Category: WELLNESS

Watsons PH Upgrades Delivery Services, Here Are 3 Easy Ways To Shop For Your Health Essentials

The Express Delivery Service feature on the Watsons app has now expanded to Visayas and Mindanao. Among the areas covered are Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, and Davao.

Maintaining optimal well-being is a challenging responsibility to one’s self, with or without a pandemic. While most of the reasons why we fail to sustain our health rituals differ among individuals, you would agree with me that our compliance with our health “doses and routines” are directly affected by our accessibility to shopping for our favorite brands. This challenge to our health habits is understood well by Watsons. Thus, the Philippines’ leading retailer of health essentials invested in their shopping and delivery services. You now have three options for hassle-free shopping.

Option 1: Express Delivery Go through the Watsons PH App

With a minimal fee of Php50 flat delivery fee nationwide, you can enjoy Watsons’ wide range of health and beauty products through Watsons Express Delivery Go. It is now available not just in Metro Manila and nearby cities, but also in Cagayan de Oro, Cebu, and Davao! Download the Watsons App at https://mshare.app.aswatson.com/share/watsons/wtcph/api/v1.0.0/app/share?type=HBA

Watch this reel for the complete guide on how to shop using the Watsons PH app: https://www.instagram.com/reel/CgosKk8hQcE/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Option 2: Call & Delivery through the mobile number of the Watsons branch nearest to you

Simply prepare your list of favorite Watsons products. Then, look for the mobile number of the nearest Watsons branch. Visit this link for the directory: https://www.watsons.com.ph/call-and-delivery-list-of-stores. The hours for receiving of orders are 10:00 A.M. – 4:00 P.M. Delivery follows from 11:00AM TO 6:00PM.

Option 3: Click & Collect through the Watsons PH app

Aside from delivery services, customers also have the option to order products and collect them in-store within 30 minutes after placing the order via the Click & Collect feature of the Watsons App. You have over 900 Watsons stores in the Phillippines to choose from! Download the Watsons App at https://mshare.app.aswatson.com/share/watsons/wtcph/api/v1.0.0/app/share?type=HBA

The app is also loaded with exclusive deals and offers stackable coupons that will make the shopping experience budget-friendly and convenient at the same time.

Indeed, Watsons has invested in online and phone delivery services to give us the convenience that we deserve in fulfilling our health, wellness and beauty, and grooming needs. With these shopping and delivery options, you do not have any reasons to skip that routine! The question is, which way would you want to restock your health essentials, through Express Delivery Go, Call & Deliver or Click & Collect?

ABOUT WATSONS
Watsons is part of the Health and Beauty Store chain of A.S Watson, the largest health, beauty, cosmetics, and perfumery retailer in the world. Today, Watsons H&B Asia is the leading health and beauty chain on the continent with successful operations in 37 countries.

In 2002, A.S. Watson Group joined hands with SM Prime Holdings Inc., the Philippines’ leading shopping mall developer. The partnership brought about the first Watsons stores in SM Megamall and The Podium (Ortigas). Today, Watsons operates 900+ stores in the Philippines serving more than 100,000 customers per day.

Watsons strives to ensure that its customers get the best value for their money through monthly promotions, special offers, and continuous consumer marketing programs. Each Watsons store houses nothing but the best brands from top manufacturers all over the world and also carries its own
competitively priced, high-quality private labels and brands. With more than 1000 brands ranging from medicines, cosmetics, and fragrances to personal care items and general merchandise, Watsons Your Personal Store delivers only the best health, wellness, and beauty solutions to each and every customer.

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Help Spark The Energy With Berocca Performance

Let 2022 Be The Year You Bounce Back, Find Your Focus, and Push the Pace!

As we continue to stay productive and power through the humdrum of our hybrid work schedules, we are also finding ways to address the inevitable burnouts and daily energy gaps. Sometimes all it takes to relieve that stress is a quick breather away from our work desks to refocus or to step outside for a change of scenery or to try something completely new so we can push the pace once more and bounce back.

