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November 09, 2021

Gift Idea: Mr. Green Manicure Set

Christmas is fast approaching. Have you started your holiday shopping? Well, it’s never too early to start buying your holiday gifts, especially now that we still have the COVID19 scare. It is a little bit hard to buy gifts in the mall so it is better to take advantage of the biggest sale every year such as the 11.11 Sale and Black Friday Sale.

If you are still looking for gifts for your family, relatives, friends or your partner, I highly suggest the Mr. Green Manicure Set, this is a nice present not only this Christmas but you can also give this on birthdays, anniversaries, weddings, mother’s days, father’s day Valentine’s Day or any special occasions.

Actually, I already have my own Three Seven Manicure Set (777) which I got from our company exchange gift. It was part of my wish list but I did not expect na bibilhin ng nakabunot sa akin because the price is way beyond our PHP500 budget. I am thankful when he gave me this because it is a very useful gift and I bring it whenever I travel. I’ve been using this for almost two decades na so it looks so old.

Three Seven is a company in Korea that has been producing the world’s top nail clippers and manicure sets since 1975. So it is not surprising that it lasted for so many years but it is no longer complete so I’ve been looking for a replacement. I bought an affordable manicure set before but I wasn’t able to use it because it is not sharp so it is just a waste of money.

So I was happy when I learned about Mr. Green, this was supposed to be my gift for myself this coming Christmas but I could not wait anymore so I bought it last month for PHP1549 + Vouchers. Mr. Green is a manufacturer of professional beauty tools for more than 10 years already.

From what I’ve read, Mr. Green is also a product of Solingen Germany, and Solingen is known as the leading brand of finest and best products in Germany. The company produces professional knives, scissors, and manicure products. Solingen is a name of a place in Germany which is also called “City of Blades”.

In addition, my cookwares are Solingen too and I’ve been using it for 15 years already. It was one of my treasured wedding gifts because my aunt shipped them from Germany pa talaga. There is an engraved CS Solingen Designed in Germany at the bottom of my cookwares. So sold na agad ako nung nalaman ko na Solingen din ang may gawa ng Mr. Green.

The price is a little bit expensive but it is worth the investment because it is made of medical-grade high-end stainless steel. It is sharp and never rusts. I also love the pink stripe leather cover made of high-grade PU leather. The manicure set includes a stainless steel toenail clipper, nail clipper, cuticle clipper, side edge knife (trim dead skin), cuticle pusher, glass nail file, and tweezers. It comes with a gift box pa so hindi ka mahihirapan ipanregalo.

I’m so happy with my Mr. Green Manicure Set 7pcs so I’m planning to buy another set for my husband. Yes, they have a manicure set for men too though it is a bit more expensive. But it is better to have our own nail care kit for health purposes. Mr. Green has an official store in Shopee and Lazada so just check their promos.

November 08, 2021

COVID19 Vaccine for Teens

It was only last month when we had our pneumococcal vaccine. I decided to have this vaccine for added protection while waiting for the COVID19 vaccine for kids and teens. It took us a long time to get our vaccines so I did not expect that my son will have his vaccine this year.

Read: I've Got My First Jab of COVID19 Vaccine

When I saw the announcement, I did not register immediately because their priority is Pediatric A3 and my son has no comorbidity. After few days, I decided to register and still checked the (without comorbidity). I thought it will take us weeks or months to get a schedule so I was really surprised that after 2 days we received a text and it fell on Saturday so my son doesn’t need to be absent from his online classes.

I immediately searched if it is safe to get the COVID19 vaccine because we just had our pneumococcal vaccine and fortunately, we can have other vaccines 2 weeks before and after the COVID19 vaccines. Thank God at pwede ang anak ko kung hindi mahirap magpareschedule ulit if he missed his first dose.

My husband and son went to the vaccination site and it took them more than 2 hours bago nakauwi sa house. Late nagstart and mahaba ang pila, pero mabilis naman ang process. Requirements are Birth Certificate and Valid ID of the child. My son had his first dose of Pfizer-BioNTech and the common side effects are.

