Feb 132013
 

Feng Shui Wood Glycerin Soap by www.MagicSenses.comAnd the Award for BEST DESIGNER SOAP COLLECTION goes to… MAGIC SENSES!! Yay! What an event! For two consecutive days, a small collection of our soap was displayed at GBK’s Golden Globe Awards Gift Lounge hosted at L’Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills. Approximately 90 to 100 celebrities and guests visited our display and were gifted our soap in their swag bag.

You probably have read about our preparations and packaging for this event from our previous posts:

Let the fun begin!
Here we come!

Now, it’s time to find out which of our soap designs stole the stage at this event. And we are proud to say, without hesitation: Feng Shui Wood!

For those of you who haven’t tried our Feng Shui Wood soap, let us tell you a little bit about it. It’s one of our most popular scents for men; the design resembles the trunks of two trees and just like real trees, the design of our soap “tree trunks” is one-of-a-kind! The woodsy scent is very pleasant and calming, almost earthy.

We’d like to thank Mr. Reggie Lee and Mr. Grant Bowler for posing with our Feng Shui Wood soap bar; we’d like to also thank Mr. Titus Welliver for posing with our Peppermint glycerin soap, another top favorite scent!

Reggie Lee of "Grimm" said he could smell our Feng Shui Wood soap forever!

Reggie Lee of “Grimm” said he could smell our Feng Shui Wood soap forever!

Grant Bowler of "Defiance" and the Lifetime movie "Liz & Dick" posing with Magic Senses Feng Shui Wood Glycerin Soap

Grant Bowler of “Defiance” &”Liz & Dick” posing with our Feng Shui Wood Soap

Titus Welliver posing with our Peppermint glycerin soap.

Titus Welliver of “The Good Wife” and “Sons of Anarchy” smelling our Peppermint glycerin soap.

Titus Welliver posing with our Peppermint glycerin soap.

Titus Welliver of “The Good Wife” and “Sons of Anarchy” posing with our Peppermint glycerin soap.

However, I think what took us by surprise this time, was the Twitter love… all the retweets, the “thank you” notes and feedback we received from celebrities and supporters! Here are just a few of them:

What other celebrities visited our display and received a soap bar in their swag bag? Well, here are just a few of them:

  • Robert Herjavec of the Shark Tank,
  • Joyful Drake of “Let’s Stay Together”,
  • Tilky Jones of “Nashville”,
  • Rex Lee of “Entourage” & “Suburgatory”,
  • Liza Lapira of “Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23″
  • Sarah Drew of “Grey’s Anatomy”
  • Tempestt Bledsoe of “The Cosby Show” and “Guys with Kids”
  • Laura Saltman of “Access Hollywood”
  • Oscar Nunez of “The Office”
  • David Costabile of the movie “Lincoln” and the series “Suits”
  • EJ Bonilla of “Revenge”
  • Sharon Pierre-Louis of the movie “Django Unchained” and the TV show “The Lying Game”
  • Jerrika Hinton of “Grey’s Anatomy”
  • Erica Dasher of “Jane by Design”
  • Erinn Hayes of “Guys with Kids”
  • Shemar Moore of “Criminal Minds”
  • Rhea Seehorn of “Whitney”
  • Ian Fleming of “The Neighbors”
  • Kevin Brown from “30 Rock”
  • Loretta Devine of “Grey’s Anatomy” and “The Client List”
  • Bellamy Young of “Scandal”
  • Aldis Hodge of “Leverage” (one of our favorites <3 ) –> yes, Aldis, whenever possible, we still watch repeats of “Leverage” while wrapping soap. :)
  • … and the list goes on and on.

We want to thank you all (customers, fans, supporters, friends and The Artisan Group members) for your kind and continuous support. We couldn’t have done this without you!

Jan 092013
 

Handmade Glycerin Soap by MagicSenses.comHappy New Year, everyone!! May 2013 bring you peace, joy and prosperity!

In my previous post, I was telling you about our participation to GBK’s Golden Globes Gift Lounge and about the fact that almost 100 celebrities will receive a bar of either Sweet Pea Delight or Lemon Peel Glycerin soap at this fabulous event!

Well, 100 bars of our soap have been made, sliced, wrapped, labeled, packaged, put in swag bags, shipped and, yay (!), delivered to the event location! Phew! Yes, we’ve been very busy… our well deserved vacation was more of a… marathon “working” vacation and, even if we were totally exhausted after the Holiday season, we enjoyed every second of it! Our designer soap bars are now in Beverly Hills, waiting for our lovely “Ambassadors”, Valerie and Tara; they will be representing us at this awesome gift lounge.

