £3.99 for 10ml. The range was assembled to cover the main profiles rather than to sprawl, so there is very little overlap between them and almost no filler.
Forest Berries Ice
Mixed dark berries — blackberry, blueberry and blackcurrant character — with a clean cooling finish rather than a heavy freeze. The berries read as ripe rather than sweetened, and the cooling sits underneath rather than dominating. This is the range's strongest all-day candidate: complex enough not to fatigue, balanced enough not to need a palate break. If you are buying one bottle to find out whether the range suits you, buy this one.
Blue Blaze
The house blue raspberry. Sweet up front with a distinct tart edge behind it, and a candied rather than natural character, which is exactly what blue raspberry is supposed to be — it is a confectionery flavour, not a fruit. Blue razz is consistently among the best-selling profiles in UK vaping and this is IVG's core interpretation of it. See the cross-range Blue Raspberry Vape collection for every product carrying the profile.
Summer Blaze
A layered summer fruit mix, rounder and noticeably less sharp than Blue Blaze. Expect soft stone fruit and berry together rather than one dominant note. It suits people who find single-fruit flavours thin and sour builds too aggressive, and it works well as a second all-day option alongside Forest Berries Ice.
Strawberry Watermelon
Soft ripe strawberry over crisp watermelon, low acidity throughout. One of the most approachable flavours in the range and a reliable choice for anyone who does not want cooling, sourness or complexity. Watermelon is also one of the best-behaved flavours in a coil — light-bodied, not heavily sweetened, and it does not gunk a wick the way dark or dessert profiles do. Related products sit in Strawberry Vape.
Sour Green Apple
Genuinely sour rather than nominally so. Green apple rather than red — sharp, crisp and high on the acid, with the tartness sitting at the front of the draw. This is the range's most polarising flavour and the one people either reach for constantly or dislike immediately. It also functions well as a palate reset between sweeter bottles.
Riberry Lemonade
Berry and lemonade together, with a carbonated character that gives it a fizzy lift on the exhale. Softer than a straight citrus and more interesting than a plain berry. Lemonade builds are a house speciality across the IVG ranges, and this is the Original Salts entry in that family.
Tropical Ice
Mango, pineapple and passionfruit with menthol laid over the top. The tropical fruits are sweet and slightly syrupy, which the cooling cuts through neatly — without it, the blend would be heavy. A good summer flavour and a good choice for anyone who wants something cold but finds pure menthol boring. Everything cooled across the catalogue is grouped in Ice Vape.
Strawberry Sensation
Single-note ripe strawberry, no cooling, no second fruit hiding behind it. Straightforward flavours are harder to get right than complex ones because there is nowhere to hide, and this is a clean example. It suits anyone who wants something simple and unchallenging, and it is a sensible starting point if you are new to bottled liquid entirely.
Vanilla Biscuit
The only dessert profile in the range: vanilla and shortbread, sweet and buttery, with the biscuit note doing most of the work. Dessert flavours are rarer in salt form than fruit, so this fills a real gap. Two practical notes. It benefits from a couple of weeks in the bottle, where the vanilla rounds out and integrates. And like most sweet bakery builds it will shorten coil life compared with a light fruit, so expect to change coils more often while you are running it.
Frozen Cherries
Dark cherry with a heavy freeze — the cooling here is far more assertive than in Forest Berries Ice or Tropical Ice. The cherry is black cherry rather than the bright fizzy-cherry style found elsewhere in the IVG catalogue, which makes it deeper and slightly sharper. Popular year-round despite the freeze. See also Cherry Ice Vape for every cooled cherry product we stock.
