Acetone or 99% IPA?

[Skeemer]

I'm about to changa up a couple of grams and noticed i had some acetone in the garage and started wondering what works better. I have always used 99% IPA and found it works great.
What works better/faster? or whats preferred by you?

 

[DMTripper]

I've used IPA and have never seen a reason to use anything else. I have some acetone but it has a very strong smell. It doesn't say on the bottle that it has anything else added. Does acetone have a strong smell?

 

[soulfood]

Does acetone have a strong smell?

Up close it has a very enveloping intense smell, but it's not something that will odourise a room with normal usage.

 

[Skeemer]

I'm using IPA

 

[Purges]

Acetone won't dissolve harmalas properly. IPA will. IPA wins.

 

[dtrypt]

The only reason I use acetone is because IPA is not available to retail consumers in my country...

 

[endlessness]

IPA will also only poorly dissolve harmalas IME.. 96% grain ethanol FTW

 

[Indoril_Nerevar]

IPA will also only poorly dissolve harmalas IME.. 96% grain ethanol FTW

it's hard to find pure ethanol where i live...70% is the most potent ive found

 

[MySmelf]

IPA will also only poorly dissolve harmalas IME.. 96% grain ethanol FTW

^This. I use 99% lab grade EtOH

 

[Skeemer]

would everclear work better than ipa? I have no idea where i would find 96% grain ethanol

 

[AluminumFoilRobots]

I thought everclear was 95% ethanol? At least the kind I used for a salvia tincture was... it worked miserably for that application due to it being extremely difficult to dose 95% ethanol sublingually!

Does the process go faster with slightly warm solvent? Not heated, maybe just a quick hot-water bath prior to using it?

 

[۩]

It's been reported that salvia tinctures work best diluted with 1 part warm water. Yes warmth speeds up the process.

 

[AluminumFoilRobots]

hm. I still have the tincture floating around, perhaps I will try thatI do they retain potency well? they're about 6 months old, kept in both refrigerators and a car in winter...

 

[۩]

It will be just as potent.

 

[endlessness]

IPA will also only poorly dissolve harmalas IME.. 96% grain ethanol FTW

it's hard to find pure ethanol where i live...70% is the most potent ive found

if the 30% is water, youre good to go, it just will take longer to dry

 

[chemisch]

i frequently use vodka i fractionaly distilled as a solvent so 95% ethanol as unless you completely seal it off from air it forms an azeotrope with air causing to lower the 100% or pure to 95% were it finds its happy equilibrium i think acetone is more useful as it evaporates quicker than isopropanol and becuase it usally purer than isopropanol