Affiliate Disclosure
How Consumers Health Journal earns money, how affiliate links work, and how they affect what we publish.
This page explains how Consumers Health Journal makes money, in plain language.
The short version
Some links on this site may be affiliate links. If you click one and buy something, we may earn a commission. It costs you nothing extra, and it never changes what we recommend.
This disclosure is required by the Federal Trade Commission, and we would publish it even if it were not.
How affiliate links work
When an article links to a product through an affiliate program, the retailer pays us a small percentage of the sale. The price you pay is the same whether you use our link or go to the retailer directly.
Any article that contains affiliate links carries a disclosure notice at the top of the page, so you will know before you read.
How this affects our content
It doesn’t, and here is how we keep it that way.
Research comes before links. Products are evaluated against the clinical research and formulation criteria described on our review methodology page. Affiliate availability is never part of that evaluation.
We recommend products with no affiliate program. If the best-supported product earns us nothing, it still gets the recommendation.
Negative findings stay published. If the evidence behind an ingredient is weak, we say so, even when saying so costs us commissions.
Brands cannot buy coverage. We do not accept payment for reviews, rankings, or placement in our guides. If we ever publish sponsored content, it will be labeled clearly as such.
Other ways we make money
Right now, the site is primarily supported by readers who subscribe to our newsletter. We may add other revenue sources over time, such as advertising or sponsored content. If we do, this page will be updated and any sponsored material will be clearly labeled.
Questions
If anything here is unclear, or you think an article is missing a disclosure, email us at contact@consumershealthjournal.com.