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You might try milk. It stops the burning in your mouth when you eat hot things. Maybe it will help your hands. Good Luck!
Lemon juice, to neutralize it, then Dove soap and lotion.
You need binding molecules. Capsicum/capsation (the component that makes peppers and chiles hot) bonds with fat. Rub lotion, yogurt, cream, or butter on your hands to bind the capsicum/capsation and then use soap to wash it all away.
This works for the same reason drinking water or beer after hot food does not relieve the hotness while a few sips of milk or a spoonful of ice cream would.
To prevent irritation in the first place: coat your skin with oil before you start working with the chilies and wash thoroughly afterward. Also, NEVER, NEVER touch you eyes while working with "hot" food.
I have found that the best way is to prevent the peppers from coming in contact with your skin. I always use rubber gloves when working with hot peppers. No burning hands and no blisters, either. I use the gloves that you would wash dishes with. They are a tight fit. I have a pair especially for peppers and onions.
I've had good luck with plain vinegar, but prevention is the best! If you don't have gloves just use plastic bags over your hands while handling the peppers.
Wear gloves when handling hot peppers! Save yourself the pain!
I tried everything then went to Walgreens and got some Walgreen brand aloe vera Burn Relief continuous spray with lidocaine. It helped with the burning for another thirty minutes then the Pain was gone! My hands didn't even respond to hot water anymore It was the best thing I ever stumbled across!
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I like spicy food, so I never give a second thought to cutting up hot peppers in my kitchen. I've not invested in keeping surgical gloves in my kitchen for the odd times that I want to cut up a jalapeno.
I just cut hot peppers with green peppers and forgot to put on my gloves. What is the best thing to use to relieve the burn on my hands?
By Margie
They always say that drinking milk will help with the burning of the mouth, so maybe soaking hands in a bowl of milk may help. Make sure to wash your hands well, you don't want to touch your eye and get that in it.
Milk is suppose to help relieve the burning on the hands from cutting peppers but I have never tried it. What I always have in my pantry is Emergency Burn Care called Burn Jel Plus. This is an excellent product and I have use it several times when I accidentally touched the corner of a hot oven or hot pan. Ouch!
I put a good amount of the gel on the burn area and by the time I am putting the cap back on the bottle the burning sensation is actually gone. It works fast just like the box says. I buy it at Wal-mart and it is not expensive. Everyone should have this in their home to treat minor burns, scalds (hot water burns) and sunburns.
Their web site is www.waterjel.com.
Thirty years ago we lived in New Mexico and every year we would buy a 100 pound sack of chiles. Hubby would roast them and I would peel them and put in the freezer for all year long use. One year we got the extra hot instead of the hot. My hands were shaking they were burning so. I called my doctor and he told me to use Comet or Ajax or any abrasive cleaner.
I got some hot pepper juice on my hands and it is burning. Does anyone know how to sooth it?