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Skin Benefits Of Chocolate

  • Posted on November 29, 2010 at 9:19 pm

Chocolate Candy Once considered a junk food and a cause of acne. This is no longer the case. Chocolate is now viewed as a powerful skin care product and health food.

These days everyone from the typical layman to the most experienced beauty experts are trying to extract the quintessential skincare benefits from dark chocolate.

There are chocolate body wraps, creams, facial scrubs, facial masks, massages, body and face packs.

It is no longer just for eating. As a skincare product it can help:

  • Hydrate the skin
  • Nourish
  • Fight sun damage
  • Moisturize
  • Soften the skin
  • Exfoliate dead skin cells
  • Smooth out wrinkles
  • Protection from pollution
  • Skin firming
  • Detoxification

If you are looking to try out the latest craze in foot care try a melted chocolate pedicure.

It is even showing up in products we least suspect like chocolate wax facial hair remover.

This substance not only provides health and skin benefits but is relaxing. It can help titillate the senses and create a sense of well being.

This may be one of the most pleasurable pampering experiences that you’ll repeat often.

 

Chocolate A Health Food

 

It is high in flavanol an anti-oxidant known to help lower the risk of stroke and cardiovascular

Skin Rash And Hives Chocolate Allergy

  • Posted on November 28, 2010 at 1:37 am

Chocolates appealing to our decadent nature have become one of the most pleasurable pastimes. Satisfying our taste buds and filling our senses with its pleasant aroma. Many have fallen victim to overindulgence. But for some it is to remain an unfulfilled temptation. Plagued buy food allergies eating this one food has resulted in unwanted and troublesome skin rashes, headache, welts, pruritus (intense itching), tightness in the chest, swollen throat, hives, asthma attacks abdominal cramps, difficulty breathing are just a few symptoms of an allergic reaction.

It can be very frightening for someone experiencing this for the first time unaware that they are having a bad reaction to chocolate. In a worse case scenario anaphylactic shock occurs landing its victim in the emergency room.

Anaphylactic shock is severe allergic reaction characterized by a drop in blood pressure, hives (urticaria) and difficulty breathing.

The ironic part of all this is that for most people it is not the main ingredient in chocolate