Researchers Study Link Between BPA, Behavior In Kids

Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia, evaluated data from the Health Outcomes and Measures of the Environment Study to evaluate if a link could be established between gestational exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA) (often found in food linings and [...]

Sunscreen Snobbery: On Hoarding Cosmetics

It’s a whole new ballgame when finding an apartment, a suitor, buying groceries, and getting cosmetics and sunscreen are equally daunting tasks that make a woman wonder if she is a commitment-phobe. But now it seems I’m not alone.  In the past, everyone thought I was overreacting when fearing the chemicals that are pumped into [...]

SJP’s Next Act: I Don’t Know How She Does It

Adapted from the book I don’t Know How She Does It by Allison Pearson, the movie by the same name is the latest film starring Sex and the City Star Sarah Jessica Parker. It’s all about the balance working parents strive for in modern society. The mother who works outside the home too, as I [...]

Target’s Contribution To Beach Chic

Most people do not need another reason to shop and Trendcetera advocates smart shopping over impulse buys. That said, we all fall prey to the occasional urge for a shopping binge and hopefully those are reasonable spending sprees. Spring fever is here and Target is luring us once again, this time with a collection from [...]

Target Expands Beauty Collection

The other day I’m deciding where to get groceries and my mate offers a coupon for Target. There’s one nearby that was recently remodeled to include groceries. I say I shouldn’t go to Target because I’ll get lost. Now my friend is lost, he doesn’t know that means I’ll get lost in Target, not on [...]

A New Stroller or Your Mortgage?

The first time I saw a Bugaboo I thought I was going to get run off the sidewalk on Park Avenue by a futuristic stroller. All of a sudden there was a monster truck-cum-stroller with what seemed like no storage space. Isn’t a stroller supposed to offer storage for the diaper bag, AKA mom’s new [...]

Unilever To Source Sustainable Palm Oil, Cut Greenhouse Gases

Personal care goods giant Unilever revealed plans to achieve sustainability goals that include cutting the environmental footprint of its brands in half and helping “1 billion people prove their health and wellbeing.” Unilever, which owns Dove, Sunsilk, Vaseline, TIGI, Lipton, Slim-Fast, and Surf, among others, also aims to  source 100% of its agricultural raw materials sustainably. Unilever introduced what [...]

CVS Launches Beauty Loyalty Program

CVS/pharmacy is revealing a new beauty club program to encourage shoppers to make more cosmetics and personal care purchases at the chain drugstore. The announcement will happen during the People’s Choice Awards on CBS tonight. The CVS/pharmacy ExtraCare Beauty Club, an extension of the CVS/pharmacy ExtraCare Loyalty Program, offers cardholders extra rewards on beauty purchases [...]

Safe Soap

Keeping your family germ-free while reducing your dependence on petroleum- and chemical-filled products is a difficult endeavor. Lately it seems as though petroleum byproducts and corn syrup derivatives are in most products, even when they don’t seem necessary. Petroleum is often found in various fuel types, plastics, detergent and many other daily household products. The effort to shrink [...]

J. Crew Inks Sale For $3 Billion

Retailer J. Crew has reached an agreement to sell the company to alternative investment house TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners in a deal reportedly valued at about $3 billion, according to Bloomberg. J. Crew, which in recent years launched brands including Madewell, Crew Cuts and its bridal line, is run by CEO Millard [...]

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