It is a well known fact that caffeine and maltodextrin mouth rinses improve exercise performance, according to the authors:

Kevin De Pauw, Bart Roelands, Kristel Knaepen, Mathias Polfliet, Johan Stiens , Romain Meeusen

of the study, published in the Journal of Applied Physiology, January 22, 2015, Vol. no. , DOI: 10.1152/japplphysiol.01050.2014

Experiments, carried out as part of this study, were designed to find out whether there are additional benefits. See abstract below for the objective and results:   

“Objectives: Caffeine (CAF) and maltodextrin (MALT) mouth rinses (MR) improve exercise performance. The current experiment aims at determining the effect of CAF and MALT MR on cognitive performance and brain activity. Methods: Ten healthy male subjects (age: 27±3yrs) completed 3 experimental trials. Each trial included 4 Stroop tasks: 2 familiarization tasks, 1 task before and 1 after MR. The reaction time (ms) and accuracy (%) of simple, congruent and incongruent stimuli were assessed. Electroencephalography was applied throughout the experiment to record brain activity. Amplitudes and latencies of P300 were determined during the Stroop tasks before and after MR. Subjects received MR with CAF (0.3gram/25mL), MALT (1.6gram/25mL) or placebo (PLAC) in a randomized, double-blind cross-over design. During MR, the brain imaging technique standardized low resolution brain electromagnetic tomography was applied. Results and discussion: Magnitude based inferences showed that CAF MR is likely trivial (63.5%) and likely beneficial (36.4%) compared to PLAC MR, and compared to MALT MR likely beneficial to reaction time on incongruent stimuli (61.6%). Additionally, both the orbitofrontal and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex were activated only during CAF MR, potentially explaining the likely beneficial effect on reaction times. MALT MR increased brain activity only within the orbitofrontal cortex. However, this brain activation did not alter the reaction time. Furthermore, no significant differences of the accuracy of the stimuli responses were observed between conditions. In conclusion, only CAF MR exerted a likely beneficial effect on reaction time due to the subsequent activation of both the orbitofrontal and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.

What does this mean to you?

In simple terms, a dose of rinse  - a little less than 1oz (25 ml) water containing 300mg caffeine - exerts a likely beneficial effect on reaction time, by activating the prefrontal cortex of our brains. 

What does this mean to CaffeinAll™?
 
This is very good news to us, as our CaffeinAll™ is a blend of these two ingredients. So it’s incumbent upon us to evaluate it as a potentially useful component of mouth rinses, be they be self-prepared or pre-packaged - and that’s what we’ll do in the coming months. 

We are thinking about putting together a home use test study. Let us know if you are interested. We’ll send you details, as well as a free CaffeinAll™ shaker, if you are chosen to be a participant!

Yup - our energy boosting ingredient is well on its way to becoming THE beauty product for 2015. It has already been incorporated into a good number of hair and skin products.

Now, natural beauty gurus know this is old news — they’ve been making coffee face masks for years - but it’s finally hitting the masses.

It’s true that in the beauty sector every promising ingredient will get its 15 minutes as a passing fad until the next ingredient, like pink pepper or beer finds another purpose and has celebs and gurus singing its praises.

While caffeine certainly lifts moods, it apparently lifts hair and helps skin issues, too. 
According to a Byrdie report, a 2007 study saw decent follicle growth on men who underwent caffeine-infused hair treatments. Then, a German study treated weak hair follicles of both men and women and the caffeine lead to 25 percent growth. 

Here is how:  caffeine stimulates growth and prevents the follicle cells from dying or being inactive. Female follicles are also shown to be more receptive. So there’s all that to chew, er, drink on.

Clinical tests will be needed to further understand, appreciate, and learn the full effects of caffeine on hair or on skin. That said, there is caffeine in a great variety of products, like:

Plantur 39 Caffeine Treatment for women helps bulk up your thinning hair by promoting hair growth.

Kave Body Scrub, which is made of organic coffee grounds and oils. Caffeine is also said to decrease the appearance of veins and help eczema, among other things, so they say.  

Thicker Fuller Hair Cell-U-Plex Root Booster, which relies on caffeine to lift limpness. Thin hair be gone. 

Origins’ GinZing Refreshing Eye Cream works to reduce under-eye puffiness, brighten appearance, and to wake up eyes with its caffeine x coffee complex. 

There are hundreds more beauty products like these - the point is that all sorts of things, from under eye cream to root lifter, can have a caffeine fix. And They are most likely better and healthier for you than that sixth - actually even second - latte, if you don’t want to put on more weight… and who wants that?