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Another day, another MLM polluting
the Facebook marketplaces
and Instagram DMs.
Hunbots are on the loose
peddling their subpar quality products
when you could buy the
same type of product
at a normal store.
Most of the time we see leggings, jewelry,
nail designs, and bad makeup.
But what if I told you
there is an MLM out there
selling products that
make you lose your hair?
Would you believe me?
If I told you there was a company
with a list of lengthy lawsuits,
suing them for hair loss
and damage to scalps,
would you wonder why such a company
would still be on the market?
Better yet, would you wonder
how their so-called
independent consultants
can still peddle these products
while trying to keep
their heads in the sand
about the damage their
products have caused?
Well, I know I would wonder.
And it made me curious into
what kind of background
a company like that would actually have.
Now, if you're going
for the Mr. Clean look,
that's one thing,
but what if you tried these products
and were unsuspectingly
put into a position
where you would experience temporary
or permanent hair loss
when that was not what the
product was designed to do.
And what if that product was being sold
through an MLM/pyramid scheme type setup,
where it only benefits those at the top
and hurts the sellers at the bottom?
Would you support that?
I know I couldn't.
But surprisingly enough,
Monat has thousands of active sellers
peddling their care
products, skin products,
and even pet products.
I have always been torn
between feeling sorry
for these types of independent consultants
and also at the same time,
laughing at their
keeping-your-head-in-the-sand techniques
to justify selling for
a company like this,
but it does make me curious.
And when I get curious about something,
I start to try and dig into the subject.
It doesn't matter if it's
a company historical event
or a psychological condition,
I'll just start to look up whatever I can
to satiate my sudden thirst
for that variety of it knowledge.
And when that happens,
videos like this get made,
and I hope these are as much
fun for you to listen to
as they are for me to research and produce
these little deep dives.
So let's come through the dirty details
and take a magnifying glass
to a company known as Monat
and see what these boss babes
are actually supporting.
But before we get a little
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It's nice to work with a company
that won't make your hair fall out.
But speaking of that,
let's get back to
talking about the company
that potentially may be
might cause some hair loss.
Let's get into it.
Monat,
otherwise known as Monat
Global or Mother Nature
as what it's supposed
to be broken down as.
It turns out, I've been saying it wrong
for almost a year now,
by calling the Monat
and making them sound so
much fancier, classier,
and more reputable than
what they actually are.
My bad on that one.
It could have fooled me honestly,
but I can see how they
were trying to go for the,
we are fancy vibes with the name
and then just kind of accidentally
forgetting to follow
through with the products.
And honestly, the way
the name is pronounced
really devalues it too.
But of course, that's just my opinion.
Many of you have seen
my many many many multilevel Monday videos
where we dig through
what the honeypots have
been posting on Facebook.
And this company has
been a pretty active part
of that controlled collection of chaos,
curated by the lovely people moderating
and posting in Reddit's
or/anti MLM community.
It is truly a source of
endless entertainment.
And Monat is a pretty decent
part of the post there.
And we have seen many posts like this,
this,
this,
and of course this
and many, many more varieties.
Each have their own spin or twist,
but they're all ultimately the same.
It's a seller trying to peddle
their subpar products to you,
a potential consumer.
So when I decided it was
time to take a slice,
of the Monat pie and see what
this company is all about.
I found myself a bit
perplexed with the fact
that I couldn't even find a Wikipedia page
for them as a baseline for the company.
In fact, when you go to
Wikipedia and type in Monat,
there's no page for them at all.
Now, I know there are a few
people in the comment section
who always liked to tell me
how Wikipedia isn't a good source,
and I'm not really gonna argue that point,
but Wikipedia is good to
help me establish baselines
and help me build my
own timeline of events
when I begin writing a script
and there's usually
something sourced there
that I wanted or needed
more information on,
and it can point me in a
generally good direction,
but I digress.
I was a bit surprised
when I typed in Monat
and I was given results for
all sorts of random people
throughout history, but not
a peep about that company.
So I decided to follow up with
a super basic Google search.
Interestingly enough,
the first results on the first page
were all directly, pretty
much from the company.
No news came up or anything.
Well, the similar searches
or people also search prompt,
kind of humored me a bit.
The fact that the question
does Monat cause hair loss
is the number one suggested search
to also click on when typing in Monat,
but then also all the
top results were directly
from the company and how to
purchase or sell their products.
It raised a variety of red flags for me,
and perhaps it should for you too.