  • Giving you your much-needed boost of positivity to help you feel at your best, one effervescent tablet of Multivitamins and Minerals like Berocca Performance helps enhance your physical energy and mental sharpness, so you can SparkTheEnergy in whatever you need to do! With B Vitamins, Ascorbic Acid, Calcium, Magnesium, and Zinc, a glass of Multivitamins and Minerals (Berocca
    Performance) is clinically proven to help improve concentration and memory and decrease bodily fatigue for better fitness levels with proper diet and exercise. Shop for your Multivitamins and Minerals here:
    https://shp.ee/ycfnigt

This 2022, Berocca Performance continues to curate and offer free activities designed to help you recharge and destress, grind and be productive, and get the boost that you need to spark the energy. All of these were designed with you in mind – so you can continue to live your life with all that positive energy.

Berocca Performance Summer Dance Camp

Kicking things off is the brand’s Summer Dance Camp with 808 Dance Studio. This 5-week online camp was designed for both dancers and dance enthusiasts – students will learn new choreography, improve their existing skills and work on their fitness. These 60-minute lessons culminate into one final online recital at the end of the camp.


Weekend Leisure Bike Rides

It’s no secret the pandemic has turned biking into one of the Metro’s favorite weekend activities and as the country continues to work on making it safer for cyclists to get to places, Multivitamins and Minerals (Berocca Performance) wants to help you engage with key biking communities in the city.

Join the brand for Summer Eco Tours with Bambike as we go through curated bike tours around Intramuros, Guimaras, and Batangas. For those who are looking for a more urban adventure through the different cities, Multivitamins and Minerals (Berocca Performance) will also have weekend group rides with the Esteban Cycling Club – and yes, you will be stopping for coffee at
some of these city bikers’ favorite spots!

Community Dialogues

On top of these exciting activities, Berocca Performance wants you to understand that resting is just as important as working hard. And when you live in a society that puts such a high value on the grind, the brand wants to help you find that balance so you can still prioritize wellness and develop a more holistic lifestyle.

As the first to represent the brand’s Community Dialogues, The SHEEo Society allows you to connect with the key women of today. This happens just in time for National Women’s Month and gives these powerful ladies a platform to have important conversations with us about their version of success and how they manage to spark good energy in their own respective communities.

Furthermore, you can watch out for a series of content on the brand’s TiktTok page https://www.tiktok.com/@beroccaph featuring ways from content creators on how to regain your energy, enhance your productivity, and bring out your best as you spark action and thrive in your passion.

Berocca gives me an additional dose of energy, a more powerful force of motivation to be both a better rookie entrepreneur and a novice hands-on dad.

Get an additional dose of energy as well! Shop for your Multivitamins and Minerals here: https://shp.ee/ycfnigt

Up your physical energy and mental sharpness, and let Berocca Performance help you #SparkTheEnergy with proper diet and exercise! Visit the brand’s microsite https://superchargedsquad.berocca.com.ph/ to get access to various content, activities, and rewards exclusively for the community. Sign up and be part of the Supercharged Squad NOW!

For more information on Multivitamins and Minerals (Berocca Performance), visit http://www.berocca.com.ph. You can also the brand’s Facebook page, https://www.facebook.com/beroccaph/ and Instagram at @beroccaph.

Sa Watsons Ako! | How Every Watsons Purchase is a Vote to Save Our Planet

May you choose a wellness partner that enables you to participate in voting for a healthier state of the Earth for the next generation. That feels great, inside and out!

Vote for a more livable Earth!

Your social media timeline by now perhaps is filled with campaign content posts from the candidates for May 2022 Philippine Elections. Yes. Same as mine! Furthermore, some of your friends may even have started becoming “too passionate” with their posts declaring their support for their pick. But this is not a political blog post about the Philippines. This though is an advocacy blog post about our planet – that just like how you would vote for your chosen candidate, may you would also vote for a more habitable planet Earth. Here is how to do it in simpler and easier ways with Watsons.

Sa Watsons Ako this 2022! For Relentlessly Doing Good For The Planet

Trusted health and wellness partner Watsons Philippines continues to DO GOOD for the planet by presenting more sustainability options and programs that will help save the environment.

