Cutting chili peppers was spicy, can be rubbed with alcohol. Capsaicin can be dissolved in alcohol, but it is difficult to dissolve in water. So if you get hot on your hands while cutting chili peppers, you can take your home wine or white vinegar and apply it to the affected area repeatedly, and then rinse it off with cold water afterward.

You can also apply cool oil. Cooling oil has the effect of cooling and dissipating heat, relieving itching and pain. In case the affected area is red and swollen, but the skin is not broken, you can try to apply cooling oil to relieve the feeling of burning hot hands. After applying, the burning hot and spicy hand feeling will disappear immediately, the effect is more obvious. You can also use toothpaste containing icy factor smeared on the affected area, after being spicy hands, the skin will have a burning sensation, toothpaste contains silica, the temperature is relatively low, can inhibit the burning sensation, to assist in the elimination of redness and swelling.

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Cutting chili peppers can be placed in the wash to soak fully, which can reduce the impact of capsaicin on the fingers. You can also wear disposable gloves on your hands when cutting chili peppers, which can avoid the contact between your fingers and the chili peppers, and thus avoid the chili peppers from spicing up your fingers. When cutting chili peppers, press the skin of the chili pepper, try not to touch the juice of the chili pepper, you can avoid capsaicin attached to the fingers.

The chili pepper contains a kind of capsaicin biological alkaline substances, in cutting chili pepper, if capsaicin attached to the surface of the finger skin, will prompt the finger blood vessel dilation, skin redness, swelling and will be accompanied by hot pain, also has a relatively irritating effect on the skin.

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