Because capsaicin is caused by a chemical reaction, you can wash your hands with a small amount of vinegar or white vinegar, and vinegar can neutralize capsaicin in capsaicin, so there will be no chemical reaction, which will alleviate the burning of your hands.

2. Wash your hands with medical alcohol

Capsaicin is soluble in ethanol and alkaline aqueous solution, but insoluble in cold water. In industry, the extraction of capsaicin from pepper is using edible alcohol as leaching agent. Therefore, according to this principle, in life, you can take the method of smearing alcohol to dissolve capsaicin on your hands.

3. Wash your hands with hot water

If there is no medical alcohol or vinegar, hot water can be used to relieve it, because capsaicin will produce irritating evaporation at high temperature. Although the effect is not as good as the above two methods, it is better than washing hands with cold water.

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Be careful not to wash your hands with cold water after cutting peppers, because cold water can't change the situation of hot hands, so you can wash your hands with hot water, which can relieve the situation of hot hands. Of course, you can also take relevant protective measures before cutting peppers, such as using disposable gloves to cut peppers. Although the action of cutting peppers is somewhat unskilled after doing so, it can effectively prevent hot hands.

Many people think that soaking their hands in cold water for a period of time will stop their pain, so that the spicy taste can be removed. Actually, it's not. Soaking in cold water can only relieve temporary pain. Once the hand is detached from cold water, the spicy taste will recover, even more obvious than soaking in cold water. Because capsaicin is insoluble in cold water, soaking in cold water has no effect.