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IF you are on the Cabbage Soup Diet, the Hay Diet or the Blood Type diet, and your New Year’s resolve is the only thing starting to thin, don’t worry.

You can still enjoy all your favourite indulgences without the guilt. Just raid the beauty cabinet.

The bad news is that, delicious though they are, the only thing you can’t do with most of them is eat them …

After 8.30, pounds 2.85, Lush

Warm this massage bar, that looks like a slab of dark and white layered chocolate, in your hands to realise peppermint-scented softening oils. A favourite with Madonna.

Bath Brulee Cup Cakes, pounds 2.50,

Bomb Cosmetics, Frasers

Comes in a choice of nine flavours. Each individual cup cake is in its own cake case. One cake is enough for four baths.

Mars, pounds 2.70, Bomb Cosmetics, Frasers

A chocolate-flavoured massage bar - ideal for sharing as it is edible and can be licked off. But less licking and more massaging is needed for the diet to pay dividends.

Laura Mercier Creme Brulee Honey Bath, pounds 30, Space N.K.

Indulging in this sweet, honey-scented bath has no calorific problems for a sweet tooth.

Oxeo Cube Solid Deodorant, pounds 2.45, Lush

If you are craving something savoury, this deodorant bar is not for you, as one of the ingredients is jasmine and the fragrance is pleasantly floral.

Macaroon Moon Soap Bar, pounds 2, Fresh, Boots

A coconut cleansing bar. Dream of yourself on that tropical beach in your new bikini.

Black Magic, pounds 2.95, Lush

There is another way to enjoy chocolate; this handmade massage bar not only contains real chocolate, but essential oils and moisturisers.

Laura Mercier Sugar Scrub Exfoliater, pounds 32, Space N.K

The only sugar allowed. On the skin, not in a cup of tea.

Gin Fizz Bath Spritzer, pounds 4.50, Fresh, Boots

Guilt-free tonic after a hard day’s dieting.

Strawberry Milkshake, pounds 27, Philosophy, Boots

A bodywash that smells wonderful. It is part of the CookBook range, Frozen Deserts, along with other tasty goodies as Orange Sherbet, Lemon Meringue and Raspberry Sorbet.

Coconut Cream Pie, pounds 27, Philosophy, Boots

Again, a bodywash from the CookBook range, Home Made Pies, along with Pumpkin Pie, Keylime Pie and Blueberry Pie.

Honeycomb Bath Jelly, pounds 3.50, Fresh, Boots

This bathtime treat has honey and ginger among its ingredients to soften and invigorate.

Smart Cookie Scented Candle, pounds 3, Fresh Boots

The aroma of freshly-baked chocolate cookies without any temptation. Also Smart Cookie Room Mist, pounds 3.50.

Caffe Latte, Bath Ballistic, pounds 1.80, Lush

A treat for real coffee lovers, minus the calories. You dunk yourself, not your biscuit, in this frothy, coffee scented bath.