Parts Per Million Calculator
To use, enter the amount of essential oil & alcohol to make a flavour essence, then the amount of essence to syrup to make a cordials and then cordial to water in the relevant boxes to see how strong your drink is likely to be.
- 0–50 weak to decent
- 50–150 decent to strong
- 150–200 strong to too strong
- 200+ much too strong
As a rough guide, 0-50 is weak to decent. 50-150 is decent to strong. 150-200 is strong to too strong. 200+ is much too strong. Aim to keep your PPM total to below 180 as a general rule.
This calculator is intended as a very rough guide to how strong your drink is likely to be when using essential oils.
It is not 100% accurate for all oils and should not be used as a foolproof guide to usage levels, but as a guide only - it has a ~10-15% error margin as not all essential oils have the same mass to volume ratio.
This assumes you are adding essential oils to alcohol to make a flavour essence, then adding some of that essence to a simple syrup to make a cordial, then adding some of the cordial to water to make a drink.
It has been pre-filled with values that should give you a great flavoured drink, but you can edit any of them (aside from the PPM value at the bottom) to recalculate the totals.
Essential Oil (ml): how much essential oil in total will be in your essence (alcohol + oil).
Essence total volume (ml): the total volume of oil + alcohol in your essence.
Essence for syrup (ml): how much essence you add to your simple syrup.
Syrup volume (ml): how much simple syrup you have.
Syrup in drink (ml): how much cordial you are adding to a drink.
Drink volume (ml): the final amount of drink (cordial + water).