And here's why,
and I promise I'm going to try
and keep this super simple.
Marketing in the internet age
has dramatically changed the landscape
in terms of what you,
as a potential consumer
are exposed to.
We are exposed to a mind
numbing amount of ads
every single day,
but they are inevitably a
part of life and unavoidable,
but there was a time
before product placement,
a time when billboards
and newspaper articles
were the norm.
A time when TV and radio ads
were even considered uncommon.
And back when things
were a bit more simple,
it was quite easy to
identify what an ad was.
It was the commercial break
between your favorite TV shows
or the mailer thing telling
you that there was a sale
at the local mall that weekend,
but in our digital age
placement becomes king.
It almost doesn't matter
what your product is
or even how good it is.
If no one sees it, it's
absolutely useless.
But additionally,
what people say about
your product also matters.
That's why you've probably
seen YouTubers videos
get taken down by companies
when they have a less
than favorable opinion
on a product or service.
Companies are learning
that consumers want to
know more about a product
other than it's available
and you can buy it.
So bad opinion can be absolutely
devastating to any company.
And I do understand the
implication of me making this video
saying this,
and then knowing what's going
to happen later in this video,
by what I'm gonna explain to you.
So I understand that this
video might be a bit at risk
in the video may not be around forever
because of some of Monat's
business practices.
But we'll get into that in just a bit.
Something you can do now is
you can actually pay search
engines for placement.
And although this isn't an ad,
it also kind of is in
a really strange way.
When you type in a company's name,
you can see what people are talking about
in regards to that company.
So when I type in a company's name
with the intention to
pull up their history
and look through their
dirty laundry, so to speak
and find that the search
results are completely sterile
and just company links
and how to buy or sell,
I know something suspicious is going on
and it leads me to believe
they paid for certain website
pages to show up first
in the search results.
So I knew this video was going to be
extra tricky to figure
out about their history,
considering that it appears
they're purposefully
burying certain websites,
terms, pages, whatever.
And it made me want to
figure out even more.
So here's what I was able to find.
Monat was founded in mid 2014
and his own completely
by the company Alcora.
And here is how Alcora
describes themselves
from their own website.
Originally established in 2001
as a direct sales company,
specializing in beauty and wellness,
L'EUDINE Global held offices
in Maracaibo, Venezuela,
and Miami, Florida.
So how I see this company
is like an umbrella company
that has a few names under it,
but they are all ultimately
owned by the same group.
They first had a company called L'eudine
or however the heck it's pronounced.
And it sounds like an off
brand combination of it works
in Herbal life put together.
And that's okay,
but it was not really
super fantastic or notable
'cause I've never even
heard about it until today,
but when their new project
launched in 2014 Monat,
it was an absolute hit.
And as the company's own website states,
they are a direct sales company.
And perhaps that's what
the company first was,
but Monat has clearly
crossed into MLM territory.
It also appears as though
this Alcora company
also created a third beauty
company called Project Beauty.
And they say on their website
that all their products
are created by an outside company
called B&R products INC.
So naturally I followed this faded trail
to this company's webpage
and they proudly state that
they are a private label company
and my God, was this less
than pleasing to find.
Now private labeling is a
semi common industry thing.
And lemme explain.
The best example I can give
is for all the makeup lovers out there.
You're probably aware
of the company Morphe,
which is a company I refuse to shop with
and whose products I won't touch.
And here's why.
Morphe is a company that
is a private labeler.
Now it's not inherently bad.
That is until the company
is trying to hide the fact
and pretending that they
are more than what they are.
That's when I have a problem.
Morphe is known to private label
from the company Crown Brushes.
And if you buy from Crown Brushes,
you are literally buying Morphe products,
but cheaper and directly
from the manufacturer.
And it will obviously
have a different name
because that's how private labeling works,
is they change the label,
but they're still kind
of doing this recently.
You know that really popular
James Charles palette?
Well, here it is on Crown's website.
So yeah, I'm sure James Charles
and Morphe worked so hard
to make that palette
or maybe it was just that
this company was developing it
and they changed a few designs
and changed the colors
around ever so slightly
and claimed it was a brand new
thing, but it's really not.
I don't care if a company
is private labeling,
but I really don't like it
when I find out a company is claiming
to make something new or revolutionary
only for it to be revealed
that they were just private labeling
the exact special product they sell
and it's available from a cheaper label
or direct from the manufacturer
and contains the exact same stuff
as the company in question claims to have
as like an original thing.
So thanks for allowing me
to follow those breadcrumbs,
to find out this company
is really into private
labeling apparently.
At the end of the day,
all it really means is that the
company is charging you more
for a product with their name on it.
So you're literally paying for a name.
And as I said earlier,
they didn't do a great job
at choosing the name they went with.
So it's really quite an
unfortunate thing to private label.
So here's what we know for sure.
Monat is owned by a company called Alcora,
which apparently private
labels its products.
Its second company was Monat
and was founded in 2014.
But when you go to Monat's About section,
you'll see a photo of the Urdaneta family
and it says that you get to meet them.
But when you look at the page,
there's not really much to learn,
no family to meet,
nothing.
It's a picture of some people
that I have to make an
assumption is this family,
but there's no real guarantee.
And maybe this is a stock photo.
I don't know,
But their history is seriously lacking.
And honestly,
anyone with at least two brain cells
can look at this history
and see a lot is missing.
Here's what the entire page actually says.
In October 2014,
we officially opened
our doors for business.
In a short time, we have
accomplished incredible things,
thanks to the dedication
of our market partners,
the enthusiastic support
of our VIP customers,
and one of a kind home office staff.
Monat starts with changing your hair
and eventually changes your life.
We offer a generous compensation plan
and exceptionally nurturing support system
and caring committed leaders
who treat you like family.
Want to become part of this movement?
Now is the best time,
because together we are unstoppable.
And yeah, that's actually it.
There's nothing substantial
in the history section
of this company.
This little history page
literally has a call to action
to get you to become a seller.
There's no shitty heartwarming story
of the passion behind the company.
There's no explanation
why this company is so important
to the hair care industry
or why it mattered to them
to create these products.
There isn't even really
anything about the family,
not even like a first name,
it's nothing.
It's unusually barren and almost eerie.
And I don't think I've really
seen a company page like this
in a long time
and it gives me more questions
than it does answers.
But on the other hand,
if this company really is owned by Alcora
and private labels as products,
I'd probably hide that too,
but this just it's like
their search results
appear to hide so much
that it makes me want
to learn more about them
and really sink my teeth
into something substantial.
But if they are hiding the very basics
of their company's beginnings,
what else could possibly be
hiding under the surface?
Let's find out.
If there's one thing I really
can commend this company on
its burying information on themselves.
They have done an absolutely
fantastic job at hiding things
and they made my job a
little tougher than normal,
but, hey, I like a little
adventure from time to time.
And thankfully for me
this much like LuLaRoe
really loves to trip
and fall into lawsuits.
And those are very traceable
and my God do they have a
lovely selection to choose from.
But before we get into those,
I think it's important for me to explain
why I decided to put the
magnifying glass on Monat
and there are two reasons for it.
The first is that they are an MLM
or a Multilevel Marketing Company.
And I find that these companies
are extremely exploitative
of those who are most
vulnerable in our society
by claiming to offer dreams
of financial independence
and selling a dream
that almost every single
one of those sellers
will never achieve.
But they will most certainly
feed those at the top
of those definitely not
pyramid designed models.
The second reason is
because of the nature of
their consumer complaints,
this company had about 500
complaints filed with the BBB
in a 12 month period
with a vast majority of them
about the products hurting them,
specifically referring to hair loss
or like chemical type burns.
And that's a huge health concern.
Take a look at this one example
out of many many complaints
against the company.
"I purchased hair treatment
that was supposed to thicken my hair,
instead, it has made my hair fall out.
I am now going bald.
I first purchased Monat
hair treatment on 8/18/17
after seeing pictures online
of how women were able
to regrow their hair.
It initially seemed to work,
so I purchased more products.
After two months of use,
my hair began to fall out
and it continued to fall out
and I'm now going bald.
I have seen other similar
complaints on the product
on Amazon.
In addition, when I tried
to address the issue
in their online chat,
they would not post my
questions about my hair loss.
I met with a doctor
about a hair transplant
and he told me to stop using the products.
He also told me that my scalp
could have some kind of condition
and that I am too bald
for a hair transplant.
He recommended I see a dermatologist
and try a laser cap that costs $800.
I would like a refund
for the total that I have
spent on Monat products
since I am now afraid to
use any of it on my hair.
I would also like to
be reimbursed the $800
I had to spend on the laser cap.
The total I spent on
Monat hair was $585.93.