Let me share a few behind-the-scenes pictures:

Sweet Pea Delight Handcrafted Glycerin Soap

Lemon Peel Handcrafted Glycerin Soap

Handmade glycerin soap by Magic Senses

Lemon Peel and Sweet Pea Delight Glycerin SoapLemon Peel and Sweet Pea Delight Glycerin Soap

Sweet Pea Delight Glycerin Soap

Lemon Peel Glycerin Soap

Handcrafted Glycerin Soap by MagicSenses.com

Handcrafted Glycerin Soap by MagicSenses.com

Big THANK YOU to Valerie and Tara from The Artisan Group for representing us at this exciting event! GBK’s Golden Globes Gift Lounge is held at an exclusive location in Beverly Hills, California on January 11-12… that’s in three days!! Please 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 Lemon Peel, Sweet Pea Delight 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. Your emails, phone calls, feedback, comments, greeting cards, “thank you” notes and  pictures make us smile every day! We couldn’t have done this without you!

Now, give me some comment love! :)

Oct 112012
 

GBK’s Emmy Awards Gift Lounge at The W Hotel in Hollywood was a HUGE SUCCESS! I met a lot of people and made quite a few friends! The celebrities were a delight to talk to!

I’ll post a few pictures of the celebrities who visited our display – they all received our soap as a gift in their swag bags (even if they didn’t pose with our soap). If you haven’t read our previous posts, at this event, we gifted a combination of our Peppermint and Lavender Rose soaps.

Once again, I want to thank Mrs. Valerie Guerrero from The Artisan Group for giving me this fantastic opportunity. I had a lot of fun and am very proud to have represented the members of The Artisan Group! They are all so talented and creative!

Enjoy! First, let’s start with the celebrities who posed with our soap:

Dot-Marie Jones - Fox's Glee (Shannon Beiste) (Nominated for Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series)

Dot-Marie Jones – Fox’s Glee (Shannon Beiste) (Nominated for Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series)

Dot-Marie Jones - Fox's Glee (Shannon Beiste) (Nominated for Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series)

Dot-Marie Jones – Fox’s Glee (Shannon Beiste) (Nominated for Best Guest Actress in a Comedy Series)

Fiona Gubelmann - "Wilfred" (Jenna)

Fiona Gubelmann – “Wilfred” (Jenna)

Khandi Alexander - HBO's Treme (Ladonna Batiste-Williams)

Khandi Alexander – HBO’s Treme (Ladonna Batiste-Williams)

Fiona Gubelmann - "Wilfred" (Jenna)

Fiona Gubelmann – “Wilfred” (Jenna) smelling our Rose Bouquet soap

Fiona Gubelmann - "Wilfred" (Jenna)

Fiona Gubelmann – “Wilfred” (Jenna) in a candid photo with our “Believe in You” Butterfly soap

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Aldis Hodge

Aldis Hodge – TNT’s “Leverage”

Aaron Staton – AMC’s “Mad Men” (Ken Cosgrove) (Show Nominated for Best Drama Series)

Andrew Howard – “Hatfields & McCoys” (‘Bad’ Frank Phillips) (Show Nominated for Best Miniseries or Movie)

Erik King – Showtime’s”Dexter “(James Doakes)

Eden Sher – ABC’s “The Middle” (Sue Heck)

Eion Bailey – ABC’s “Once Upon a Time” (August W. Booth)

David Marciano – Showtime’s “Homeland” (Virgil) (Show Nominated for Best Drama Series) WON EMMY!

Creed Bratton – NBC’s “The Office” (Creed Cherokee Jack)

Ethan Cutkosky – Showtime’s “Shameless” (Carl Gallagher)

Christopher Scott – FOX’s SO You Think You Can Dance (Nominated for Outstanding Choreography)

Brenda Strong – ABC’s “Desperate Housewives” (Mary-Alice Young) (Nominated for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for Desperate Housewives) ; “Dallas” (Ann Ewing)

Anthony Anderson – NBC’s “Guys with Kids” (Gary)

Dorian Brown – FX’s “Wilfred” (Kristen Newman)

Chelsie Hightower – ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” (Season 8-15); (Show Nominated for Best Reality Competition); “So You Think You can Dance” Season 4

Camille Grammer – Bravo’s “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

Edwin Hodge – “Red Dawn” (Danny); “Cougar Town” (Wade)

Bonnie Bedelia – NBC’s “Parenthood” (Camille Braverman)

Barry Corbin – FX’s Anger Management (Ed)

