Beauty Benefits Chocolate: The Skin-Loving Ingredient Creating Beauty Buzz

The Best Chocolate-Infused Beauty Products That Will Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth

In celebration of the Easter long weekend, we've rounded up the best chocolate-infused makeup and skincare products to ensure your sweet tooth is fully satisfied.

In addition to the reasons we already love chocolate, as a skincare and makeup ingredient it actually contains many beauty benefits.

Cocoa, in its pure form, is full of minerals - especially zinc, copper, magnesium and iron - which increase energy levels, aid hair growth and repair skin. Moreover, the anti-oxidant properties in chocolate help fight free radicals that abuse your skin, meaning that chocolate has an anti-ageing quality.

Over this Easter, harness the benefits of cocoa and try out these chocolate-based beauty products.

1. Too Faced Melted Chocolate Liquified Lipstick, $32.

This lipstick is just like eating actual chocolate. The long-lasting formula is created with antioxidant rich cocoa to protect your lips and gives off a strong - but not overpowering - chocolate scent.

2. Frank Body Cacao Coffee Scrub, $18.95.

The Frank Body Cacao Coffee scrub is proof that chocolate is good for your skin. Rich in antioxidants, this scrub will hydrate dry skin and exfoliate your body to leave you with a soft, healthy glow. The scrub combines roasted coffee grinds, organic cacao extract, pressed macadamia oil and sweet almond oil to create the perfect mix of natural ingredients.

3. Edible Beauty No. 4 Vanilla Silk Hydrating Lotion, $59.

This hydrating lotion combines cocoa butter with natural extracts like Davidson plum and lemon aspen to create an anti-ageing serum that will rejuvenate your skin, leaving it smooth and hydrated. The lotion also reduces skin pigmentation, increases skin elasticity and prevents wrinkles.

4. Too Faced Chocolate Bar Eye Shadow Palette, $75.

This rich eyeshadow palette is pigmented with pure cocoa powder and is cased in a tempting chocolate bar tin. The palette is stuffed with 16 chocolately shades from natural browns, to baby pinks and deep plums that smell as good as they look.

5. Lush Chocolate Lip Scrub, $9.95.

This scrub from Lush is packed with overload of dark chocolate, cocoa absolute and cocoa powder plus extras like orange oils and tangerine, making it good enough to eat.

6. Philosophy Cinnamon Buns Shower Gel, $30.

Not exactly chocolate, but still on the Easter theme. This cinnamon-scented shower gel will leave you smelling like a fresh hot-cross bun and does wonders to cleanse and moisturise your skin.

7. Too Faced Chocolate Soleil Matte Bronzer, $46.

This long-wearing matte bronzer powder is infused with 100% real cocoa powder. Boasting of antioxidant benefits and a chocolatey aroma, this Too Faced bestseller is ideal for contouring and creating a deep, full-faced tan.

8. Esse Cocoa Exfoliator, $55.

Perfect for all skin types, this exfoliator utilises fine cocoa granules to polish and refine the skin's surface. Other ingredients like wild-sourced Afrian oils provide nourishment to leave your skin feeling soft and healthy.

Kate Atkinson

Katie Atkinson is currently interning at marie claire Australia.