I almost fell into an mlm trap! I'm autistic and have trouble seeing behind webs of lies and manipulation. Luckily my therapist saw what was going on and got me to stay away before I couldn't get out! These companies are horrible
They love to target people in hard spots. That definitely includes people with autism and other disorders. I am so very sorry that they tried to hurt you like this but I am glad you were able to run. Wishing you the very best 💕
I am so glad your therapist did the ethical and right thing by protecting you. Thank goodness. So sorry to hear about your experience. That must have been such a mental and emotional toll, along with everything else.
Thank God for your therapist. Autism is a very understandable reason. But I have close friends who do not have any reasonable excuse for their ignorance and it is infuriating to me.
this might not be the same but i hate when they do this to children in school. Young children are supposed to sell chocolet or house products in order to raise school funds. They tell them they will get prizes if the sell enough candy or products. its disgusting and not right this reminded me of this
I’ve been buying Monat hair products for years. It’s really overpriced, and now that I’ve watched this, it’s time to stop. Thanks for talking about this.
I loved them for years. I quit last year when all my packages were being lost by the post office. when I switched to shampoo I could get in a store I realized there were so many just as good at a fraction of the cost.
I bought some shampoo & conditioner for my daughters, for years, bc nothing else I tried worked on their tangles. I got samples to patch test and try out first. But, then, I got them keratin treatments and they aged out of the "I refuse to brush my hair phase" so I cancelled my membership. It was very pricey. I cannot use most of what they make bc I am extremely sensitive to citrus in skin/hair products; found out the hard way when I got chemical burns from a Freeman face mask. I always patch test everything now. I had a bad reaction to the rejuvenique oil so I only really used the rejuvabeads and other styling products which, in the end, weren't special apart from their high price. I have had better luck with salon shampoo & conditioner & natural oils from Amazon. Wallet is happier too.
yall should try the function of beauty shampoo/conditioner and the shots they sell at target! i just got it a couple weeks ago and i love it already! i wash my hair everyday and my hair isnt as frizzy anymore😻
THANK YOU FOR HAVING THE COURAGE TO POST THIS! The “huns” are going to comment on here to discredit you, but keep going! These companies are incredibly predatory
@@CassandraBankson I'm glad someone is out here exposing these predatory company's and their over priced, mediocre products. Thank you for your service to the community 🙏🏻 🥺
Fun fact: Moneta is used as Juno's (Roman form of Hera) epithet and it is where the word "money" comes from. Ps Juno Moneta translates to something like Juno who warns I believe
There are a few that I don't think are exploitative (like Thirty One) and that people will sometimes join purely for discounts and don't have onerous minimum sales requirements or whatever, but 99% of MLMs are awful. (I have never sold from any MLM btw and I have no personal stake in them, I just have known several people who have sold Thirty One and other MLMs, including my mom, so I've seen the ugly side of many of them but that specific one didn't have the same terrible financial outcomes).
I'm glad someone with a larger audience is talking about this! These mlm's are so screwed up! I was in one for year & the things I learned are absolutely crazy! I will never again be involved in an mlm! I'm thankful for the anti mlm community. They are helping people so much!❤️
I was in an MLM (not Monat) for 6.5 years and I genuinely thought they cared about me as a person. I struggle with major depression and whenever I’d have a really bad episode, I never had any friends to talk to (since I wasn’t selling). As soon as I felt better and had some volume or posted about the company, my “friends” would pop back up. I had one of the worst episodes I’ve ever had in my life this past Dec-Mar, was in a really bad depression fog and when my mind cleared up a bit, I realized the only people who checked on me the entire 4 months of my episode were my parents. Glad I’ve realized and now I’m rebuilding my life
Aw man! Im sorry this happened to you, but super glad that you finally got out of it!! I know depression is super hard to deal with but you’re so resilient for dealing with it even when you didn’t have a lot of support. In case you haven’t gotten professional help, I would definitely recommend it😌 Hope you’re doing great!!!🌸✨💕
it’s actually “mo-nate”, which i think is even dumber than the other two common pronunciations. my mom was involved for a minute and half of my hometown sells this stuff. thank you for covering this!
Can we start a petition against MLMs?... We need to make these illegal. Where I live, pyramid schemes are illegal.. so we just need to prove that MLMs are no different.
I agree, they are a scourge. Unfortunately in the U.S., it’s legal for them to spend ungodly amounts of money lobbying members of Congress to fight any potential legislation that might limit or prohibit their business models. And their lobbying has also, unfortunately, pretty successfully kept the Federal Trade Commission from effectively investigating or fining them for their scummy tactics. And if my memory is correct, there’s was a court case against (sc)Amway wherein somehow they emerged victorious because somehow their business model wasn’t ruled to be an illegal pyramid scheme?! It’s wildly depressing learning about the history of these god-awful companies.
@@jojipalpopijal1797 Pyramid schemes put all the monetary risk on the bottom of the pyramid, the people making direct sales. One of the biggest issues is they make their representatives buy their own stock of items, and don't assign sales regions, therefore pitting people against each other. A more traditional business model puts the risk on the top of the pyramid. Owners and investors would be responsible for paying for and maintaining their physical stock as well as conducting advertising and marketing. In the end, pyramid schemes make money simply by recruiting more people, not by selling their products.
John Oliver of Last Week Tonight has a solid video on MLMs. He covers what they are and why it has been so hard to stop them. It’s here on TH-cam if you search Multilevel Marketing and John Oliver/Last Week Tonight
a girl I knew in high school tried getting me to be part of the “team” and I kindly declined because honestly I was just too busy. I end up looking into it and started paying attention to her posts and stuff. She kept saying the skincare works wonders for her but all her pics and videos have those heavy faux foundation filters!!! That’s how I know the products are BS. Also hate when they say the product is “Botox in a bottle”… girl I get Botox and it is impossible for a topical product to paralyze your facial muscles 😂 And yes!!! I get so mad that she says that the products are vegan but in her next slide she is eating steak. Omg as you can see, this topic gets me so annoyed
@@apenguingames4305 Yes you can lol. It’s just frustrating when they use the fact that they are vegan as your main selling point, then later post a pic of steak and say “I could never be vegan. I love steak too much”. I don’t know if it’s just the girls I follow from high school or what but it’s annoying
Girl I use 10% argireline serum by The Ordinary and that’s the stuff that is the “Botox in a bottle”. You don’t achieve Botox results with it… i get actual Botox for that ONE spot (inbetween my brows). But it does work AMAZING. I pay $9 for it. Love the stuff.
Ilysm for posting this!! I couldn't find one unbiased review of Monat on TH-cam and it sucks cause I wanna show my friend working for Monat just how toxic that 'community' is! Thank you Cassandra for always posting content like this!! 🥺💕
Unfortunately often showing them they don’t work isn’t enough bc they foster an almost cultish following. They’re love bombed by their up lines but “punished” if they quation anything. It’s hard to leave the kind of love & support you feel your getting. Unfortunately for most ppl it takes realizing they’ve lost a ton of money and have no hope of getting it back before they wake up. It’s sad. These companies and sales tactics need to be outlawed. They ruin lives.
