the homefront daily
The Homefront Daily editor desk with research notes and a sleeping terrier

What we do

The Homefront Daily started with a simple frustration: the products that fill American homes are reviewed everywhere and explained almost nowhere. Star ratings tell you what people clicked. They do not tell you how something works, what is inside it, or what the records say when something goes wrong.

So that is the work. We read the ingredient lists, the incident databases, the regulatory filings and the long tail of customer experiences, and we turn them into plain language reporting a busy household can act on.

How we make money

Some of our stories, clearly marked as advertorial, contain links to products we have reviewed. When readers buy through those links, we may receive compensation. That funding model keeps the publication free to read.

Two things it does not change: we do not run a story on a product we would not put in our own homes, and the reporting around it, the records, the mechanisms, the failures, stays factual whether or not a link is on the page.

Who we are

Margaret Whitfield
Margaret Whitfield
EDITOR, HOME & FAMILY
The Homefront Daily research desk
The Homefront Research Desk
RECORDS & REVIEW ANALYSIS

Margaret has spent over a decade writing about the intersection of household products and family health, and shares her home with one opinionated terrier. The research desk handles the unglamorous part: reading federal incident databases and a few thousand customer reviews so you do not have to.

Talk to us

Questions, corrections and story tips are welcome at editor@thehomefrontdaily.com. If we got something wrong, we want to know first.