FHI Hot Sauce

If you could only see my hair. If you could feel it. If you had seen my hair without Hot Sauce.

Okay, the low-down: I have very curly (think ethnic, curly, dry, coarse hair) long hair (past shoulders, but not uberlong). My thyroid disease makes it like STRAW in places, nasty and frizzy and rough.

I've used some good products to try and give me silky control--Pantene anti-frizz is okay. BioSilk is lovely. And I thought I'd use BioSilk forever--love the scent, love the result.

Then I bought a flat-iron (12/07) from FHI and I bought Hot Sauce to go with it. I used it and though, "Oh, huge waste of money" on the product. It just didn't do what BioSilk did.

Then I decided to do something: Use twice as much as I had used. (The directions say use a small amount, so I used about the size of a nickel in my palm, which is what I'd use of BioSilk.) I used about a quarter's size or so. I was afraid it'd weigh my hair down and make it look oily...Read more

Wow! So I bought this in addition to my FHI flat-iron just to try it out. It is amazing. I am African-American with tightly-curled natural hair that I usually wear straight. I didn't use a small amount for my entire head, rather, I use teeny tiny amounts for each section that I flat ironed. I literally squeeze some Hot Sauce on the edge of my bathroom sink, lightly touch my index finger to it, rub my index and my thumb together and rub it up and down the section that I'm about to flat iron. Then I let it sit for a 60 sections and then flat iron that section.

A lot less time consuming than it sounds and the results last forever, even in the face of humidity.

I bought this with my FHI pro 2000 dryer. At the same time, I bought a 2oz. bottle of CHI silk infusion to comparison test. First of all, I love that FHI's formula is based off of natural ingredients like jojoba, whereas CHI's first ingredient is a silicone. I'm not a die-hard advocate of natural products, but if they perform similarly, I definitely prefer the natural version. So one point for FHI hot sauce.

Next, the consistency of FHI's is like a hand lotion. It's very lightweight, which is good if you're afraid of appearing greasy. It's hard to overuse FHI, whereas with CHI silk infusion you have to be extremely careful the amount you use. But I felt with CHI's oil-like consistency, it was easier to spread all over my hair. So one point for CHI.

Now the most important aspect, the results. Both FHI and CHI made my hair noticeably silkier, protected my hair well from the flat iron, but didn't seem to make my hair much shinier. At least, there was no gloss...Read more