This novel way of using chocolate will not add your waistline but will make your skin glow. /VCG Photo

Chocolate is used as one of the main ingredients in a beauty clinic in Ciudad Juarez, northwest Mexico. /VCG Photo

Beauty therapists at the clinic apply face masks made out of chocolate, believing the sweet stuff containing antioxidant-rich cocoa is goof for the skin. /VCG Photo

“Flavonoids and polyphenols — powerful chemicals found in dark chocolate — really help nourish and protect skin from environmental stresses and ageing,” US anti-ageing skin care expert Nicholas Perricone told the Daily Mail. /VCG Photo