When the $800 is added,
the total is $1,385.93.
This is what I would like Monat to pay me
since our product damaged my
scalp causing me to go bald
and also caused me to spend
added money on a later cap.
There are several similar
stories of Monat on Amazon.
They do not post these
stories on their chat
and mislead customers.
So even if you wanted
to support these MLMs,
which I do think less of you
for supporting a model that exploits
those who are financially vulnerable,
I think it's really really
hard to turn a blind eye
to a company whose
products causes temporary
or even permanent hair loss.
Especially when the company
is a hair care company
that claims to help make your
hair beautiful and clean.
Hair is something that we
are all psychologically
attached to.
Many men and women have a fear of balding,
losing their hair and so on and so forth.
I could not imagine the anguish
of trying a hair product
that's supposed to help
make your hair look fuller,
shinier or healthier
only to have it fall out in clumps
and in some cases for it
to never grow back again.
I know I would be absolutely devastated
if something like that happened to me
and I would not wish that
even on my worst enemy.
And that's why I think it's so important
to bring this information to more people.
So even if you want to
support this company,
because it's an MLM
and you wanna support
your fellow boss babes,
I can't quite wrap my mind around
how you would justify
wanting to support a company
whose products can do
that to its customers.
So let's briefly touch on their products
from the most objective
standpoint I can take.
Something many Monat
sellers like to touch on
is the fact that the company
is Leaping Bunny certified
and I too can actually confirm
and even applaud them for certification.
It's a fantastic marketing
tool to trick people
into thinking more highly of
their product than what it is.
According to Leaping Bunny's website,
they state the following
about what their standard is.
To achieve approval for its own label,
cosmetic and/or household products,
a company must comply with
the following criteria.
One,
the company does not and
shall not conduct commission
or be a party to animal
testing of any cosmetic
and or household products,
including without limitation, formulations
and ingredients of such products.
And two, the company does
not and shall not purchase
any ingredient formulation or product
from any third party
manufacturer, supplier
that conducted, commissioned
or has been party to animal
testing on said ingredient,
formulation, or product
after the company's fixed cutoff date.
If a formulation ingredient or product
is found not to comply with the standard,
the company will replace
it with an alternative
that complies with the standards criteria
or remove it from the product range.
So what does that mean
for a company like Monat?
It means that the company
does currently comply
with not testing their products on animals
and that their ingredients are not sourced
from third parties who do
conduct animal testing.
And that's awesome.
Here's what a Leaping Bunny certification
doesn't account for.
Consumer safety.
Now to clarify,
this is not me throwing
shade at Leaping Bunny
in any capacity.
I think what they're doing is fantastic,
but I think many consumers see this
as a gold star on a company
that states to them,
Oh, this company is safe to buy from
when it's really just certifying
the animals were not hurt
in any way to make the products
the said company produces.
It does not verify that a hair company
won't cause your hair to fall out.
But you know, just like an example,
and I think Monat sellers
want to use the certification
to further their stance
that their products are safe
when that's not exactly what
Leaping Bunny certification
actually means.
Speaking of those boss babes
that are out there hustling hard
for that dollar dollar bill,
let's take a look at Monat's
income disclosure statements
because I for one,
I'm extremely curious
as to how peddling these
kinds of products off.
It's like looking at an actual visual
of how much it costs your soul.
So let's take a look.
Shall we?
Hmm.
I guess souls are going
pretty cheap these days.
Let's read that little
underlined read portion.
Shall we?
It typical participant in the plan
earns between 22 and 1,188
Canadian dollars annualized.
That's pretty cheap to sell
your soul to this company
for that little money
and potentially permanently
ruining your friends
and family's hairs and
relationship with them
just to be a boss babe for a little bit.
Now, in US dollars, that's about
$16.68 to $900.93 annually.
And that breaks down to a boss babe,
making between $1.39 to $75.08 a month.
And that's if they can even turn a profit
because many can't even do that.
Now I'm gonna go out on a limb here
with the following statement,
but that's not really boss babes money.
In Canada and in the US
that's not even really enough money
to be financially independent
from almost anything.
I really don't know who
they think they're fooling,
but this is really pathetic.
But, hey, I guess that's
how much money you need
to give someone to make
them irrationally loyal
to your brand.
So that's an unfortunate
thing I learned today.
But now back to the company.
So things seem to be smooth sailing
for their first couple
of years in business,
as it is for most MLMs
before they start slipping down
the slope of irreparable damage.
