May 152013
 

sandalwood shea butter soap by MagicSenses.comWe are thrilled to let you know that our Sandalwood Glycerin soap has just been featured in this fabulous online Wedding Catalog (under “Groomsmen Gifts”), next to so many beautiful handmade products! Wonderful edition!

Thank you, Shana, for including us! You just made our day!

Mar 082013
 

This week we were part of the Art and Gift Fair hosted by the Fashion Club at Delta College. It is one of our favorite shows mainly because of the great feedback and support we receive from our customers and the Fashion Club staff. We are “regulars” at this show and along the years we made a lot of friends! In 2011, we even sponsored their Designers Collection!

Big thanks to everyone, especially to Ms. Leslie Asfour (Director of the Fashion Club program), for promoting Magic Senses!

Here are some of our lovely customers and fans:

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We were very surprised to find out that our participation was mentioned in The Collegian newspaper! We were delighted to be there but this definitely made our day! Big thanks to Jermaine Davis for including us in his article!

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Here is Jermaine posing with our popular Watermelon glycerin soap. delta-college-jermaine

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:

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Lemon Peel Handcrafted Glycerin Soap

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Sweet Pea Delight Glycerin Soap

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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! :)

Dec 262012
 

We have great news! In January 2013, Magic Senses® will be participating to yet another fabulous celebrity gifting lounge hosted by GBK – this time, in honor of the Golden Globes nominees and presenters! How cool is that?!

More on our previous celebrity gifting:
Wrapping Up the 2012 GBK’s Oscars Gift Lounge
Celebrities Who Visited Magic Senses Display at GBK’s Emmy Awards Gift Lounge

At this event, approximately one hundred attending celebrities will receive a bar of either Lemon Peel or Sweet Pea Delight designer glycerin soap. Also, Magic Senses will be displaying a small collection of our most popular handmade soaps, including Grapefruit, Peppermint, Plumeria, Jazzy Jasmine, Feng Shui Wood and our brand new design: “Rising Star” Butterfly soap.

We are very excited to be able to share with celebrities some of our designs that delighted our customers for years! I’d like to take a moment to thank you all for the continuous support and patronage throughout the years. Your feedback, pictures, phone calls, tweets, emails and comments make our day, every day and help us improve our products, ultimately taking our business to the next level.

We’d like to thank Mrs. Valerie Guerrero with The Artisan Group™ for giving us this wonderful opportunity and for representing us at this glamorous event!

We’ll be posting about our journey as we go along. If you’d like to stay in touch, please join us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @magicsenses. More pictures and updates coming soon!

If you’d like to get your own handmade glycerin soap, please visit our website at www.MagicSenses.com.

Dec 122012
 

Hi, everyone! Today I’d like to share with you a few pictures of our lovely fans, customers and supporters. If you have tried our soap and loved it, let us know; send us a picture or some feedback. You can email us at customerservice @ magicsenses . com, tweet us @magicsenses or share your picture on our Facebook page: facebook.com/MagicSenses . We are always delighted to read your messages and see your pictures!

Today, in the spotlight we have:

Mirah with Magic Senses Wake Up Glycerin Soap

Jon with Magic Senses Sandalwood and Mango Papaya soap.

Lovely with Magic Senses Peppermint soap

Julia with Magic Senses Peppermint Soap

Big THANKS to Mirah, Jon, Lovely and Julia for posing with our soap!! <3

More pictures to come! :)

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 – 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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Sep 142012
 

As you know from our announcement on Aug 18, our designer soap will be gifted to attending celebrities at the 2012 GBK Emmy Awards Gift Lounge on Sept. 21-22. One week left!! This time next Friday, I’ll be in Hollywood, spreading the word about Magic Senses® and other fabulous companies & artisans, all of them members of The Artisan Group™!

Since our post, we’ve been very busy making soap and getting ready for both the Holiday season and this luxurious event. For the 100 bars of soap to be gifted to celebrities, we chose a combination of Lavender Rose and Peppermint. On this occasion, both designs received a well-deserved makeover!

We took some pictures along the way. Here we go…

Lavender Rose handmade glycerin soap – one of our most beautiful floral fragrances in a pink/purple “petal” design with green “leaves”. Some colorful glitter completes the glamorous look.

Lavender Rose handmade glycerin soap by www.MagicSenses.com

Peppermint handmade glycerin soap – one of our top sellers during the Holiday season! Here are some pictures of our first loaf in the new design:

Peppermint Soap by www.MagicSenses.com

Packaging went smoothly and now, all 100 bars are waiting for us at the Gift Lounge! :)

 Thank you for taking the time to read this post. We appreciate your continuous support, words of encouragement, emails, orders, tweets, facebook likes and pictures! If you’d like to leave us some comment love, we’ll take it! No questions asked! :)

Both Lavender Rose and Peppermint designer glycerin soap are available at www.MagicSenses.com! Get yours today and grab one for your best friend, too! They make the perfect gift!

Aug 182012
 

Hi, everyone! I am so excited to let you know that, in approximately four weeks, Magic Senses® soap will be displayed and gifted to celebrities attending GBK’s Gift Lounge in honor of the 2012 Emmy Awards Nominees and Presenters! The event will be held in Hollywood, California on September 21-22.

Handcrafted glycerin soap by www.MagicSenses.com

Magic Senses soaps to be displayed at GBK's Emmy Awards Gift Lounge (Sept. 21-22, 2012)

Thanks to The Artisan Group, I have the fantastic opportunity to attend the gift lounge and proudly represent a few elite artisans and companies, mine included. This will be a very nice 4-5 days “vacation” for me before the busy Holiday season begins.

At this event, Magic Senses will display a small collection of designer glycerin soaps; after a lot of thinking and going back and forth, we finally chose Wake Up, Watermelon, Green Apple, Rose Bouquet, Soft Rain and Believe in You Butterfly for our display. It was really hard to choose because we love every design we create…

Besides the display, we’ll be gifting one hundred designer soaps to be included in the celebrity swag bags; for these, we decided to go with a combination of our brand new Lavender Rose design and also Peppermint. 50 bars in each design.

I cannot even begin to tell you how thrilled and honored I am to have this opportunity. I’ll be able to share with celebrities some of the products our customers have enjoyed for so long. I know that some of our soaps will be donated by celebrities to their favorite charities to be auctioned and raise money for different causes and that makes us feel even better!

There is a lot of work involved in participating to this event. I’ll be posting about our journey as we go along. If you’d like to stay in touch, please join us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter @magicsenses. We’ll be posting updates and pictures as often as we can.

Before I finish my post, I’d like to thank all our customers, friends and family for the continuous support and encouragement. Your feedback, pictures, phone calls, tweets, emails and comments on Facebook make our day, every day and help us take our business to the next level. Also, we’d like to thank Mrs. Valerie Guerrero at The Artisan Group for giving us this amazing opportunity.

Below, we have our bio published in the Event Guide created by The Artisan Group for this celebrity gift lounge.