The hot sauce is not harmless always. Being the concentrates of capsaicin and other hot flavors to add up to the spiciness, it will definitely cause burning if it enters wrong places like your eye. And the feel you have once you have it in your eye will be worth remembering for the entire life. Many complain of burning sensations in the mouth and throat after sessions of meals flavored with hottest hot sauce. The weak mucus membranes find it hard resisting the blaze and tears roll on helplessly. You might also have discovered the uselessness of water even after gulping gallons of it to quench the fire.
This wrong notion of guzzling water comes out of ignorance that capsaicin can be removed by water. Remember, it is insoluble in water and soluble only in fat. So, a pale of milk can work well where a gallon of water fails to. Be cautious enough not to use skimmed milk. It is the fat that does the job here. Many have accounted for the success in quenching the sensation by gargling heavy cream and eating heavily buttered bread or bread dipped in olive oil. A hot sauce in the clothing or skin too can be harmful, lest not cleaned up with oily stuffs followed by soap. "
