Beauty experts in India are proving you can never have too much chocolate with the rise of chocolate therapy.

They claim the sweet treat has anti-ageing properties and is beneficial for dry skin.

Moreover, it is relatively safe to use it on most skin types as it is a natural product.

Beauty expert Mallika Gautam said: "The main ingredient of chocolate is cocoa and chocolate is not just (for) pedicure we call it chocolate therapy, a treatment if you like. If you do it regularly you can get fantastic results.

"Chocolate, we are using not only for the face, but also the hands and the feet, like a pedicure or manicure, even for body, we are having chocolate wraps."

With this new therapy, a chocolate paste is applied on the skin and is peeled off like a mask after it dries.

Beauty experts believe the chocolate pedicures on offer will be the most preferred treatment.

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