Good luck with that. I tried to warn a friend about it and I had to block her. She had posted one of those message me to find out how you can make $ bs posts. The ones that prey on broke people. I had done my research and luckily I watch people like Cassandra so the first videos I got to were warnings to stay away. I got hunned. No joke. She was in it for a week and she was already speaking like them. I warned another person on my sm and they came after me for that too. She wanted me to join one of those zoom meetings. I backed the fuck out right away because I said I wasn’t sure anymore and they kept pushing anyway. They’re mental. It’s sad but it’s emotional manipulation
When I was part of an mlm people told me to leave all the time, but I didnt listen to them until I figured it out myself, I know you wanna help them badly but let them be the ones to clock in on the lies, cause if u insist too much, their "mentors" will call you unsopportive and toxic, and you run the chance of being befriended. Just be careful how you go about it
im really embarrassed I didnt know Monat was a MLM when I started to buy it. I didnt get it from a friend I saw an ad and bought it from their website. then like 2 yrs later I found out it was an MLM and felt pretty dumb.
@@AMELIA-oj5qk of course a bully ! Not trying to sell it!! My point is that it’s not expensive an over priced or any different than the stuff we buy at ulta and Sephora
Please do a Rodan & Fields and beautycounter review! As an esthi, I have so many clients who use their skincare and it makes it so difficult to talk to them about any skincare advice because they’re such cult followers of the brands. I’d love to know more of the science behind the brands’ skincare, because it’s so difficult to find the truth without trying them out-which I don’t want to do.
It’s all Lies! I have a physician friend and she convinced me to try R&F and join all the other MDs whom are supporting the products ( I am a physician as well, so I believed them) Got the starter kit for 400$! And tried it for 2 weeks, had some questions about ingredients and business model and was told over those FB groups and meetings that “I am over thinking it”!!!!!! Thankfully I understood what’s going on so I returned my kit and blocked them all. Such a shame that they are using their degrees to manipulate their friends and families.
Real story: I actually almost ALMOST fell into an MLM trap. Not this one, but Amway. I hadn't officially joined yet and never will. Similar to Monat, the skincare products have nothing special in them. I found their sunscreen was $45 for 30mL with zinc oxide, octocrylene, etc. Any sunscreens in the general stores have similar ingredients!!
Amway tried to get me before. I never went through with it cause the information they were giving me was pretty vague. Like they could never give me clear cut answers.
@@JazmineAliciaa Same!! I deliberately asked the ones who invited me for their website and they just dodged. They are also super annoying and wanted me to talk to them DAILY.
Almost got sucked into this last month by a really pretty girl I used to work with! She’s super sweeeeet so I was like no way can this be MLM! But you’re right, it’s CULT LIKE!!!!!! So happy I didn’t sign up with her. Thank you 🙏🏻
I just feel so bad for those women and men who got blinded and trapped into this. How horrible they must of felt when they realized what they got themselves into. 😕
@@kristinajoksaite4793 I personally like Surface, Kevin Murphy, and Kenra. I also LOVE the 7 seconds detangler from Unite, it’s the best one I’ve ever used!
Wow this video literally saved me. I was just talking to one of the girls today and had a callback call to officially join tomorrow... Cant thank you enough. Its so sad how deceiving these schemes are.. I would have never known.
I used Monat hair products for 3 months. From the first shampoo, it STRIPPED my hair. My hair became BRITTLE for the first time in my life - it was impossible to comb. Everyone told me, “Oh, it’s hard to get all of the drugstore junk out of your hair. Keep at it - by 3 months, you’ll suddenly see a big change!” By 3 months, I cried. That was about 20 months ago & my hair is still very damaged. Rotten!
I am so so sorry. My mom has coarse and wavy/curly hair and she bought this (without telling me about it even through I was in a cosmetology apprenticeship at the time) and it turned her hair brittle and PIN STRAIGHT before causing lesions on her scalp and causing her hair to fall out in clumps. It was so brittle that hair broke off at the stress point the minute she would twist, tie, or bend it. She ended up with a temporary alopecia on her crown and around the hairline. When she finally told me what she was using, her “distributer” didn’t respond to her request until the day after the return window was closed. 🙄
I just wanted to say I started watching your channel in your early years when you were still struggling. I went through having awful acne for most of my life and it was you and your beauty that kept me pushing through. I am so glad to see that these days your videos are about empowering people and educating them on everything skincare related. I have learned so much about my skin and how to treat it through you. Thank you for everything you do!❤️
I almost got sold into a mlm when I was literally 13 years old, like how unethical would you have to be to exploit children? I'm so lucky my mum is smart...
I hate it when people try to excuse companies like this (even when it isn't MLM) because they're vegan and cruelty free. When you are scamming people, exploiting them and encouraging this deceitful behavior, it means jack shit whether or not it is vegan or cruelty free. I literally do not care and do not give any merit to that side at that point, just like how it means nothing to me if someone is puppy lover or adoring catmom when they do not bat an eye about cheating and scamming people.
I had a new "friend" I met on bumble bff try to loop me into this. After 2 hangouts and my two firm no's I never heard from her again. Thank you for this video. It was refreshing and so validating.
@@stephaniesinternetlife I feel you so hard. The worst part was I was so excited to make her as a friend. She was so kind, happy, positive, and bubbly and made me feel good about myself. The perfect person to work that job. And I was happy to make a friend only to see it was all fake. 😔 What can you do. At least we aren't alone? 😊
@@angelinaoutlaw6760 OMG is this true bc right now I have this friend who I also met on bumble ( her name starts with K) she's super nice, bubbly, and I was so excited as well to be her friend irl. and I was thinking of joining Monat today but I said I was busy for today🤷🏻♀️
They even had the audacity to say that it's office job! When I was looking for a job I found very interesting offer, it was for a job at american company specialising in haircare. It seemed normal, but the person that I talked to was so suspicious, I was digging deep and found that it was Monat. They were looking for a person to sell their crap, not for office worker. They even lie to people that way. It's disgusting.
Cassandra. I've been watching your videos for about 8 months now. They were all informative and entertaining. But today, sweetheart, i have developed a whole new RESPECT for you!
MLMs need to stop. They are predatory. The only way they should be able to operate is if someone is explicitly told that 1% of the people who go into this business will succeed and the rest will fall into financial ruin and starve. MLMs are predatory. If you have no choice but to sell to friends and family, you really should reconsider your business. The best way to put an end to MLMs forever is to spread the word about how these "businesses" operate. I'm really happy to see this video and consider content like this a public service announcement. People need ro know.
I’m so glad you mention how you don’t blame the women who get sucked into MLMs. I did a paper on this recently and surprisingly? The biggest group of Direct Sales workers are women around 35-ish years old. That’s also the most common service industry worker demographic, 35-ish year old women. So most of the people who get pulled into MLMs are tired of working shitty, terrible service industry jobs so they fall into the allure of owning your own business or having a sense of community they desperately lack. It’s so exploitative and disgusting.
Thank you so much for making this video Cassandra! I used to use Monat for over a year because my friend is selling them and she made me get them. It dried my hair out soooo bad even more than I already have... so I just had to tell her I am done using that shit. I wish you made this video much sooner. My stupid ass was definitely brain washed. Lol I also remember trying wen years ago.
Tell us exactly how you feel. I freaking love you more every time I see you. Keep it going we all adore a fun, passionate, person WHO KNOWS WHAT SHE IS TALKING ABOUT!
My sister is a market partner for monat and she has this group of “friends” who encourage her to sell this stuff and our family avoid her like the plague . Can’t even have a normal conversation with her without mentioning monat and needing your card to buy something . At first we entertained the idea because we wanted to support her but it had gotten out of hand . Why is a moisturizer and serum $130
SOOOOOO glad I found this video! Thanks so much!! Finding the right skin and haircare products has become so difficult. Finding an unbiased and yet educated view is awesome! I'm subscribing!!! I was using Monat for about 1.5 months when I started to experience the shedding/itching/and hair feeling like straw. I knew that there was no such thing as "detoxing" the hair. But, I was trying to help out my daughter in law who is now selling Monat products. I plan to show her this video. Thanks so much for this information.