Sustainable Choices Campaign

Watsons has made available almost 1,200 Sustainable Choices products and
continues to add more for consumers so they have better and more environment-friendly options. Such a program, puts sustainability at the core of brand development and sourcing, from packaging to ingredient choices. These are aimed to help shoppers make Sustainable Choices by providing them with Earth-friendly options for their wellness needs.

“We rely on fossil fuels that give gas, heat and oil but they are exactly what bring about global warming and all these extreme weather occurrences. What are the DO GOOD acts we can do? One of these is to always choose sustainability in our health, wellness and beauty products. For Sustainable Choices, Sa Watsons Ako,” said Viki Encarnacion, Watsons Philippines PR and Sustainability Director.

READ MORE HERE: The Watsons Sustainable Choices campaign

Do Good For The Oceans With Plastic Bank

“The partnership with Watsons is an opportunity for the world to bear witness to great change, to witness great organizations that truly are standing on the right side of history. It takes the bold and the authentic to do something that hasn’t been done before and we know that in partnership with Watsons, the world is going to witness the change in the communities and the lives of our collectors,”

David Katz, Founder and CEO of Plasric Bank
In collaboration with Plastic Bank, Watsons has been able to recycle 833,000 plastic bottles last 2021.

READ MORE HERE: Do Good For The Oceans With Plastic Bank

Do Good For Earth Webinar Series

Watsons regularly tap online amplifiers of information on how to take part in taking care of the Earth by hosting webinar series.

  • Anna Oposa of Save Philippine Seas, Ms. Viki Encarnacion of Watsons Philippines, Mr. David Katz of Plastic Bank, and Commissioner Crispian Lao of the National Solid Waste Management Commission.

For 2022, Watsons held its first DO GOOD For Earth, Sa Watsons Ako webinar with “Smart Waste Management Towards A Sustainable Future,” where Commissioner Crispian Lao, Chair of the National Solid Waste Management
Commission, and David Katz, President and CEO of Plastic Bank, talked about global warming and the benefits of recycling.


The Watsons DO GOOD webinar, which was moderated by environment advocate Anna Oposa of Save Philippine Seas, tackled important topics such as how people can contribute in environment conservation thru 3Rs (Reuse, Recycle, Refill), the relationship of solid waste management and climate change, the impact of recycling on the environment, economy and community and future activities to be conducted jointly by Plastic Bank and Watsons Philippines.

Lao is a strong advocate for the environment through proper waste management. During the webinar, he talked about the country’s Solid Waste Management programs and its practical aspects, such as what household items can be recycled.

Plastic Bank’s David Katz discussed what social plastic can do to help impoverished communities gain access to necessities such as food and water.

Do Good Act: Reduce

Do Good Act Checklist: Environment conservation thru 3Rs (Reuse, Recycle, Refill)

Watsons stores have made a collective effort to be more conscious about energy
consumption and this has helped reduce energy intensity by 17 percent from 2015. 

Sa Watsons Ako this 2022! For Consistently Doing Good For The Community

Watsons Smile For Good with Operations Smile Philippines

Since working in partnership with Operation Smile eight years ago up to the present, Watsons has helped transform the lives of 2,036 children through cleft surgeries.

READ MORE HERE: Watsons Smile For Good with Operations Smile Philippines

For its employees, Watsons has conducted 22 wellness seminars and counting to help its personnel to cope with the challenges brought about by the pandemic.

Doing Good is in Watsons “Track Record”

Whoever is your bet this election day, I believe that you somehow made some research about their track record. As to for your health, wellness and beauty product retailer, may you choose a wellness partner that enables you to participate in voting for a healthier state of the Earth for the next generation. That feels great, inside and out!

For boldy doing good for the Earth, Sa Watsons Ako!

Baby Essentials Guide 1: Our Trusted Products For Colic Symptoms

Caring for them needs the help of certain products which we as parents are ought to be well-knowledgeable about the effectivity, as well as where and how to purchase it.