Flavour families and how to pair them
IVG's naming follows consistent conventions. "Ice" means a cooling agent has been added. "Sour" means genuine added acidity. "Blaze" means a layered mix rather than a single note. Once you know the conventions you can predict roughly what a bottle will taste like from the label alone.
| Family | Original Salts flavours | Cooling | Sweetness | Coil impact |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dark berry | Forest Berries Ice, Frozen Cherries | Light to heavy | Medium | Moderate |
| Red fruit | Strawberry Sensation, Strawberry Watermelon | None | Medium | Low |
| Blue and candy | Blue Blaze | None | High | Moderate |
| Mixed fruit | Summer Blaze | None | Medium | Low |
| Sour | Sour Green Apple | None | Low to medium | Low |
| Soft drink | Riberry Lemonade | None | Medium | Moderate |
| Tropical | Tropical Ice | Medium | High | Moderate |
| Dessert | Vanilla Biscuit | None | High | High |
Building a rotation
Palate fatigue is the most common reason a favourite flavour stops tasting like anything, and it is not the liquid's fault. The fix is to keep two or three bottles open from genuinely different families and alternate between them. A solid three-bottle set from this range is Forest Berries Ice as the all-day, Sour Green Apple or Tropical Ice as the contrast, and Vanilla Biscuit for evenings. Rotating costs nothing extra because you are buying the same total volume either way, and all three keep tasting the way they did on day one.
The 50/50 base and what it means
Original Salts use a 50/50 blend of propylene glycol and vegetable glycerine. That ratio is not arbitrary — it is the specification that makes the range work in the hardware it is aimed at.
Propylene glycol
Thin, carries flavour compounds efficiently, wicks quickly into small openings, and contributes throat sensation. More PG means sharper flavour definition and a firmer draw with less visible vapour.
Vegetable glycerine
Thick and slightly sweet, produces far more visible vapour and a softer inhale. More VG means bigger clouds, but it is too viscous for narrow wick ports and will starve a tight pod coil.
| Ratio | Viscosity | Throat | Vapour | Suitable hardware |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50/50 (Original Salts) | Thin | Firm | Modest | MTL pod kits, 0.8–1.5 ohm, 8–18W |
| 70/30 VG/PG (shortfills) | Thick | Soft | Large | Sub-ohm tanks, below 0.6 ohm, 25W+ |
A 50/50 base is what allows a small, narrow-ported pod to keep up with your draw. Put a thicker 70/30 into the same pod and the wick cannot refill fast enough between puffs, the coil runs dry and you get a burnt taste within minutes. The reverse error — a thin 50/50 in a wide-ported sub-ohm tank — usually leaks rather than burns. Match the ratio to the hardware and neither problem occurs.
Device matching: which pod kits Original Salts belong in
Salts are an MTL liquid. Mouth-to-lung means drawing vapour into the mouth first, then inhaling it, with tight airflow, a higher-resistance coil and low power.
| MTL (Original Salts) | DTL (shortfills) | |
|---|---|---|
| Coil resistance | 0.8–1.5 ohm | 0.15–0.6 ohm |
| Power | 8–18W | 25–80W |
| Airflow | Tight to restricted | Wide open |
| Liquid base | 50/50 | 70/30 |
| Strength | 10mg or 20mg salt | 3mg freebase after nic shots |
| Daily volume | 2–5ml typical | 8–15ml typical |
What to look for in a device
- A refillable pod. It must have a fill port. Sealed prefilled pods cannot be refilled and should not be opened.
- A coil in range. Anything from roughly 0.8 to 1.5 ohm. Below 0.8, the power draw rises and a 20mg salt becomes too much.
- Restricted airflow. A tight draw is what makes an MTL setup satisfying at low power.
- A 2ml pod. That is the UK limit, so every compliant pod you can buy will be 2ml or smaller.
If you would rather not refill at all, the sealed-pod platforms in Big Puff Vapes and IVG Refill Pods do the same job with no bottles involved, at a higher cost per millilitre.
Filling, priming and coil life
Priming a new coil
This is the single habit that separates coils lasting a fortnight from coils tasting burnt on day one. Drip liquid directly onto the exposed cotton of a new coil, fit it, fill the pod, then wait a full five minutes before firing. Take two or three gentle low-power draws to bed it in before settling into your normal draw. Dry cotton scorches on the first pull and never recovers.
