Innovative Skincare Products Using Chocolate
Aug 28th, 2008 | By Don Myatt | Category: WellnessWhy waste all that money on expensive skin care products when you can knock up some great inexpensive innovative skincare products from stocks in your kitchen cupboard, like chocolate, honey, thick cream, and oatmeal! Just make sure your kids don’t eat the mixture before you have a chance to apply it!
It is true you can use chocolate! It is becoming one of the most popular beauty regimes available today. As natural remedies for skin care go, it is one of the better ones, as it is good for softening the skin and like when you eat it releases serotonin, which makes you happy! Just like in the beauty salons, you too can massage chocolate into the skin, making you feel rejuvenated and relaxed, but be careful with the amount of chocolate you buy.
Most people will tell you that chocolate is bad for you; well they don’t know what they are talking about. Okay if you eat to much of it you will get fat, but it has a more beneficial use for your skin. Now you can buy chocolate without the guilt. Cocoa is the ingredient you really want and the stronger the better, as cocoa contains a lot of antioxidants.
Now let’s take a look at how you use the chocolate in recipes, to create natural remedies for skin care. What you need to do is mix 4 tablespoons of cocoa (not strictly chocolate I know, but when mixed with the other bits, it is good enough to eat), 3 tablespoons of honey (the runny variety), 2 tablespoons of thick cream (which can be sour cream) and a level tablespoon of oatmeal, now you are ready.
I think you will agree that the smell is almost as good as the taste when you mix these innovative skincare ingredients together. Once you have mixed all these ingredients into smooth consistency, start apply the mixture to your face and massage it in- this will exfoliate your skin and get rid of any dead skins layers. You have just created one of the best natural remedies for skin care.
Now go and lie down and relax for twenty minutes, after applying the mixture of course. The smell of cocoa will actually help you relax and every mom needs twenty minutes time to herself, every now and again! So as the cocoa helps soothe your face, moisturize it and make you happy, the honey will open up clogged pores and deeply cleanse your face, and the oatmeal has already done its job in helping the exfoliation part earlier.
After the twenty minutes of relaxation time, with lukewarm water wash the recipe off and you will notice how supple, fresh and good looking your skin is. Who would have thought chocolate could have such a use as an innovative skincare product and taste so lovely too?
It’s up to you, whether you want to share with other moms, and girlie friends about your renewed love of chocolate and why it is one of the best natural remedies for skin care out there. Or you can mention it to them about how good chocolate skincare products are, and keep your homemade innovative skincare recipe a family secret!