'Chocolatherapie' doesn't melt in your mouth

There is this delicious thing happening in the cosmetic world – the advent of 'tasty' treatments. Only this is not about to be in anyway primed for gobbling. It melts not in your mouth, but “Chocolatherapie” treatments are made for daubing on the skin, on the face.

"Chocolate in skin treatments follows on from a phenomenon that we called tasty treatments," says the company Zelda Gavizon, which has registered several cocoa-based biochemical patents for its "Chocolatherapie" treatments.

After a heady mix of fresh fruity treatments made juicy, sensational entries into the cosmetic counters, cocoa is following suit – which is not utterly new. Lest we don’t know, the Maya people have discovered the cosmetic virtues of cocoa more than 3,000 years.

According to laboratory findings:

"Cocoa has much more to give." For one, cocoa pod contained “800 complex molecules,” including 30 which are good for the skin. In addition, cocoa shell contains fat-burning cocoa tannin and polyphenols, or antioxidants which help delay the effects of ageing on skin. The surface of the bean, used for exfoliating, has a stimulating effect.

And so this time anew, western manufacturers are grinning their ‘sweet tooth’ by tapping into the trend for “tasty” beauty treatments. Manufacturers tend to use cocoa butter -- also sometimes extracts of cocoa beans, which has moisturizing and nourishing properties.

The smell of chocolate is sure irresistible that patients may be tempted to lick a little. Curb, because edible chocolate in beauty products is not advisable. 'No bar,' because real chocolates contain "industrial sugars which are notorious anti-healers and soya lecithin which is harmful to the skin.

So if your beautician grinds some M&M's and smudge the same in your face, open your mouth instead. Grin, it's a delicious treat.