I’ve found yet another potential item for my holiday shopping list. Yes, it has to do with chocolate. And yes, it has to do with this home spa treatment kick I’ve been on. It’s just that when it comes to holiday gifts for my friends, I feel they should be an indulgent treat, not something they “need”. I’ll let their families get them that. I wanna give chocolate and other feel good stuff. And with that, I present Decadent Chocolate Body Scrub.

The ingredient list of this body scrub reads like something you’d want to eat – organic cocoa powder, pure cane sugar, olive oil, coconut oil, lime, orange, and vanilla essential oils. When I got a sample of this from Lisa Ann Skincare Co, I couldn’t wait to go home and try it. I never really gave any notice to body scrubs before so you can imagine how shocked I was to see how soft it leaves your skin. Amazing! And it smells incredible.

Bundle this up with a Winter Hot Chocolate Tin or a box of Chocolate Truffles for enjoying afterwards and your gift will be their favorite.

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I’m not a chocoholic. I admit it. I know true chocoholics and I pale in comparison when it comes to the lengths and heights they will go for good chocolate. I am a sugaraholic though and chocolate falls into that category. I just don’t discriminate between candies. Truffles, candy corn, chocolate bars, jelly beans, bubble gum - they need only be tasty to me and I’ll eat them.

I do, however, have serious chocoholics on my holiday shopping list and while they can be sure they’ll be getting lots of Lake Champlain Chocolates, I realize I need to find some non-chocolate items to fill their stockings and round out their gifts. So, I went on a hunt for inedible chocolate themed gifts my chocoholic friends would love. I assume you, too, have chocoholics on your list (including yourself) so I thought I’d share what I find. Then you can accent your gifts of Lake Champlain Chocolates with other fun chocolatey items.

The first items I found were these adorable “chocolate” soaps from Sudz N Bubbles. Of course you can’t eat them but at first glance, you’d like to. They come shaped like pies and cupcakes and cleverly packaged. The slice of chocolate crème pie soap even comes in a plastic individual pie serving container. They smell like black forest cake, chocolate cake, raspberry truffle and more. Check them out online at http://www.sudznbubbles.com/. And if you use the code RUDYS when you checkout, you can save 10% on your entire order through the end of the year.

Imagine taking a bath with chocolate scented soaps and eating Lake Champlain Chocolate truffles. Just be sure you don’t mix the two up.