[Kathe]

Tanology,

I'm not sure what your credentials are but you are speaking out against Arbonne like most people speak out against tanning. As Belinda (Wicked) stated, Arbonne is one of the highest quality skin care lines out there. She is a certified Beauty Therapist in Australia. That is comparable to a licensed esthetician in the US. In fact they have more stringent training and licensing there than here. She has used many different lines and is very confident in Arbonne. I have been with Arbonne for almost 11 years. I have a licensed esthetician in my salon who loves Arbonne. I have plastic surgeons on my arbonne team. I have plastics nurses on my arbonne team. They are all confident that because of the way Arbonne is formulated, with SMART nanosphere technology that reads the skin, that anyone with some basic skin care training, can confidently sell this product.

And Arbonne has an award winning FREE online training university that every consultant is able to access. You do not need to be a certified anything for Arbonne because you are not touching a client, only recommending products, and you will be able to confidently do that with the basic training. The lines are set up that way.

And because of the testing that Arbonne does (which I posted to in your other posts) that is far and away more than any US company does for allergens there is another notch of confidence given.

For example. Most skin care in the US is tested on animals. WHY? For safety because chemicals are being used. Most do not test on humans unless they want to use the term hypoallergenic on their label. If so then they test on 10 people for 3 days and if 3 or less break out they can use the term on their package and marketing. Arbonne tests EVERY product on 50 people for 14 days and they have a zero tolerance for break out. And they don't test on animals because they don't use chemicals.

They also use less than 1% preservatives unlike most companies that use up to 52%. They use no animal by-products, no artifical dyes or artificial fragrances. They use organic ingredients whenever possible and use gold standard ingredients at all times. They use no petroleum products or by-products.

This company is NOT in any way shape or form like a mary kay or avon. This is high quality skin care that is sold by plastic surgeons and high end salons and spas as well as independent consultants. It has US and Swiss patents pending on both it's Intelligence line and NutriMinC anti-aging lines. In the 4+ years of the patent process they have ZERO challenges. That means that NO other skin care line in either of these 2 countries can claim to do what Arbonne products do in clinical testing. That includes all of the high end companies you see in dermatologists offices, the mall and even medical brands sold in doctors offices. Not one can do what Arbonne proves can be done.

If you do your research on these products you will find that any salon owner can sell these with confidence.

And as Bel said, we salon owners are already skin typing experts, or should be. We know skin, it is our business.

And yes, there are dummies with the company. There always will be. Just like there are dummies running tanning salons. The good ones just keep doing their best in both companies. Just like I fix people who have been to bad tanning salons.

Thanks for your comments,

Kathe

Originally Posted by Tanology

Okay this line makes me very upset, you are a tanning salon owner with to my knowledge no certification, training or state licene in skincare.
THIS IS WHAT I HAVE AGAINST ARRBONNE
1. Any product can be good, alot depends on the person who is selling that product. Most problems happen when the person selling the product like arrbonne(reps) the totally sell them the wrong product for their skin type. Because most do not even have a clue about skin, and the Do NOT HAVE PROPER professional training. I fix people faces ALL THE TIME because their mary kay, avon, Arrbone know it all rep gives them the wrong products(cause they have no idea and trust thest people ) and mess their face up.