Filling without mess
- Fill to the marked line, never to the brim. Pods need an air pocket to hold the pressure differential that prevents leaking.
- Angle the nozzle against the inside wall of the pod, not down the central chimney. Liquid in the chimney goes straight into your mouth.
- Close the fill port fully before shaking or pocketing the device.
- Let a refilled pod stand two minutes before the first draw so the wick re-saturates.
- Do not top up a pod that is nearly dry after heavy use — the wick is already stressed and a fresh pod will taste better.
What shortens coil life
A coil in an MTL pod on 50/50 salt typically runs one to two weeks. Three things cut that short. Heavily sweetened and dark flavours caramelise on the coil — Vanilla Biscuit will gunk a wick faster than Strawberry Watermelon, which is simply a property of sweet bakery builds and not a fault. Chain-vaping keeps the coil hot and accelerates degradation. And running outside the coil's stated wattage range, in either direction, produces either muted flavour or a burnt wick. If a coil dies in three days, look at the flavour first and the wattage second.
Swapping flavours
When changing between strong families, change the pod rather than just the liquid. Menthol and heavy dessert notes soak into cotton and stay there. If you must reuse a pod, rinse it with warm water, dry it thoroughly for several hours, and accept that the first tankful will carry a trace of the previous flavour.
Dialling in a pod kit for salts
Bottled liquid gives you control that a sealed pod does not, and the three variables worth learning are airflow, power and draw technique. Getting them right turns an adequate setup into a good one without spending anything.
Airflow
Most refillable pod kits have an adjustable airflow ring or slider. For a 50/50 salt at 10mg or 20mg, you want it fairly closed. A tight draw concentrates the vapour, increases the throat sensation and makes a low-power device feel far more satisfying. Opening the airflow up dilutes the vapour with air, softens the throat and makes the same liquid feel weaker — which is exactly what people do by accident when they find a salt too harsh, then conclude the flavour is thin. Start almost fully closed and open it a fraction at a time until the draw feels comfortable rather than strained.
Power
If your device has variable wattage, stay inside the coil's stated range and start at the bottom of it. A 1.0 ohm MTL coil rated 10 to 14 watts should be run at 10 first. Working up gives you more vapour and more warmth, but it also consumes liquid faster and shortens coil life. With a 20mg salt there is rarely any reason to run at the top of the range — the strength is doing the work, not the wattage. Devices with no wattage control have the power fixed sensibly for their coils, so there is nothing to adjust.
Draw technique
MTL is a slow, gentle draw of two to three seconds, held briefly in the mouth and then inhaled. It is not a hard, fast pull. Drawing hard on an MTL pod does not produce more vapour; it pulls air past the coil faster than the coil can vaporise liquid, which thins the flavour and outruns the wick. If you have come from a sealed pod device with a very loose draw, this takes a few days to unlearn.
Temperature and the first draw of the day
Cold liquid is thicker and wicks more slowly, so a device left overnight in a cold room or carried outdoors in winter will taste muted for the first two or three draws. Let it come up to room temperature, or simply take those first draws gently and expect it to settle. The same works in reverse in summer: a warm pod wicks faster and empties quicker.
When to stop adjusting
If a setup still feels wrong after tuning airflow and power, the problem is usually strength or coil resistance rather than settings. Change one thing at a time, give each change a full pod before judging it, and keep a note of what worked. Two weeks of that gives you a configuration you can simply reproduce whenever you buy new hardware.
Reading the label on a 10ml bottle
Every nicotine-containing bottle sold legally in the UK carries the same core information, and the label answers most purchasing questions before you need to ask them.
The front
Flavour name, brand, volume and nicotine strength in mg/ml. On an Original Salts bottle the strength will read 10 or 20, and the volume 10ml. Salt liquids are usually marked as such on the front too, which matters because a 20mg salt and a 20mg freebase are not interchangeable in the same hardware.