Kolm, my dapper mini-me is now more than a month old! Somehow, I have also improved from being a novice hands-on dad to an advanced beginner. Being a registered nurse who was able to study and served hours of clinical practice for the concept of Maternal and Child Health Nursing, made it easy for me (and Jasmine) to do the necessary newborn care routine for our eldest son.

Kolm at 1 month a 22 days old.

Choosing a specific product for your little one can be made easy and reassuring when prescribed by a professional healthcare provider. But buying these supplies, especially amidst a risky marketplace like in a pandemic situation is quite challenging and cynical. Thus, we thoughtfully collated the list of our trusted brands that might also be helpful for you and your baby. These all can be conveniently bought and delivered to your doorstep through the Shopee App – the leading e-commerce platform in Southeast Asia & Taiwan.

Kolm is a colicky baby

When your baby tends to just suddenly cry in a more high-pitched like than usual, fussy and burps frequently after feeding, has a tight belly, and produces loose stool, these may be best reasons to seek a pediatrician’s opinion. As for Kolm experiencing those, his pedia diagnosed him having a cow’s milk allergy which results in belly pain, thus being colicky. Read more about colic here.

The pediatrician then prescribed Similac TummiCare. This variant contains lesser cow’s protein as it is mainly made of “cooked” whey. Thus, reducing allergic reactions. The pedia also suggested using the Como Tomo feeding bottle and nipple as it features an anti-colic design with a nipple that closely resembles a female human skin to avoid nipple confusion for a mixed-fed newborn like Kolm.

It is relieving to know though, that colic is a common condition in young babies. It will go away on its own, from age 3 months to age 6 months. When managing colic symptoms, it should be considered that what works for one baby may not work for another. As parents, it is our role to evaluate which one is therapeutic to our little ones.

Here is a list of items we have used as part of the management of colic symptoms. You can tap on the product link to help you shop these items and have them delivered to your home. We recommend shopping for these items in the official Shopee stores of the respective brands to vouch for authenticity.

Feeding Kolmie! You can also shop other baby products from the Como Tomo PH official store on Shopee here: https://shp.ee/zddniet

A trusted family friend also suggested the Philips Avent feeding bottle for its clinically proven anti-colic valve designed to keep air away from the baby’s tummy. Yes, we have both Como Tomo and Philips Avent for the sake of Kolm’s health.

We also have tried and trusted the massage oil from Tiny Buds which is topical management to relax the stomach due to gas. The calming oil that helps the baby fall asleep works well with Kolm as well. We are also using the Pampers baby dry taped diapers. One with an aloe vera scent. These promote utmost relaxation for our little one. For daily baby hygiene, we recommend Cetaphil Baby Gentle Wash and Shampoo.

Kolmie enjoying his bath with mom Jasmine.

You might want to try these as well. Below are the product links.

Forever Parents

My son, I love you!

Taking care of our kids is a lifelong mission (even when one is not a “kid” anymore). Caring for them needs the help of certain products which we as parents are ought to be well-knowledgeable about the effectivity, as well as where and how to purchase it. Thus, we will definitely add more items to this list when we find one which helps us in managing the symptoms of colic in our newborn. Visit us here again and do not forget to download the Shopee app on your smartphones.

Smile For Good: Saving The Smile Of Our Kids With Cleft Conditions

It would only take few seconds and clicks as your Do Good part to make their perfect smiles stay for good.

“Recent research shows that mothers who are using charcoal when cooking (or exposed to the smoke from charcoal) have a higher risk of having a newborn with a cleft condition.” Emiliano Romano, Executive Director of Operation Smile Philippines revealed during the Watsons Smile For Good webinar.

For nine unwavering years, Watsons Philippines has been a partner of Operation Smile Philippines (OSP) in transforming the life of 1,986 children with lip and palate defects. This year, as part of its mission, to Look Good, Do Good, Feel Great, Watsons teams up with OSP again to bring perfect smiles to more than 50 more children affected by cleft conditions.

Cleft Conditions: Splitted Lip and Divided Palate

A cleft condition is a gap in the mouth that did not close during the early stages of pregnancy. A cleft condition in the lip that can be easily inspected during birth is a Cleft Lip while an opening in the roof of the mouth, which is a harder condition to identify upon birth, is a Cleft Palate. In the Philippines, 1 in 500 children born has this defect. Every year, about 4,500 Filipino babies are born with this condition.

