Melaleuca Expert Review by Brian Garvin and Jeff West

The sign up fee is $29 - you do not pay extra to be a ‘Director’ (not a partner). 35 points may seem alot to you, but people that buy wellness products to seriously change their lifestyle - not as a fad - will easily use the points monthly as they will be buying all their cleaning products, personal care items, vitamins and snacks. Price wise products are about the same or slightly more than the supermarket.

Also using up your monthly points allowance means you are eligable for any incentives they have. EG at the moment you get $24 to spend on a selection on items. These kind of incentives bring the price per product down meaning you don’t spend more that you would at Wal Mart.

I am not a Director I am just a customer but I would happily take the step to Director when I have the time to commit.

Correction to the article above. The ONE-TIME membership fee is $29, which gets you 30-40% off the regular price of the products, in addition to discounts/rebates at many online stores, as well as other benefits like discounts on health care, prescriptions, cell phone and long distance, internet, etc.

Melaleuca is a discount shopping club, much like Costco or Sam’s, except at Melaleuca the joining fee is one-time and you shop online or by phone from the product catalog. At Costco and Sam’s you pay an ANNUAL fee to have the opportunity to walk into their warehouse and buy products in bulk to get a discount. Rather than buy in bulk, Melaleuca asks that you switch stores and buy the things you would be getting monthly from the grocery or drug store at Melaleuca, with a commitment to buying 35 product points per month, which ends up equalling about 5-7 actual products a month, ranging anywhere from $50-70 total monthly. The products are the typical household consumables, everything people use on a daily basis from soap, lotion, dish detergent, shampoo, toothpaste, laundry detergent, etc., things people actually use every day and replace every few months. The company has been around since 1985 and has spent money all those 24 years on scientific research and development and creating new products every year, rather than on advertising (since it is a referral company), so they have high quality products.

The also have 24 years of truly being GREEN (didn’t just slap a green label on their product last year to jump on the bandwagon). All of the products, including personal care products, are all-natural containing no formaldehyde, no peroxide, no ammonia, no phosphates, etc. The products are really high quality, including top of the line vitamin/mineral, supplements, eco-friendly non-toxic super-concentrated cleaning products (those REALLY do save money compared to the grocery store brands and cut down on plastic waste), organic whole grain snack foods, gum, tea, chocolate, soy candles, fitness and weight loss foods, high quality skincare and makeup, dental care, over the counter medications, etc…they have over 400 products. No one is forced to buy anything they don’t want. The beauty of the 5-7 products is that you get exactly what you need or are running out of and would have gotten at the store anyway. Last month my 35 product point order included shampoo, conditioner, fabric softener, mascara, skin lotion, cereal, and a pack of suglarless gum. 7 products, 35 product points equalled $54.24 before tax and shipping. Next month I know I need toothpaste, mouthwash, laundry detergent, spf spray, after sun gel, kitchen-cleaning wipes, organic cookies, and some more gum…another 35 points, this time 8 products, equals $55.52 before tax and shipping.

If you don’t want to make the 35 product point commitment but you still want to shop at Melaleuca for the great products, then you just pay the regular price rather than the reduced price and get what you want once in a while. You’re still getting equal or higher quality than the same products you would be buying at the drugstore, grocery store, or make-up counter department store. The regular price of the products is comparable to grocery store prices. The discounted price (which you get with the 35 product point commitment) is generally a great savings compared to the grocery store prices.

I personally have referred 15 of my friends and family to shop with Melaleuca, and some of them have also referred people so I have 35 in my organization who are currently shopping monthly. If I stopped referring now, and everyone in my organization stopped referring (which is unlikely), then I would earn approx $200 a month as long as everyone keeps shopping. That more than pays for my products, obviously, and helps me pay some other bills. That residual income is willable.

No one is required to refer the company to anyone else…people can just choose to be customers if they want. If someone wants to refer customers and earn a residual income as extra money for their household, they can do that, either part-time or full-time. No one says it is a get-rich quick scheme. Everyone who has a great referral business who is making a lot of money has been referring customers to Melaleuca consistently and honestly for years, and helping other people do that as well by showing them how to refer, developing a customer base of people who truly love the products and are brand loyal, people who order month after month.

The products HAVE helped people with their health. The body lotion with tea tree oil is super-healing and helps people with exzema. The heart supplements help lower cholesterol and blood pressure naturally with omega-3’s and other anti-oxidents. Compared to GNC, Vitamin-Shoppe, Herbalife, Shaklee’s, etc, the Melaleuca vitamins and supplements are ALWAYS less expensive. They are much better quality than the drugstore/namebrand vitamins because they are much more absorpable by the body.

Considering asborption rate of vitamins/minerals, one would have to take 33 Centrum or 15 One-a-Day to equal a daily dose of the Melaleuca vitamins. A month’s supply of the vitamin and calcium supplement is $19.99.

I think it’s a great company and I like the products. I was pretty skeptical when my friend first showed it to me, thinking it was a scam, but I was proven wrong and I’m glad I was. I’m really happy that I became a customer, and I’m *really* happy to have that extra income every month.

Forgot to mention that you can return a product for a full refund within 60 days of purchase, even if the bottle is empty, so if you get something that you didn’t really like, you’re not out the money. How many times have you returned a shampoo or bar of soap to your local drugstore if you didn’t buy it? Probably not often, if ever.

The $29 one-time fee is refundable for the first 120 days of your membership, so if you decide in those first four months that you don’t like the membership or the online shopping experience, etc, you cancel your membership, get a refund on the $29, send in any products you bought in the last 60 days to get a refund on those, and you’re done.

There is no time commitment, this is not a gym membership or cell phone contract…you either keep buying every month, or if you forget to buy they will send you a 35 product point order of your own choosing that they have on file for you, until you cancel. You cancel by letter by the 25th day of the month, any month you want to cancel.

I have a friend who is switching to Shaklee from Melaleuca due to having to purchase a certain amount each month. Membership is $19.99 and no monthly minimums. All products are proven natural/pharmecutical grade. As a director, the income opportunities are better as well.

Wow! Sounds like Lisa is “living the dream”! I’ll bet she’s a lot of fun at a dinner party.