One minute on your lips, or slather it on your hips? While doctors are still exploring the antioxidant properties of ingesting dark chocolate, there’s no doubt about its benefits for body care. This Valentine’s Day, feel free to indulge in the following calorie-free chocolate treats:
It’s no surprise that the Spa at the Hotel Hershey, in Hershey Pennsylvania, provides a full menu of tempting chocolate treatments. Begin with a Whipped Cocoa Bath or a multi-jet Chocolate Hydrotherapy shower; emerge for a Chocolate Bean Polish exfoliation featuring cocoa bean husks and walnut shells; revitalize with a Chocolate Fondue Wrap of warmed Moor mud and cocoa essence; and enjoy a Cocoa Massage with chocolate-scented oil.
The Spa at the Hotel Hershey now offers a menu of Cuban-themed treatments, celebrating a new expansion that nearly doubled the size of the famous Chocolate spa. The spa’s Cuban connection stems from the Cuban sugar plantations that Milton Hershey once owned. Tops on the list of new things to try is the Mojito Sugar Scrub (named for the Cuban cocktail), with its not-too-sweet, fresh lime fragrance (see page 55 for an at-home recipe). Other new treatments include the Noche Azul Soak, scented with white butterfly jasmine (Cuba’s national flower), and the Nicotiana Body Wrap, which incorporates the fragrant flower of the tobacco plant. For more information call (877) 772-9988 or visit www.spaathotelhershey.com
Bess Hochstein and Leslie Gilbert Elman
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