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Enjoying Chocolate without Gaining an Ounce

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Owner Lisa Francoise Schafer offers a sweet giveaway!

Update:  2/13/2012:  Lisa closed her shop to spend more time with her children.  Hopefully, one day Sweet Dreams will be back.  In the meantime. check out Eminence Organic Skincare. Chocolate Mousse Hydration Masque.  Eminence makes wonderful product.

From the sound of the title, I don’t know about you, but I would shove my way to the front of the line for that type of chocolate indulgence.  So, what product can allow me to indulge my chocolate fantasy and not gain one itsy bitsy ounce of weight?  Sweet Beauty Spa Organic Chocolate Body products.  I want to say sweet, but that would be too punny even for me.

I encountered Sweet Beauty Spa products as a pleasant surprise.  After indulging in too many tasty chocolate morsels during the NYC Chocolate Show, I needed some much needed R & R for my tired sugar filled body. Lo and behold, right by the Theo Chocolate’s booth was Sweet Beauty Organic Chocolate Spa products with women milling around it like bees to honey. They were testing the creme on their hands and smelling the body products.

So what was all the fuss? Sweet Beauty uses Theo chocolates, an organic, free trade chocolate in their products and they are as yummy to eat as they are to put on your face. The Company sells a variety of products for your body with wonderful luxurious names such as Tangerine Truffle Sugar Scrub and Love Potion, dark chocolate and rose scrub.  Your face and lips need hydration.  What better way to sooth them then with the ultimate Indulge Lip Balm, a rich blend of coffee and chocolate, and Berry Face Facial Scrub, a mixture of Blueberry and Pomegranate Oils mixed with Organic Fair Trade Cocoa and Nibs.

Let’s not forget the wee ones either.  Sweet Beauty has a baby product line as well featuring Baby Balm to sooth our little ones’ rump and Baby Massage Oil, in which a few drops in the bath water will sooth his or her  irritated and dry skin.

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Sweet Beauty is an outgrowth of the passion of owner Lisa Francoise Schafer for chocolate and skin care, which dates back to her pre-teen years.  Her philosophy is as follows as it pertains to her skin products:

“If you wouldn’t eat it, don’t wear it on your skin.

Beauty products should be a natural way for you to feel good.

Almost nothing makes you feel better than chocolate.”

After eying the lush, thick chocolate body products on the table that resembled melted chocolate, I had one question for Lisa. How do you stop yourself from licking the lip balm?  She replied that you may do that a couple times at the beginning, but then you stop.

She then proceeded to rub something that felt like chocolate cocoa butter on my hands.  She explained this  product was the Company’s Pot de Creme, chocolate hand and body cream. (Incidentally, this product is one of their best sellers.) It is made out of organic chocolate and infused with exotic oils known to moisturize the skin without leaving a trace.    Not only did my skin feel soft, it smelled wonderful too.  A couple times during the night I caught myself smelling my hands.

So indulge in a little chocolate and let your  skin, not your hips, enjoy the experience. Products can be purchased through these retailers and on Sweet Beauty’s website.

Lisa has been kind enough to offer the Love Potion, dark chocolate and rose scrub as a giveaway to Green Talk readers.  This contest is only open to US and Canadian residents.  All you have to do to win this giveaway is

  • Leave me a comment here as to your  favorite skin care product (green or otherwise).  If you don’t have one, just say so;
  • To double your chances of winning the scrub, consider joining my Ning Forum. Come back and leave a comment that you joined my forum.
  • To triple your chances consider joining my Feedburner email list or subscribe to my RSS feed. Both subscriptions are listed on the upper left hand column. Be sure to come back and leave a comment to tell me which one you joined.
  • To quadruple your chances of winning, twitter about this contest and come back and leave the url (weblink) of your twitter comment.
  • You must enter by December 30, 2008, 6 PM EST time to win.
  • A winner will be chosen by random on Tuesday, December 31, 2008.  Good Luck everyone!

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Comments

  9. 9

    My favorite skin care product are sugar scrubs. I found a great, handmade one in Newport once many years back and I have yet to find one that worked better. I am hoping if I win this my search will be over!

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  14. 14

    I don’t have a favourite skin care product right now as I am still trying to find one that will not irritate my sensitive skin.

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  54. 54

    Oh my, this is right down my alley! I absolutely LOVE beauty products and have sooo many favorites!! But, my most adored one would have to be my Neutrogena Self Tanning Lotion, that has gotten my most pastiest white, moley arms a gleaming bronze color in two hours or less, flat! Can’t beat that!! Would love to win this great giveaway, thanks!! 🙂

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  56. 56

    This isn’t true all the time, but when it’s cold and dry like this my favourite skin care product is Burt’s Bees Miracle Salve. It helps keep my skin from cracking and doesn’t have anything too weird in it.

