The soap bars she featured are: Spearmint, Hyacinth (one of our latest designs), Lemon Lavender (displayed at the 2012 GBK’s Academy Awards Gift Lounge) and Soft Rain (gifted to celebrities at the 2012 GBK’s Academy Awards Gift Lounge).

BPR Designs and Magic Senses have joined forces in the past when we donated samples/gifts to cancer survivors attending “Casting for Recovery“, a program that offers “an opportunity for women whose lives have been profoundly affected by breast cancer to gather in a natural setting and learn the sport of fly fishing”.

Thanks again, Beth! We love your beautiful handmade glass soap dishes and are very honored to be featured as “Soaper of the Week”!

This fragrance is probably the most difficult one we’ve ever had to describe. It is very sweet and clean… reminding you of mountain springs and sweet floral scents lingering in the air.

This glycerin bar of soap is enriched with Shea Butter and Aloe Vera gel which make it give away a creamy lather you’ll love!

You can find Celestial Waters Soap at www.MagicSenses.com under Fresh and Clean Collection.

We were torn between Wake Up and Green Apple soap… but your votes in the Facebook Poll made it easy to choose.  I want to thank you for helping us make a decision.

In honor of this great event, we gave Green Apple a makeover. Besides the cute mini green apples design, we also enriched the formula with aloe vera gel and shea butter for a creamy leather to moisturize the skin even more than before!

This soap design is now available at www.MagicSenses.com.

Big thanks to Mrs. Valerie Guerrero of The Artisan Group for representing us at this fabulous event!

If you’d like to see all our glycerin soap Collections or if you’d like to buy one of our Soap Subscriptions, please visit our website www.MagicSenses.com

Thanks again, Valerie! We love the banners!

• Rose Bouquet Handcrafted Glycerin Soap
• Oatmeal Almond Handcrafted Glycerin Soap
• Cherry Vanilla Handcrafted Glycerin Soap
• Tuberose Handcrafted Glycerin Soap.

This promotion will expire at the end of April, 2012. To see all our Collections, please visit www.MagicSenses.com. You can join us on Facebook and Twitter (@magicsenses).

See video of:
Media coverage by MingleMedia.tv
ABC News Coverage

Here are some of the celebrities who visited our display and received a bar of our soap in their swag bag: Ali Fedotowsky, Allie Gonino, Amara Miller, AnnaLynne McCord, Ben Schwartz, Cheech Marin, Chelsea Rendon, Cloris Leachman, Colin Egglesfield, Cress Williams, Dallas Roberts, Dermot Mulroney, Desmond Harrington, Eric Szmanda, Frankie Muniz, Garrett Morris, Gil Birmingham, Glynn Turman, Hector Elizondo, Holly Robinson Peete, Iqbal Theba, J.K. Simmons, Jennifer Aspen, Jim Rash, Jon Bernthal, Josh Sussman, Joshua Bowman, Kate Flannery, Katie Leclerc, Ken Davitian, Kevin Nealon, Kristi Lauren, Lauren Bowles, Lauren Cohan, Laurie Holden, Louis Gossett Jr., Marcia Gay Harden, Mary Birdsong, Max von Sydow, Melissa McCarthy, Naomi Scott, Nat Faxon, Nick Krause, Niecy Nash, Omar Miller, Pat O’Brien, Paul Blackthorne, Penelope Ann Miller, Penny Marshall, Reshma Shetty, Rex Linn, Richard Middleton, Rick Otto, Russell Hornsby, Samantha Harris, Sasha Pieterse, Siedah Garrett, Sugar Ray Leonard, Teri Polo, Tess Hunt, Thomas Gibson, Tinsel Korey, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Will Estes, Zach Woods.

We would like to thank Mr. Russell Hornsby, Mr. Rex Linn and Mr. Iqpal Theba for posing with our designer soap! You can see the pictures on our Celebrities page.

This was a VERY exciting and wonderful experience and we want to thank Mrs. Valerie Guerrero from The Artisan Group for doing an excellent job of representing us at this event! We are so grateful for having the opportunity to share with Hollywood some of the soaps our customers have enjoyed for years!

If you’d like to see our soap Collections, please visit our website at www.MagicSenses.com.

Here are more pictures of our guests:

Setup Day

But first, let’s start with the setup day! Here are a few pictures so you can take a peak at how our product is displayed. Big thanks to Valerie (the Founder of The Artisan Group and the designer behind The BeezKneez) and Jean (member of The Artisan Group and the designer behind Rotem Design Studio) for  sharing these “behind-the-scenes” pictures with us!

