SKE Crystal CL6000 Pod Kit

Legal, and that is the whole point of it. When the UK banned single-use disposable vapes in June 2025, the original Crystal Bar disposables went with them. The CL6000 is the rechargeable, refillable answer: the battery tops up over USB-C and the pod clicks out and swaps, so it ticks every box the law now asks for. Same Crystal flavours, same easy MTL draw, none of the throwaway waste.

In plain terms, a disposable is illegal to sell if you cannot recharge it and refill or replace the pod. The CL6000 does both, which is why it sits in our big-puff vapes range as a proper post-ban device rather than a loophole. If you liked grabbing a Crystal Bar by the till, this is the version that is here to stay.

Out of the box it takes under a minute, and there is no priming or filling to bother with.

There are 25 flavours, the Crystal Bar line people already know: cold fruits, sodas, sharp berries and a few menthols. The ice-fruit blends do the heavy lifting, as ever. A few worth a punt:

The SKE Crystal CL6000 runs at 20mg (2%) nic salt across every flavour, the UK legal maximum and the strength most people use coming off cigarettes. Salt nicotine is smooth in the throat, so 20mg satisfies without the harsh catch of old freebase liquid.

There is no lower-strength CL6000 pod, so if you want to step the nicotine down over time, a refillable pod kit you fill yourself is the better route than these sealed pods.

The kit is the one-off, the pods are the cheap part, and that gap is the whole pitch. Five kits land at £30.99, about £6.20 each, and each kit comes with a full 12ml pod ready to go. After that you are only buying refills: a five-pack of CL6000 pods is £23.99, about £4.80 a pod for another 6000 puffs.

Run the per-puff sum and it is easy money. Roughly £4.80 across 6000 puffs is near 0.08p a puff once you own the device, which trounces the old throwaway bars on cost while doing far less harm to the bin. A moderate vaper gets a week and a half to two weeks out of a pod, so the running cost over a month is small. Want it cheaper still per puff, the longer-lasting SKE Bar 15K stretches further between buys.

Three big-puff pod kits, three different scales. The CL6000 is the middle option, sat between a basic bar and a 15,000-puff monster. Quick version:

A few things cover most CL6000 hiccups. Run through these before assuming it is faulty.

Yes, especially as a middle ground. It is more than a basic bar (rechargeable, 6000 puffs, dual mesh, a display) without the size or price of a 15,000-puff kit, and the modular pod is genuinely tidy to use. If you liked the Crystal Bar flavours and want them to last a good while, it is an easy pick.

The honest catches are the usual ones. It is chunkier than a slim bar, you are tied to SKE Crystal pods, and it is 20mg only. Want it to last even longer? The SKE Bar 15K does 15,000 puffs. Prefer a rival flavour range? The Lost Mary BM6000 is the obvious 6000-puff alternative. And to mix your own juice, a refillable from Vaporesso or OXVA is the smarter buy. But for a no-faff 6000-puff Crystal, the CL6000 delivers.