What are the Top 10 Best Nic Salts of 2025?
20th Jun 2025
For UK vapers in 2025, there are lots of interesting choices to be made to define how you switch from smoking or disposable vapes to refillable and reusable devices with e-liquids.
Not only do you need to think about the right vape kit for your needs but also the vape juice to go with it.
One of the most important decisions to make is what type of vape juice to go for – nic salts or freebase. As a brief introduction, nic salts are smooth on the throat and enter the bloodstream faster for a quicker hit of nicotine. Meanwhile, freebase nicotine e-liquids offer taste and throat hit to closely replicate smoking.
In this comprehensive review, we will look at the trending type of vape juice – nic salts, exploring why it became so popular, the best brands that make nic salts and which one you should add to your collection.
- Elf Bar Elfliq
- Crystal Nic Salts
- Vsavi Nic Salts
- Lost Mary Maryliq
- Elux Legend
- Hayati Pro Max
- IVG Salts
- Vaporesso Deliciu
- Riot Squad
- Dinner Lady
Best Nic Salts Collections for UK Vapers
So, without further ado, let’s explore some of the finest nic salt e-liquid manufacturers and the popular flavours they produce. To compile our list, we have considered user feedback from our customers, online forums discussing the benefits of nic salts and personal testing.
Elf Bar Elfliq
What do smokers and previous disposable vapers have in common? They both want nicotine products that are easy to use with familiar consistent flavour.
With Elf Bar Elfliq, it tackles all questions. As a smoker, you can switch to one of their many nic salt flavours for smooth delivery.
In contrast, an adult previously relying on disposable vapes are highly likely to use Elf Bar disposables previously due to their popularity, super sweet flavours and cooling ice effect from many flavour options.
Elfliq solves these problems by providing a suitable alternative. If you are used to the flavour of 20mg disposables, they have Elfliq in 20mg strength.
Keen to drop your nicotine strength further? Great. They have 10mg and 5mg too! The tase could not be any closer to matching the disposables. And best of all, you can keep refilling your vape kit with Elfliq to save more money long term than disposables and most definitely expensive cigarettes which cost anywhere from £14 to £18 for a pack of 20.
Best Flavour: Apple Peach
How Do Elf Bar Elfliq Stand Out
Elfliq is the best disposable-to-refillable transition for vapers. This budget-friendly alternative with familiar flavours can be found in high-value multi-buy deals of 4 for £10. The smoothness of these e-liquids is like no other and for those who do not like the stronger throat hit of freebase, it is the perfect alternative.
Expect strong bold flavours from the QUAQ mesh coil technology Elf Bar is recognised for to pair with a range of popular pod vape kits such as the Vaporesso Xros 4 and Aspire Gotek Pro.
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Crystal Salts
Crystal Vapes, also recognised globally as SKE, entered the vape industry and remains a popular name to their previous disposable vape range, such as the Ske Crystal Bar 600. Now with the ban in place, they pre-emptively and quickly moved towards more sustainable alternatives, producing nic salts at better value but equally strong flavour.
For budget-conscious vapers who still want a high-quality taste, Crystal Salts is the one for you with similar flavour intensity to their iconic disposables.
Best Flavour: Strawberry Burst
How Do Crystal Salts Stand Out
Ske Crystal offers a large list of flavour options focused on sweet fruit flavours that disposable vape fans love.
Featuring complex flavour profile mixtures and rich nic salt smoothness, you can try classic flavours like blue razz lemonade, strawberry kiwi, watermelon ice and pineapple peach mango.
These are all available in 10mg and 20mg strengths. For those moving on from disposables and looking for a similar sensation, Crystal Salts from Ske delivers.
Vsavi Nicotine Salts
If you want to top up your vape kit with the smoothest nic salt e-liquid, the premium range of different flavoured bottles from Vsavi work fantastically well in any pod kit. What you get is a range of choices from Coffee Latte to Juicy Lemonade that’s smooth throughout the inhale and exhale process. Also, it pairs perfectly with a range of devices that are compatible with nic salts.
