I won't be handling kits for a while...

[Zinnia]

As usual I decided not to wear gloves when cutting up hot peppers. :t_oops: It'll be a while before I can handle a kit.

I've been cutting open the heirloom peppers to save seed. I've been saving seeds for 20 years and I've gotten it down to some very nice specimens for our valley.

I made 20 gallons of kimchi between yesterday and today from the garden and there are still more carrots and cabbage to deal with. Kraut is next. My hands are blistered from cutting the vegetables, cut from the big knife (on the 98th of 100 cabbages... it's always in the home stretch that I cut myself). And, now my hands are on fire from the peppers (I mixed those in, too).
:explode:

Oh well... kind of like a nettle sting... getting used to it.

So much more cabbage in the garden. How much can I feed my bunnies? I usually don't feed broccoli and cabbage, but I can, right? Should I limit it?

 

[MaggieJ]

Rabbits can certainly eat cabbage, but I've always viewed it as a winter green and phased it in very slowly while there are still weeds and tree forage to feed with it. So go easy.

Your poor hands! I once made horseradish sauce and my hands burned very badly. I've had contact dermatitis so bad from vegetables that my fingers cracked and blistered and eventually even my nails were affected - they grew in bumpy and horrible. Nothng the doctor prescribed worked as well as the juice from the leaves of hens and chickens (common houseleek) Sempervivum tectorum. It was wonderful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hen_and_chicks

Plantain may also help. I had just a touch of blistering the other day and two applications of my plantain, sage and peppermint salve cured it. But it was not a severe case.

 

[Zinnia]

Thanks for those tips! The day before, I prepared all the garlic for the kimchi. I peeled about a gallon. I often forget how deeply garlic oil burns into my fingers. I think that hurts more than the peppers. One year it flooded and we had to peel and process most of the garlic in order to save it. It wouldn't keep being soaked like that. We peeled nearly two thousand and had blisters and burns that lasted weeks. Parsley will burn, too. You discover these things when you have to touch a lot of it all at once. But, the vegetables are so worth it. I just need to remember to work smarter, not harder. And, I really need to remember not to touch my eyes, nose, etc... I brushed a fly away from my face about an hour ago. I am still feeling it. :x Must. Not. Touch. Anything!

 

[Miss M]

I got chemical burns from mincing a bunch of garlic once. I don't mince it anymore. :x I never knew it could burn you, but I had never minced that much before.

Parsley? :shock:

I'm sorry your hands are on fire! I know you'll be glad you've got it all when you're finished and your hands are healed, but it sure isn't pleasant for now.

 

[Zinnia]

Yes, the garlic burns are deep. It feels bruised. By next week the layers will be peeling off. Parsley burns http://perrysperennials.info/articles/phytopoison.html It's easier to post this link than explain it. We also have a lot of wild parsnip on our land. First year we were here, we all looked like serious burn victims. SERIOUS burns. Now we have come to some peace with the plant. We eat the roots and keep most of it under control.

 

[katiebear]

I'm not sure if it will work but chemical burns respond well to milk. Soak for about 15 min to a half hour..when I was hairdresser I used it for perm and straightener burns...if you have it alo Vera helps healing..

 

[Zinnia]

Yes, milk does work. I did that. Might be the only reason I can still type.

 

[TF3]

That sounds horrible! I'm so sorry.
I'd ask about gloves, but I am a walking eczema victim from dyeing without gloves... so I am no help.

 

[skysthelimit]

And see, this is why i don't cook.

I have a friend who developed a severe reaction after peeling a lot of shrimp for a party <br /><br /> __________ Fri Aug 07, 2015 9:22 am __________ <br /><br />

I'd ask about gloves, but I am a walking eczema victim from dyeing without gloves... so I am no help.

A bad habit I have and a fate I am trying to avoid.

 

[MaggieJ]

I had no idea so many of us suffered from acute dermatitis/eczema on our hands.

Please consider growing a few plants of hen and chickens in your flower garden or in a flower pot on a windowsill. It saved my skin--literally!

http://www.cloverleaffarmherbs.com/hen-and-chicks/

 

[Stephanie]

Many years ago, as a youth, I made the mistake of going to pee while in the middle of cutting peppers to get seed barehanded. I only needed to do it once. I learned my lesson. I was in pain for several days.

 

[Zinnia]

Ummm. Been there.

 

[Zass]

My friend makes a goats milk soap with coffee grounds in it. I'm not sure if it's the milk or the coffee or both that help, but it's the only thing I reach for anymore after I work with peppers. It was kind of magical for the death-peppers I chopped up pounds of last year.

My cynical nature gets the better of me still, so I'd like to do some more trials with it before promoting it as magical-pepper-oil-be-gone-soap. :lol:


If it works for me as well this year as last year, I'll make sure to post a link to her etsy..

 

[LPH_NY]

My friend makes a goats milk soap with coffee grounds in it. I'm not sure if it's the milk or the coffee or both that help, but it's the only thing I reach for anymore after I work with peppers. It was kind of magical for the death-peppers I chopped up pounds of last year.

My cynical nature gets the better of me still, so I'd like to do some more trials with it before promoting it as magical-pepper-oil-be-gone-soap. :lol:


If it works for me as well this year as last year, I'll make sure to post a link to her etsy..

I have been looking for goats milk and coffee soap! I have horrible eczema on my hands.

I used to have iron skin, nothing bothered me. Then I deployed overseas. The exact moment my good skin said goodbye to me was when I shaved my legs with water from the *tap* in Iraq. It's not like I could go without shaving, as we had to wear PT shorts a lot. I itched so bad that I was scratching myself bloody within hours. None of the other women had this problem. But ever since that moment, I've had all sorts of reactive skin problems. I have what I am pretty sure is dyshidrotic eczema/Dyshidrosis on my hands, that started after I had my first baby back in 2011. It started as a dime sized patch on one finger, then spread to the other fingers on the same hand within the first year. Now I have it on both hands. It is psychologically and physically crippling at times. I go through 4-10 pairs of blue nitrile gloves per day, depending on how much food preparation or gardening I am doing that day. If I wash my hands with soap more than 3 times in a day, I get cracks and blisters.

Yesterday I made the mistake of pulling two pickling cukes off the vine without gloves. OMG... the hairs on those cukes were horrible to my hands. I wouldn't dream of chopping peppers or garlic without gloves anymore. I mourn the loss of my strong skin.


And to the OP, I am SUPER DUPER JEALOUS of your cabbage crop! I love sauerkraut. I planted 12 cabbage seeds this year (not much space, small, raised beds) and the worms got all but 3. Sauerkraut is our *medicine.* I can't imagine trying to cut that many heads of cabbage in one day, though... You must be a machine! Sorry about your burnt hands, though.

 

[Zass]

LPH_NY you can look at the ingredients of her products here:
http://www.bumfuzzledbear.com/goats-milk-soap.html
And then her etsy:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheBumfuzzled ... _leftnav_1

I highly recommend her honey oat bar too.

She also makes these cute little cotton bags to keep the soap in, in case things like oats or coffee grounds are too rough for sensitive skin:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/220842190/ ... e_active_6

 

[Preitler]

Whow. Never had a problem with my hands, but when processing chili taking a leak without washing hands previously is not a good idea , and applying milk there would be somewhat awkward :shock: