About

We built the guide we always wanted.

One place for the aesthetics, the rituals, the products — and the financial foundation to sustain all of it.

Editorial workspace at Mintbrooks

Why Mintbrooks exists.

The best lifestyle content and the best financial advice have always lived in separate places. Gorgeous home inspiration on one side. Cold, clinical credit education on the other. We thought that was a strange divide, given that the same person wants both.

So we built a place that treats them as one connected idea. A beautiful life isn't despite financial health — it's enabled by it. The linen duvet, the skincare ritual, the kitchen upgrade: all of these are better decisions when made from a position of financial confidence.

Mintbrooks is the guide for people who want both. We test the products. We explain the financial concepts. We make the recommendations. And we do it all without pretending that a beautiful life and a healthy bank account are separate goals.

Our standards

How we work.

We test before we recommend

Every product on Mintbrooks has been evaluated against real criteria: does the science support it, is the formulation clean or honest, and is the price justifiable? We don't recommend what we wouldn't buy.

Affiliate links fund independent editorial

We earn a commission on purchases made through our links, at no extra cost to you. This is how we keep the lights on without a paywall. It does not influence which products we recommend — only which products we test.

We update our recommendations

Products change. Formulations change. Prices change. We review and update every recommendation on a rolling basis. If something no longer passes our standards, it comes off the list.

The team

The people behind the picks.

Mintbrooks is a small editorial team with deep roots in lifestyle, skincare, interior design, and personal finance. We're not influencers. We're researchers who happen to have taste.

MK
M. Kowalski
Editor in Chief

Former beauty editor. Has tried more retinol formulations than she’d like to admit.

JT
J. Torres
Home & Kitchen Editor

Interior design obsessive. Believes a good lamp changes everything.

AR
A. Reeves
Finance Writer

Ex-fintech, now explains credit scores in plain English. Fluent in FICO.

SL
S. Laurent
Wellness Editor

Certified sleep coach. Will not shut up about magnesium.

Transparency

Affiliate disclosure.

Mintbrooks participates in various affiliate marketing programs, including the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program and MaxBounty. This means that when you click on links to products on our site and make a purchase, we may earn a commission. This commission comes at no additional cost to you.

We only recommend products that we genuinely believe in and that meet our editorial standards. Our affiliate relationships do not influence our editorial judgment. The products we recommend are chosen because they're good — not because they pay us the most.

Questions about our editorial process? Email us at editorial@mintbrooks.com