Spa in Austria offers chocolate baths

August 4, 2004


KLAGENFURT, Austria(克拉根福,奥地利南部城市) -- An Austrian health spa is giving chocolate lovers a chance to take the ultimate plunge.


Bad Eisenkappel, a health spa in the southwestern Austrian province of Carinthia, is drawing dozens of visitors with a tasty new "treatment" -- a relaxing soak in a tub filled with melted chocolate -- Austrian television reported Wednesday.


Nina Sabitzer, a cosmetologist(美容师) at the spa, told state broadcaster ORF(奥地利国营广播公司) the bubbly brown baths include cocoa butter she claims has restorative properties that include helping protect skin from developing wrinkles.


Although clients are encouraged to splash around, "we don't let them eat any -- it's too fattening," she said.