Screen captured from the Watsons Do Good For Our Children webinar, Mr. Romano discusses cleft conditions.

“Recent research shows that mothers who are using charcoal when cooking ( exposed to the smoke from charcoal) have a higher risk of having a newborn with a cleft condition.” Emiliano Romano, Executive Director of Operation Smile Philippines revealed during the Watsons Smile For Good webinar.

Operation Smile Philippines has helped change the lives of many children born with this condition since 1982.

Almost A Decade Of Partnership: A. S. Watsons and Operation Smile Philippines

“The partnership was paused in 2020 because of the pandemic but this year, we are back with Smile For Good. Of course, we will be very mindful of the physical distancing restrictions, but our desire to continue to bring smiles to the children has not wavered,” said Viki Encarnacion, PR & Sustainability Director of Watsons.

This partnership in the Philippines is part of ASW’s global commitment to bring 10,000 perfect smiles in partnership with Operation Smile. It aims to educate the public and raise awareness about cleft lip/ palate conditions.

Online Outreach For This Year’s Run

Aided by technology, Watsons Philippines pharmacists and employee volunteers will conduct hygiene orientation seminars online for the patients’ families on the subject of post-operation feeding and oral and lip care. Watsons will also provide Hygiene Care Kits with oral and hand care products to the 50 kids post-operation.

Aside from partnering with Operation Smile, A.S. Watsons Philippines is engaging with its employees, strategic partners, and customers contributing time and financial support in order to sponsor as many free surgical missions to continue changing lives, one smile at a time.

Join The Smile For Good Squad

It may take the medical team 45 minutes to an hour to provide a bright, beautiful new smile and a healthier, happier future to a child born with a cleft condition. But it would only take a few seconds and clicks as your Do Good part to make their perfect smiles stay for good (and that feels great). Visit Operation Smile Philippines to know how to help make a difference in these children’s lives.

PH’s Favorite Wellness Retailer And How It Takes Care For The Oceans

After stringently picking a wellness product for you, consider choosing a retailer as well that promotes solutions to environmental problems.

  • Every minute, one garbage truck of plastic is dumped into the ocean. If this continues unabated, there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans in 30 years. Above, is the Philippines’ plastic waste situation according to Plastic Bank.

Our country is drowning in plastic waste. In fact, the Philippines is one of the top 3 contributors to the world’s plastic problem. But your choice of retailer for wellness and grooming products though can help solve this pollution.

Here are the plastic waste management initiatives you co-support when you purchase your health products from Watsons Philippines. These advocacies aim to contribute to ocean protection.

Watsons – Plastic Bank Impact Program Collaboration

To help reduce plastic pollution and alleviate poverty by creating livelihood, Watsons Philippines has entered a collaboration with Plastic Bank. Through such partnership, Watsons Philippines will continue to Do Good for the Oceans by committing to the prevention of 50,000 kg of plastic bottles from entering the world’s oceans – the equivalent of 2.5 million bottles over the first 12 months.

“We are happy to team up with Watsons Philippines – a company that shares our vision on creating a regenerative economy. This collaboration showcases our unified goal of stopping ocean plastic while creating more opportunities for people living in vulnerable coastal communities,” said David Katz, Founder, and CEO of Plastic Bank.

  • Plastic Bank Partners in the Philippines.

Sustainable Choices Campaign: Refill and Reduce and Better Packaging

Two of the four lifestyle choices in Watsons Sustainable Choices campaign directly address the plastic waste problem in our oceans. These are Refill and Reduce (refilling bottles and reusing containers) and Better Packaging.

Read more about Watsons’ four Sustainable Choices HERE.

Microplastic Ban

The A.S. Watsons Group has banned the use of microplastics in its own brand of rinse-off cosmetics or personal care products since 2014. By the end of 2019, this ban has been extended to all brands so no rinse-off cosmetics or personal care products from any brand are sold at any Watsons’ stores.

