Wash your hands...
...very, very thoroughly, after chopping chillis. Then wash them again, before even thinking of touching anywhere near your eyes.

Oh, and chaps, wash them three or four times before even considering going for a pee.
(lardyboy Next stop, Fissplap Central, Thu 20 May 2010, 13:10, 13 replies)

and
before touching a ladies vagina.
(TexasPete enjoyed being sexually molested by your Father on, Thu 20 May 2010, 13:11, closed)

^ This
Your own or anyone else's.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Thu 20 May 2010, 13:30, closed)

And definitely wash your hands after eating chilli nuts if your girlfriend is allergic. I was itching for about a week after that.
(mmm....beer, Thu 20 May 2010, 17:59, closed)

or, worse
wiping your arse
(MightyX5 living on a small island on, Thu 20 May 2010, 13:41, closed)

or worse still
touching a fanny anyway and then boshing chilli-tainted fanny slime up your poo hole. Don't do it.
(Crayola Oblongata Is it Monday?, Thu 20 May 2010, 14:41, closed)

That's...
very specific.
( Fronds are waving gently on, Thu 20 May 2010, 14:56, closed)

Needless to say
it's worth rinsing them thoroughly a few times before dealing with your contact lenses too...
( sanityclause is waiting until, Thu 20 May 2010, 16:22, closed)

^ This
A thousand times this.
( wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Thu 20 May 2010, 22:41, closed)

^This...
...also applies when doing the washing up, having cooked a meal using chillis.

Especially if you then take out your contacts, wash them using your chilli-infused-washing-up-water-soaked hands, and leave them overnight to soak.

It was like being tear-gassed the following morning.
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Fri 21 May 2010, 12:23, closed)

Use cold water....
It stops the spice being "baked" into the skin.
The same is also true for garlic.
(bof, Thu 20 May 2010, 17:32, closed)

I find
wearing latex (or nitrile) gloves when cutting up chillis (or things that will make your hands smell bad) is a brilliant plan (but then, I work in a lab so I wear them all day and it doesn't seem weird to me). You can get them in the laundry section at the supermarket.
(xanthine, Sat 22 May 2010, 8:54, closed)

My family
laugh at me for doing this... but it does stop the bad moment when you go for a pee...
(gearanach #wankwankwank, Sat 22 May 2010, 10:09, closed)

Or
use a teenager to chop them up for you, it adds humour when they start to *NOT FOLLOW YOUR ADVICE*.
(Slackness, Sun 23 May 2010, 8:43, closed)