Oh my stars I have been waiting for this video! My hair started falling out when I used their hair products and it still is falling out. I used it from January to April 2020 and my hair is still falling out. It has taken a lot of time for my hair to fall out less but it is still falling out. I have been so sus about their skincare products ofc! Thank you Cassandra for making this video!
I live in France and this company is coming to France. My cousin is crazy for making me join this weird cult. I THANK GOD FOR WATCHING THIS VIDEO THAT SAVED ME FROM FAILURE
My mom's friend has been in an MLM for years. I remember when she started, she was confident that she would make enough money to retire after just 4 years. But it's been 8 years already, and she's stuck in the same position...
I was approached this past year by an old acquaintance about this haircare and I did consider it because she did have absolutely gorgeous curly hair but I don't buy anything without researching first and it didn't take much for me to be like "oh hell naw sis!" And after I declined I found out that she was pregnant so the improvement in her hair was most likely due to the pregnancy hormones and vitamins she was taking, so shady.
Thank you thank you thank you! I posted a big ol rant about this company the other day because a girl I knew started posting about them as her skincare routine and I was like oh dear god please someone help get them out of here we don’t need more MLMs in the skincare community STOP
Having citrus oils in a wash-off product I don't think is that bad but they put it in literally EVERY SINGLE PRODUCT. By the end of your skin care routine you'll have layers and layers of the same sensitizing citrus oils, not to mention the same thing with the coconut oil... My acne prone sensitive skin would be SCREAMING!
Thank you for posting this!!!!! I can't stand MLM scams and their shitty products. I work at a cosmetic derm spa and honestly its a slap in the face bc we sell REAL medical grade skincare and have to get actual training about the ingredients, the purpose and the science behind each product and come up with specific regimens for different skin types. MLM scammers just want a quick buck 🙄
I find the “Modus operandi” of these mlm huns very disturbing. They not only want to sell you these overpriced mediocre products, but they want to sell you the whole _lifestyle_ that comes with it (allegedly🙄)... because they’re more interested in you joining the “movement”😅, than only you buying their products... it’s only the first step. It’s just so messy and wrong. People need to open their eyes... these hun bots clearly say and do anything to reel more sales-women in to make the people on top even richer.🤮 Toxic s*** for sure.
I think that’s the point, the product of mlms are always secondary, the main money is made from recruitment and as you said selling this “lifestyle” so they start recruiting and so on so forth
Thank you for using your platform for good, Cassandra! It’s disappointing when influencers start hawking MLMs instead of educating their fans against them to prevent them from losing money and friends.
Family & friends were selling this brand so I decided to try it out.. my goodness the products suck.. I only tried the hair care thankfully not the skin care. Not to mention, when I tried to cancel my “VIP membership” with them, they said I would have to pay to cancel? Either that or I buy more products FIRST then I can cancel. I refused to pay of course but man was it a sh*t show. what’s even more funny is that all the people I once knew who sold the line suddenly stopped selling it and their reasoning? “Oh I’m just busy”.. it doesn’t work! Just be honest already!
Appreciate you sharing all your skin care knowledge with us standard consumers! Will you do a similar look into the quality of the Rodan and Fields skin care products (another MLM)? I’ve been using their products for a couple of years and actually really like them, so I’m curious if there’s other things on the market that are essentially the same, but cheaper.
Basically if it’s from an MLM you shouldn’t support it. There are definitely cheaper better products on the field from companies that don’t prey on vulnerable people
Thank u for sharing your link Cassandra. I nearly got sucked into 1 of theses 'pyramid/networking' schemes, by an acquaintance in the early 90's. Thankfully I didnt have the amount of money he was asking to become a representative to purchace the products and a few months later realised what it was all about and was a scam where the few people at the top got richer and the rest stayed much the same. Love Alli x
Misread this as "monistat" at first....I was thinking to myself "I know some people use that as a face primer but I didn't think they actually released a whole skincare line" 😅
@@jaz8582 Yea I've never personally tried it but apparently some people have used monistat (or maybe it was vagisil??) as a face primer. Some sort of feminine care cream.
@@elizabethm2217 I just found the videos I saw about it before -- It was Monistat Chafing Gel...that's not to say that people haven't also tried using hemorrhoid cream 😂😂😂
@@iAMbekahx3 ill never understand why we feel the need to put shit on our skin that isnt formulated for the skin🥴 i obvs know better now but 5 yrs ago i bought into the whole coconut oil craze🤡 i kept wondering why tf my skin was still dry if i was using coconut oil as moisturizer lmfao and why tf i was breaking out when i had never struggled w acne not even as a teen😭🥴
THANK YOU 🙏 I can’t stand MLMs.. I know far far too many people (mostly women) who fall victim to these scams and lose so much money on false claims! I really wish they could be done away with...
This video brings me life. This is too closely related to my life. I am surrounded by brainwashed people, who do not have the right education to understand what they are selling. I love being with my people! You beautiful butterflies!
I have so many clients that have used Monday products. It does cause scalp issues. There’s so many amazing hairdressers that can point you to better products to use. For your specific needs. I love Davines and Wella. Thank you for doing a video over this!!!❤️
WOW! I'M SO HAPPY watching you till the end, I'm vey happy to see someone making a difference and actually doing the research for everyone else! Thank you so much for this! Continue doing what you do! I feel so inspired!
I actually joined Monat last year... and stoped because the company actually helped me to get more into skin and hair care and found products that worked waaay better that cost $20 or less... Thank you for the video, I’ve been wanted to watch a video about this company I had the be balanced cleanser and it was so rough, it left my skin super dry every time (I have oily skin) now I use the Cerave cleanser for oily skin and it’s so much better
My friend was ALL ABOUT it works and out of no where, switched to Monat and now is claiming all the changes she claimed it works did to her, are from Monat. It’s very cringey.
Please share DUPES Or best suggestions!! I’ve been using this skin line for 2 years and have loved it, but had never taken care of my skin before either. I do find it pretty expensive but I appreciated the convenience of not having to go find other products that suit my skin.
I was a Monat Market Partner and I’m so glad I got out I felt the cult like environment with the people and if you sign a VIP or a market partner they’d hype you up and they would hold draws and stuff to encourage you to make sales
Hi! You should do an updated video on the new monat makeup they recently released, cause a lot of reps make claims such as "doesn't clog pores" "heals your skin" etc and I feel like you'd be the best and most credible person to look into the ingredients and squash some of the claims they make.
As a small anti MLM content creator, I love this! We talk about how unethical this “companies” are as well as their reps (not all, but the majority do give the rest a horrible reputation). Literally the reps only make money by recruiting others. Monat, YL, and Arbonne are shifting their tactics from “you can work from home” to “you can be influencer when you join our MLM” A lot of celebrities, especially Latino celebrities have jumped on the bandwagon with Monat. While TH-cam moms have gone the YL, Seint or Arbonne route. I for one, speak about how predatory they are (specifically the Latino celebrities that are with Monat) and the products have BASIC AF INGREDIENTS! Their products aren’t worth price nor is it worth joining. It’s great to have someone who is an expert/knowledgeable about skincare backing up, what Anti MLM content creators have been saying all along about Monat Products. Thank you 👏🏻
I would like to clear some very important misinformation around mlm businesses. First of all, the one mentioned in this video is what you call a ponzi scheme. There is quite literally no basis to the business itself other than lies, false advertising, and only the top people in the pyramid earning the money. In relation to this, NOT ALL MLMs are like this. Even though you may have found lots of these "scammy" mlms, you should educate yourself and realise that many of these ponzi schemes disguise themselves as mlms. An example of a true reliable MLM is the one my parents work for for 20+ years that sells actually good products. They had to constantly tell people to differentiate between mlms and business scams(mostly ponzi schemes). A good way to find this out reliably is to know how long and how good the business has run over the years. Fake mlms would usually be gone in a few years as they cannot sustain themselves (as they dont even have a basis to their business other than lies and products that are bad) and the top leaders in the pyramid will run away after they get their fair share of money. They won't be able to last for more than a few years. Actual mlms like tupperware and Amway on the other hand would be able to last for years and actually sell stuff that people buy regularly. Sorry for the long comment, just really wanted to get this out.
