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Arbonne ?

knortonknorton
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Arbonne is a company like Mary Kay. A friend of mine hosted a party this weekend. They talk a lot about being all natural, 98% organic, and certified vegan.

Have you used their products? Do you like them? 

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  • AlishaRichelleAlishaRichelle
    DH uses the men's skincare line and likes it.
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  • Married2MrWrightMarried2MrWright member
    My mom is a massage therapist and works in spa that only uses Arbonne products.  Her clients rave about them and are totally brand-loyal.  I've never used them myself (I prefer products I can get locally and for a decent price) but she says they are pretty great.
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  • smurfetteinredsmurfetteinred
    I'm honestly not a huge fan. I know when I looked up their baby line once there were definitely some questionable ingredients listed. For the price I can get all natural products that I'm happier with. Of course the fact that the super pushy and annoying rep that I'd dealt with who is the reason I stopped going to my natural family/ cloth diapering local group may have a lot to do with my hatred of the product line.
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  • LittleFullerLittleFuller member

    I used to sell Arbonne & my Mom still sells it.  In fact, that's what got me started on going green & cleaning up all the nasty chemicals in my life.  Funny thing is, one of my more recent steps towards this goal was getting rid of Arbonne!  They are NOT all natural!!  See Smurfette's post above.  I will not be using their baby products on my kids!  In addition, as they have expanded into Europe, not all of their products have been able to expand with them due to chemicals not allowed by the EU.

    I love them for opening my eyes, but I wish they were a better company that made better products.

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  • smurfetteinredsmurfetteinred

    I should mention that 98% organic can be a pretty broad term. Unless they say that 98% of the inredients are organic then often it means that most of the product is not truly natural or organic. I recently bought a 98% organic face mask that I couldn't read the ingredient list on because it had one of those multi layer sticky sheets on the back of the jar and I couldn't get all the layers unstuck. I bought it anyway but when I got home and finally got all the little sheets unglued I found out that it was more like 98% of the ingredients were most definitely of a chemical origin. Most skin care/ bath care products have a base that makes up a huge portion of the product and then small amounts of tons of other ingredients go into that base. If the base itself is of an organic/ natural origin then often it falls into that 98% percent natural category but it can still be loaded with other chemicals including things like parabens because those ingredients make up a small portion of the total product. (I will say that I'm almost certain Arbonne is paraben free which is definitely a plus for them.)

    I'm not saying that Arbonne is this way but it's best to do your research rather than just relying on that percentage that they throw around.

    ETA - and it's good to know that LittleFuller

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