What to do if your palm is burned by hot peppers

Chili pepper has very high edible value, because chili pepper can be used not only as a side dish, but also as a main dish. However, because chili peppers contain a large amount of capsaicin, capsaicin can easily irritate the human nervous system. Therefore, many people will feel a burning sensation in their hands after cutting peppers. This is the result of capsaicin irritating the nerves in the hands. What are the solutions to the situation where your palms are spicier than peppers?

1. Makeup remover or cooking oil

First of all, the burning sensation on your hands after cutting peppers is because peppers contain a substance called capsaicin. Once this substance comes into contact with the skin, it will cause the skin to become hot and red, and will also stimulate the pain nerves to cause discomfort.

But capsaicin is insoluble in water, so soaking in ice water or salt water will not help. But here's a piece of knowledge: capsaicin is fat-soluble! Fat-soluble!

Therefore, you can use oily substances such as cooking oil, makeup remover, nail polish remover, etc. to dissolve it and relieve the burning sensation on your hands.

2. Vinegar or lemon juice

Capsaicin is actually also called capsaicin. As the name suggests, it is an alkaline substance. You have never heard of "fat soluble" but you have always heard of "acid-base neutralization"~

Therefore, just apply acidic substances on your hands to neutralize capsaicin and relieve pain.

So, what is acidic?

The most common vinegar in our daily life is white vinegar. If you have lemons at home, using lemon juice will be better.

3. Alcohol

If you pay more attention to the news, you may know that capsaicin is extracted in industry by soaking and separating it with edible alcohol.

In other words, the chemical elements in alcohol can take away capsaicin from peppers. Since this can be done in industry, it can naturally be done in life as well.

However, you should pay attention to the method. You should not wash your hands with alcohol or soak your hands in alcohol. Instead, pour alcohol on a cotton ball, then use the cotton ball to repeatedly wipe your palms and fingers, and finally rinse with water.

Be sure to rub in the same direction, as this will help the capsaicin be removed by the alcohol.

4. Safflower oil or essential oil

If you cut a bucket of peppers and your hands are severely spicy, then the above methods will not save you.

At this time, our domestically produced all-purpose safflower oil is still reliable.

Apply safflower oil all over your hands, not just your fingers, make sure to apply it all over your hands.

Then put it in front of the fan

The cool back of the hand can greatly relieve the burning sensation after being bitten by spicy food.