@@estheticianhere2875 People do talk about how certain brands in Sephora that are unethical. What you’re doing right now is using “what aboutism” tactics to deflect. I’m guessing you’re either in Seint, YL or Monat in order to be taking a comment based on facts a little too personal.
@@BlancaPerdomo lol, actually they don’t. I I’ve scanned dozens of brands with yuka app just to see what the ingredients are and they Are SHIT! Seint and monat actually have a higher rank then Sephora brands. Just because it’s a MLM doesn’t make the products bad or unethical. Your biased against them doesn’t actually make them bad. Have you looked the ingredients in Seint? They are good ingredients.
THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!!! After joining a different MLM but realizing after a few weeks that it’s a scam, I’m COMPLETELY against any MLM and try to tell people about my experience so they don’t get tricked into joining one! I was one of the lucky ones who got my money back
Also if you use this and a bond builder like Olaplex. It will ruin your hair. Monate breaks the bonds of the hair. So you get the "shedding" they lie about. Idk why its still out. So sick
Oh thank goodness you’re spreading truth about MLMs. I was stuck in one for nearly five years “Poonique,” as we call it now lol 😝.. and boy was it a money pit. I lost thousands of dollars and my sponsor even threatened to sue me for exposing the truths. Younique actually has their own skincare too, and boy was I targeted since I had cystic acne. I’m so grateful for the anti-MLM community, and I hope most of these companies get shut down.
“It’s boring legal stuff.” 😳 Pretty sure the Attorney General of the state of Florida thinks it’s not boring and that it’s pretty important your sales force understands it. 😳😳😳😳😳😳 Edited to add: Okay. I haven’t actually read the ingredient lists for the Monat skincare. I read the ingredients of the hair care and noped the heck outta there because I have a known skin allergy to citrus oils. If I put citrus oils on my face? Oh my GOD it’s awful. Horrible burning weeping rash with little pustules everywhere. And THEY PUT IT IN THEIR EYE CREAM. 😱😱😱 I’m out. I’m done. I’m ded. There is no reason to put those oils in skincare. Yeah they smell good. But they serve no purpose otherwise and can cause some of our faces to turn red and swell up and take weeks to heal.
I tried Monat out for a few months because I was genuinely curious. One of the first requirements is posting a photo of you “smiling” on social media talking about “how excited you are for the new experience you’re about to take on” there was no minimum sale required unless you wanted to go on their “free trips” which obviously aren’t free lol but I knew a lot of people that signed up for the big “employee discount” on the products. However the products are already way overpriced priced. They gave me some products to try out and it made my scalp hurt and my hair fall out, I had hair down to my butt and I was pissed! It definitely was an interesting experience I got a full refund probably because they didn’t want to be sued…but I had to fight so hard to get my money the lady I talked to was absolutely horrible. Worst customer service ever. Overall I only tried to make one sale and it made me soooo uncomfortable that I “quit” the next morning
I was a victim of this scam and I have pictures to prove that my hair fell out in handfuls until about 7 months later after continuing to listen to these ppl tell me I was detoxing I was DONE I found later that there is red clover in alot of there hair products which can be devastating to your hormones and can cause MAJOR hair loss. Anyway I stopped using Monat and completely quit the company shortly after going to a major convention in DC in 2018 this company is a joke and it is 2021 and my hair is still not back to normal I don't know that it will ever be back to normal after such a devastating hair loss experience due to Monat! I do know why they were pounded with lawsuits!
OMG woman!!🥰 My friend signed up to Monat and she keeps telling me how great it is!! 🙄 I’ve been in marketing before and I hated it and quit! So I keep telling her im not interested!! 😤 Thank you for this video! 😘 This is exactly what I needed to know to continue to firmly state that im happy with The Ordinary brand skincare line.. and even though its cheap, it made my skin better and im sticking to it! By the way I heard about the The Ordinary brand from you too! You’re awesome! Love your videos!!❤️💋💋💋
I’ve been waiting for a large public figure to talk about monat!!! I think everyone is too nervous to tackle this I hate hearing the “I’m my own bossss”‘when they clearly are resellers . it’s annoying.
Be sure not to go to the store and buy anything other than the generic brands then. All places are resellers. Grocery stores, retail shops, etc. In network marketing you are your own boss! If you aren't getting a check monthly and not asking someone for time off...You are your own boss.
I usually can’t sit to watch longer videos but this was fantastic and incredibly helpful! There have been so many Monat Babes popping up on my IG feed and it’s piqued my interest as a business student because they are structured a bit different than older MLMs. Plus their products are not horrible as you said but not for $100+ more like $20. I was approached by one of these monat babes and she was so aggressive and manipulative and would not let up. I told her repeatedly that I’m not interested and it escalated really quickly
THANK YOU FOR THIS. Monat always rubbed me the wrong way. So many of my friends joined and when I’d ask them about ingredient lists or if they had fragrance they couldn’t answer. They would always talk about the products and they really had no idea what they were talking about.
Thank you so much for doing this video. I was in Monat since a few months, spent a lot of $$$ on the products and the shampoo didn’t do much to hydrate my hairs. In fact, it removes the color i put on them. For skincare, I have rosacea and let me tell you how the berryscrub HURTS my face. I had doubts about this compagny and you confirm all those doubts in your video. I really like your videos cuz they are instructives. Plz continue to warn us about compagnies that are trying to exploit people so we become more aware and hopefully stop them by not becoming a member 🙏😊
I almost fell into an mlm trap! I'm autistic and have trouble seeing behind webs of lies and manipulation. Luckily my therapist saw what was going on and got me to stay away before I couldn't get out! These companies are horrible
They love to target people in hard spots. That definitely includes people with autism and other disorders. I am so very sorry that they tried to hurt you like this but I am glad you were able to run. Wishing you the very best 💕
I am so glad your therapist did the ethical and right thing by protecting you. Thank goodness. So sorry to hear about your experience. That must have been such a mental and emotional toll, along with everything else.
Thank God for your therapist. Autism is a very understandable reason. But I have close friends who do not have any reasonable excuse for their ignorance and it is infuriating to me.
Your therapist is a real one!
this might not be the same but i hate when they do this to children in school. Young children are supposed to sell chocolet or house products in order to raise school funds. They tell them they will get prizes if the sell enough candy or products. its disgusting and not right this reminded me of this
I’ve been buying Monat hair products for years. It’s really overpriced, and now that I’ve watched this, it’s time to stop. Thanks for talking about this.
I loved them for years. I quit last year when all my packages were being lost by the post office. when I switched to shampoo I could get in a store I realized there were so many just as good at a fraction of the cost.
