face burning from pepper plant.

[OakLeaf]

Haha, there's something about my terroir that makes peppers grow crazy hot. My jalapeños are hotter than grocery store habañeros. I made the mistake of growing habañeros one year, took a bite out of one and just about melted my head. I'm not even remotely tempted to try growing anything hotter!


Emily, it's not actually a burn, it's just overstimulation of the nerves. That's why people can develop a tolerance. You just need to get it off your skin and the burning will go away. But it's such a light persistent oil, and especially being colorless, it's hard to get it off. I'm conpletely serious that anything you use to take persistent oil off your hands in the garage, will work on pepper oil, but the trouble is most of that stuff you wouldn't use on your face. Gojo, Fast Orange, any of those mechanic's hand cleaners. But it's oil, not water soluble, so plain water won't do a thing, either washing or drinking.


Thinking about it, you might try scrubbing your face with grapeseed oil or some other light vegetable oil, followed by soap and water. Some oil light enough that it would lift the pepper oil without smearing it too much ... Walnut oil maybe ... Possibly safflower ...