Eli5: Why do companies put caffeine in soaps?

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Does your body absorb it somehow? Does it help as a moisturizer?

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Caffeine is a natural insecticide. Plants produce it to kill insects that eat the bit of the plant that produces the caffeine. It basically kills the bug with a caffeine overdose.

Scented soaps can attract insects, because they smell like food. This is a bigger problem with animal based soaps, since animal fats *are* food.

The caffeine in the soap kills bugs that try to eat it.

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