We all want skin with a clear complexion and healthy glow. We oftentimes buy expensive products to eliminate blemishes and keep skin full of moisture. Unfortunately, the majority of soaps found at your local grocery store contain chemicals and additives that adversely affect the texture and appearance of your skin. Nowadays, an increasing number of people are discovering the benefits of glycerin soaps that not only pamper sensitive skin, but also treat common skin conditions.

Many commercial soaps dry out the skin and can even cause unnecessary irritation. With glycerin soap, you can take advantage of its humectant properties, which work to attract moisture. Due to the power of vegetable-based oils, glycerin soaps offers natural benefits that hydrate the skin and keep it supple. Handcrafted glycerin soap also helps treat medical issues, such as eczema, acne, and psoriasis.

Eczema

Traditional soaps generally contain alcohol, lye, petroleum, and other unforgiving chemicals that worsen skin conditions, like eczema. To treat eczema, choose glycerin soap and goat milk soap, which actually encourages skin to heal. Keeping skin moisturized is an effective approach towards easing the symptoms of eczema, which include itchy, dry, thickened skin that usually attacks the face, hands, neck, and legs. Containing gentle pieces of oatmeal, our Milk and Honey handcrafted soap not only looks soothingly attractive, but also smells divine.

Psoriasis

Psoriasis causes skin to exfoliate at a faster rate, where new skin appears before older cells are shed. The condition creates thick patches of itchy and scaly skin on the hands, elbows, back, feet and scalp. While there is no cure for this skin condition, treatments can help control symptoms. For example, replace regular bath soaps with non-irritating glycerin soaps made with natural ingredients. Choose glycerin soaps that contain oatmeal to soothe inflammation. Magic Senses offers a spectacular Oatmeal Collection that provides the relaxing scents of lavender, almond and sandalwood – perfect for treating not only the physical symptoms of a skin condition, but also the anxiety.

Acne

Glycerin soap also serves as an effective natural acne treatment, as it gently cleanses without drying out the skin or aggravating existing blemishes. With nothing but natural ingredients, Magic Senses helps you tame unbalanced skin and reclaim a healthy clear complexion in a variety of well-known and exotic fragrances, including Freesia, Honeysuckle Dew, and Spiced Apple.

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Important health disclaimer: The information presented on this site is for educational purposes only and is not intended to replace advice from your physician or any information found on any product label or packaging. If you have a skin disease, you should always consult with your doctor before using our or any products on your skin.

For most, the holiday season is a time of entertaining. From dinner parties to having drinks with friends to family members visiting for a few days, the time can fly by in a blur of events. It can be too easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of both attending and preparing for all that is happening over the holidays. The details of getting everything ready can take away from actually enjoying your own event.

Of course, if you’re the host, you want everything to be perfect, everyone to feel welcome and comfortable during their time with you. By incorporating some handmade soaps into your preparations, you can ensure that everyone who is a guest will feel special during a stay at your home.  Nothing is more welcoming than being greeted by fresh towels adorned with a beautiful bar of handmade glycerin soap after a long day of travelling, shopping, visiting or attending other festive events.

With so many different colors, styles and scents to choose from, you can provide a unique handmade glycerin soap for each of your guests. You can choose a soap based on the person, or with the wide range of holiday soaps, you can easily find some that will match with your overall decor. Peppermint, cranberry, cinnamon, orange clove and myrrh are just some of the different soaps you can choose from. There are even snowmen and snowflake shaped soaps if you have children visiting or you want to add a little whimsy to a stay with you.

No matter what you decide, not only will the handmade glycerin soaps be appreciated when they are first received, but they will act as a subtle reminder of this special time of year throughout the following months.

Whether you’re looking for inspirational bath and beauty products or a unique gift for the holidays, our Special Edition “Believe In You” Glycerin Soap highlights the splendor of the free-spirited butterfly.

“Believe In You” Glycerin Soap is comprised of a clear vegetable glycerin base with colorful flowers captured in the body of the butterfly. Using one of our most popular fragrances, you’ll emerge from a bath or shower completely refreshed – covered in a soft blanket of aromatic Sweet Pea. Another advantage to using glycerin-based soap is that it leaves the skin soft and accommodates sensitive skin conditions.

This year, we’re proud to have joined SheFinds.com and the “Count Me In” campaign geared towards supporting women-owned businesses. Butterflies are often used to represent change, transformation, and celebration – so it’s only natural that the perfect Magic Senses product to help promote the economic independence and growth of women-owned businesses is our Special Edition “Believe In You” Butterfly Glycerin Soap. 25% of the proceeds from the sale of “Believe in You” will be donated to the cause.

After you’re done making a difference with our ‘Believe in You’ butterflies, perhaps you’d like to sample some of our other soaps found in the Cheerful Butterfly Soap Collection. We offer plumeria-scented glycerin soap butterflies (shown to the right), which truly brings smiles out of hiding. Available in Pink, Blue, and Confetti, you’ll almost hesitate washing with such an attractive product, as many consumers decide to use our soaps as eye-catching decoration for bathrooms and guest bedrooms.

When ordering our special edition butterfly soap, please allow 1 to 2 days for handcrafting your very own creations – sealed with love and made with all-natural ingredients: vegetable glycerin, water, natural coloring, and fragrance oils. Since handmade products slightly vary in color and design, our glycerin soap makes the perfect one-of-a-kind gift for birthdays, wedding gifts, and Christmas.