I bought some shampoo & conditioner for my daughters, for years, bc nothing else I tried worked on their tangles. I got samples to patch test and try out first. But, then, I got them keratin treatments and they aged out of the "I refuse to brush my hair phase" so I cancelled my membership. It was very pricey. I cannot use most of what they make bc I am extremely sensitive to citrus in skin/hair products; found out the hard way when I got chemical burns from a Freeman face mask. I always patch test everything now. I had a bad reaction to the rejuvenique oil so I only really used the rejuvabeads and other styling products which, in the end, weren't special apart from their high price. I have had better luck with salon shampoo & conditioner & natural oils from Amazon. Wallet is happier too.
yall should try the function of beauty shampoo/conditioner and the shots they sell at target! i just got it a couple weeks ago and i love it already! i wash my hair everyday and my hair isnt as frizzy anymore😻
Making a change when learning new information. You are so smart. Thank you for helping everyone out. 💕
@@silviareina7839 I'll check it out. it's so funny I spent $$$$$$ on Monat for years and now my favorite shampoo is the Whole Foods unscented
THANK YOU FOR HAVING THE COURAGE TO POST THIS! The “huns” are going to comment on here to discredit you, but keep going! These companies are incredibly predatory
Bb it has already started 🤦🏻♀️ 3 threatening emails in and about 10 angry monat-hun IG messages deep...
@@CassandraBankson I'm glad someone is out here exposing these predatory company's and their over priced, mediocre products. Thank you for your service to the community 🙏🏻 🥺
@@CassandraBankson lmao!
@@CassandraBankson Those a trophies. For each one of them, you should celebrate. I really hope you know this.
@@charisma-hornum-fries facts muahaha
Monat sounds like a super crass inside joke-Money.
HOW DID I NOT CONNECT THIS LOL
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@@CassandraBankson that’s probably because you made a video with 28+ minutes on the other crap they’re doing. 😁😂😊
Fun fact: Moneta is used as Juno's (Roman form of Hera) epithet and it is where the word "money" comes from.
Ps Juno Moneta translates to something like Juno who warns I believe
Monat means month in German
Basically never buy from an MLM
And trust yourself to listen to your intuition when it screams nooooooooo.
Exactly 👏🏼
There are a few that I don't think are exploitative (like Thirty One) and that people will sometimes join purely for discounts and don't have onerous minimum sales requirements or whatever, but 99% of MLMs are awful. (I have never sold from any MLM btw and I have no personal stake in them, I just have known several people who have sold Thirty One and other MLMs, including my mom, so I've seen the ugly side of many of them but that specific one didn't have the same terrible financial outcomes).
I'm glad someone with a larger audience is talking about this! These mlm's are so screwed up! I was in one for year & the things I learned are absolutely crazy! I will never again be involved in an mlm! I'm thankful for the anti mlm community. They are helping people so much!❤️
Thank YOU for being here and listening!
Hey Erin! If you want, you can share your story with Deanna Mims on TH-cam! She posts anti-MLM content and does weekly “horror stories”.
I was in an MLM (not Monat) for 6.5 years and I genuinely thought they cared about me as a person. I struggle with major depression and whenever I’d have a really bad episode, I never had any friends to talk to (since I wasn’t selling). As soon as I felt better and had some volume or posted about the company, my “friends” would pop back up.
I had one of the worst episodes I’ve ever had in my life this past Dec-Mar, was in a really bad depression fog and when my mind cleared up a bit, I realized the only people who checked on me the entire 4 months of my episode were my parents.
Glad I’ve realized and now I’m rebuilding my life
Praying for you 🙏
You're precious and you deserve healthy relationships. Don't ever forget that. This made me tear up. Sending loads of love
I'm so sorry this happened to you!!
Aw man! Im sorry this happened to you, but super glad that you finally got out of it!! I know depression is super hard to deal with but you’re so resilient for dealing with it even when you didn’t have a lot of support. In case you haven’t gotten professional help, I would definitely recommend it😌 Hope you’re doing great!!!🌸✨💕
Sending lots of love 💕
it’s actually “mo-nate”, which i think is even dumber than the other two common pronunciations. my mom was involved for a minute and half of my hometown sells this stuff. thank you for covering this!
Or my entire hometown is incorrect, which honestly is entirely possible lol
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It’s “MAW-NATE lol like literally the exact same way you would pronounce “modern” and “nature” but without the “dern” “Ure” lol
Monat is the german Word for month.
All these comments are hilarious tbh
The worst part about these MLMs is that they don’t give a shit about you as a person. It’s your money that they want
Unfortunately thats every single business. Walmart to Gucci couldn't care less about their customers or employees
That is so true. Once they identify you can't bring $$$ to them, they want nothing to do with you.
Not defending mlms,but all companies, ar the end if the day, only care about profits
THIS VIDEO WAS SPOT ON! So eloquent and informative! Call them out, girl! 🙌🏽
No me habría imaginado que me encontraría a la superholly aquí 😅 un beso😘
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My general rule is that I don’t want a job where I have to recruit my friends and family. I want to go to work and come home to my friends and family.
Can we start a petition against MLMs?... We need to make these illegal. Where I live, pyramid schemes are illegal.. so we just need to prove that MLMs are no different.
I agree, they are a scourge. Unfortunately in the U.S., it’s legal for them to spend ungodly amounts of money lobbying members of Congress to fight any potential legislation that might limit or prohibit their business models. And their lobbying has also, unfortunately, pretty successfully kept the Federal Trade Commission from effectively investigating or fining them for their scummy tactics. And if my memory is correct, there’s was a court case against (sc)Amway wherein somehow they emerged victorious because somehow their business model wasn’t ruled to be an illegal pyramid scheme?! It’s wildly depressing learning about the history of these god-awful companies.
can someone please help me understand what are pyramid schemes and why they are dangerous? i'm a bit autistic and don't get thee things at all
@@jojipalpopijal1797 Pyramid schemes put all the monetary risk on the bottom of the pyramid, the people making direct sales. One of the biggest issues is they make their representatives buy their own stock of items, and don't assign sales regions, therefore pitting people against each other. A more traditional business model puts the risk on the top of the pyramid. Owners and investors would be responsible for paying for and maintaining their physical stock as well as conducting advertising and marketing. In the end, pyramid schemes make money simply by recruiting more people, not by selling their products.
the problem is that the people at the top are rich. rich and powerful.
John Oliver of Last Week Tonight has a solid video on MLMs. He covers what they are and why it has been so hard to stop them. It’s here on TH-cam if you search Multilevel Marketing and John Oliver/Last Week Tonight
a girl I knew in high school tried getting me to be part of the “team” and I kindly declined because honestly I was just too busy. I end up looking into it and started paying attention to her posts and stuff. She kept saying the skincare works wonders for her but all her pics and videos have those heavy faux foundation filters!!! That’s how I know the products are BS. Also hate when they say the product is “Botox in a bottle”… girl I get Botox and it is impossible for a topical product to paralyze your facial muscles 😂 And yes!!! I get so mad that she says that the products are vegan but in her next slide she is eating steak. Omg as you can see, this topic gets me so annoyed
You can sell products that are vegan and not be a vegan yourself….just so you know.
@@apenguingames4305 Yes you can lol. It’s just frustrating when they use the fact that they are vegan as your main selling point, then later post a pic of steak and say “I could never be vegan. I love steak too much”. I don’t know if it’s just the girls I follow from high school or what but it’s annoying
Girl I use 10% argireline serum by The Ordinary and that’s the stuff that is the “Botox in a bottle”. You don’t achieve Botox results with it… i get actual Botox for that ONE spot (inbetween my brows). But it does work AMAZING. I pay $9 for it. Love the stuff.
