Financial support for kismai.com and my Reddit postings as u/KismaiAesthetics comes from two sources: Reddit Awards and contributions to my electronic tip jar at BuyMeACoffee.com/KismaiAesthetics . This is an extremely conscious decision on my part - I want you to know that money hasn't changed hands for me to feature a product.
u/KismaiAesthetics is a Top Contributor on Reddit, which means that when Redditors award my content with an Award with an associated Gold value, I receive USD $0.01 per Gold, minus $2.50 per monthly payout and a 0.25% fee. My total earnings on Reddit average approximately $4/month after transaction fees with approximately two million views per month on my posts and lord knows how many on my comments. Nobody's making bank as a Redditor.
Any advertising you see on the Reddit posts or comments is solely accretive to Reddit, and is not shared with creators, and we have no control over the advertising placed alongside our content.
This is the primary source of financial support from people like you! There's zero obligation to tip. Supporters at any dollar amount do unlock the ability to DM me on BuyMeACoffee, which does get answered first, they may see some content before it's published on Reddit or other social channels and their whites will always come out gleaming, their colors shine rich and vibrant, and they'll never be cursed with Polyquat Spots.
I don't use them. I'm uncomfortable with the blurring of editorial and advertorial and crass advertising content online, and I'd rather keep my hands clean and my pockets empty than have anyone think I'm making a buck on what I recommend.
I do not solicit BuyMeACoffee or other contributions from commercial entities of any type, including those in consumer packaged goods, appliances, apparel or suppliers to those industries. If a product is commercially available, I purchase it on the same terms available to ordinary consumers in ordinary retail channels. I'll accept a reasonable consumer quantity of a pre-market product in very rare cases, and it does not come with a committment of whether or not I write or post about it in any way, positive or negatively, now or in the future.
If a contribution of money or product is made by an identifiable commercial entity in laundry-related spaces, 100% of my net receipts in the case of tips (approximately 95% of gross) or an estimated value for pre-release product are donated directly to my local food pantry anonymously as in-kind contributions of products off the Lipase List.