I am the person behind Better Living Every Day. There is no team. There is no sponsorship deal. There is no “we” that makes most of this site sound bigger than it is. It is a kitchen, a notepad, and the same mild obsession a lot of people in their thirties wind up with: I want to know what is in the stuff I am eating, drinking, cooking with, and washing my clothes in.
Why this site exists
I got tired of reading ingredient labels and finding seed oils in everything. That sounds like a small thing until you actually start checking. Bread. Crackers. The mayo I had been eating for a decade. The “healthy” granola bar. The chip bag I thought was fine. Once I started looking, I could not stop seeing it, and the more I read, the more I realized I had been making food choices for years based on what was on the front of the package while never once flipping it over.
This site exists because I went down that rabbit hole and figured a few things out the hard way. The plan is to put what I learned somewhere other people can find it without having to re-do the same hours of label-reading and study-skimming I did.
How I actually do this
The methodology is not complicated. For every product I recommend on this site:
- I have either bought it with my own money or done enough research to know I would.
- I have read the actual ingredient list, not the marketing copy.
- I look up any ingredient I cannot pronounce.
- I check what the EWG, EPA, and primary research literature have to say if there is a credible concern.
- I disclose the affiliate relationship up front. Yes, I get a small commission if you buy through my Amazon links. No, that does not change what I recommend, because the catalog of clean-ingredient products in any given category is small enough that there is not really a “sellout” version to recommend instead.
What this site is not
I am not a doctor. I am not a registered dietitian. I am not a chemist. I am a person who reads carefully and writes plainly about what I find. If you have a serious health condition, talk to someone who is licensed to advise you on it. The articles here are about what I personally do in my own kitchen and what the current research says, not personalized medical advice.
I am also not part of any “wellness” tribe that thinks one ingredient is the cause of every modern health problem. Seed oils are probably worse than the food industry pretended they were for the last sixty years. They are also not literal poison. The internet does not need another extreme position on either side of that argument. I try to write like a normal person who looked at the data and made a few practical changes that felt worth making.
Topics I cover
The catalog is in this order of importance to me personally:
- Cooking fats: what to use, what to skip, what the research actually shows about each.
- Non-toxic kitchen products: cookware, dish soap, water filters, laundry detergent. The stuff your skin and your food touch every day.
- Hidden ingredients in packaged food: what the seed-oil-free labels really mean, where to look, what brands to trust.
- Wellness gear that is actually backed by something: red light therapy, recovery tools. Products where the research is real even if the marketing is loud.
- Cheap shopping moves: ALDI finds, summer fitness on a budget, places to spend less without giving up quality.
How to reach me
If something on this site is wrong, out of date, or just bad, I want to hear about it. Email is the best way: creativepulsenow@gmail.com. I read everything that comes in.
I do not currently run a newsletter or do guest posts. If you want to recommend a product I should look at, that email works for that too. I read suggestions and follow up on the ones that look promising.
Affiliate and editorial policy
This site uses Amazon Associates. The affiliate tag is betterle-20. Every link to Amazon on this site carries that tag, and I make a small commission on purchases. That commission does not affect what I recommend. The full affiliate disclosure spells this out in more detail.
I do not accept sponsored posts, paid product placement, or pay-to-play reviews. If a brand reaches out wanting to be included, the answer is no unless I was already going to write about the product on my own. I would rather have a small site I can stand behind than a bigger one I cannot.