Vapers often wonder whether nic salts are better than freebase nicotine and it’s certainly evident to many with Vsavi’s 50PG/50VG Nic Salts. Easy on the intake, a faster delivery of nicotine in seconds using benzoic acid to increase the speed time of absorption, for vapers it’s a quicker way to get a hit or ‘nicotine rush’ without needing to vape as often.
Best Flavour: Smooth Tobacco
How Do Vsavi Salts Stand Out
What separates Vsavi from the rest is the aftertaste experience. While many of these nic salt brands leave a sweet follow-up of flavour in the mouth, Vsavi offers little aftertaste, which is welcomed by vapers who prefer not to have the flavour lingering when they may want to have a drink or something to eat.
The Vsavi flavours are also unique and varied, with classics like Smooth Tobacco as well as other options not covered by the brands that started with disposables. This includes sweet choices such as strawberry milk and coffee latte.
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Lost Mary Maryliq
If you were not aware, Lost Mary and Elf Bar are two well-known brands created by the same parent company – Shenzhen iMiracle Technology. Both offer highly popular nic salts called Elfliq and Maryliq respectively, with subtle differences between the two. In the one corner, we have Elfliq, which offers three different strengths and a mixture of flavours. With Maryliq, they are focused on fruit flavours and 10mg or 20mg strengths to match disposable vape habits.
Best Flavour: Peach Strawberry Watermelon Ice
How Do Lost Mary Maryliq Stand Out
There are clear similarities between Lost Mary and Elf Bar. From the packaging to the smooth nic salt delivery, millions of vapers choose one or even both brands for e-liquids.
Whether you like Pineapple Ice or Peach Strawberry Watermelon with a cooling ice exhale, there is something for all to move away from disposables to refillable vape kits.
The hit and delivery is exactly like disposable vapes. With 20mg and 10mg strengths of nic salts, Lost Mary Maryliq mirrors the strengths disposable vapers were used to.
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Elux Legend
Another big hitter that vapers rave about is Elux with their ‘Legend’ range. Known for its likeness to disposables, providing a punchy and yet surprisingly long-lasting smooth texture. Elux Legend nic salts are ideal for UK vapers that want to vape high strengths of nicotine without a harsh throat hit.
With over 40 flavours available, there is something for everyone, with our carefully selected range including what we think is the pick of the bunch. Elux offers a nice blend of simple tobacco flavours as well as fruit options bursting with taste.
These can be bought at 20mg and 10mg nic salt strength, so it depends on your previous habits as a former smoker or single-use disposable vaper.
Best Flavour: Vanilla Tobacco
How Do Elux Legend Stand Out
Elux since the days of their popular Elux Legend 3500 kit have regularly delivered excellent flavour and value for vapers. With multi-buys available, they represent great value and consistency with each puff.
There is a pleasant not-too-overpowering aroma from them compared to some e-liquids and no harsh aftertaste. Best of all, Elux has many unique flavours and continues to add to its list with over 40 different options. Most of those flavours are a close match to what you would expect. In addition, the packaging is stylish and the caps are easy to remove for a quick refill.
Overall, when you select Elux, you are choosing a renowned brand with tons of flavour options, smooth nic salt delivery, two different strengths to pick from and good value for money as a replacement for disposables or cigarettes.
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Hayati Pro Max Salts
For refillable tanks and pods, look no further than Hayati Pro Max nic salts for a wise option that does not clog your coils, provides excellent flavour and a balanced ratio of 50VG/50PG. What this creates is a flavour variety and premium throat hit delivery from expertly made nic salts that lots of vapers love.
Each hit of vapour is smooth on the throat and there are nearly 50 flavours to choose from! With a 50 VG and 50 PG ratio, this means an equal share of cloud production and throat hit, not leaning towards one style or another but more of a balanced profile.
Best Flavour: Strawberry Mojito
How Do Hayati Pro Max Stand Out
Made with premium e-liquid food-grade ingredients, this careful selection of flavourings creates a unique fruit and fresh experience for vapers who like nic salts.
With a whopping 49 flavours to pick from (updated April 2025 by Hayati), which originally began as 28 flavours, there are so many choices that guarantee there will be something you like. Over time the list has evolved as they have crafted more flavour alternatives to mix up your vape palate. From traditional tobacco to Lemon and Mint or Fresh Menthol Mojito, which would be your favourite in 10mg and 20mg?
