IT workers and caffeine: A high-octane affair

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Sometimes coffee, soda and ginseng candy just don't give Ben Robinson the boost he needs. That's when he turns to the heavy stuff: caffeinated soap. "It wakes you up right away, before coffee could be kicking in," says Robinson, a business and technology student at the University of Guelph in Ontario. "I already knew that a lot of chlorine gets absorbed into your skin when you take a shower, so it seemed reasonable to me that you'd absorb a significant amount of caffeine if you took a long shower and lathered up well," he says.