Pfizer-BioNTech Common Side Effects

Pain on injection site

Fatigue

Headache

Chills

Muscle pain

Fever

Joint pain

Swollen lymph nodes

Nausea

Decreased appetite

Luckily, my son did not experience any side effects and I was really surprised kasi kahit pain on injection site wala daw. I am not sure kung mataas pain tolerance ng anak ko kasi kahit nung nag-undergo siya ng circumcision, hindi man lang uminom ng pain reliever. Anyway, I hope sa second dose, wala rin side effects.

Update:

My son had his second dose of Pfizer, first day no side effects, second day nagkaroon ng headache.

Update:

Since the face-to-face class is fast approaching, my son had his booster shot. The side effect is headache and pain at the injection site.

November 04, 2021

Recipes Using Pizza Dough

Since last year, I’ve been following Chef RV Manabat’s page and I enjoy watching his recipe videos. I took note of the recipes that I liked to try and one of those recipes is the homemade pizza dough. I already tried different pizza dough recipes in the past, but I liked his recipe because all I need to do is mix all the ingredients and store the dough in the fridge. I can use my dough the following day or even after few days.

I can no longer count how many times I’ve made this homemade dough recipe because it became an instant favorite after I tried it last August. Although this is pizza dough, we don’t need to stick with pizza only because there are a lot of recipes that we can do using pizza dough like cheese roll, calzones, flatbread. pizza pockets, breadsticks, stromboli, or even cinnamon rolls.

So for the past few months, I am making bread roll with different fillings, I tried Nutella, Ube Jam, Mozzarella Cheese, Quickmelt Cheese, Cream Cheese, Salami, Sausage, and any other stuffings that are available in my kitchen. I always prepare and bake two batches of this recipe and it will only last for 3 days. We will just reheat the bread in the oven toaster for few minutes and we have instant breakfast or merienda na.

Read: Chef RV Manabat Cafe

November 03, 2021

Gino’s Brick Oven Pizza

Last week, my husband went home with a box of Gino’s Brick Oven Pizza and I said “Wow, Gino’s!”. He was so surprised that I knew Gino’s pizza. Well, sino ba naman ang hindi makakaalam ng Gino’s Brick Oven Pizza? In 2019, this is one of “The 50 Best Pizzas in the World”, this local pizza landed 34th place in the world and 2nd place in Asia. The best pizza in the entire world is of course located in Naples Italy which is L’Antica Pizzeria da Michele and the best pizza in Asia can be found in Singapore which is Pizza Fabbrica. You can read the full list on the Big 7 Travel website.

Gino’s Brick Oven Pizza has been around since 2010, it was owned by Jutes and Cello Templo. Their first branch is in Katipunan so it is too far from where I live. As of this writing, they only have 5 branches, so you are lucky if you live in or near Katipunan, Salcedo, Rada, Serendra, and Shangri-La Plaza. And because of the community quarantine, they only accept take-out or delivery orders.

I’ve been meaning to try this famous pizza because I always see this in my social media newsfeed so finally, I was able to try it. My husband bought Margherita with Fresh Mozzarella PHP510 and Meat Pizza PHP575. No photos of the whole pizza because he shared some of the slices with my brother-in-law. The pizza is only 12 inches so you only have 6 slices.

My husband went home just in time for dinner so I just put the pizza in the fridge. Good thing there is heating instruction on the box. The box includes Homemade Spicy Honey, this is their signature pizza condiment. My husband tried it and it is really spicy but sweet.

Using a Pan

1. Heat a non-stick pan over medium-low heat. Add 1/2 tsp olive oil (optional)

2. Place 1 or 2 pizza slices on the pan.

3. On the side of the pan (not on the top of the pizza), add a few drops of water (approximately 1/2 tsp) to create steam.

4. Immediately cover the pan with a lid and cook the pizza for 1-2min, until the pizza crust is crisp and the toppings are hot.

