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Spring and summer are a time of year when gifts are often given. Graduations, birthdays and other celebrations often call for simple gifts that the recipients will enjoy. If you have ever been to the Hawaiian Islands, then you know that one of the well-known products from the Islands also make excellent gifts, and that is gourmet. This is available in both bar and liquid gel forms, and are scented with fragrances familiar to those who have had the chance to visit these delightful islands. Gourmet from the Hawaiian Islands make a perfect spring or summer gift for your friends and family.

You will want to think about finding handmade natural soap from the Islands. Local Handmade Soaps are hand-crafted by people living in Hawaii, and the ingredients that go into the gourmet soaps reflect what is available for use there locally.

Based on local ingredients, you will find a wide variety of Handmade Soaps from Hawaii available online. Fruits that can be found on the Islands often find their way into these delightful gourmet soaps, such as mango, pineapple, guava, passion fruit and strawberry. Another benefit that comes from using gourmet soaps is that even though they smell fantastic, they are completely calorie free, so you can enjoy these scents and not do damage to your waistline. Flower fragrances are also popular in gourmet soap bars. These can include orchid, gardenia and plumeria. Nuts also make their way into soap as a prime ingredient, and can include coconut, macadamia nut and kukui nut. Extra oils from palms and olives are also added to gourmet, to add a moisturizing effect to every bar.

Handmade natural soap from Hawaii that contains palm and coconut oils also create a very useful byproduct. During the processing and cooking of the soap ingredients, by combining coconut and palm oils the gourmet soap producer also creates glycerin. Glycerin is highly valued by soap artisans because it is a well-known moisturizer for the skin, perfect for smoothing and relieving dry skin. By checking the labels of gourmet soaps, you will see if glycerin is added, and if it is, you can enjoy the rich moisturizing qualities that will be found in that Hawaiian Island soap.

In addition to these lovely soaps, you could create a welcome gift by adding in a body wash. These come in many of the same fragrances as the bar soaps, and thus you can put together a super package for someone you love.

You will find crafted in Hawaii are available from online soap boutiques.

Wayne Hemrick writes about--Gourmet Soaps