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This came from TIPWORLD:

HOT PEPPER LORE
If you're a hot pepper lover, you may have discovered how easy it is to grow
your own crops of highly incendiary peppers. However, growing those little
sticks of dynamite means handling them, and handling them (particularly
preparing them for eating) often means you get the oil on your hands--even
under your fingernails. Sure, you're supposed to wear dishwashing gloves
when you prepare hot peppers; but sometimes that's not practical. And if
you're particularly unlucky when you bare-hand a few peppers, the oil may
persist on your hands and burn like the dickens despite the most arduous
scrubbing--like, for DAYS.

Here's one suggested remedy: Rub peanut oil on your hands. According to at
least one pepper aficionado, the peanut oil breaks down the pepper oil so
that it stops burning. Peanut oil is also reputed to be more soothing to
your hands than some of the harsher recommendations (degreasing cleansers,
for example). As a side note, eating peanut butter is supposed to offer the
same benefits if your mouth is on fire after eating a superheated pepper.

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