Using a Toaster/Oven

1. Preheat your oven to 200C.

2. Place 1 or 2 pizza slices on an oven tray or line your oven grills with aluminum foil.

3. Toast the slices for 5-8 minutes, until the pizza crust is crisp and the toppings are hot.

Gino’s Brick Oven Pizza is known for Neopolitan style pizza which means, they offer thin and soft crust pizza with few ingredients. Unlike other pizzas na macheese, with Neopolitan pizza, more on sauce pero kahit hindi macheese, masarap siya.

I enjoyed these two pizza flavors because the dough is thin, soft, and chewy while the crust is crispy. Margherita with Fresh Mozzarella has only Tomato Sauce, Buffalo Mozzarella, Parmesan, and Basil. Meat Pizza has Tomato Sauce, Kesong Puti, Bacon, Homemade Sausage, Salami Milano, and Parmesan. I’ve only tried 2 flavors out of 26 flavors so I told my husband to buy pizza again if ever mapadpad siya ng Shangri-La.

November 02, 2021

The Samantha Upright Font is Now Available on Creative Fabrica

"I need to find hobbies that don't include my debit card". I hope there is a hobby that you won't spend anything on but according to this proverb "When a habit begins to cost money, it's called a hobby". It may be costly but hobbies are important because they are a good break or therapy from our stressful routine.

Two years ago, I started designing graphics and printables and since then I've been buying fonts, clipart, textures, overlays, patterns, and other graphics that will help me in designing. Then last year, I started doing crafts using my Cricut Maker and one of the recommended fonts for Cake Topper is Samantha Upright Font but when I checked the price, it is $75 so I was hesitant to buy it because my Cricut project is only my hobby. So I was glad when I learned about this Creative Fabrica Exclusive Deal for Black Friday.

This Black Friday, Creative Fabrica is offering an amazing deal on one of the most famous fonts in the crafting world: The Samantha Script font!

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October 26, 2021

Food Trip at Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen

Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen has been in the business for more than forty years already, it started in 1972 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Now they have more than 3,000 restaurants around the globe. I have no idea that we had Popeyes before in the Philippines, the restaurant was already closed in year 2007 without me knowing it. The good news is, it returned to our country, and the first store opened last May 16, 2019 in Arcovia City.

When I learned that we had Popeyes here, I was not that excited because I already tried Popeyes during our trip in Singapore. Our hotel is located in Bugis Village and there is a Popeyes branch in that area where we ate our dinner. The chicken is good but it is not something that I will crave but I think we ate here twice din because of the free wifi. If I remember it right, the wifi password is printed on the receipt and we use it while eating to stay connected because we don’t have free wifi in our hotel.

The fast-food restaurant is known for its traditional Southern fried chicken, cajun fries, cajun rice, and honey biscuit. I checked my photo albums and found few food photos. It was dinner time so I don’t have good lighting and my camera phone is not good. We ordered Cajun Rice Platter and Mild Tenders; Cajun Rice Platter includes chicken tenders, cajun rice, and drink while the Mild Tenders includes chicken tenders, biscuit, signature side dishes, and drink.

Last weekend, we went to Festival Mall for our eye check-up, we arrived before mall hours so while waiting, nag-iiisip na kami ng kakainan. My husband told me that there is Popeyes in Festival Mall so I remembered our gift vouchers. He got these vouchers when he renewed his membership card at Landers last year. Since hindi kami lumalabas, now lang namin nagamit.

As expected, in every country kahit same fast food or restaurant the menu is not the same. Here in the Philippines, we had sweet spaghetti, biscuits with hazelnut and white chocolate flavor. Since my son is not allowed to eat in the restaurant, I just ordered the chicken tenders meal for take-out.

I ordered T1 for PHP145, which includes 3 pieces of chicken tenders, biscuit, and drink, and T2 for PHP129, which includes 3 pieces of chicken tenders, rice, and drink. You can choose from 5 different dips, they have a hot ranch, ranch, bold bbq, mardi gras, and gravy. Mas mahal yung biscuit kaysa sa rice. Hehehe! I don't have pictures of the rice meal kasi gutom na yung mag-ama ko.