IVG Salts
IVG is a UK-based brand that has been in the e-liquid manufacturing business for a few years now, perfecting its craft to offer vapers some refreshing vape juice flavours with no harshness or chemical aftertaste – even when vaped at higher strengths of the 20mg max.
Their nic salt range is oh so smooth, with some cool flavours to pick from, including their ice-cool Sub Zero collection of flavours, such as Arctic Berry and Frozen Grape.
Best flavour: Coco Lush
How Do IVG Salts Stand Out
IVG is a go-to brand for so many because they are reliable and trustworthy, building a respected household name worldwide over many years of production. Their e-liquids are high in consistency and quality of flavour, with a lack of throat irritation a big plus for consumers. It creates the perfect MTL vape and is favoured by lots of beginners new to vaping.
The extensive list of flavours which includes not just the Sub-Zero range but also many tropical e-liquids is a favourite vape juice for many nic salt collections. Prime examples are Passion Twist (passionfruit and menthol), Coco Lush (apple, watermelon and coconut) and Rio Rush (orange, banana, passionfruit and pineapple). Perhaps not as rich as the likes of Elf Bar Elfliq but still one to try.
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Vaporesso Deliciu
Next up we have the legendary Vaporesso e-liquid called Deliciu, a play on words to highlight the delicious flavour of each vape juice to pair with not only Vaporesso kits but all the other popular vape kit brands.
Deliciu delivers excellent nic salts vapour production and interesting new flavours that are original and creative such as wild apple and hawthorn. With the list growing all the time, there are also classics such as grape, pink lemonade and apple peach to pick from.
Best Flavour: Raspberry Key Lime
How Do Vaporesso Deliciu Stand Out
To date, as it is a new spin on the Vaporesso brand, they have 20 flavours currently to pick from, including 15 classics and 5 new flavours not seen before.
The flavour is not as punchy as Maryliq with their range so far but over the years they have shown how to make the best user-friendly vape kits so we happy with Deliciu and look forward to enhanced flavours in the future and a growing list of flavours to select.
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Riot Squad Bar Edtn
As you can see from our best flavour pick below, award-winning brand Riot Squad creates a mixture of fresh new taste sensations you do not typically see as well as classics all vapers love like blue sour raspberry.
This brand has a range of popular 10ml nic salts to focus on refillable alternatives to disposables, including not only Bar Edtn but also their new Riot X range of ‘supercharged flavours’.
How Do Riot Squad Stand Out
Not all the nic salt brands offer a greater variety of nic salt strengths. With Riot Squad, their Bar Edtn range is available in not only 20mg and 10mg as standard but also 5mg and even 0mg. If you want to cut down your levels as a high nic salt vaper, Riot Squad is the perfect brand to do it.
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Dinner Lady Salts
What started with Dinner Lady in 2016 as a dream to manufacture inspirational e-liquid flavours like Dinner Lady Lemon Tart to help smokers quit has blossomed into one of the leading UK manufacturers. The original concept took shape with their development of shortfills but quickly moved on to all types of vape juice, kits and prefilled pods.
With IVG nic salts, you have premium quality 10mg and 20mg in their iconic 10ml bottles and packaging. Offering a satisfying smooth vape, they provide a mixture of classic desserts, sweet fruits and menthol or mint, in addition to tobacco flavours for those who seek familiarity after smoking.
Best Flavour: Mango Vanilla Ice Cream
How Do Dinner Lady Stand Out
The unique proposition of Dinner Lady is to redefine the creative aspect of vaping vs smoking. Creating shortfills and nic salts with nearly a decade of experience, making flavours that taste just like iconic desserts you used to have growing up.
Options like Key Lime Tart and beverage flavours such as Blueberry Lemonade and Red Thunder (an energy drink variant) are clever twists on flavours traditionally made by every vape brand to stand out as one of the most recognised vape brands worldwide.
Rest assured, they do not just focus on this original dessert and sweet flavours.
They also have rich creamy tobacco and subtle mint and menthol flavours too, like Spearmint Menthol above or Vanilla Tobacco. Each provides a gentle smooth throat hit for ultimate satisfaction.
