Learn how to make the chocolate at home

For many years we have heard that you can not abuse of chocolate, since it is a stimulant, and in the majority of cases, also includes ingredients such as white or derived sugar dairy. However, the cocoa is a very beneficial, not just food for our consumption, but also for its topical application.
In this article you will learn how you can benefit from the chocolate therapy at home, in a simple and pleasant way.

A long cocoa chocolate

When we talk about the benefits of chocolate we refer to a large percentage of cocoa, which includes among its ingredients at least a 70%. We do not mean in any case to milk chocolate or, much less, the white chocolate.
Therefore, the first step so that the chocolate will allow us to make this therapy is the choose one quality or, even better, a pure cocoa, so if we are going to consume or use in recipes like us going to apply directly to the skin.

Relax and beauty

This simple therapy that we do at home is going to provide three major benefits, since cocoa that we apply on the skin will be penetrating through the pores to nurture it in depth and reach the blood supply:

• We owe the first of them is the high content of magnesium that has cocoa. This mineral, which is essential for good health, nurtures our nervous system and our muscles, which is going to produce whole body-deep relaxation.
• The second major benefit is that cocoa contains a lot of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants excellent for the skin, in particular, when we suffer tendency to dryness or at times of very dry climate. With this therapy we will notice instant profits in our skin.
• Finally, we have the third great benefit of this therapy is to thank the tryptophan, an amino acid of cacao that favors the production of serotonin, a neurotransmitter that it causes us a feeling of happiness. Why cocoa, whether we eat it as if we apply it ourselves directly on the skin, helps us to improve States of anxiety, irritability, or discouragement.

What do we need?

We will need the following ingredients:

• Two tablespoons full (30 grams) of pure cocoa.
• 2 tablespoons almond oil (50 grams) tureen.
• Two tablespoons (40 grams) coarse sea salt.

Utensils:

• A bowl.
• A spoon.
• Plastic film which we use to preserve food.

Preparation:
Place the cocoa and oil in the bowl, and mix well the ingredients with a spoon.

How do we make the chocolate?

This therapy is quite simple, but we have to do it with care not to dirty the place where we are too.
The easiest is to do it in a bathroom that is a good temperature. If we have bath will be more comfortable even do so inside, fill it with water.

• We will apply throughout the body oil and cocoa mixture. We will do it to us gently, massaging from the feet up to the face. If you have very dry hair, also we can apply this remedy, provided we avoid the roots.
• We'll do it slowly, for what the massage lasts, at least ten minutes.
• Then we will take the sea salt and will do us a whole body exfoliation to activate circulation, eliminate dead cells and promote the penetration of these medicinal nutrients into the skin. Avoid areas that are too sensitive and, on the other hand, will insist on hardened areas or with cellulite. Exfoliation should last between 5 and 10 minutes.
• Without taking us any of these products from the body, we will engage with the plastic kitchenware, loosely, the limbs and torso. It is important that the place where we are is at a comfortable temperature.
• We will wait 10 minutes and, subsequently, we take away the plastic.
• To finish, we will remove the skin with a warm water shower products or slightly warm, but ending with a minute of water very cold.

We can make this homemade chocolate therapy once a week, although we will avoid the exfoliation if in the hours before us have exposed to the Sun, because that could irritate the skin too.

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