October 25, 2021

Eye Check-Up in Times of COVID19 Pandemic

Almost two years had passed and until now, we still have community quarantine restrictions. And because of this pandemic, a lot of my plans have been affected and canceled and to be honest, I felt stressed about the things that I cannot do because of the COVID19 restrictions. There are so many plans that I delay because I am afraid to go out but I realized that if I will wait for this pandemic to be over, wala na ko magagawa. So I need to learn to live with this virus.

My son and I need to visit our ophthalmologists. For the longest time, my son has been complaining that he is having a hard time reading the subtitle on TV so he really needs to change his eyeglasses. He changes his eyeglasses every year but because of the lockdown, our appointments were canceled last year. I didn’t reschedule his appointment because I am still afraid to go to the hospital.

But after our COVID19 Vaccine and Pneumococcal Vaccine, I decided to have an eye check-up but not with our doctors, we just went to Starfinder Optical Shop. I learned about this optical shop 3 years ago so nakailang pagawa na rin kami ng eyeglasses dito. We just gave them the prescriptions from our ophthalmologist. But last weekend, doon na rin kami nagpacheck. Since kids are not allowed inside the mall yet my husband called Starfinder to make an appointment, we just printed the letter (from Viber) and presented it to the guard.

Good thing that we are the first patients kasi limited din pala ang number of people sa loob. They have 2 doctors naman so in less than an hour, natapos na kami. I was surprised with our result, sobrang laki lang ng tinaas ng grade namin, -75 (each eye) sa anak ko and -50 (each eye) sa akin. The most shocking part is the price of the lens, OMG sobrang laki ng tinaas ng price.

It was year 2015 when we discovered that my son has eye problems so eyeglasses are part of our yearly expenses. For the first few years, we just ordered from his pedia-ophthalmologist and we always received an authenticity card so kahit noong nagpagawa na kami sa iba, Crizal brand na rin ang pinagagawa namin,

Since 2015, my usual expenses for his eyeglasses is more or less PHP6,000 (frame + lens). Just two years ago, I only paid PHP3,900 for my son's lens so halos mahimatay ako nung nalaman ko na PHP10,500 na yung Airwear Clear Lens niya. Yung gamit ko na Crizal Prevencia Lens is PHP5,900 na so I went back to Crizal Eyezen Max kasi PHP4,900 lang. From their record kasi, my son is using Airwear and I checked our authenticity card, Airwear nga nakalagay.

The only difference is the material, Airwear is made of unbreakable polycarbonate material so kahit mabagsak ng anak ko hindi daw ako magworry. But I forgot that my son is already a teenager and online classes naman so less yung chances na mabagsak kasi wala PE classes. PHP10,500 is so steep so medyo sinisisi ko sarili ko bakit nagAirwear pa rin anak ko. Lol. I’m thankful that I saved the 20% discount voucher which I got from them two years ago and may 50% discount sa frame na napili ng anak ko so naless ng gastos kahit papaano.

Read: Crizal Prevencia

Crizal Eyezen

Check-up with Pediatric-Ophthalmologist

Benefits of Crizal Prevencia Airwear Refractive Index 1.59

Unbreakable polycarbonate material

Anti-reflection

Scratch resistance

Dust and water repellence

Smudge repellence

Blue light protection

Front and back UV protection

I thought I was able to save money because he didn’t change his eyeglasses last year pero ganun din pala ang gastos ko kasi tumaas ang price. Waah! I also noticed na patagal ng patagal yung pick-up time sa Starfinder. Two years ago, 9 days lang, now 17 days bago namin makuha.

Update: We got our eyeglasses, 6 days after our visit so hindi naman inabot ng 17 days.

October 22, 2021

Pork Tonkatsu

In my previous post, I mentioned that I try recreating the food that I usually order in a restaurant so aside from Beef Gyudon, I am also missing Tonkatsu. If we are craving tonkatsu, Yabu is our go-to restaurant if ever we are in Alabang Town Center or Southmall. I can’t remember the last time we ate there, sobrang namimiss ko ang unlimited soup, cabbage, and fruits.