Please note: Vaping is an intriguing smoking cessation tool and subjective topic that creates debate and discussion. These flavours are our personal favourites and bestsellers, but what one vaper make like for throat hit or taste, another may prefer something different.
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Nic Salts FAQs
What are nic salts?
Nicotine salts mirror tobacco leaf’s natural chemistry, delivering nicotine faster and more smoothly than freebase nicotine e-liquids, with PH added to nic salts to create a smoother sensation on the throat.
How to use nic salts – tips and guidance
- Remember there is a UK limit of a maximum 20 mg/ml nicotine salt per 10ml bottle. Anything stated over that is not TPD compliant and therefore illegal and not trustworthy as a brand.
- Best paired with low-wattage pod kits (MTL style) alongside higher resistance coils, with any resistance 1.0 Ohms or above suitable.
- Use 50/50 VG/PG e-liquids for the best-balanced experience and adjust accordingly if you want slightly more clouds (VG) or a stronger throat hit (PG).
- Always prime your vape coils for 5-10 minutes before filling to avoid dry hits and ensure maximum vape juice saturation and satisfaction.
Nic salts vs freebase nicotine?
The differences are very subtle but clear between nic salts and freebase vape juice. Typically freebase nicotine is in its purest form, which can feel slightly harsher on the throat (which is what some former smokers like as the sensation is similar). In comparison, nic salts added benzoic acid to reduce the PH level and this creates a smoother sensation in the throat. This means higher strengths can be tolerated and less frequency for vaping is required.
Key Features
- Nic Salt: faster absorption, smoother, higher nicotine concentrations possible.
- Freebase: harsher throat hit, slower absorption, fewer high-strength options above 18mg but also more strengths available than nic salts which are always 10mg and 20mg only.
Are nic salts better?
This depends on what you want from the all-round vape experience. If you need a smoother vape, go for nic salts. However, you can only vape these at 20mg strength (which is designed as the highest strength for former heavy smokers) or 10mg.
With Freebase, you can find 3mg, 6mg, 12mg and 18mg with various brands such as Vsavi, Pukka Juice and Edge, so it is good to have the option. However, whether nic salts are better than freebase is answered differently by each vaper based on their preferences and previous habits.
Which vape kits pair well with nic salts?
As we mentioned previously, there are a range of devices that with a low wattage can work excellently with nic salts. Here are our top recommendations below:
- Vaporesso Xros 4: adjustable airflow, mesh coils ideal for all the above salts.
- Uwell Caliburn series: reliable performance with ElfLiq and many of the brands listed.
- Xeo Void: Can be vaped with the mouth to lung mouthpiece and paired with many nic salts. Another great feature with this versatile vape device is the filling port, which is uniquely placed at the top of the device once you take off the mouthpiece (also a direct lung mouthpiece in the kit).
- OXVA Xlim Pro 2: This Oxva vape kit provides great compatibility with a range of e-liquids, such as their brand Oxva Ox Passion, Vsavi nic salts and many more.
Other Considerations for Nic Salts
- Shifting from disposables: If you do not want to stray too far from disposables but have been forced to – fear not as many brands now have refillable options of their most popular disposable kit, such as Crystal and Elf Bar. You may need to fork out more initially but in the long run, you will say money, with multi-buy 4 for £10 and 5 for £10 often available with nic salts.
- Frosty profiles carry throat weight: Surprisingly, the strongest throat hits come from icy flavours like Elux’s fizzy cherry rather than strength alone, so the combination of ice-cooling properties and nic salts creates a smooth and powerful vape.
Verdict on Nic Salts
Where will you turn to after the disposable vape ban? For UK vapers, many who used this device previously will want similar flavours and simplified vaping. The best bet if you want nic salts is ElfLiq with a balanced, high-quality smooth draw or Maryliq for sweet fruit flavours. However, the other brands above are contenders or favourites as millions decide which is the right flavour profile for their chosen vape kit.
We have highlighted some of the best options around to try a refillable e-liquid that will taste just as great and offer the same type of delivery as cigarettes and disposables. If you need any further assistance about the best flavours based on your kit, free to reach out to our customer service team and we can help to guide you choosing the right setup.
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