Ilysm for posting this!! I couldn't find one unbiased review of Monat on TH-cam and it sucks cause I wanna show my friend working for Monat just how toxic that 'community' is! Thank you Cassandra for always posting content like this!! 🥺💕
Unfortunately often showing them they don’t work isn’t enough bc they foster an almost cultish following. They’re love bombed by their up lines but “punished” if they quation anything. It’s hard to leave the kind of love & support you feel your getting. Unfortunately for most ppl it takes realizing they’ve lost a ton of money and have no hope of getting it back before they wake up. It’s sad. These companies and sales tactics need to be outlawed. They ruin lives.
Thank you thank you for listening and sharing-this video was a request!
Good luck with that. I tried to warn a friend about it and I had to block her. She had posted one of those message me to find out how you can make $ bs posts. The ones that prey on broke people. I had done my research and luckily I watch people like Cassandra so the first videos I got to were warnings to stay away. I got hunned. No joke. She was in it for a week and she was already speaking like them. I warned another person on my sm and they came after me for that too. She wanted me to join one of those zoom meetings. I backed the fuck out right away because I said I wasn’t sure anymore and they kept pushing anyway. They’re mental. It’s sad but it’s emotional manipulation
Try anti-MLM videos! They probably won’t convert your friend, but they might make her start to question things and that’s enough.
When I was part of an mlm people told me to leave all the time, but I didnt listen to them until I figured it out myself, I know you wanna help them badly but let them be the ones to clock in on the lies, cause if u insist too much, their "mentors" will call you unsopportive and toxic, and you run the chance of being befriended. Just be careful how you go about it
We’re calling our friends out for joining MLMs all 2021!!
With kindness and good intentions, but yeah we gotta get em out
ThN you are not a good friend!
im really embarrassed I didnt know Monat was a MLM when I started to buy it. I didnt get it from a friend I saw an ad and bought it from their website. then like 2 yrs later I found out it was an MLM and felt pretty dumb.
@@MakeupByJassy haha a hun in cassandras comments 🤣 and if you deny it, your other comments trying to sell it say otherwise
@@AMELIA-oj5qk of course a bully ! Not trying to sell it!! My point is that it’s not expensive an over priced or any different than the stuff we buy at ulta and Sephora
Please do a Rodan & Fields and beautycounter review! As an esthi, I have so many clients who use their skincare and it makes it so difficult to talk to them about any skincare advice because they’re such cult followers of the brands. I’d love to know more of the science behind the brands’ skincare, because it’s so difficult to find the truth without trying them out-which I don’t want to do.
There are several other channels who've done similar videos on them.
yes, amway and market america too
@@ContentConfessional yea, so shady using the term "dermatologist formulated"...
I second this!!!!!
It’s all Lies!
I have a physician friend and she convinced me to try R&F and join all the other MDs whom are supporting the products ( I am a physician as well, so I believed them)
Got the starter kit for 400$! And tried it for 2 weeks, had some questions about ingredients and business model and was told over those FB groups and meetings that “I am over thinking it”!!!!!!
Thankfully I understood what’s going on so I returned my kit and blocked them all. Such a shame that they are using their degrees to manipulate their friends and families.
Real story: I actually almost ALMOST fell into an MLM trap. Not this one, but Amway. I hadn't officially joined yet and never will. Similar to Monat, the skincare products have nothing special in them. I found their sunscreen was $45 for 30mL with zinc oxide, octocrylene, etc. Any sunscreens in the general stores have similar ingredients!!
Thank goodness you didn’t. Amway is by far the worst MLM still in business!!!
I’m SO HAPPY that you didn’t. Thank you for sharing your story 💕
Amway tried to get me before. I never went through with it cause the information they were giving me was pretty vague. Like they could never give me clear cut answers.
@@JazmineAliciaa Same!! I deliberately asked the ones who invited me for their website and they just dodged. They are also super annoying and wanted me to talk to them DAILY.
@@CassandraBankson Please do a video on Amway. Have a nice dayyy. Love your videos👨🏫👨🏫
THANK YOU for this!!! I’m so sick of getting DM’s to join a “boss babe” crew 🤦🏻♀️
Finally someone is addressing the Boss Babes situation
Almost got sucked into this last month by a really pretty girl I used to work with! She’s super sweeeeet so I was like no way can this be MLM! But you’re right, it’s CULT LIKE!!!!!! So happy I didn’t sign up with her. Thank you 🙏🏻
I saw someone advertising Monat recently and her "after" picture CLEARLY had hair extensions added. SMH.
They show their worse hair picture and then compare to a filtered picture.
My friend who sells this has extensions....🧐
@@Tailynn4 😂
I absolutely do not support mlms. They prey on the vulnerable and unfortunately I lost some money from these.
I just feel so bad for those women and men who got blinded and trapped into this. How horrible they must of felt when they realized what they got themselves into. 😕
I’m a hairstylist and I hate* monat. Really loved seeing you cover their skincare, thank you!!!
omg I don't know how there are so many "hairstylists" who sell Monat! Some even sell it at their salons! How?!
What hair products do you recommend?
@@kristinajoksaite4793 I personally like Surface, Kevin Murphy, and Kenra. I also LOVE the 7 seconds detangler from Unite, it’s the best one I’ve ever used!
@@Cee944 I automatically don’t trust them. If I knew something I sold/used caused all the harm monat does, I would stop using it immediately.
Wow this video literally saved me. I was just talking to one of the girls today and had a callback call to officially join tomorrow... Cant thank you enough. Its so sad how deceiving these schemes are.. I would have never known.
I used Monat hair products for 3 months. From the first shampoo, it STRIPPED my hair. My hair became BRITTLE for the first time in my life - it was impossible to comb. Everyone told me, “Oh, it’s hard to get all of the drugstore junk out of your hair. Keep at it - by 3 months, you’ll suddenly see a big change!” By 3 months, I cried. That was about 20 months ago & my hair is still very damaged. Rotten!
I am so so sorry. My mom has coarse and wavy/curly hair and she bought this (without telling me about it even through I was in a cosmetology apprenticeship at the time) and it turned her hair brittle and PIN STRAIGHT before causing lesions on her scalp and causing her hair to fall out in clumps. It was so brittle that hair broke off at the stress point the minute she would twist, tie, or bend it. She ended up with a temporary alopecia on her crown and around the hairline. When she finally told me what she was using, her “distributer” didn’t respond to her request until the day after the return window was closed.
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The same thing happen to me !!!!!!
I just wanted to say I started watching your channel in your early years when you were still struggling. I went through having awful acne for most of my life and it was you and your beauty that kept me pushing through. I am so glad to see that these days your videos are about empowering people and educating them on everything skincare related. I have learned so much about my skin and how to treat it through you. Thank you for everything you do!❤️
I almost got sold into a mlm when I was literally 13 years old, like how unethical would you have to be to exploit children? I'm so lucky my mum is smart...
SO glad you are speaking on this. YES Cassandra 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🔥🔥🔥🔥
I hate it when people try to excuse companies like this (even when it isn't MLM) because they're vegan and cruelty free. When you are scamming people, exploiting them and encouraging this deceitful behavior, it means jack shit whether or not it is vegan or cruelty free. I literally do not care and do not give any merit to that side at that point, just like how it means nothing to me if someone is puppy lover or adoring catmom
when they do not bat an eye about cheating and scamming people.
I had a new "friend" I met on bumble bff try to loop me into this. After 2 hangouts and my two firm no's I never heard from her again. Thank you for this video. It was refreshing and so validating.