But that slope began
sliding in 2017 for Monat.
Now in mid-2017, Monat sued Mags Kavanaugh
and associates of California
Beauty Studios, Inc.
Now, I say now
because you're wondering why
I would bring up a lawsuit
where Monat is doing the suing.
But just follow with me on this one
because this is gonna be the first
in a long list of lawsuits for this MLM
where they do the suing
but it overall doesn't look good for them.
So Monat sued Mags, and
I believe her company,
for making defamatory
statements against Monat.
She had made claims
that the company was
possibly using a similar
or same formula as as the
Wen Hair Care products line.
Now, if you don't know
what Wen Hair Care is,
Wen is a company that was started
by celebrity hairstylist, Chaz Dean.
The company incurred almost
2,000 complaints to the BBB
about hair loss and scalp damage.
They were eventually sued
in a class action lawsuit
and investigated by the FDA
and then had to payout $22 million
for the damage their products
caused to their consumers.
Now that sounds really similar
to Monat now, doesn't it?
Maybe, maybe not.
Well, I could argue that it
does sound eerily similar
to what's happening to this company now.
And with finding out they
use a private labeler
for their products, I could
also see how those similarities
between the two hair companies
becomes even more relevant.
So this woman made that connection
and said something about it.
And Monat did not like that.
So they tried to sue her into silence.
In early 2018, the lawsuit was settled
and Mags wrote a statement
on her Facebook page
about the results of the lawsuit.
And here's what she had to say.
"Since then Monat has tried to
settle with me four times now
and wanted me to put up
a crazy apology letter
that I refused to do.
I now see that same
apology letter being posted
by other poor stylist
when they were sent threatening letters.
So Monat tried to settle
one more time with me
in which they are just
basically dropping the lawsuit.
I am going to settle my case
with them with no apology,
just with the knowledge that
this never should have been
filed in the first place.
Monat will go away, far, far away.
And I will never talk about them again.
Sometimes you must stand up for
what is right in this world,
freedom of speech is the
fabric of our constitution,
which is very important to me.
Now you know the truth."
And so with that, the case was settled.
And although it seems like
she never had to put out
an apology that other hairstylists
apparently had to put out
or that Monat was gonna like sue them.
It does kinda sound like
they were forcing her
into silence then.
I'm led to believe that
because of the statement where she says,
she'll never talk about them again.
Maybe that's just me looking
into it too much though.
And also no answer was
given one way or another
comparing the two products
between Monet and Wen,
but that comparison was
now in people's heads.
And this lawsuit brought
just a little bit more attention to it,
more than this hairstylist
could have ever done on her own.
So I find it kind of entertaining
that they tried to bury this
and instead ended up
giving it more attention.
But this was not the only
hairstylist Monat went after,
as alluded to in Mag's Facebook post.
Another hairstylist,
Vickie Harrington was also
sued by Monat in January 2018.
This seemingly again drew
more attention to Monat.
Vickie was one of the owners
of a very popular Facebook group,
dedicated to women talking
about their poor experiences
with Monat and sharing photos
and experiences and stories.
She was sued for defaming Monat.
Although this case was considered settled,
Monat did manage to take
down the Facebook page,
but those photos of men, women,
and children losing hair,
having burnt scalps and
other forms of damage
that were attributed to be
caused by Monat's products,
still float around the internet
and they're not pretty to look at.
In February 2018,
Monat was sued for $5 million
in the first of many class
action lawsuits against them.
This lawsuit alleged two key
grievances against the MLM.
The first was that it
claimed their products
were essentially a scam
by claiming to have a shedding period
as an excuse to purchase
more of their products
to fix the problem.
But in reality,
the products were just
damaging the user's hair.
The second complaint
was that Monat lied about their
products being sulfate free,
but contain the ingredients
Sodium C14-16 olefin sulfonate,
the sulfate.
This lawsuit additionally mentioned
the systematic silencing of
critics against the company
as an additional reason
why this class action
was being filed as a class action
for a strength in numbers approach
against this aggressive company.
And they specifically cited the lawsuit
against Vickie Harrington.
One month later in March 2018,
another former user of
Monat filed a lawsuit.
In this lawsuit the
plaintiff Dannis Sohovich
alleges that she lost
almost 50% of her hair
as a direct result of using Monat products
within a six to eight week timeframe.