Anyway, I found this McCormick Tonkatsu Agemono Fry Set P63.75 during my last grocery at Landers. Since I don’t know the taste yet, I only bought one pack, the package includes 85g of Tonkatsu Coating Mix and 25g of Tonkatsu Sauce. I just followed the directions at the back of the packaging.

Ingredients

1/2 kg pork steak

1 piece egg, beaten with 1 tbsp of water

Oil for deep-frying, preheat over medium heat

1. Dip each piece of pork steak in egg wash.

2. Coat in Tonkatsu Coating Mix.

3. Deep-fry until golden brown and cooked through.

4. Serve immediately with Tonkatsu Sauce.

The coating mix is only good for 5 pieces of small porkchop, bitin na sa pang-anim. I noticed na mabilis siya maluto so yung first porkchop ko, almost burned pagkalagay ko. Waah! The taste is good naman pero malayo sa lasa ng Yabu (hindi siya crunchy and juicy). Hehehe! Next time, I will try the ready-to-cook Tonkatsu of Landers, or I will do it from scratch. I cooked this last March so now, I am craving tonkatsu na naman.

Update: March 2022

I mentioned before that I will try the Ready-To-Cook Pork Tonkatsu at Landers so when I went back last December, I bought a pack of this and immediately fried the pork for our dinner. The pieces of pork are thin so it is so easy to fry. The taste is a little bit bland so you can prepare a dipping sauce, my husband just uses ketchup because my son and I are okay with plain tonkatsu.

I prefer this Ready-To-Cook Pork Tonkatsu kasi hindi na ko magpound pa ng porkchop and no need to buy tonkatsu mix or bread crumbs. This is now part of my grocery list every time na magLanders ako kasi ito rin niluluto ko pag-uwi. hehehe!

October 20, 2021

Beef Gyudon Recipe

We are now in the last quarter of the year and until now we are still dealing with COVID19 restrictions. And because of that, our normal routine changed including our food trip because we cannot just go to the restaurant and eat. There are so many rules and regulations that we need to follow and another thing, kids are not allowed in the restaurant yet. And if ever pwede naman, for sure crowded sa dami ng gustong lumabas na rin.

I don’t want to dwell on it so what I do is I try to recreate the dishes that I used to eat in the restaurant. When I was still in college, Tokyo Tokyo is one of my favorite fast foods (kapag nasa mall), I usually order their Bento Meals, like Prawn Tempura, Pork Tonkatsu, and Beef Misono. It is a complete meal na kasi, you have the meat, rice, veggies, and drink.

I’ve been meaning to cook my own beef gyudon or beef misono at home but I always had a hard time looking for sake and mirin in the grocery store. If it is available, it is either sake or mirin lang; gusto ko same time ko sila bibilhin. Fast forward to this year, I was able to buy sake and mirin online so finally, I was able to cook my Homemade Beef Gyudon. I checked the recipes online pero paiba-iba naman so I made my own version na lang (inspired by other recipes).

Ingredients

1 tbsp of Sesame Oil (or any oil)

2 cloves of minced garlic

1 slice onion

300g of any thinly sliced beef (slice into half)

1 tbsp of corn syrup (or sugar)

2 tbsp sake

2 tbsp mirin

2 tbsp soy sauce

Salt and pepper to taste

3 Eggs

Optional: pickled red ginger, green onions, sesame seeds

1. Mix the corn syrup, soy sauce, sake, and mirin.

2. Beat the 3 eggs.

3. In a heated pan, add the sesame oil and saute the garlic and onion for 2-3 minutes.

4. Add the beef and cook until it is no longer pink.

5. Season with salt and pepper.

6. Pour the mixture of corn syrup, soy sauce, sake, and mirin into the beef. Simmer for 5 minutes.

7. If you want an egg, pour the egg on top of the beef. Cover the pan and cook until the egg is almost done.

8. Serve with rice.

On my first try, I used Sukiyaki Cut and I added eggs. On my next try, I used the Woosamgyup from Romantic Baboy and I did not add eggs so I just sprinkled some sesame seeds. Next time, if I will cook this again, magluluto na rin ako ng vegetable side dishes like togue.

