MusK gift set, Christmas magic

Three Christmas soaps, two beeswax ornaments and one box you do not need to wrap. Christmas Magic comes in a small MuSK gift box made of kraft paper — a ready-made present with nothing left to think up or add.

Three soaps, three personalities

Christmas Cottage is a little gingerbread house with a snowy roof and a cinnamon stick for a chimney. It smells of sweet orange and Ceylon cinnamon, and every cottage is decorated on its own, so no two are alike. The cinnamon stick is purely decorative — take it out when you start using the cottage.

Warming Cinnamon puts cinnamon into the soap twice: as a pure essential oil and as ground cinnamon right in the soap mass. Cocoa butter gives it its firmness. St Nicholas, with his red hat, white bobble and bushy beard, smiles out of the box and smells different from his two neighbours: of lime and grapefruit, pine needles, clove and cedar. We cut every bar by hand with a wire, so no two St Nicholases pull the same face, and a strip of activated charcoal also found its way into the recipe.

All three soaps are vegan and palm-oil-free, and we make them by the cold process; we leave in them the glycerine that forms naturally during saponification. Their scent comes from pure essential oils, which is why they also contain natural fragrance allergens — our article on allergens in cosmetics explains why there is no need to turn them into a bogeyman. In this set, beeswax is found only in the two Christmas ornaments; the soaps contain none.

To make the soaps last as long as possible, let them dry out between washes on a soap dish that lets the water drain away. You will find more festive shapes and scents among our Christmas soaps and more combinations among our gift sets. To lather is human. Giving soap for Christmas is human too.