That happened to me too on bumble bff! Honestly it was so disappointing she only wanted to recruit me when I was looking for a genuine friendship…
@@stephaniesinternetlife I feel you so hard. The worst part was I was so excited to make her as a friend. She was so kind, happy, positive, and bubbly and made me feel good about myself. The perfect person to work that job. And I was happy to make a friend only to see it was all fake. 😔 What can you do. At least we aren't alone? 😊
@@angelinaoutlaw6760 OMG is this true bc right now I have this friend who I also met on bumble ( her name starts with K) she's super nice, bubbly, and I was so excited as well to be her friend irl. and I was thinking of joining Monat today but I said I was busy for today🤷🏻♀️
They even had the audacity to say that it's office job! When I was looking for a job I found very interesting offer, it was for a job at american company specialising in haircare. It seemed normal, but the person that I talked to was so suspicious, I was digging deep and found that it was Monat. They were looking for a person to sell their crap, not for office worker. They even lie to people that way. It's disgusting.
Cassandra. I've been watching your videos for about 8 months now. They were all informative and entertaining. But today, sweetheart, i have developed a whole new RESPECT for you!
MLMs need to stop. They are predatory. The only way they should be able to operate is if someone is explicitly told that 1% of the people who go into this business will succeed and the rest will fall into financial ruin and starve.
MLMs are predatory. If you have no choice but to sell to friends and family, you really should reconsider your business. The best way to put an end to MLMs forever is to spread the word about how these "businesses" operate.
I'm really happy to see this video and consider content like this a public service announcement. People need ro know.
OMG YES! Been waiting for this, so many of my high school friends have been preaching about this brand.
I’m so glad you mention how you don’t blame the women who get sucked into MLMs. I did a paper on this recently and surprisingly? The biggest group of Direct Sales workers are women around 35-ish years old. That’s also the most common service industry worker demographic, 35-ish year old women.
So most of the people who get pulled into MLMs are tired of working shitty, terrible service industry jobs so they fall into the allure of owning your own business or having a sense of community they desperately lack. It’s so exploitative and disgusting.
wow thanks for sharing
Thank you so much for making this video Cassandra! I used to use Monat for over a year because my friend is selling them and she made me get them. It dried my hair out soooo bad even more than I already have... so I just had to tell her I am done using that shit. I wish you made this video much sooner.
My stupid ass was definitely brain washed. Lol I also remember trying wen years ago.
Tell us exactly how you feel. I freaking love you more every time I see you. Keep it going we all adore a fun, passionate, person WHO KNOWS WHAT SHE IS TALKING ABOUT!
When u said find another community I was like, "YES!" I love the skincare community on TH-cam! U guys are my community🖤
Honestly thank you. I was with Mary Kay and I dealt with exactly what you are describing. There needs to be more awareness on how bad MLMs are.
My sister is a market partner for monat and she has this group of “friends” who encourage her to sell this stuff and our family avoid her like the plague . Can’t even have a normal conversation with her without mentioning monat and needing your card to buy something . At first we entertained the idea because we wanted to support her but it had gotten out of hand . Why is a moisturizer and serum $130
SOOOOOO glad I found this video! Thanks so much!! Finding the right skin and haircare products has become so difficult. Finding an unbiased and yet educated view is awesome! I'm subscribing!!! I was using Monat for about 1.5 months when I started to experience the shedding/itching/and hair feeling like straw. I knew that there was no such thing as "detoxing" the hair. But, I was trying to help out my daughter in law who is now selling Monat products. I plan to show her this video. Thanks so much for this information.
Oh my stars I have been waiting for this video! My hair started falling out when I used their hair products and it still is falling out. I used it from January to April 2020 and my hair is still falling out. It has taken a lot of time for my hair to fall out less but it is still falling out. I have been so sus about their skincare products ofc! Thank you Cassandra for making this video!
I’ve loved this video and haven’t even watched it yet 💕antiMLM x skincare = OBSESSED 😍
Thank you for posting this. I do not support MLM. I wish more people will speak up about how bad it is.
I live in France and this company is coming to France. My cousin is crazy for making me join this weird cult. I THANK GOD FOR WATCHING THIS VIDEO THAT SAVED ME FROM FAILURE
My mom's friend has been in an MLM for years. I remember when she started, she was confident that she would make enough money to retire after just 4 years. But it's been 8 years already, and she's stuck in the same position...
She needs to see that Kirsten Dunst show, something about God in Central Florida. It's so freaking true (the poor husband!).
This is why I love you! Because you say what no one else will and don’t 🦋care🦋Who 🦋gets🦋Mad 🦋!
I’m 2 minutes in and I’ve already said “yasssss” out loud like four times 😂🙌🏼 Thank you for shedding light on this scam company!
I used the skincare last year. Made my skin WORSE. But now I have a new skincare and my skin is so great. All thanks to your advice!
I was approached this past year by an old acquaintance about this haircare and I did consider it because she did have absolutely gorgeous curly hair but I don't buy anything without researching first and it didn't take much for me to be like "oh hell naw sis!" And after I declined I found out that she was pregnant so the improvement in her hair was most likely due to the pregnancy hormones and vitamins she was taking, so shady.
Thank you thank you thank you! I posted a big ol rant about this company the other day because a girl I knew started posting about them as her skincare routine and I was like oh dear god please someone help get them out of here we don’t need more MLMs in the skincare community STOP
Having citrus oils in a wash-off product I don't think is that bad but they put it in literally EVERY SINGLE PRODUCT. By the end of your skin care routine you'll have layers and layers of the same sensitizing citrus oils, not to mention the same thing with the coconut oil... My acne prone sensitive skin would be SCREAMING!
Thank you for posting this!!!!!
I can't stand MLM scams and their shitty products.
I work at a cosmetic derm spa and honestly its a slap in the face bc we sell REAL medical grade skincare and have to get actual training about the ingredients, the purpose and the science behind each product and come up with specific regimens for different skin types.
MLM scammers just want a quick buck 🙄
I find the “Modus operandi” of these mlm huns very disturbing. They not only want to sell you these overpriced mediocre products, but they want to sell you the whole _lifestyle_ that comes with it (allegedly🙄)... because they’re more interested in you joining the “movement”😅, than only you buying their products... it’s only the first step. It’s just so messy and wrong. People need to open their eyes... these hun bots clearly say and do anything to reel more sales-women in to make the people on top even richer.🤮 Toxic s*** for sure.
I think that’s the point, the product of mlms are always secondary, the main money is made from recruitment and as you said selling this “lifestyle” so they start recruiting and so on so forth
Its a cult
Thank you for using your platform for good, Cassandra! It’s disappointing when influencers start hawking MLMs instead of educating their fans against them to prevent them from losing money and friends.
Family & friends were selling this brand so I decided to try it out.. my goodness the products suck.. I only tried the hair care thankfully not the skin care. Not to mention, when I tried to cancel my “VIP membership” with them, they said I would have to pay to cancel? Either that or I buy more products FIRST then I can cancel. I refused to pay of course but man was it a sh*t show.
what’s even more funny is that all the people I once knew who sold the line suddenly stopped selling it and their reasoning? “Oh I’m just busy”.. it doesn’t work! Just be honest already!
I truly appreciate Cassandras honesty and just intelligence. Bravery to expose this brand ! They suck.
Appreciate you sharing all your skin care knowledge with us standard consumers! Will you do a similar look into the quality of the Rodan and Fields skin care products (another MLM)? I’ve been using their products for a couple of years and actually really like them, so I’m curious if there’s other things on the market that are essentially the same, but cheaper.