The back
The ingredients list, the base ratio, the mandatory nicotine warning, a batch number, a best-before date and the safety and disposal symbols. The batch number is the detail people ignore until they need it: it is how any query about a specific bottle is traced, so keep the label intact and readable until the bottle is finished.
The cap and neck
UK rules require a child-resistant closure, a tamper-evident seal and a nozzle designed to restrict flow. A correctly made cap needs a firm downward press before it will turn. If a bottle arrives with a broken seal, or a cap that spins freely without pressing, do not use it — contact us with the order number instead.
What is in the bottle
Propylene glycol, vegetable glycerine, food-grade flavourings, nicotine and, in a salt liquid, the acid that forms the salt. That is the complete list for standard UK e-liquid. Every nicotine-containing product must be notified to the regulator before it can be sold, with ingredients and emissions data submitted in advance. That requirement is why legitimate UK retailers stock only documented, labelled liquid.
Moving from sealed pods to bottles
Most people who buy Original Salts are coming from prefilled pods rather than from nothing, and a few things change in the first week. None of them is difficult, but knowing about them in advance makes the switch painless.
What you need to buy
A refillable pod kit — a device with an openable pod and a replaceable coil, or a replaceable pod containing its own coil. Sealed prefilled pods from the PRO, SMART MAX, NEXiO, 2400, SAVR and AIR platforms cannot be refilled and should not be opened; they have no fill port and no serviceable coil. Then the liquid, in whichever strength suits you, and a spare coil or two so you are not stuck when one dies.
What changes day to day
- You refill. Every day or two on a 2ml pod, which takes about twenty seconds once the habit forms.
- You change coils. Every one to two weeks depending on the flavour, and you prime each new one.
- You carry a bottle. Upright, capped, ideally in a side pocket rather than loose in a bag.
- You choose the strength. This is the real gain — you are no longer restricted to whatever the pod was filled with.
- Your running cost drops sharply. Roughly 40p per millilitre against several pounds for a sealed pod.
The flavour difference
A bottled salt and a prefilled pod carrying the same flavour name will taste closely related but not identical. The pod's coil, wick and power delivery are fixed at the factory and tuned to that liquid; your refillable device runs a different coil at a different wattage with different airflow. Same flavouring, different delivery. Most people find the gap small, and a fair number prefer the bottled version because they can tune the hardware to their own taste rather than accepting the manufacturer's.
Keeping both
There is no need to pick a side. The most common setup among long-term vapers is a sealed pod device for work, travel and nights out, and a refillable kit with bottles at home. The sealed device handles the situations where fiddling with liquid is unwelcome, and the bottles keep the overall cost down.
Troubleshooting Original Salts
The liquid is leaking from the pod
Almost always overfilling, a damaged seal, or pressure change. Fill to the line rather than the brim so the pod keeps the air pocket it needs. Inspect the silicone seals around the pod base for splits or displacement. And expect some weeping if a filled device has been on a flight, in a hot car, or carried from cold outdoors into a warm room — that is physics rather than a fault.
It gurgles or spits
Excess liquid in the airway, usually from overfilling or from drawing too hard immediately after a refill. Remove the pod, tap it mouthpiece-down onto folded kitchen roll, refit it and take two short gentle draws. If it gurgles after every single fill, you are filling too full.
There is no throat sensation at all
Either the strength is too low for your hardware, or the coil resistance is too high for the power your device supplies. Salts at 10mg in a very tight, high-resistance pod can feel like nothing to someone used to 20mg. Try the higher strength before assuming the liquid is at fault.
It is too harsh
The opposite problem. Step down to 10mg, or check that you have not fitted a coil below 0.8 ohm — a lower-resistance coil vaporises more liquid per draw, and a 20mg salt in a sub-ohm coil delivers far more nicotine per puff than intended. If a 10mg feels harsh too, an iced flavour may be adding to the sensation; try Strawberry Sensation or Strawberry Watermelon, neither of which is cooled.
