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Guilt free chocolate treats at Easter
Brightly coloured arrays of Easter chocolate treats have been on display in many a supermarket ever since the Valentine's day chocolates were moved out of the way, but despite a slight chocolate overload in the supermarket aisles, there are plenty of reasons why chocolate is good for you at Easter – and all year round.
It's a perfect pick me up treat, inexpensive (well, in most cases) and delicious, but do you know the reason that people love chocolate so much?
Chocolate officially makes you feel good. Two of the chemicals in chocolate, phenylethylamine and serotonin, really do have an effect on your brain. Phenylethylamine is the chemical that's released by your brain when you fall head over heels in love, and serotonin is a general feel good hormone that gives you a natural high. So, eating that Easter Egg is actually good for your mood.
You needn't feel too guilty about having a little chocolate fix either. OK, chocolate does contain sugar and fat, and probably the cheaper you go, a whole range of other things that make it taste delicious but not oh-so-good for your body. However, it's not all bad, because your common bar of milk chocolate does have some redeeming features - vitamins B1, B2, and E, calcium, magnesium, sodium, potassium, copper, zinc, phosphorus and manganese. It's not sounding so bad now, is it?
Some imaginative people have taken our love affair with the cocoa bean and translated it to spa deals - combining the therapeutic properties of chocolate with a pampering treatment in a spa or salon. Now, as well as simply eating your chocolate, you can experience a sensual chocolate treatment or two. Being covered in chocolate used to be the kind of thing people joked about, but it's all above board these days with divine beauty treatments containing our favourite ingredient.
If getting chocolatey fingers always makes you feel like a schoolgirl, fret no more as there are now chocolate manicures and pedicures. A warmed cocoa butter masque is applied to your feet after a sugar scrub and a gorgeously sweet scented soak...and other versions of the chocolate mani-pedi include a deliciously indulgent hot chocolate while you wait for the cocoa butter to soak into your skin.
Try a chocolate, or a chocolate and rose facial, and enjoy the skin rejuvenating qualities of chocolate on your skin. Or, perhaps you might prefer a full body treatment with a chocolate-based body wrap, cocoon or massage. The smell of warm chocolate envelops you as you're pampered and exfoliated and left in a warm, chocolate scented bliss...and it won't make you fat!
Isla Campbell writes for a digital marketing agency. This article has been commissioned by a client of said agency. This article is not designed to promote, but should be considered professional content.
About the Author
Isla is a part of the digital blogging team at shoutingindigital.com who work with brands like Spa Seekers. For more information about me, or to keep up to date with the latest in retail news, check out my posts at shoutingindigital.com or visit my Twitter account, @shoutingID.