  • The ocean stores a quarter of CO2 from the atmosphere and up to 93.4% of heat caused by the greenhouse effect. Imagine the effects to both the environment and on humanity when our oceans look like this.

It feels good every time you get to restock your beauty and grooming products from your favorite retailer. What feels great though is knowing that you were able to contribute to care for the oceans and our planet through the purchases you made. Thus, after stringently picking a wellness product for you, consider choosing a retailer as well that promotes solutions to environmental problems – Plastic pollution is, but just one.

  • Let us DO GOOD TOGETHER for oceans like this.
  • Here is an easy and simple checklist to start living and doing good.

Your Wellness Routine And Your Planet

Our Earth has its own looks and health as well. Do good.

The world now more than ever, is inhabited by people who are consciously taking care of their looks and wellness. Do you belong to this health-conscious club? It is highly likely! Has it ever crossed your mind that while caring for your well-being, you can actually contribute to sustaining a more habitable Earth? Let us talk about that correlation. It is seriously simple.

YOUR WELLNESS ROUTINE AND YOUR PLANET

The packaging of the product you are using for your skincare routine or your grooming regimen stays as a pollutant for more than 450 years before it is biodegraded. Exponentially, all of your friends, old and new, real and fake, are also using health products with similar packaging materials. It does not mean though that we should stop paying attention to our health. It means that we should simply stop patronizing those health products and consider changing our preferences into brands that foster a sustainable lifestyle. This is just one of the grave situations in which Watsons’ Sustainable Choices campaign comes into play.

  • A grave impact on our planet.

The trusted health product retailer, through the Sustainable Choices campaign, puts sustainability at the core of brand development and sourcing, from packaging to ingredient choices. These are aimed to help shoppers make Sustainable Choices by providing them with Earth-friendly options for their wellness needs.

YOUR NEXT WATSONS RUN

On your next wellness essential shopping at Watsons, the following four initiatives are encouraged as part of a long-term commitment to protecting the environment anchored on four pillars – Community, People, Customers and Planet. Indeed, look good, do good, feel great.

Clean Beauty

  • Watsons Philippines recognizes brands and products that were carefully created to benefit consumers, the community, and the planet. For a list of Clean Beauty products, check this out https://www.watsons.com.ph/clean-beauty.

Carrying a wide range of Clean Beauty products available at affordable prices, the store’s Clean Beauty products contain better ingredients that are sourced responsibly with an eye toward sustainability.

Reuse & Refill

  • With over 8 million tons of plastic being thrown into the ocean every year, the retailer is taking a proactive stand in the use of less plastic and choosing better plastic for packaging.

Watsons Philippines believes in reusing so it will make refill packs available for
purchase so they can reuse the original containers of shampoos, conditioners, lotions, and other personal care products, enabling them to create a habit that helps reduce waste going into landfills.

Better Ingredients

  • Watsons Philippines is committed to sourcing, offering, and promoting the best possible product options, made from ingredients that are sustainable and responsibly managed such as Sustainable Palm Oil. (Roundtable for Sustainable Plan Oil/RSPO-certified). By putting systems in place to promote sustainable palm will lead to less deforestation, a more sustainable health & beauty industry.

Palm Oil and its derivatives are used in 70% of beauty products and with its yield being far better than any other crop, there is no way to remove it from formulations. The problem with palm oil is that it is extremely harmful for the environment.

Better Packaging

Biodegrading of plastic bottles takes 450+ years, while plastic bags take grueling 20+years, adding grave impact to the environment.

Watsons Philippines promotes products packaged in recycled containers by encouraging the use of 100% sustainable paper packaging that comes from sustainably and responsibly managed forests and plantations or using bio-based or post-consumer recycled plastics. In stores, it has been encouraging shoppers to refuse single-use plastics wherever they go and instead, bring their reusable shopping bags or use eco-friendly totes.

YOUR CALL

It is indeed imperative to take care of one’s health – to look good, to feel great. But I hope, from now on, we shall stop the self-centered type of care. Our Earth has its own looks and health as well. Do good.

*Here is an easy and fun-to-do list to Do Good.

Take care of yourself. Take care of her.