Lifestyle & Features

Masbate may be best known as the Philippines’ rodeo capital, thanks to its annual Rodeo Masbateño Festival, but this island-province in the Visayas offers more than just strong cowboys, tough cowgirls, and cattle to be tamed for entertainment. It also offers tourists, particularly nature lovers, several splendid destinations that may lead them to think that they’re on the edge of …

A study by Watsons Insights on Shoppers Experience (WISE), a research division of the A.S. Watson Group, the world’s largest international health and beauty retailer, says 66 percent of Filipinos believe they have good knowledge on health, but 57 percent surprisingly do not exercise regularly to stay healthy. 

Dermatology company Galderma announced recently that this year marks the 70th anniversary of Cetaphil, its highly regarded brand that offers a wide range of skincare products that are clinically proved to strengthen and protect even the most sensitive skin and ensure its health. 

A nine-piece black-and-white photography exhibition at the Yuchengco Museum reveals the hardships that overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), especially domestic workers, endure in France. 

Shopping for the best beauty and health products just got even more exciting and satisfying as Watsons, Asia’s leading health and beauty retailer, launched late last month its “Members Get More” campaign, where members get more savings, more points, and more value in more than 500 Watsons stores nationwide. 

For many people, milk chocolate is a delightful treat that never fails to bring a feeling of luxurious indulgence. Its rich, creamy taste gives sinful pleasure, and if combined with soft, chocolate chiffon cake, the experience is more than doubled. 

Does the summer heat make you want to pack your bags and hit the beach? You could be lying on your mat right now, sipping ice-cold piña colada or splashing water all around to your heart’s content. What if you can have that trip for free? 

More than 500 years after Europeans sailed across previously unexplored oceans and set foot on what is now the Philippines, Filipinos now have the chance to explore and acquaint themselves with Europe without ever setting foot there through Layag: European Classics in Filipino, the first anthology of its kind that gathers the Filipino translations of 14 short-story classics from 11 …

In an effort to share with the world the priceless collections that have “nourished the minds of countless generations of Filipino students,” the University of Santo Tomas (UST) and UnionBank of the Philippines unveiled the school’s massive, multivolume catalogues of rare books and periodicals at the Edsa Shangri-La hotel in Mandaluyong City on May 5.