This lawsuit in combination
with the previous
class action from just a month prior,
as well as over 200
negative consumer reports
in a very short period of time,
prompted the FDA to open up an
investigation against Monat.
In March the FDA surprise Monat
by showing up to their
facility unannounced
for a surprise inspection.
According to initial findings,
the facility was filthy and contaminated.
This initial report just means
the company was essentially sloppy
with how it packages
products and did so in a way
that the products were
contaminated with general filth
and dirtiness,
which can count for
unaccounted ingredients
entering products that should
otherwise not be there.
Now with backtracking for just a moment.
Remember that first lawsuit,
when Monat sued the
hairstylist for comparing Monat
to Wen Hair Care?
The company that had multiple
class action lawsuits
against it for hair loss,
crazy amounts of consumer complaints
and surrounding hair
loss and scalp damage?
Wait,
which company was I just describing?
Hold on.
Oh wait. No.
The similarities really are uncanny.
That's really interesting.
I'm just so glad Monat
isn't like that at all.
The fact that they formulate
their own products.
Oh, shit.
Aren't they a private label company too?
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
That can't be right.
Aren't they the company
that's just super transparent
about their history
and doesn't have a weird search history
to suppress negative reviews
and definitely does not try
to sue people into silence?
Wait.
Shit!
Okay, Houston, we might
actually have a problem.
Well, anyway, let's move on.
One month later,
Monat found itself in yet another lawsuit.
Another woman sued the company
for hair and scalp damage.
In this particular lawsuit,
she claims she went to see her physician
and her doctor identified
Monat's hair products
as the root cause for her scalp irritation
and apparent irreversible
damage to her scalp and hair.
And she sued for the damage
and misrepresentation
of products by Monat.
Interestingly enough, in June 2018,
Monat announced the results
of allergies testing
and performed with a well-renowned lab.
The lab did a 48 hour
patch test on human skin
to look for possible reactions to the skin
and did not find any
because they did this test,
they could now claim their products
were dermatologically tested
regardless of their results.
Something to be careful
of in this situation
is that most of the complaints
about hair loss, damage
and scalp irritation
were the result of products
being used for weeks at a time
and not 48 hours.
Additionally, be aware of wording.
Being dermatologically tested
is not the same as being approved.
They will test products
and test could show that
whatever the lab test is sucked,
but it doesn't invalidate
the fact that the product
wasn't in fact tested.
Tested is not the same as approved
and based on a 48 hour patch test,
I would argue that the test
is at best at moot point
and at worst a tactic
to add to their products
to say they were tested
to give the appearance
of being more than what they actually are.
I would hope Monat is not the
kind of company to do that,
but based on their track record
and how they have acted as a company,
based on their own actions,
I really have no idea.
And now it seems like we are
sitting and waiting in limbo.
Lawsuits take time to reach a
conclusion one way or another.
And for now it seems like Monat
has managed to keep their heads down.
And maybe it's because they're
busy with their lawsuits,
but maybe not.
Either way, this is where the
tale of Monat ends for now.
It's a somewhat unsatisfying ending
because there are no
fantastic successes or losses.
There's a lot of speculation
and no real answer
for the time being.
As for the consumer reviews,
BBB complains all been set to private.
So it's really difficult
to read their new reviews
and it just so happens
to be another tactic
I believe Monat is using to be secretive
and it just doesn't look appealing.
However, when you go to
Trustpilot for consumer reviews,
there's a left public
and there are reviews
from just a few hours ago
and none of them are good.
So, even though they may
not be in any legal trouble
for the time being,
they're still racking up many many
negative consumer reviews.
And most of them seem to be
echoing the same sentiments
as those before them.
In my personal opinion,
I won't use products
that are peddled by MLMs.
I do not support that business model
and putting my money elsewhere,
feeds legitimate businesses and not MLMs.
And if I found out a company
could cause hair loss
and knowing that I'm very
attached to my own hair,
I wouldn't go near it.
And that's my second strike against Monat.
And thirdly, we live in a
world where we as consumers
feel an obligation to
know about the companies
we purchase products from,
and the fact that Monat
hides a lot about them
and acts like a shadowy
figure in an alleyway,
trying to sell me shampoo
does not make me feel encouraged
to want to purchase from them.
So for me, that's an easy
three strikes and they're out.
I will admit I'm a bit surprised
that they have not been full on sued
for being a pyramid scheme,
but perhaps in due time,
that will rise to the surface as well.
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