Chocolate body cocoon treatment

The chocolate body cocoon or the wrap treatment involves, first, an exfoliation with natural brown sugars to remove surface dead skin, so the delicious nourishment of the chocolate butter, which is to come later, is allowed better penetration. The chocolate body wrap is then applied and left on for anywhere between 15 and 20 minutes, which warms and conditions the skin, leaving it silken smooth. Many spas apply a moisturising chocolate face mask and a chocolate hair mask with this service as well. Signature treatments, at this stage, include a body massage with warm cocoa butter. A hot towel cleanse ends the session. This treatment is guaranteed to leave your spirits soothed and your skin feeling delectable.

Give your hair a luxurious, opulent look by bathing it in chocolate. Image: Thinkstock

Chocolate-inspired in hair colour

The cooler chocolate hair colour shades that are now in trend make it the ideal offset for our warm-toned complexions. The overall luxurious effect it presents visually, coupled with its now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t hues, make this a winning, opulent look. Also, because the shades aren’t too far from our natural colour means you don’t use high-lift oxidants that often leave the hair dry and damaged.

Chocolate Pedi-spa

Imagine your feet being bathed in warm chocolate, then exfoliated with a chocolate scrub, massaged with cocoa butter, and encased in a dark and creamy chocolate mask. If that’s not hedonistic enough, just think of how it would feel to have — after your feet are cleansed thoroughly — a gentle massage with rich chocolate butter cream. For some, nibbling delicately on a chocolate through this procedure may be be a trifle but for chocoholics, this would be quite the icing on a chocolate cake!

Pamper your skin and hair with chocolate. And you don't even have to go to a salon. Image: Thinkstock

DIY CHOCOLATE HAIR MASK

2tbsp cocoa powder

2tbsp yoghurt

1tbsp hair oil of choice

Mix the ingredients well together and apply on damp hair. Leave on for 45 minutes. The hair not only reflects the chocolatey hues of the cocoa, the fragrance lingers for days.

Your feet, too, has chocolate cravings. Image: Thinkstock

Chocolate wax

It’s becoming the more preferred option to regular waxing and here’s why: the heady aroma of chocolate lulls your senses and stirs up relaxed emotions and memories, while regular wax feels like another dreadful extraction procedure. Chocolate wax uses lower temperatures, which means less discomfort from heat and less chance of accidental burning and rashes. Chocolate wax has vitamins, oils and other nourishing ingredients, which leave your skin feeling soft. You can wax your face because of the smoother texture, moisturising ingredients and cooler temperatures. How far the notion that the hair takes longer to grow back with chocolate wax use is true, I wouldn’t know for sure. It is a gentler alternative for sensitive, ageing menopausal skin that’s prone to redness.

For years, chocolates endured a bad reputation, especially among the beauty and weight conscious, purely because it was said to be bad for your skin and for what the weighing scales would look back at you with. Not for the vain was the deliciously dark and creamy trickling dance chocolate did on the tastebuds. The spectre of the aftermath of indulgence — assured weight gain and red acne-like eruptions allegedly brought on by chocolate — loomed large.

Then almost overnight, chocolate asserted its warm, gentle presence on the beauty scene. Chocolate therapies started being churned out just as prodigiously as Willie Wonka made chocolates in his factory. It’s almost as if beauty buffs decided if they can’t eat it as much as they’d like, they would have it on them. They would bathe in it, be waxed by it, be masked by and be wrapped in it.

The chocolate body wrap warms and conditions the skin, leaving it silken smooth. Image: Thinkstock

DIY CHOCOLATE MASK

2tsp cocoa powder

4tsp yoghurt

1 capsule vitamin E

1tbsp ground gram flour

1tsp rose water

Mix the ingredients and apply this paste on your face with a spatula. Leave till it hardens slightly, then remove with rose water.

Chocolate wax has vitamins, oils and other nourishing ingredients, which leave your skin feeling soft. Image: Thinkstock