Be a Chocolate Beauty

With Chocolate Week in full force you are probably bombarded with images of luscious desserts and massive chocolate bars in prominent display everywhere. Chocolate indulgence doesn’t necessarily mean eating chocolate – what if you could have all the health and beauty benefits of cocoa but none of the calories? Eleni Sardi writes.

Add chocolate to your daily beauty regimen with these fantastic organic and fairly trade beauty products and stop worrying about the scales!  Warning: Do not eat or drink!

1. Organic Chocolate Shower Gel
Cocoa is famous for containing high percentages of flavoinoids, which have antioxidant properties. These can protect against free radicals that can accelerate the ageing process. These properties are not only inherent in the chocolate that you eat but in products. This Organic Chocolate Shower Gel and Foam Bath, from Faith in Nature for £4.69, can do wonders for your skin while you relax in the shower. TheGreenStoreOnline.co.uk

2. Cocoa Mint Foot Butter
After your relaxing foot spa, pamper your feet with this amazing cocoa mint foot butter from Akamuti. Costing£7.50, it blends rich cocoa butter with mint oils and avocado for a real treat that softens feet, leaving them feeling ever so fresh. Hard and dry skin be gone! Akamuti.co.uk

3. Organic White Chocolate Truffle Face Moisturiser
With the scent of cocoa and bourbon vanilla coming out of this jar you might be seriously tempted to grab a spoon. Do apply it on your face though as this unique and decadent moisturiser, £13.00, is filled with natural ingredients – shea butter, jojoba oil and extracts of cocoa and pure bourbon vanilla – to pamper your skin. MuLondon creams are not diluted with water and they don’t contain mineral oils, parabens, silicones, emulsifiers or other manmade chemicals. We like it.  MuLondon.com

4. Chocolate Sparkle Lip Balm
This sparkly lip balm, £3.95, is decadently created with Green & Black’s organic cocoa (without sugar) and has a base of sweet almond oil, coconut oil and beeswax. It’s rich in shea nut butter and the light sparkle is due to mica, a mineral naturally derived in granite that glimmers. Extra softening and smoothing but only for the chocolate addicts who manage to keep it on their lips and not in their mouths! Greenlife.co.uk