The Best Natural Beauty Products You Can Buy at Target + MORE

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The Best Natural Beauty Products You Can Buy at Target

– health.com

The Best Natural Beauty Products You Can Buy at TargetTarget has long been your one-stop shop for all things from Q-tips to cute swimsuits to clearance DVDs you didn’t even know you wanted. But by 2020, they hope that they’ll also be your go-to destination for green, natural and transparent beauty products.

Yes, you can still purchase your favorite Covergirl lipstick or Herbal Essences shampoo in Target stores and on their website. But moving forward, those brands — and hundreds of other brands that the store carries — will be asked to present an ingredient list, disclosing what ingredients are included in their products.

In a statement, the company says that their goal is “to achieve transparency to all ingredients, including generics such as fragrance, in beauty, baby care, personal care and household cleaning products by 2020.” In turn, they’ll be increasing consumer awareness of ingredients such as phtalates, parabens and formaldehyde, while also bringing awareness to the brands and products who have gotten rid of those chemicals. And on top of that, they’ll also require textile suppliers to remove perfluorinated chemicals and flame retardants from fabric by 2022.

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Overall, the goal is to make shopping greener easier for the store’s customers. Dawn Block, Target beauty’s senior vice president says, “Making informed choices should be simple for guests. This framework is designed to take the complications out of finding better-for-you product options.”

And you can already shop easier on their website. Thanks to “naturals” section as well as a useful dropdown menu of ingredients you want to remove, you can simply narrow down your search for those healthier items. Here, five of the natural products we’re adding to our shopping carts.

Clockwise from left: Bare Republic SPF50 Clear Screen Sport Spray $12.99; target.com; Burt’s Bees Facial Cleansing Wipes, $2.99; target.com; S.W. Basics Rose Water, $11.99; target.com;  W3ll People Expressionist Pro Mascara, $21.99; target.com; Alba Botanica Hawaiian Detox Scrub, $11.49; target.com

Read more about the brand’s initiative here, and tell us: what do you think of their new movement?

Emma Stone's Trainer Swears By These 3 Full-Body Exercises 

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In La La Land, Emma Stone goes on a sing-and-dance journey through Los Angeles—and boy does all that tap dancing look tiring. We wondered what Stone did to build the strength and stamina needed for long days of dancing and singing on set, so we reached out to her personal trainer, Jason Walsh. Here, he shares the three exercises he uses in training with all of his celebrity clients, who in addition to Stone include Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, and John Krasinski. 

Deadlifts

"Deadlifting is essential to all of my training programs, weather its men or women, because it strengthens all the major muscle groups while reinforcing primitive movement patterns and alignments," Walsh says. "Essentially, its the most effective move there is."

To do a deadlift, stand with your feet hip-width apart, knees slightly bent. Keeping your weight in your heels, push your hips back and lower your torso as you slide a weighted bar or dumbbells down the front of your thighs to just below your knees. Slowly rise to standing while keeping your shoulders back.

If you don't have a bar or weights, you can do a single-leg deadlift to improve balance and strengthen your legs. Watch the video for a tutorial:

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Sled pushes

Walsh also swears by sled pushes. "They're another great tool that utilizes all major muscle groups but in a unilateral form, with a single leg working at a time," he says. Walsh says this move is great for conditioning and burning fat.

To do it, stand in front of a weighted sled. Stagger your feet, hinge forward at your hips slightly, place your hands on the front of the sled, and push. Walk as far as you can. 

Hip thrusts

Get the most out of a booty-burning workout with hip thrusts (also known as hip bridges), which strengthen hip movement and activate the glutes. "This might be the single best exercise for the glutes, which are the biggest, and in my opinion, the most important muscle group in the body," Walsh says. To do a hip thrust or glute bridge, lay on your back, knees bent, with your feet parallel to each other, palms face down. Raise your hips towards the ceiling and the slowly lower. Repeat 10 to 15 times.

Why You Really Need to Join the Gym

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This article originally appeared on Time.com.

Everyone knows that joining a gym is a quote-unquote good idea. Now, a new study looks at exactly how much of a benefit fitness club­-goers have over the rest of us when it comes to getting regular exercise—and its results may convince you to restart that stalled membership.

To put some research behind this commonly held belief, Iowa State University scientists recruited 405 relatively healthy adults, half of whom had belonged to a gym for at least 30 days, and half who had not been members for at least least three months. All participants had their resting blood pressure, heart rate, and body mass index measured, and completed questionnaires about their time spent exercising, sitting, and doing various lifestyle activities each week.

The researchers then analyzed those responses to determine which participants met the national recommended guidelines for physical activity: 150 minutes of moderate or 75 minutes of vigorous aerobic activity each week, including at least two days of weight lifting or other muscle-strengthening activities.

The difference between groups was “pretty dramatic and surprising,” says corresponding author Duck-chul Lee, an assistant professor of kinesiology. While non-members only exercised an average of 137 minutes a week, those who belonged to a gym logged an average of 484 minutes a week. Only 18% of non-members met the guidelines for both physical activity and strength training, compared to 75% of members.

Overall, the researchers calculated, a gym membership was related to 14 times higher odds of meeting weekly physical activity guidelines. The results were similar in both men and women, and were adjusted for health issues like high cholesterol, arthritis, and asthma.

Not only did gym members exercise more; they also had better cardiovascular measures and were less likely to be obese. Gym-goers—especially those who had kept a membership for a year or more—tended to have lower resting heart rates, higher cardiorespiratory fitness, and smaller waist circumferences than their non-member peers.

Before their analysis, Lee and his co-authors suspected that gym members may be more sedentary in their time outside the gym than non-members. “We thought maybe they’d be more tired, or be satisfied they’d done enough for the day,” he says.

But they didn’t find that to be the case, either. “Physical activity outside of the gym was the same for both groups,” he says, “For non-members, joining a gym really may increase overall activity levels.”

Because of the study’s cross-sectional design, Lee says, it’s also possible that people who are more active are simply more likely to join a gym. And while the study took place in a city with lots of health-club options, he notes, people living in more rural areas may find it more difficult to attend a gym regularly.

And, of course, you do have to show up…

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