Skincare products can be expensive at the best of times, so why not make innovative skincare products from your own kitchen and for a fraction of the price. Things like honey, oatmeal, cream and even chocolate can be used, but keep it away from hungry little mouths or you won't have any left for your skin.

It is true you can use chocolate! It is becoming one of the most popular beauty regimes available today. As natural remedies for skin care go, it is one of the better ones, as it is good for softening the skin and like when you eat it releases serotonin, which makes you happy! Just like in the beauty salons, you too can massage chocolate into the skin, making you feel rejuvenated and relaxed, but be careful with the amount of chocolate you buy.

Well actually you can buy chocolate guilt free, as despite people saying that chocolate is bad for you, makes you fat, will give you spots, really what you should concentrate on is its ability to protect the skin layers from free radical damage, and smooth out wrinkles. Cocoa powder, which chocolate contains a lot of (the darker the chocolate the more cocoa content and the better for you) is an antioxidant. Chocolate is both yummy, good for you in small doses, and one of the great natural remedies for skin care too.

Now you have finished eating some (not all) of that lovely chocolate, lets have a look at a recipe for an innovative skincare product. You'll want 4 tablespoons of cocoa (not actually chocolate, but once mixed with other ingredients it will be more edible), 3 tablespoons of runny honey, 2 tablespoons of thick cream (this can be sour cream) and a level tablespoon of oatmeal.

Once the mixture is made, don't eat all of it, you will need to massage it into and around your face. Then all you have to do is lay back and make sure that all pets, children and anything else with a tongue is nowhere around you for the next twenty minutes. After this time, if you are tempted to eat the mixture - don't! Just wash it off with lukewarm water and feel the benefits.

Now go and lie down and relax for twenty minutes, after applying the mixture of course. The smell of cocoa will actually help you relax and every mom needs twenty minutes time to herself, every now and again! So as the cocoa helps soothe your face, moisturize it and make you happy, the honey will open up clogged pores and deeply cleanse your face, and the oatmeal has already done its job in helping the exfoliation part earlier.

Once your twenty minutes is up, wash off the mixture with lukewarm water and enjoy how soft, supple and youthful your face feels and looks. You have just joined the ranks of people who can enjoy homemade innovative skincare, and look fantastic for it! Who would have thought chocolate was so versatile.

It's up to you, whether you want to share with other moms, and girlie friends about your renewed love of chocolate and why it is one of the best natural remedies for skin care out there. Or you can mention it to them about how good chocolate skincare products are, and keep your homemade innovative skincare recipe a family secret!