Security Plus Heatwave Pepper Spray

Security Plus is the ONLY company that fully guarantees its Pepper Spray (OC) heat rating.  The folks at Security Plus realize that the safety of their friends and family are at stake, and so decided to develop a new formulation of OC Pepper Spray that you, your friends and your family can depend on at any time. Security Plus is so confident of the effectiveness of its Pepper Spray formulas, that it actually guarantees them, 100%.

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Why Security Plus Heatwave?

There are many self-defense products on the market today, such as Mace or Streetwise.  Pick up a few packages, and you will see that their effectiveness is advertised and presented in different ways.  Of course, common sense tells us that what really matters most is "how hot is the spray that hits the attacker?"

In marketing the effectiveness of their pepper-spray products, some manufacturers stress the amount of OC (Oleoresin Capsicum--shown as a percentage) in their spray.  Others stress the SHU (Scoville Heat Unit) value of the OC contained within the spray, or they use a combination of the two.

Security Plus believes that neither method is a true and accurate measurement of effectiveness.

This is why:

The OC percentage is, simply put, the percentage of Oleoresin Capsicum contained within the defense spray's formulation.  A spray that advertises a "10% OC" content simply contains 10% OC (active ingredient), and 90% inactive ingredients.  What this percentage does not tell you, however, is the potency, or "hotness" of the Oleoresin Capsicum AFTER it is blended with its inactive ingredients.

Stressing the SHU value, or "potency" of the OC is another measure used by manufacturers.  This value is simply the strength of the OC before it is diluted in the remainder of the solution.  Sure, the OC in a spray may come from peppers with a 2,000,000 SHU value, but what percentage of the final formula actually contains Oleoresin Capsicum?

Bottom line?  Neither the OC percentage nor the SHU rating are accurate measurements of the strength of the formula inside a can of Pepper Spray!  Simple math would tell you that a 10% Oleoresin Capsicum formula manufactured from 2,000,000 SHU strength Oleoresin Capsicum should yield a spray with a 200,000 SHU, right?  Unfortunately, chemistry is not that simple of a science!  Advertising the simple math can be misleading.

The people at Security Plus believe the only true and accurate way to measure a spray's potency is to measure it AFTER it leaves the nozzle.  This is why Security Plus had other Pepper Sprays independently tested and rated on how they perform when they leave the can, not on what the base formulation was before it was blended with other ingredients.  That is why Security Plus advertises the actual "Nozzle SHU" of its self-defense products:  the strength of the Pepper Spray--Oleoresin Capsicum--after it leaves the nozzle. The company also had an independent lab test the formulas of the competing sprays.  Compared with what these other brands advertise, the results are surprising!

Only Security Plus guarantees the strength of the spray when it leaves the can.