Carly Chaikin – ABC’s “Suburgatory” (Dalia Royce)

Cameron Monaghan – Showtime’s “Shameless” (Ian Gallagher)

Bruno Tonioli – ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” (Show Nominated for Best Reality Competition)

Annalynne McCord – CW’s 90210 (Naomi Clark)

Vanessa Lengies – FOX’s “Glee” (Sugar Motta Quinn Fabray)

Tony Dovolani – ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars” (Season 2-15); (Show Nominated for Best Reality Competition)

Susie Essman – HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm (Susie Greene) (Show Nominated for Best Comedy Series)

Tony Denison – TNT’s “Major Crimes”( Lt. Andy Flynn) ; “The Closer” (Lt. Andy Flynn)

Shanola Hampton – Showtime’s “Shameless” (Veronica Fisher)

Russell Hornsby – NBC’s “Grimm” (Hank Griffin)

RJ Mitte – AMC’s “Breaking Bad” (Walter White, Jr) (Show Nominated for Best Drama Series)

Rico Rodriguez – ABC’s “Modern Family” (Manny Delgado) (Show Nominated for Best Comedy Series) WON EMMY!!

Reid Scott – HBO’s “Veep” (Show Nominated for Best Comedy Series)

Mayim Bialik – CBS’s “The Big Bang Theory” (Amy Farrah Fowler) (Nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series)

Navid Negahban – Showtime’s “Homeland” (Abu Nazir) (Show Nominated for Best Drama Series) WON EMMY!

Matthew Moy – CBS’s “2 Broke Girls” (Han Lee)

Mare Winningham – History Channel’s “Hatfields & McCoys” (Sally McCoy) (Nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries)

Maggie Elizabeth Jones – FOX’s “Ben and Kate” (Maddie)

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Raini Rodriguez – Disney’s “Austin & Ally” (Trish)

Stacey Tookey – FOX’s “So You Think You Can Dance” (Nominated for Outstanding Choreography); (Show Nominated for Best Reality Competition)

Tamala Jones – ABC’s “Castle”

Stephanie Drapeau – NBC’s “Medium” (Autumn Colville)

Max Charles – ABC’s “The Neighbors” (Max Weaver); “The Amazing Spider Man” (Peter Parker)

Nat Faxon – FOX’s “Ben and Kate” (Ben Fox), “Bad Teacher” (Mark)

Tony Hale – HBO’s “Veep” (Gary Walsh) (Show Nominated for Best Comedy Series)

Michael Arden – FX’s “Anger Management” (Patrick)

Giancarlo Esposito – NBC’s “Revolution” (Capt. Tom Neville); “Breaking Bad” (Gustavo ‘Gus’ Fring) (Nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series)

Mackenzie Aladjem – Showtime’s “Nurse Jackie” (Fiona Peyton)

Lisa Edelstein – CBS’ “The Good Wife” (Celeste Serrano); “House M.D.” (Dr. Lisa Cuddy); Lifetime’s “Blue-eyed butcher” (Kelly Siegler)

Lindsay Pulsipher – “Hatfields & McCoys” (Roseanna McCoy) (Show Nominated for Best Miniseries or Movie); HBO’s “True Blood” (Crystal Norris)

Krista Allen – CW’s “L.A. Complex”

Keith David – “Cloud Atlas” (Joe Napier – Kupaka & Ankor Api); “Platoon” (King); “Crash” (Lt. Dixon)

Kearran Giovanni – TNT’s “Major Crimes” (Detective Amy Sykes)

Joanne Froggatt – “Downton Abbey” (Nominated for Best Supporting Actress in a Drama Series)

Kate Flannery – NBC’s “The Office” (Meredith Palmer)

Karina Smirnoff – ABC’s “Dancing with the Stars” (Show Nominated for Best Reality Competition)

Judi Shekoni – “The Twilight Saga Breaking Dawn” – Part 2 (Zafrina)

Joyful Drake – BET’s “Let’s Stay Together” (Tasha Woodson)

Joshua Malina – ABC’s “ Scandal” (David Rosen)

Gregg Binkley – FOX’s “Raising Hope” (Barney)

Jim O’Heir – NBC’s “Parks and Recreations” (Jerry Gergich)

Jim Carter – PBS’ “Downton Abbey” (Mr. Carson) (Nominated for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series);(Show Nominated for Best Drama Series)

Jessica Clark – HBO’s “True Blood” (Lilith)

Jessica Parker Kennedy – “5050” (Jackie); CW’s “Secret Circle” (Melissa Glaser); “The Nearlyweds” (Casey)

