I've seen similar threads across multiple forums asking if you can use cotton balls or rolls of cotton instead of the samurai farmed Japanese organic cotton from Ninja groves.
Lots of the threads seem to state that normal cotton contains bleaching agents. H2O2 mainly which isn't really a concern as hydrogen peroxide breaks down to water and oxygen over (fairly rapid amounts of) time, causing many a stored and unvented container to explode in storage (which happened in my school over midterm and apparently glass shards from the bottle were stuck in the walls) but to cut a long story short I've ordered a box mod (An Aegis X and an RTA (Zeus) as well as some pre-wound coils to see what works and what doesn't) but I want to see what people's opinions on using normal cotton are.
I have no experience myself however most sites which try to give their 'opinion' are also trying to sell their magical organic Japanese cotton that has been cut with only the finest katana from edo period Japan and then preserved in a time capsule until now.
The RTA I bought does come with some of this cotton so I can make my own opinion as to how good it is compared to normal cotton but I would like the opinions of people who have actually used both as that way if there is a huge difference I can maybe order more in.
As you can probably tell I'm biased against special cotton mainly because it costs a fair bit more than normal cotton and to me that makes little sense if over the counter cotton that is cheaper should be treated less (of course economy of scale comes into this, if you're making thousands of tons of treated cotton and tens of tons of the untreated sort prices would reflect that) but rarely you pay less for more.
If I could get a some user explanations on why wicking material matters that would be great. It was bottom of my list and getting an RTA as well as a box and 18650 cells can be fairly expensive but it eliminates the 'razor and blades' model of cheaper vapes and I shave with a straight razor so I don't really like the "you pay less but have to pay a large amount every week for more coils" when I can just twist some wire around a jig.
Tldr
Does cotton brand/type really make a difference
Lots of the threads seem to state that normal cotton contains bleaching agents. H2O2 mainly which isn't really a concern as hydrogen peroxide breaks down to water and oxygen over (fairly rapid amounts of) time, causing many a stored and unvented container to explode in storage (which happened in my school over midterm and apparently glass shards from the bottle were stuck in the walls) but to cut a long story short I've ordered a box mod (An Aegis X and an RTA (Zeus) as well as some pre-wound coils to see what works and what doesn't) but I want to see what people's opinions on using normal cotton are.
I have no experience myself however most sites which try to give their 'opinion' are also trying to sell their magical organic Japanese cotton that has been cut with only the finest katana from edo period Japan and then preserved in a time capsule until now.
The RTA I bought does come with some of this cotton so I can make my own opinion as to how good it is compared to normal cotton but I would like the opinions of people who have actually used both as that way if there is a huge difference I can maybe order more in.
As you can probably tell I'm biased against special cotton mainly because it costs a fair bit more than normal cotton and to me that makes little sense if over the counter cotton that is cheaper should be treated less (of course economy of scale comes into this, if you're making thousands of tons of treated cotton and tens of tons of the untreated sort prices would reflect that) but rarely you pay less for more.
If I could get a some user explanations on why wicking material matters that would be great. It was bottom of my list and getting an RTA as well as a box and 18650 cells can be fairly expensive but it eliminates the 'razor and blades' model of cheaper vapes and I shave with a straight razor so I don't really like the "you pay less but have to pay a large amount every week for more coils" when I can just twist some wire around a jig.
Tldr
Does cotton brand/type really make a difference