January's Best Beauty Bets

Wrap Stars

If you kept your Barbies sealed in their plastic packaging and can never find a good enough reason to pull out the china, then you may hesitate to unwrap these brightly packaged Jabonería Marianella Handcrafted Soaps ($12 for a seven-ounce bar). But if you do tear away the polka-dot or striped paper, you'll be delighted by vibrant ribbons of color running through a bar rich in cocoa butter, goat's milk, and honey. We say, rip off the wrapping, lather up, and live a little.