diff --git a/app/templates/settings.hbs b/app/templates/settings.hbs
index 60e25c6d..7581c12e 100644
--- a/app/templates/settings.hbs
+++ b/app/templates/settings.hbs
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@
   <section class="settings-section">
     <h2 class="small-title">Environment Variables</h2>
 
+    <p>Notice that the values are not escaped when your builds are executed. Special characters (for bash) should be escaped accordingly.</p>
+
     <ul class="settings-list--envvars">
       {{#each envVars as |envVar|}}
         <li>{{env-var envVar=envVar}}</li>