The flavour has gone flat
Check coil age first, then wattage. A coil past its useful life mutes everything, and running below the coil's recommended power range does the same. If both are fine, it is almost certainly vaper's tongue — switch to a contrasting profile for a day or two and the original usually returns. Keeping two bottles open and alternating prevents it almost entirely.
Everything tastes burnt
The wick was fired dry, either because the coil was not primed before its first use or because of sustained chain-vaping. A scorched wick does not recover. Fit a new coil, prime it properly with liquid on the cotton, wait five minutes, and give it two gentle draws before normal use.
The liquid has darkened in the bottle
Oxidation, not contamination. Nicotine reacts slowly with oxygen and light and the liquid picks up an amber tint as it ages. It happens faster in bottles left open, warm or in daylight. The liquid remains usable; the flavour simply drifts with the colour.
Original Salts compared with the other IVG bottled ranges
IVG runs five bottled lines. Knowing where Original Salts sits among them makes the choice straightforward.
| Range | Bottle | Nicotine | Base | Character | From |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Original Salts | 10ml | 10mg / 20mg salt | 50/50 | Core heritage flavours, ten options | £3.99 |
| PRO Salts | 10ml | 10mg / 20mg salt | 50/50 | Broader range, soft drink and mint builds | £3.99 |
| Intense Salts | 10ml | Salt, high intensity | 50/50 | Punchier delivery, pod-matched profiles | £0.79 |
| Original 50/50 | 10ml | Freebase | 50/50 | Same flavour names, sharper throat | £0.99 |
| Shortfill 70/30 | 100ml | 0mg, add nic shots | 70/30 | Sub-ohm DTL, large volume | £1.99 |
Against PRO Salts
PRO Salts is the larger and more adventurous line, running past twenty flavours including Mr Blue, Hub Blast, Cola GB, Gum Mint, Blue Razz GB and a set of sharper sour builds. Original Salts is tighter and more conventional. Neither is better; they aim at different appetites. If you want recognisable fruit, start here. If you want soft drink, mint and house signature profiles, start at IVG PRO Salts.
Against Original 50/50
The freebase IVG Original 50/50 range deliberately mirrors these flavour names — Forest Berries Ice, Summer Blaze, Frozen Cherries, Tropical Ice, Strawberry Watermelon, Sour Green Apple, Riberry Lemonade and Strawberry Sensation all appear in both. The difference is the nicotine. Freebase gives a sharper throat character at lower strengths and suits anyone who finds salts too smooth to register, or who is stepping their strength down over time.
Against Intense Salts
Intense Salts is a separate salt line built for punchier delivery, with flavours that overlap the prefilled pod libraries — Pro Blue, Grape Ice, Blue Razz Lemonade, Banana Ice and others. It is a good route if you want to run a pod flavour you already like in a refillable device. Clearance lines do not restock once sold through, so treat availability there as finite.
Bottles versus prefilled pods: the cost case
It is worth stating the economics plainly, because they run in one direction.
A 10ml bottle of Original Salts at £3.99 works out at roughly 40p per millilitre. A sealed prefilled pod for a 10K platform costs £7.95 and presents 2ml at a time from its reserve — the effective cost per millilitre is several times higher. That gap is not a mark-up; it is the coil, the wick, the housing, the seal and the packaging that come with every pod and are thrown away with it.
What the pod premium buys is genuine: no refilling, no coil changes, no priming, no bottles in a bag, no leaks in a pocket, and a flavour swap in five seconds. Many people run both formats — a sealed pod device for work and travel, a refillable kit with Original Salts at home — and that hybrid is usually the most sensible setup rather than a compromise.
Buying in volume
Bundles exist for exactly this reason. An Original Salts bundle is listed at £9.99, which is the straightforward way to pick up a rotation of flavours in one go rather than buying singles. Multi-bottle and multi-pod listings across the catalogue are grouped in Vape Bundles.
How much to buy
An MTL pod vaper typically gets through 2 to 5ml a day. That means a 10ml bottle lasts two to five days, and four to six bottles a month is entirely normal. Work out your weekly volume once and buy in monthly blocks: it clears the free delivery threshold naturally and stops bottles ageing in a cupboard before you reach them.