Jason Ritter – NBC’s “Parenthood” (Mark Cyr) (Nominated for Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series)

James Remar – Showtime “Dexter” (Harry Morgan)

Jackson Pace – Showtime’s’ “Homeland” (Chris Brody) (Show Nominated for Best Drama Series)

Hugh Bonneville – PBS’ “Downton Abbey” (Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham) (Nominated for Best Leading Actor in a Drama Series) (Show Nominated for Best Drama Series)

Zach McGowan – Showtime’s Shameless (Jody Silverman)

Wayne Knight – TV Land’s “The Exes” (Haskell Lutz); “Seinfeld”

Ed Weeks – FOX’s “The Mindy Project” (Jeremy Reed); Zoe Jarman – FOX’s “The Mindy Project” (Betsy Putch); ABC’s “Modern Family” (Lindsay); NBC’s “The Office” (Carla)

Madeline Zima – USA’s “Royal Pains” (Toby Thompson)

Mark Margolis – AMC’s “Breaking Bad” (Tio Salamanca) (Nominated for Best Guest Actor in a Comedy Series); (Show Nominated For Best Drama Series)

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May 202012
 

As most of you know by now, Magic Senses® will be gifting the Press some of our Green Apple glycerin soap at GBK’s 2012 MTV Movie Awards Gift Lounge! So we decided to start the party early by hosting a giveaway for our fans and customers!

Green Apple is one of our most popular fruity fragrances: very refreshing scent in a beautifully designed soap bar!

Green Apple Handcrafted Glycerin Soap is available on our website at www.MagicSenses.com for $6.99. (6 oz)

For a chance to win, please keep reading!

GIVEAWAY DETAILS:

Open to US residents only.

Prize: 1 bar of Green Apple Handcrafted Glycerin Soap

Winners: 3

How to enter (required): Visit our website at  MagicSenses.com and then come back and leave a comment telling us the name of your favorite product!

For additional entries – these are totally optional (!); if you decide to do any of these, please leave a new comment for each additional entry:

1. one additional entry if you join us on Facebook;
2. one additional entry if you follow us on Twitter & send a tweet about this giveaway, please post the link (once a day only);
3. one additional entry if you sign up for our Newsletter;
4. one additional entry if you blog about this Giveaway with a link back to www.MagicSenses.com
5. one additional entry if you follow our Blog via email (no post, no e-mail for you).
6. one additional entry if you follow us on Google+.

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This soap giveaway ends on Sunday, June 17th, 2012 (end of day). Don’t hesitate to tell your friends and family!

* All comments are moderated because we receive a lot of spam. So, your message will not show immediately.
*No purchase necessary.
*Please make sure you leave a comment for each additional entry so you get credited.
*Also, please make sure you typed in the correct email address so we can contact you in case you win.
*The winners will be chosen via random.org and will be announced on our blog and via e-mail.

Good luck!! And THANK YOU for visiting Magic Senses® Blog!

Apr 182012
 

Our gifting continues! So what’s the next BIG event we are going to be part of? Well, if you are our superfan on Facebook or Twitter, you probably already know that we’ll be gifting our soap to members of the Press at the 2012 GBK’s MTV Movie Awards Gift Lounge. This event will be held at the L’Ermitage Hotel in Beverly Hills, CA on June 1 – 2. That’s in 6 weeks from now!

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

Mar 232012
 

And the Oscar For Best Soap Company goes to… waaaaait… MAGIC SENSES!! Yes, our soap was a HUGE success amongst the celebrities, attending guests and members of the press! We are delighted to have received great feedback and some national press on our glycerin soap; Watermelon was the most popular one from the 6 designs we had displayed.

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. Iqbal 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:

Frankie Muniz visited Magic Senses display at the 2012 GBK Oscars Gift Lounge  Chelsea Rendon visited Magic Senses display at the 2012 GBK Oscars Gift Lounge   Ali Fedotowsky visited Magic Senses display at the 2012 GBK Oscars Gift Lounge  Dallas Roberts visited Magic Senses display at the 2012 GBK Oscars Gift Lounge   

 

     

Dec 192011
 

Hello, everyone! I just wanted to share our half-page to be published in the Event Guide for the GBK Academy Awards Gift Lounge. We hope you’ll like it. Big thanks to The Artisan Group for including us! A link to the Event Guide showing all the artisans coming soon!

You can find our soap bars at www.MagicSenses.com. Some of these bars may be out of stock due to the huge demand but, don’t worry! We’ll be making more!