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October 18, 2021

A Dose of Pneumococcal Vaccine

For the past several months, I’ve been seeing a lot of posts about the flu vaccine and pneumonia vaccine but I just ignore them because I don’t want to go to the hospital yet. My son and I rarely go out of the house so I just felt that we don’t need those vaccines. It was funny because I thought my son has Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine or PCV7 (now PCV13) so booster shot na lang naman ang need niya but when I checked his baby book, my son has no PCV7 pala.

Then I remembered that 13 years ago, I decided to skip this vaccine because we can’t afford it and this vaccine is quite new to me. During those times, life is so hard and we are just lucky that part of my husband’s company health insurance is a yearly medicine benefit (vaccine included). We use that benefit for my son’s vaccines except for PCV7, we all know na napakamahal ng PCV7 so doon pa lang mauubos na yung benefit. To give you an idea, PCV13 is a series of 4 doses given to infants who are 2 months, 4 months, 6 months, and 1 year old.

Moving on, my husband and I are both fully vaccinated but my son has no COVID19 vaccine yet because it is not available (sa kids) in our country and I don’t know when it will be available. We still don’t have a registration form for kids in our place. And because of that, I decided to get Pneumococcal Vaccine.

Read: I’ve Got My First Jab of COVID19 Vaccine

But like I said, I don’t want to go to the hospital yet so I asked my friend for recommendations. My friend told me about the pediatric clinic where they got their vaccines so I told my husband about it. Thank God that there is a Saturday schedule so my husband and son don’t need to be absent from work and school. My husband just made an appointment online and we scheduled it one month after my second dose of Moderna vaccine.

The rate of pneumonia vaccine varies so just check with the hospital or clinic. With regard to our experience, when we asked about the rates, the clinic did not give us the exact rate, ito lang binigay nila.

Pneumococcal Vaccine Rate in the Philippines

Kids: PCV13 ranges from PHP3800 to PHP5,000

Adult: Pneumovax ranges from PHP3,200 to PHP4000

We live in the province so baka mas mahal kapag Metro Manila. But I think the rate is already acceptable kaysa magAsian Hospital pa kami (sa pedia ng anak ko) pero masakit pa rin sa bulsa because three years ago, we no longer have medicine benefits. But for peace of mind and added protection, go lang. My son only needs one dose, unlike sa amin na may another dose ulit after 5 years.

Common Side Effects of Pneumonia Vaccine

Pain on injection site

Muscle or joint aches

Fever

Chills

Headache

Nausea

Vomiting

Stiffness of the arm or the leg where the vaccine was injected

Weakness

Fatigue

Skin Rash

Fortunately, the only side effect that we experienced is pain on the injection site pero mild lang compared sa pain na naramdaman namin sa COVID19 vaccine. The pain subsided in less than 24 hours.

“Life or death for a young child too often depends on whether he is born in a country where vaccines are available or not.” - Nelson Mandela

October 16, 2021

Tomato Garlic Prawns

I love shrimp because it is so easy to cook so we always have shrimp. But even though we always have shrimp my menu is limited to few recipes; I usually cook Buttered Garlic Shrimp or Salted-Egg Shrimp.

Last week, we received some prawns and I remembered the Tomato Garlic Prawns Sauce PHP42 that I bought few months ago. I just added this because I need to meet a certain amount to get discount and free shipping. Hehehe!

Ingredients

250g prawns (trimmed and dried)

1 pack of Lee Kum Kee Sauce for Tomato Garlic Prawns

Procedure

Pan-fry prawns in 2 tbsp oil until golden yellow and done.

Turn low heat and add the sauce.

Stir well quickly until heated through.

Or stir-fry 250g shelled prawns in 1 tbsp oil until done.

Add sauce and stir well quickly.

I checked the procedures and kulang pala yung sauce ko because my prawns are almost a kilo so I added few ingredients like garlic, tomatoes, and water para dumami. Hehehe!