Steeping, storage and shelf life
Do Original Salts need steeping?
No. These are commercially produced liquids that arrive fully mixed and ready to use, unlike a home-mixed recipe that needs time for flavourings to integrate. The one flavour that noticeably benefits from time is Vanilla Biscuit, where the vanilla rounds out over a week or two in the bottle. Everything else is at its best from the moment it arrives.
Storing bottles properly
- Cool, dark and dry. A drawer or cupboard — not a windowsill, not a car, not a bathroom shelf.
- Caps tight. Oxygen is what darkens liquid and dulls flavour over time.
- Upright, to reduce seepage past the nozzle and limit the surface exposed to air.
- In their original bottles. The child-resistant cap and tamper-evident seal are legal safety features; decanting removes both.
- Out of reach of children and pets at all times, including bottles you believe are empty.
Shelf life and darkening
Unopened bottles carry a best-before date, typically around two years from manufacture. Stored properly, liquid stays usable, but nicotine oxidises slowly on contact with air and light and the liquid takes on an amber tint as it does. Darkening on its own is normal ageing rather than a fault. Flavour drifts alongside the colour, though, which is the practical reason not to stockpile more than about six months of supply.
Ordering from IVG Refills
IVG Refills is an independent UK specialist retailer stocking the IVG catalogue. We are not IVG's own store and we make no claim to official status. What we offer is the full bottled range and the full pod range in a single basket, which saves splitting an order across two sites.
- Free UK delivery on orders over £20. A standard delivery charge applies below that threshold. Five bottles of Original Salts clears it.
- Tracked 24 and tracked 48 services at checkout, with tracking issued on despatch.
- Age verification on every order. We sell nicotine products only to adults aged 18 and over. Orders that fail verification are cancelled and refunded.
- Live stock. Availability shown on site is live, and clearance lines are not restocked once sold through.
Browse the complete catalogue from our full store, or work outwards from the salt ranges if bottles are what you came for. If a flavour you want is unavailable, the equivalent profile usually exists in one of the other IVG bottled lines, and the flavour collections are the quickest way to find it.
Safety, disposal and recycling
Nicotine e-liquid is a regulated consumer product and deserves the same care as any other household chemical.
- Keep every bottle capped and stored out of reach of children and pets, including ones you think are finished.
- Never decant liquid into drinks bottles, food containers or unlabelled vials.
- Wash skin promptly if liquid is spilled on it, and avoid contact with eyes.
- Do not pour leftover nicotine-containing liquid down a sink or drain. Take it to your household waste recycling centre and ask where liquid chemical waste goes.
- Rinse empty plastic bottles before recycling, and check what your local authority accepts — many kerbside schemes reject small plastics and caps.
- Used coils and pods are electrical waste. They belong at a WEEE collection point or a retailer take-back scheme, never in the general bin.
- Devices with built-in lithium cells must never go into general or kerbside recycling, where crushed batteries are a documented fire risk in collection vehicles.
If anything about a bottle looks wrong on arrival — a broken seal, a cap that turns without pressing, a leaking nozzle — stop and contact us with your order number rather than using it. The full range is always available through the store, and every product we sell is intended for adult vapers aged 18 or over.
Related collections
- IVG PRO Salts
- IVG Nic Salts
- IVG Original 50/50
- Intense Salts
- IVG Vape Juice
- 100ml Shortfills 70/30
- 20mg Vapes
- 10mg Vapes
- IVG Refill Pods
- Ice Vape
Frequently asked questions
What are nicotine salts, and why do they feel smoother?
A nicotine salt is nicotine with an acid added, usually benzoic acid, which lowers the pH of the blend. Freebase nicotine is alkaline, and that alkalinity is what produces the sharp peppery throat sensation at higher strengths. Lowering the pH reduces it, so 20mg of salt is comfortable to draw where 20mg of freebase would not be. The nicotine molecule itself is identical.
