Holiday-scented beauty

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With natural ingredients like organic cocoa and a dash of real cinnamon, this spicy-sweet scrub smells so much like real gingerbread, you'll be tempted to lick it. Plus, it will leave dull winter skin feeling refreshed. Bella Lucc Gingerbread Crme sugar scrub, $27, at Haven Spa, 150 Mercer St between W Houston and Prince Sts (212-343-3515)

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Take one whiff of this candy-red body wash and you'll be craving Mom's home-baked apple pie. Bath & Body Works Signature Collection Holiday Traditions Winter Candy Apple shower gel, $11, at Bath & Body Works, locations throughout the city; visit bathandbodyworks.com

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Get into preparty mode by rubbing this brandy-, hazelnut- and cinnamon-scented solid moisturizer onto your skin. Lush Fresh Handmade Cosmetics Once a Year massage bar, $9, at Lush, locations throughout the city; visit lushusa.com

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Mix the clean, piney Winter Frost flakes with the spice-spiked Gingerbread ones into your bathtub, and watch them dissolve, diffusing an explosion of holiday aromas. Simple Pleasures Winter Frost bath confetti, $4; and Gingerbread bath confetti, $4; both at Nordstrom Rack, 60 E 14th St between Broadway and Fourth Ave (212-220-2080)

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Girlfriends will be begging their man to make out under the mistletoe if he lathers up with this almond-custard-like whipped shaving cream. Taylor of Old Bond Street almond shaving cream, $18, at MiN New York, 117 Crosby St between E Houston and Prince Sts (212-206-6366, min.com)

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Not only does this strongly-spiced cinnamon soap bar smell like happiness, but it spreads joy, too: Plant the container, which is embedded with Blue Spruce seeds, and it will one day flourish into an evergreen tree. Pangea Organics Malagasy cinnamon with cassia and cloves soap, $8, at Whole Foods, locations throughout the city; visit wholefoodsmarket.com

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Warning: You may be tempted to spread this gooey pumpkin concoction onto a crust and eat it, but we recommend you rejuvenate your skin with it instead. Peter Thomas Roth pumpkin enzyme peel, $44, at Sephora, locations throughout the city; visit sephora.com

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Plump your pout with this peppermint-scented, shimmery gloss, which can also mask bad breath during the countdown for the ball drop. Victoria's Secret Beauty Rush Star Bright lip gloss in dandy cane, $7, at Victoria's Secret, locations throughout the city; visit victoriassecret.com

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Your secret family recipe for cranberry relish has nothing on this berry-infused exfoliator. Burt's Bees cranberry-and-pomegranate sugar scrub, $13, at Whole Foods, locations throughout the city; visit wholefoodsmarket.com

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Instead of blacking out by downing one too many New Year's Eve Jell-O shots, play with these jiggly hand soaps that are offered in the following scents: green Peppermint Stick, red Christmas Cheer (champagne and sugarplum) and yellow Holiday Spice (nutmeg, pumpkin and maple). SpaLab Jiggle Jangle Jingle soaps, $6 each, at SpaLab, 40 W 36th St between Fifth and Sixth Aves (212-695-7711, spalabnyc.com)

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This absolutely indulgent cream will sink into your skin and bring back visions of frosting sugar cookies during your childhood. Cake Beauty Desserted Island supreme body mousse, $18, at cakebeauty.com

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You might actually consider skipping dessert if you know you'll end the night by brushing with this cinnamon toothpaste. Tom's of Maine Whole Care cinnamon-clove fluoride toothpaste, $5, at Ricky's NYC, locations throughout the city; visit rickysnyc.com

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Sweet peppermint freshens up even the most lackluster locks. Malin+Goetz peppermint shampoo, $20, at Malin+Goetz, 177 Seventh Ave between 20th and 21st Sts (212-727-3777, malinandgoetz.com)

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If they call you the cookie monster, you'll be a fan of this buttery, vanilla-cookie-scented shaving lotion. Eos ultra-moisturizing shave cream in vanilla bliss, $3, at Duane Reade, locations throughout the city; visit duanereade.com.