Caffeine now in soap and potato chips
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Caffeine plays funny tricks on me. My usual routine involves a cup of tea in the morning, and one or two more throughout the day. Sometimes I have coffee. Other times (like if I drink three cups of coffee instead of tea) I get that strange sick feeling that I should probably cut back. This morning, for example, I’m having a lemon and honey tea instead of my usual Hot Black Tea With Milk. I thought I’d try not having caffeine before my morning swim and see how that goes. Life’s an experiment, eh?
Like so many things we eat, caffeine is best in moderation. Unfortunately, many people struggle with moderation, and feel it’d be better to quit caffeine altogether than control their intake. From this comes loads of advice on how to quit, from weaning yourself slowly, to waiting till you have a cold and sleeping the caffeine out of your system.
For folks cutting back on caffeine, the task just got harder as more and more consumables come loaded with caffeine. We already know it creeps into stuff like chocolate and soda. But now you can find caffeine in sunflower seeds, potato chips, breath mints, and even soap.
You heard me: soap.
Scented with peppermint oil and infused with caffeine anhydrous, each bar of Shower Shock Travel Edition contains approximately 4.5 servings/showers per 1.5 ounce bar with 200 milligrams of caffeine per serving. No, we’re not kidding and no you don’t eat it. The caffeine is absorbed through the skin…
I’m not sure if this is scary or cool. It makes me think of all the scary things the government could sneak into our soap. Nicotine. Prozac. Alien spores.
Speaking of soap (and this is completely unrelated), we we recent went grocery shopping (all online, home delivery, it was brilliant) and were baffled by their selection of body wash. Why so many options with so many prices? Are any of them really different? It made me think “no”, so we bought the cheapest stuff we could get. But it also makes me think I should be washing my body with beeswax and my hair with baking soda. Might be better, and cheaper, than wasting all that plastic…
Link to Shower Shock Soap (via Healthbolt)
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