Chocolate beauty

As a nation we eat about £3 billion worth of chocolate confectionary a year, and National Chocolate Week is the perfect excuse to indulge your chocoholic passion. But before you reach for your favourite bar, try some of these delicious beauty goodies - you can treat your sweet tooth with none of the calories.

Chocolate beauty

As a nation we eat about £3 billion worth of chocolate confectionary a year, and National Chocolate Week is the perfect excuse to indulge your chocoholic passion. But before you reach for your favourite bar, try some of these delicious beauty goodies - you can treat your sweet tooth with none of the calories.

Tasty talons

This smooth milk chocolate shade from manicure maestro Leighton Denny is a classic that's also bang on trend for this season. Apply two thin coats over a base and finish with a clear varnish for the longest lasting results

Leighton Denny Nail Varnish in Chocoholic. £11, www.bathandunwind.com
Lick your lips

We defy you to not lick your lips with this cute candy shop lip tint from e.l.f. The glistening mocha gloss has a subtle shimmer and tastes as good as it looks.

e.l.f. Candy Shop Lip Tin in Mocha Manic. £1.50. www.eyeslipsface.co.uk
Love your locks

October may be wet and windy but the Eleven Hair Brazilian Chocolate Keratin Treatment promises smooth, frizz free hair for weeks. With keratin, cocoa extracts, vitamins and collagen the deep conditioning treatment is applied with a special process that leaves hair oh-so-easy to style, cutting down on drying time and the need for styling products. Eleven will be handing out bars of their own chocolate during National Chocolate Week as well...what's not to like?

Brazilian Chocolate Keratin Treatment. £200, www.eleven-hair.com
Body Beautiful

Don't give in to pale winter skin, Vita Liberata's best selling tan promises a deep chocolately colour and goes on like a dream with no patches or streaks. Made with organic sugar cane and enhanced with extracts from silk proteins and seaweed, this fool proof self tan contains no parabens, perfume or alcohol.

Vita Liberata Rich Silken Chocolate. £22.50. www.boots.co.uk
Smooth pins

The Chocolate-Hazelnut Wax at Strip Wax Bar is so delicious sounding it's enough to take the dread out of waxing appointments. Their opulent Chocolate themed room definitely takes your mind off the pain and they use Lycon wax which is reputed to be less painful and cause fewer in-growing hairs than other waxes. Skin feels smooth, and smells faintly of Nutella.

Chocolate Hazelnut Wax at Strip Wax bar. Half leg: £38. www.stripwaxbar.co.uk
Luscious Lips

Trust the ultra luxe Dolce & Gabbana make up collection to have the perfect chocolate brown lipstick. Their Classic Cream Lipstick, housed in the signature gold case deliver rich, highly pigmented colour that lasts. Chocolate is a reddish brown matte shade that looks sophisticated and grown up for Autumn.

Dolce & Gabbana The Make Up, Classic Cream Lipstick, Chocolate. £20.00. Harrods.
Hair Heaven

True chocohoics can get their fix in the shower with Faith In Nature Chocolate Shampoo and Conditioner. Raven hair beauties will benefit from the luxurious blend of organic chocolate and sage which leaves hair super shiny. The organic formula contains no parabens, sodium laureth sulphates, artificial preservatives or colours. And it's made in the UK too!

Faith in Nature Chocolate Shampoo and Conditioner. £4.10. www.biggreensmile.com
Eye Define

Ultra wearable yet sophisticated eye make-up is our beauty holy grail and these warm shades of chocolate and cream are easy to apply. Use the cream tone for all over eye perfection and add definition with the chocolate shade. M&S Perfection Duo Colour Powder Eyeshadows are easy to build up for a more dramatic look.

M&S Perfection Duo Colour Powder Eyeshadow, £6.00. www.marksandspencer.com
Smooth skin

IKOVE is a new Brazilian organic beauty brand that is bursting with Açai, the Amazonian berry that's reputed to be a potent antioxidant. The Açai Chocolate Body Moisturizing Lotion contains cocoa and other Amazonian botanicals to nourish and revitalise the skin. The ingredients are all fair trade and are harvested sustainably.

IKOVE Açai Chocolate Body Moisturizing Lotion. £11.19. www.ikove.co.uk
Body treats

The Germaine de Capuccini Chocoholics Dream has to be the ultimate treatment for choc-addicts. The pamper session starts with a full body exfoliation using their Cocoscrub which contains pure cocoa extracts to sweep away dead skin cells and smooth skin. A massage with their chocolate firming and hydrating body crème follows, a warm wrap helps the antioxidant rich treatment to be fully absorbed. Bliss!

Chocoholics Dream. www.germaine-de-capuccini.co.uk, £45.00