2 tbsp olive oil

2 tomatoes

4 cloves of minced garlic

Prawns (shelled and deveined)

2 tbsp water

Salt and pepper to taste

Optional: Fresh or dried Parsley

1. In a pan, put the oil and saute the garlic.

2. Add tomatoes and cook for 8 minutes until softens.

3. Add prawns and cook for 4-5 minutes.

4. Season with salt and pepper.

5. Add the Lee Kum Kee Sauce for Tomato Garlic Prawns

6. Add water, dried parsley, and season with salt and pepper.

7. Stir well for 2 minutes.

8. Serve

The taste is good and my husband said, lasang Chinese cuisine. Natawa na lang ako because Lee Kum Kee nga yung brand. hehehe! But I don’t think I will buy this again kasi mas mura kung mag DIY na lang ako and we still prefer buttered garlic or salted egg recipes. But if you like this kind of recipe, you can buy Lee Kum Kee Tomato Garlic Prawn Sauce online too.

October 13, 2021

3 Easy Ways to Escape Work From Home  Stress Without Leaving Your House

In just a few weeks, another year stuck at home will come to an end. It was a full year of constantly adapting to new protocols and new ways of working. Ironically, being closer to home didn’t make the stress of day-to-day tasks any less heavy. Some of us have joined meetings while washing dishes, skipped lunch to work on a deadline, and even woke up just in time to attend an early morning call. The stress we experience has increased because of more back-to-back meetings and higher demand for multi-tasking.

To make sure we don’t burnout, we need to stop for much-needed breaks. You might not notice it but even your skin needs detoxing too. The constant change in weather and the temperature inside can be causing your skin stress.

End the year refreshed and ready for whatever challenges come our way with these easy-to-do relaxation activities we can do right at home.

1. Immerse yourself in new worlds

There is no shortage of bad news in the world. Yes, we should be updated with current events, but it doesn’t hurt if we immerse ourselves in more positive environments from time to time. Constantly checking emails and updates about work, especially on weekends can cause even more anxiety at a time when you should be taking care of yourself.

Read a book about a magical realm, about an intense love story, or about a woman finding her purpose in the world. Take it a level higher and join your local book club’s weekly or monthly discussions! Feel the stress fade away as you flip through the pages (or swipe if you’re an e-book convert!) at the end of the day.

2. Curate a mood-booster playlist

It’s no secret that music affects our mood. Before the workweek starts, why not set aside a few hours just listening to old and new favorites and create a personalized playlist for every kind of mood? This will be an easy stress-reliever when your to-dos start to pile up. It’s also a palate cleanser for your ears after being in whole-day meetings.

Just hit play and feel the stress melt with the beat. Here are some suggested playlists to get you started: “This meeting could have been an email playlist,” “Overtime will soon be over the playlist,” “Malapit na mag-weekend playlist.”

3. Make your shower a haven

Shower time is sacred alone time. It’s the time of day when we can get away from work calls, parent duties, and house chores! It’s the only we can truly be alone to relax. Take it a step further and make your shower a full blow haven of relief by investing in the right products. Set up your favorite candles, ready your trusty scrubs and loofah, and use a cleansing and rejuvenating body wash like Safeguard Detox.

Safeguard Detox is enriched with Pomegranate that allows for deep cleansing of the pores, stripping away germs, bacteria, and dirt while leaving skin refreshed and rejuvenated. The fragrant foam will feel like a refreshing escape with every pump.

Schedule your relaxation time

Whatever you choose to detox from the stress of each day, make sure that you make time for it (and stick to it!) It’s so easy to get swamped with the daily tasks that we forget to take care of ourselves. Set an alarm for your reading time, block your weekend to curate a playlist, or set 9:00AM or 11:00PM as your regular shower time. Setting time to rejuvenate yourself means having more energy to give back to the world. So what are you waiting for? Start your relaxation today!

Safeguard Detox is available in Pomegranate and Bamboo Charcoal. Add to cart when you visit the P&G official online stores in Lazada or Shopee.