Delivering the essence of a Mediterranean floral gem, we’ve captured the vibrant colors and distinct fragrance of the sweet pea with our handmade Sweet Pea Delight glycerin soap. Emerging in 17^th century Italy, the sweet pea fragrance we know today was later crossbred during the 1800s to create a Victorian era sensation that still captures the attention of gardeners, and appears in a variety of health and beauty products.

Thanks to skin-soothing vegetable glycerin and fragrance oils, our Sweet Pea Delight soap gently lathers into a relaxing foam, urging your body to surrender to the enchanting scent of one of the most aromatic flowers in the world. We’ve also harnessed the rich, delicate nature of the sweet pea with natural coloring and a translucent pink base decorated with lavender, pink and white curls – all handmade and hand cut with love.

Breathe in the entrancing floral scent of Sweet Pea Delight to prepare the body and mind for a soothing escape into newfound relaxation and rejuvenation. There’s something almost sensuous in the way the fragrance of sweet pea envelops the body. Vegetable glycerin soaps provide beneficial moisturizing, softens the skin, and accommodates medical sensitivities, such as eczema and psoriasis. The gentle nature of vegetable glycerin soaps also makes Sweet Pea Delight a safe, stimulating experience for babies and children.

From holiday gift giving to thoughtful gestures, spread the joy of handmade vegetable glycerin soaps by choosing the mesmerizing floral scent of Sweet Pea Delight. Keep in mind that the flower is also special to friends and family celebrating birthdays in the month of April. In aromatherapy circles, the unique scent of sweet pea has the power to uplift the spirits, instill courage and strength, as well as inspire love and devotion. While the popular flower typically blossoms between March and November, you can enjoy the sweet fragrance all-year round with Magic Senses Sweet Pea Delight.

Orange Clove Glycerin Soap

It’s really no surprise that the Orange Clove Glycerin Soap is one of our most popular holiday soaps, if not the most popular. In 2007 and 2008, it was the top selling soap for the holidays and when you breathe in the fragrance of this soap, you’ll know why. The combination of cloves with oranges, and a hint of nutmeg and cinnamon, are traditional scents used during the holiday season. If you hold this soap under your nose, close your eyes and inhale, you’ll think it’s that time of year already.

Although some soaps and candles have an orange fragrance that can be a bit sweet and overwhelming, this isn’t the case with the Orange Clove Soap. By using orange scented fragrance oil, the soap has a fresh, sharp orange smell. It’s almost as if you had peeled an orange yourself or poured a glass of cool Florida orange juice.

Saying that, the sharp zing of the orange scent, makes this an ideal soap for starting your day. While the cloves have a smooth, sultry fragrance, especially when combined with nutmeg and cinnamon, it’s the orange that will get you moving. The combination of scents used in this soap is something to experience, as the initial smell is of the cloves and it ends with the orange.

As with all our soaps, this not only smells great, but it’s handmade using vegetable glycerin, so it’s pretty to look at and great for your skin. But remember, this is a seasonal soap, so it isn’t made all year round. We currently only make it from September to March, so don’t miss out on your chance to enjoy this popular glycerin soap!

Note: It is our Featured soap of the month in November. It is also featured in our Mini Holiday Gift Set, next to Myrrh. On the website, it can be found under our Holiday Soap Collection or Fruity Glycerin Soap Category. Buy yours today!

Mountain Rain is one of the latest additions to the Magic Senses family of handmade glycerin soaps. As with all of our other soaps, the time taken to perfect the look, feel and smell of Mountain Rain is more than evident.

By using gardenia, Mountain Rain has a floral scent that is refreshing instead of overwhelming. Just leaving the soap out in your bathroom will make it one of the best smelling rooms in the house. Plus, the blue and green “raindrops” mean that not only is the soap functional, but it’s pretty to look at also.

The undertones of lavender, patchouli and vanilla make using this soap a relaxing and calming experience. When you lather up with Mountain Rain, you will feel like you have been whisked away to a fragrant English country garden in the spring. By closing your eyes and breathing in this lovely fragrance, your cares will just melt away.

Of course, because our Mountain Rain soap is predominantly made with vegetable glycerin, it is extremely moisturizing. Whether using it as a hand soap or when you are in the shower or bath, the soap will quickly form luxurious foaming bubbles. Not only will the scent relax you, but your skin will thank you. The more you use any glycerin soaps, the softer your skin will become. As an added benefit, not only will your skin be moisturized, it will be healthier and look younger!

One thing to remember is that glycerin-based soaps are soft soaps. This means that they can melt easier than other soaps, so it may not last as long as harder, commercially produced soaps. On the other hand, the fact that Mountain Rain soap smells and feels so great will probably mean that you will want to use it more anyway!

I am excited to announce that we have introduced e-gift certificates! You can now buy them and then send them via e-mail. And you don’t even have to send the whole amount to one person! 

Let’s say you buy a $75 gift certificate; from your account you can send $30 to one person and $45 to another one!

You are not sure what soap or body butter he or she would like? Well, send them a Gift Certificate and they can choose for themselves!

I am delighted to announce that now you can buy our handcrafted glycerin soap on Etsy.com! So far, we have listed only the Cheerful Butterflies Collection. More to come!

Please visit us at: http://www.MagicSenses.etsy.com