Which flavours are in the IVG Original Salts range?
Ten: Forest Berries Ice, Blue Blaze, Summer Blaze, Strawberry Watermelon, Sour Green Apple, Riberry Lemonade, Tropical Ice, Strawberry Sensation, Vanilla Biscuit and Frozen Cherries. Forest Berries Ice is the strongest all-day candidate, Sour Green Apple is the sharpest, and Vanilla Biscuit is the only dessert profile in the line.
Should I buy 10mg or 20mg?
20mg/ml is the UK maximum and suits adults who want a firm, immediately noticeable draw from a low-power pod. 10mg is softer and better over long sessions. Two signals tell you it is wrong: constant drawing without feeling satisfied means too low, while coughing or lightheadedness means too high. Buy a single bottle of the other strength rather than a bundle to find out.
What device should I use Original Salts in?
A refillable MTL pod kit with a coil between roughly 0.8 and 1.5 ohm, running 8 to 18 watts with tight or restricted airflow and a 2ml pod. Do not put a 20mg salt into a sub-ohm tank below 0.6 ohm — a lower-resistance coil vaporises far more liquid per draw and delivers much more nicotine per puff than the liquid is designed for.
Can I use Original Salts in a sub-ohm tank?
No. Sub-ohm DTL hardware wants a 70/30 shortfill at around 3mg, not a 50/50 salt at 10mg or 20mg. Two things go wrong otherwise: the nicotine delivered per draw is far higher than intended, and the thin 50/50 base tends to leak through the wide wick ports a sub-ohm coil uses. Match the ratio and strength to the hardware.
Why is the bottle only 10ml?
UK rules cap any bottle of nicotine-containing e-liquid at 10ml, alongside a 20mg/ml strength ceiling and a 2ml tank or pod limit. That is also why 100ml bottles exist only as 0mg shortfills: with no nicotine in the bottle as sold, the 10ml cap does not apply and you add nicotine yourself with shots.
How long does a 10ml bottle last?
An MTL pod vaper typically gets through 2 to 5ml a day, so a bottle lasts two to five days and four to six bottles a month is normal. Heavy chain-vaping, open airflow and higher wattage all increase consumption. Work out your weekly volume once, then buy in monthly blocks so bottles are not ageing in a cupboard.
Do Original Salts need steeping?
No. These are commercially produced liquids that arrive fully mixed and ready to use. The only one that noticeably benefits from time is Vanilla Biscuit, where the vanilla rounds out over a week or two in the bottle. Everything else is at its best from the day it arrives, provided it is stored cool, dark and capped.
Why does my coil keep burning out quickly?
Three usual causes. New coils that were not primed — drip liquid onto the cotton, fill, then wait five minutes before firing. Heavily sweetened flavours such as Vanilla Biscuit caramelise on a coil faster than light fruit like Strawberry Watermelon. And running outside the coil's stated wattage range scorches the wick. Chain-vaping compounds all three.
How do Original Salts differ from PRO Salts?
Both are 10ml, 50/50, 10mg and 20mg salts at the same price. Original Salts is the tighter heritage line of ten recognisable fruit and dessert profiles. PRO Salts runs past twenty flavours and covers soft drink, mint and house signature builds such as Mr Blue, Hub Blast, Cola GB and Gum Mint. Neither is better — they suit different appetites.
Why has my e-liquid turned darker?
Oxidation. Nicotine reacts slowly with oxygen and light, and the liquid picks up an amber tint as it ages. It happens faster in bottles left open, warm or in daylight. It is normal ageing rather than contamination and the liquid remains usable, but the flavour drifts alongside the colour, so buying roughly six months of supply at a time is sensible.
How should I dispose of empty bottles?
Rinse empty plastic bottles and check what your local authority accepts, since many kerbside schemes reject small plastics and caps. Never pour leftover nicotine-containing liquid down a sink or drain — take it to a household waste recycling centre. Used coils and pods are electrical waste and belong at a WEEE or retailer take-back point.