Chocolate Face Masks for Skin Care
Chocolate facials are on the rage nowadays. You can use chocolates for skin care, even if you worry about eating it. However, eating chocolates are not really bad. To know more, you can check our post on Dark chocolate. Now coming back to the chocolate face masks, it is a recent trend. Doing a chocolate facial is quite similar to other facials. If you want to know more about how to do facial at home, you can check out earlier post.Chocolates are rich in antioxidants content, and so helps reverse the ageing signs. It also helps in moisturizing your skin, and protecting from any sun damage. Chocolates help maintain collagen production and so tightens the skin and improves its elasticity. So, if you are ready to start off with the chocolate face masks, here we have four different chocolate face masks.
Chocolate and Oil Face Mask
Ingredients
Melted chocolate – 1 tbsp
Rose hip oil – 1 tsp
Almond oil – 1 tsp
Direction to use
- Take some melted chocolate in a bowl and add almond oil and rose hip oil into it.
- Mix them well and add one drop of essential oil of the rose into it.
- Now apply this paste on your face for about 20 minutes.
- Make sure about the temperature of your mask before applying it on your face.
- Wash your face using lukewarm water.
This Chocolate and Oil Face Mask will help in regenerating your skin cells. The chocolate in this mask helps keep your skin hydrated and also tones your skin.
Chocolate and Honey Face Mask
Ingredients
Melted chocolate – 1 tbsp
Honey – 1 tbsp (liquid)
Fresh cream – 1 tbsp (thick)
Direction to use
- Take some melted chocolate in a bowl and then add some liquid honey into it.
- Mix them well and add one tablespoon of thick add- ons free cream into the paste.
- Now apply this paste on your face and neck.
- Allow it to dry for about 15 minutes and then rinse it off using lukewarm water.
- Now wipe your face using your favorite toner, this will helps to remove stickiness on your face.
This Chocolate and Honey Face Mask helps to rejuvenate your skin and chocolate keeps your skin hydrated.
Chocolate and Egg Face Mask
Ingredients
Dark Chocolate – 50 grams (70% to 90% of cocoa)
Liquid chocolate – 1 tbsp
Egg yolk – 1
Olive oil – 1 tbsp
Direction to use
- Take some chocolate and warm it up on the water bath till it becomes liquid.
- Now take one tablespoon of this liquid chocolate in a bowl and add one egg’s yolk and mix well.
- If you hate egg smell you can skip it. The oil and chocolate will also gives you an excellent result.
- Now mix some olive oil into the above mixture and you can also add sweet almond oil, grape seed oil or linen oil instead of olive oil.
- Mix all the above ingredients well to form a paste consistency.
- Apply this paste evenly all over your face and neck
- The temperature of your mask should be in warm condition.
- Leave the mask on your face for about 15 minutes and then rinse it off using lukewarm water.
This Chocolate and Egg Face Mask is very hydrating one. It retains the skin moisture and leaves the skin soft and supple.
Chocolate and Mixed Fruit Face Mask
Ingredients
Liquid chocolate – 1 tbsp
Apple – ½ cup
Banana – ½ cup
Water melon – ½ cup
Strawberries – ½ cup
Direction to use
- Put all the above fruits into a blender and blend it well.
- Now take two to three tablespoon of this fruit smoothie in a bowl and then add one tablespoon of liquid chocolate into it.
- Mix them well until it form a paste consistency.
- Now apply this mask all over your face and neck evenly.
- Allow it to dry for about 20 minutes and then rinse it off using lukewarm water.
This Chocolate and Mixed Fruit Face Mask helps you to tone your skin well. It also helps to improve your skin elasticity. You can drink the left over fruit smoothie. This will also helps to take care of your skin from inside out.
A Word for care:
- Always make sure to use organic dark chocolate while applying on skin, to get the benefits.
- Some chemical mixed chocolates do no good to skin.
- Using organic cocoa powder will also benefit your skin.
Try out these chocolate face masks and share us the experience in comments.
