How to Make Pepper Spray
Pepper spray is also known as O.C. spray or OC (for oleoresin capsicum (CS), the active ingredient in cayenne pepper). Pepper spray is all natural being made of cayenne pepper extract. Pepper spray is safe enough for you to spice up your chili, and in the face and eyes, is no more harmful (just a lot more painful!)
Pepper spray is now used by nearly every law enforcement agency throughout the country because it is more effective than mace or tear gas and because pepper spray does not directly cause permanent harm. It works on domestic animals as well as humans and its effects fully wear off in about two hours. Pepper spray is the best non-lethal personal protection available and it really works!
Both tear gas and pepper spray are skin irritants, causing burning pain and excess drainage from eyes, nose, mouth and breathing passages. Pepper spray is more popular with authorities as an agent of control because of its immediate pain-causing qualities. It is harder to remove from the skin and has the capacity to cause first degree burns.
A method of providing an essential oil extract of capsicum, and the extract itself, are provided. The extract contains capsaicinoid and terpene.
Capsicum from which seeds and stems have been removed is mixed, in powder form, with a solvent, to dissolve some of the capsicum.
The entire process for making high quality pepper spray identical to the substance sold for self–defense is detailed in this guide.