The Vaporizer works by using heat to bring the temperature of tobacco to the point where it boils the active ingredient out of the tobacco without burning the plant material. The vapors that result are much cleaner and tastier than smoke, and much more potent as well.

Clean the glass tube and bowl periodically with isopropyl alcohol or your favorite glass pipe cleaner. The heat gun does not require any maintenance

Vaporisers have a built-in heating element, which heats the your favourite herbs to a sub-flammable temperature, thus activating and releasing all the all active chemicals in the Herb of your choice. As you don't burn the plants only the active/healing chemicals and the etherical oils vaporise. This way you inhale all the good parts of the herb without the tar and carbon monoxide, which are hazardous for lungs and health. The first vaporiser was made in 1995.

It is also extremely important for most people to use a humidifier, especially in the winter. I prefer a hot mist vaporizer, as long as there isn't any reason not to use one, such as someone around who might get burned. It should preferably be placed at your bedside every night, to thin out the mucus. Short of a vaporizer, breathing in steam on a regular basis by boiling water can be used but is not as satisfactory. We use a special apparatus in the office called a Rhinotherm.

Yes! Vaporbrothers new NATURAL MINERAL HEATER is the first truly safe ceramic heating element approved for use in vaporizers. We use a proprietary ceramic, which gives you the ultimate in clean smooth taste and avoiding exposure to toxins. We spent 2 years working closely with a research institution to make our NATURAL MINERAL HEATER the cleanest possible and most reliable.

Like Volcano, the fan driven vaporizers such as Vaporator or Vapezilla have positive and negative aspects. We find that people prefer the quiet operation and sweeter taste of our vaporizer over the forced air type. Vapezilla has a lot of advantages, very high-end and durable in construction. It gives vapor that is very light and pure, and we think a better taste than Volcano. It is best for someone who has plenty of herbs to vaporize and doesn’t mind to take them all at once.

No. Many people describe the smell of the vapor to be like fresh tobacco - still pungent but it doesn't waft and linger like smoke odor.

Our vaporizer and the Volcano have positive and negative aspects. We find that people prefer VB overall for many reasons, including sweeter taste, quiet operation, and ease of use. This doesn’t mean the Volcano doesn’t work well; in fact it is extremely effective and easy to use, and the company has a high reputation. The Volcano is a top of the line product ($500-$600) which fills a bag with pure vapor.

Zanfel works safely into the dermal layer of your skin, binds to the urushiol oil, and, when rinsed off, takes the oil with it down the drain.