Co-Go Coffee | High Quality, High Value, Highly Ethical Coffee

A cup of coffee first thing in the morning is one of the most popular ways of starting the day, and the caffeine in that first cup of coffee can make you feel more alert and ready to face the challenges of the day ahead. We all know what it is like to get back to our desks or other work places after lunch and to suddenly feel lethargic. It’s not just your imagination, you are experiencing what is commonly called ‘the post lunch dip’, which is actually nothing to do with lunch at all. The bodies “circadian rhythm” (often known as our body clock) has high and lows throughout the day and night, and one of the lows is around 2.00pm; hence the ‘post lunch dip’. A cup or two of coffee is not just an excuse to put off the task in hand!
The caffeine in your coffee helps to restore levels of alertness, improving performance and mood, just what we all need to get through the second half of the working day… go on, grab your Co-Go Fix, I’m sure the boss won’t mind!

Ever wondered where the caffeine in a the decaff coffee goes, next time your drinking a can of cola your drinking it!

Decaf coffee is just one of the growing segments in the coffee market. The extraction of coffee is an intricate process where the removed caffeine is converted into items that we enjoy in our everyday lives from sodas, cosmetics and pharmaceutical products.

The aim of decaffeination is to produce a blend, which retains its aroma and taste despite the processes, which are necessary to remove the caffeine. Since most flavor components develop during roasting, coffee is almost always decaffeinated in the green bean form
The decaffeination process involves removing caffeine from coffee beans, mate, cocoa, tea leaves and other materials containing caffeine. (While caffeine-free soft drinks are occasionally referred to as ‘decaffeinated,’ some are actually prepared by simply omitting caffeine from production.) With all the consumption of decaffeinated beverages, it is interesting to wonder where the caffeine goes after extraction.

Once the caffeine is extracted companies sell its properties for various usages. The caffeine is recovered using evaporation and crystallization, there are no waste streams out of the process. Diet pills and cosmetic companies are the largest consumers of caffeine. The recent trend in caffeine-enhanced cosmetics has been getting international recognition, with everyone from morning news shows to large beauty magazines investigating the effects of the additive. Beauty companies use caffeine that has properties believed to do everything from reduce cellulite to enhance lips, but the three main ways caffeine is said to work on the skin is: as a vasoconstrictor, an antioxidant and a diuretic. Because of this, caffeine can be found in body wash, soap, lip balm, facial scrubs and several other products such as caffeine lipstick. Caffeine is also found in sprays and facial toners, de-puffing eye creams and gels and in hundreds of face and body creams, which claim to give bodies a lift, or improve our contours.

Here at Co-Go our decaffeinated coffee is from the Gayo Highlands with a rounded, chocolately flavour and is decaffeinated using The Swiss Water method which is 100% chemical free using pure water. The caffeine in the coffee beans is gently removed until they are 99.9% caffeine free, without compromising the coffee’s unique origin flavor, body and aroma.

Coffee can keep your skin healthy in a lot of different ways. Other than preventing skin cancer and melanoma-related diseases, coffee has anti-oxidant ingredients that can help:

- Your skin be free of different radicals that can cause acne, eczema and other skin diseases

- Improve the flow of micro-cellulars in your skin

- Break up fatty deposits which cause those ugly cellulites

- Clear up your skin of acne and other blemishes

- Act as sunblock and prevent sunburn and wrinkles

- Absorb and neutralize strong odors such as fish and other smells

How can you get all these skin benefits from coffee? There are two ways. One is to go to a spa that offers coffee treatment, and the other option is to make your own homemade coffee skin care treatment. Here are some suggestions taken from the web on how to prepare your own coffee skin care products:

1. Use coffee beans to rub on your damp skin before taking a steam bath or going in a sauna bath. Coffee beans can lightly exfoliate your skin and its rich oils can soften it.
2. After having your fill of your morning coffee, used coffee grounds can be reused into a variety of skin products:

- Coffee grounds mixed with olive oil – Apply this mixture all over your cellulite regions, and wrap these areas using plastic wrap. Leave this on for at least 5 minutes, remove the plastic and shower off. This can help reduce cellulites from your body.

- Coffee grounds mixed with egg white – Apply this on your skin as an exfoliant for softer skin.

- Coffee grounds mixed with your skin cleanser - This mixture can be your very own coffee exfoliating scrub.

- Coffee grounds mixed with cocoa powder and whole milk or cream – This mixture is a great smelling facial mask.

Just another reason we love coffee…