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  58. 58

    i so love body products that are good for me and smell like cholcolate and anything tempting. what else could you ask for

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  67. 67

    My favorite skin care product is one I get from a medical supply. It’s called Soothe and Cool Fresh skin creme. It leaves my skin so soft and smooth and it really helps with dry winter skin.

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  68. 68

    My favorite skin care product is anything Burt’s Bees. I also subscribed to your feedburner email list. Fab giveway..love anything organic and with chocolate deliciousness..yes please!

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  70. 70

    I love anything that smells like Victoria’s Secret Love Spell……and thick body butter that smells edible…mmm

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  71. 71

    My all time favorite skin product so far has been Hempz lotion. It just smells so good and feels awesome. I do adore good smelly things as well. Thanks for the opportunity to try Sweet Beauty.

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  92. 93

    My favorite skin care product as of late is Shea Terra Organics Bourbon Vanilla Dead Sea Salt Scrub. It smells amazing and makes my skin feel wonderful!

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  102. 103

    The older I get the more skin products bother my skin. Face-wise Philosophy has been working well. Body-wise I’m still searching for bath products but found a great honey body lotion that is produced by local beekeepers and has no ingredients that can’t be pronounced.

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  110. 111

    I like skin lotions that are goat milk based, have a nice scent, and work in without messy residue. Thanks for the giveaway.

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  125. 126

    I buy pangea organic products. They smell amazing and come in plantable paper packaging. Purchasing green products makes me feel like a responsible consumer.

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  141. 142

    I like Aveeno lotion…it does a good job keeping skin moisturized. These Sweet Body products sound wonderful and I would SO love to try them!

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  152. 153

    Right now I use Oil of Olay. I haven’t heard of many ‘green’ products although I will now look into this store to see what’s there. Thanks!

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  153. 154

    I don’t have a favorite however I enjoy Bath and Body Works and Neutrogena products. I am always looking for a new great product!

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  156. 157

    I don’t really have a favorite product. I use Cetaphil whenever I think about it and I enjoy scented shower gels but that’s about it.

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  167. 168

    I have dry skin, so I usually don’t use too much, but when I need to exfoliate, I love to use lemon juice and sugar.

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  170. 171

    I don’t have a favorite product really. I love to try new things so that’s what I do. The Olay Regenerist is a potential repeat purchase at this point, depends what else comes out or catches my eye before I run out lol. Thanks for the contest.

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  186. 187

    Wow, I am so pleased to learn about the Sweet Beauty products today! They sound amazing! Right now my favorite skin care product (and it is green) is the Pangea Organics Malagasy Ylang Ylang & Linden Flower Facial Cream. It really feels wonderful on your skin and it smells fresh and wholesome! Thank you so much for the opportunity to enter today!

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  188. 189

    I just subscribed to receive your updates via email and I also activated my subscription. I am looking forward to receiving them now!

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  195. 196

    Fair trade AND organic? You’re playing my song. Right now I’m trying Curel’s “Life’s Stages” lotion for my ultra-dry, sensitive skin. While it’s okay, I’d prefer a fair-trade organic product. Great giveaway. Thanks!

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  220. 221

    I use Hope in a Jar for a face moisturizer.
    Seeing this for the first time ,it all looks so good and I bet smells even better.I love my chocolate and it would be so much fun using it on my skin,I would love the scent on my skin.Thanks for letting me know about this wonderful product.
    Great giveaway

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  227. 228

    Everyone, thanks for the entering the contest. According to the rule, the contest closed at 6 PM EST on 12/30. You can still leave comments, join my feed, etc but you won’t be part of the contest. It has been really fun reading your comments! Tommorrow I will announce the winner.

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  232. 233

    2nd the Shea Terra Organics rec. I luv their Bourbon Vanilla products, especially the Shea Body Butter – totally heavenly.

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  236. 237

    Congrads to Stacie, the winner of this sweet giveaway!! Everyone, your comments were amazing. It is great to read what everyone’s favs were. Thanks to all who joined GT’s feed, email updates, NING (forum)as well as those who twittered and stumbled the post! Lots of great giveaways in 2009!

    I hope that those who found Green Talk through the sweepstakes will stick around and become part of the community. Stay tuned. Anna

    PS Happy New Years, readers. May this be the sweetest year for all of you.

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  237. 238

    Interesting. The chocolate is what I’m after usually not the sugar. A Hersey’s bar doesn’t really taste good, too sweet. Garden of Life makes roasted cocoa beans with hazelnuts and just a little sugar to taste. Mmmmm…just right. Kind of messy because it’s a little bag of crumbles but well worth it.

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