And now on the sweet side…the custom made cake!!

Day 1

So, who are the lucky celebrities who received our designer soap in their swag bag during day 1? Well, let’s see… here are just a few of them; I am sure you’ll recognize the names from many movies they played in or produced – many of these celebrities won or were nominated for quite a few Awards – just for reference, I’ll mention their most popular movies:

• Kevin Nealon, comedian – Saturday Night Live and actor in “Weeds”
• Marcia Gay Harden, previous Academy Awards Winner for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lee Krasner in “Pollock”.
• Kristi Lauren, played Sophie Watson on the Fox sitcom “I Hate My Teenage Daughter”;
• Rex Linn, best known for his role as Frank Tripp in the television series CSI: Miami;
• Iqbal Theba, currently has a recurring role as Principal Figgins in the show Glee;
• Penelope Ann Miller – In 2011, she portrayed Doris, the wife of protagonist George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) in The Artist;
• Frankie Muniz, mainly known as star of the FOX television family sitcom Malcolm in the Middle.;
• Gil Birmingham, played Billy Black in The Twilight Saga film series;
• Nat Faxon, 2012 Oscar nominee – co-wrote the screenplay for the film “The Descendants”;
• Glynn Turman, played Chief Floyd in “Men of Honor”;
• Mary Birdsong, “The Descendants”;
• Rick Otto, played Andrew in “The Walking Dead”;
• Jim Rash, 2012 Oscar nominee – “The Descendants”;
• Penny Marshall, played Laverne DeFazio in the sitcom Laverne and Shirley;
• ResHma Shetty, plays Divya Katdare in “Royal Pains”;
• Holly Robinson Peete, best known for her role as Vanessa Russell on the ABC sitcom Hangin’ with Mr. Cooper;
• Louis Gossett, Jr., received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Gunnery Sergeant Emil Foley in “An Officer and a Gentleman”;
• Josh Sussman, best known for his role as Hugh Normous in “Wizards of Waverly Place” and his role as Jacob Ben Israel in “Glee”;
• Tess Hunt, best known for her role in “Spanish Fly”;
• Teri Polo, best known for her role of Pam Focker in the movie “Meet the Parents” and its two sequels, “Meet the Fockers” and “Little Fockers”.

Many more to come in our next post! Stay tuned! If you’d like to get your own bar of designer soap, please visit our Soap to the Stars Collection!

More on our journey so far:
2012, GBK Academy Awards (Oscars) Gift Lounge – We’ll be there!
Oscar Preps: The Birth of our Soap Display
Oscars Preps: Making Our Display Soaps
Oscar Preps – Event Guide
Oscars Preps – Making the Soap for the Swag Bags

After we made, wrapped and labeled the 100 bars (50 Cool Rhythm and 50 Soft Rain) for the celebrity swag bags, it was time to package them all!

We had a hard time finding beautiful boxes in the right size and color… apparently, no one makes 3 x 4 x 1 inch set-up boxes anymore!! Unless, of course, you want to order 1000 pieces – custom made. Anyway, after a lot of research and a few headaches, we found some nice boxes.

Having everything we needed, the fun began! This was a 2 step/day process.

Step 1

We had to put a bar of soap and business card in each box.

Step 2

Tie all the bows… which we are not very good at! But we were pretty happy with the result. Here is what 100 celebrities attending the 2012 GBK Academy Awards Gift Lounge will receive from Magic Senses®!

After all the hard work, we thought we’d have some fun and jump in the picture ourselves! Sorry for the bad lighting and everything but it was after midnight… Now, say “Oscars!!!”.

Where is Mike?! Oh, here he is!

Behind the scenes… me – extremely tired. This picture was not supposed to be published but I’ll share it anyway!

Big THANK YOU to Valerie and Nikki from The Artisan Group for representing us at this exciting event! The GBK Academy Awards Gift Lounge is held at The W Hotel in Hollywood, California on February 24-25. Join us on Facebook and Twitter (@magicsenses) for more details and pictures from the event!

If you want to get your own handmade glycerin soap bar of Cool Rhythm, Soft Rain or any of the displayed soaps, please visit our “Soap to the Stars” category at www.MagicSenses.com.

Thank you, all, for supporting and encouraging us throughout the years. We couldn’t have done this without your patronage!!

Now, give me some comment love!