Basically if it’s from an MLM you shouldn’t support it. There are definitely cheaper better products on the field from companies that don’t prey on vulnerable people
Thank u for sharing your link Cassandra. I nearly got sucked into 1 of theses 'pyramid/networking' schemes, by an acquaintance in the early 90's. Thankfully I didnt have the amount of money he was asking to become a representative to purchace the products and a few months later realised what it was all about and was a scam where the few people at the top got richer and the rest stayed much the same.
Love Alli x
Misread this as "monistat" at first....I was thinking to myself "I know some people use that as a face primer but I didn't think they actually released a whole skincare line" 😅
wait what-
@@jaz8582 Yea I've never personally tried it but apparently some people have used monistat (or maybe it was vagisil??) as a face primer. Some sort of feminine care cream.
@@iAMbekahx3 I think you may be thinking of hemorrhoid cream
@@elizabethm2217 I just found the videos I saw about it before -- It was Monistat Chafing Gel...that's not to say that people haven't also tried using hemorrhoid cream 😂😂😂
@@iAMbekahx3 ill never understand why we feel the need to put shit on our skin that isnt formulated for the skin🥴 i obvs know better now but 5 yrs ago i bought into the whole coconut oil craze🤡 i kept wondering why tf my skin was still dry if i was using coconut oil as moisturizer lmfao and why tf i was breaking out when i had never struggled w acne not even as a teen😭🥴
THANK YOU 🙏 I can’t stand MLMs.. I know far far too many people (mostly women) who fall victim to these scams and lose so much money on false claims! I really wish they could be done away with...
This video brings me life. This is too closely related to my life. I am surrounded by brainwashed people, who do not have the right education to understand what they are selling. I love being with my people! You beautiful butterflies!
I have so many clients that have used Monday products. It does cause scalp issues. There’s so many amazing hairdressers that can point you to better products to use. For your specific needs. I love Davines and Wella. Thank you for doing a video over this!!!❤️
WOW! I'M SO HAPPY watching you till the end, I'm vey happy to see someone making a difference and actually doing the research for everyone else! Thank you so much for this! Continue doing what you do! I feel so inspired!
I actually joined Monat last year...
and stoped because the company actually helped me to get more into skin and hair care and found products that worked waaay better that cost $20 or less...
Thank you for the video, I’ve been wanted to watch a video about this company
I had the be balanced cleanser and it was so rough, it left my skin super dry every time (I have oily skin) now I use the Cerave cleanser for oily skin and it’s so much better
OMG FINALLY I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS
I almost fell for the Monat haircare! I was contacted and I was struggling so much at the time. But I didn’t buy any thank god.
A skincare MLM that really bothers me is Rodan and Fields. I feel like so many people sell this and their claims are always so subjective...
I work at Sephora and I've learned so much more just watching your Channel
My friend was ALL ABOUT it works and out of no where, switched to Monat and now is claiming all the changes she claimed it works did to her, are from Monat. It’s very cringey.
Omg I know several people in it and none of them are thin
@@stephanied6711 my friend is now… she got a gym pass and goes daily… started before her latest mlm though.
Please share DUPES Or best suggestions!! I’ve been using this skin line for 2 years and have loved it, but had never taken care of my skin before either. I do find it pretty expensive but I appreciated the convenience of not having to go find other products that suit my skin.
I was a Monat Market Partner and I’m so glad I got out I felt the cult like environment with the people and if you sign a VIP or a market partner they’d hype you up and they would hold draws and stuff to encourage you to make sales
Bless you for sticking your neck out and speaking the truth about Monat! 💯
Its mind blowing that mlm's are still legal..
Hi! You should do an updated video on the new monat makeup they recently released, cause a lot of reps make claims such as "doesn't clog pores" "heals your skin" etc and I feel like you'd be the best and most credible person to look into the ingredients and squash some of the claims they make.
As a small anti MLM content creator, I love this! We talk about how unethical this “companies” are as well as their reps (not all, but the majority do give the rest a horrible reputation). Literally the reps only make money by recruiting others. Monat, YL, and Arbonne are shifting their tactics from “you can work from home” to “you can be influencer when you join our MLM” A lot of celebrities, especially Latino celebrities have jumped on the bandwagon with Monat. While TH-cam moms have gone the YL, Seint or Arbonne route. I for one, speak about how predatory they are (specifically the Latino celebrities that are with Monat) and the products have BASIC AF INGREDIENTS! Their products aren’t worth price nor is it worth joining. It’s great to have someone who is an expert/knowledgeable about skincare backing up, what Anti MLM content creators have been saying all along about Monat Products. Thank you 👏🏻
I would like to clear some very important misinformation around mlm businesses. First of all, the one mentioned in this video is what you call a ponzi scheme. There is quite literally no basis to the business itself other than lies, false advertising, and only the top people in the pyramid earning the money. In relation to this, NOT ALL MLMs are like this. Even though you may have found lots of these "scammy" mlms, you should educate yourself and realise that many of these ponzi schemes disguise themselves as mlms.
An example of a true reliable MLM is the one my parents work for for 20+ years that sells actually good products. They had to constantly tell people to differentiate between mlms and business scams(mostly ponzi schemes). A good way to find this out reliably is to know how long and how good the business has run over the years.
Fake mlms would usually be gone in a few years as they cannot sustain themselves (as they dont even have a basis to their business other than lies and products that are bad) and the top leaders in the pyramid will run away after they get their fair share of money. They won't be able to last for more than a few years.
Actual mlms like tupperware and Amway on the other hand would be able to last for years and actually sell stuff that people buy regularly.
Sorry for the long comment, just really wanted to get this out.
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Yet many Sephora brands are unethical and I don’t see you talking about those. 😅 same shit. You’re a hypocrite
@@estheticianhere2875 People do talk about how certain brands in Sephora that are unethical. What you’re doing right now is using “what aboutism” tactics to deflect. I’m guessing you’re either in Seint, YL or Monat in order to be taking a comment based on facts a little too personal.
@@BlancaPerdomo lol, actually they don’t. I I’ve scanned dozens of brands with yuka app just to see what the ingredients are and they Are SHIT!
Seint and monat actually have a higher rank then Sephora brands.
Just because it’s a MLM doesn’t make the products bad or unethical.
Your biased against them doesn’t actually make them bad.
Have you looked the ingredients in Seint? They are good ingredients.
THANK YOU FOR THIS VIDEO!!! After joining a different MLM but realizing after a few weeks that it’s a scam, I’m COMPLETELY against any MLM and try to tell people about my experience so they don’t get tricked into joining one! I was one of the lucky ones who got my money back
Also if you use this and a bond builder like Olaplex. It will ruin your hair. Monate breaks the bonds of the hair. So you get the "shedding" they lie about. Idk why its still out. So sick
It's so important that people know of ALL of this. Thank you, Cassandra!
I agree
Her husband has a corporate job that pays for his alcoholism and her overpriced skin care addiction 😂😂😂 love you
Oh thank goodness you’re spreading truth about MLMs. I was stuck in one for nearly five years “Poonique,” as we call it now lol 😝.. and boy was it a money pit. I lost thousands of dollars and my sponsor even threatened to sue me for exposing the truths. Younique actually has their own skincare too, and boy was I targeted since I had cystic acne. I’m so grateful for the anti-MLM community, and I hope most of these companies get shut down.
“It’s boring legal stuff.”
😳 Pretty sure the Attorney General of the state of Florida thinks it’s not boring and that it’s pretty important your sales force understands it. 😳😳😳😳😳😳
Edited to add: Okay. I haven’t actually read the ingredient lists for the Monat skincare. I read the ingredients of the hair care and noped the heck outta there because I have a known skin allergy to citrus oils. If I put citrus oils on my face? Oh my GOD it’s awful. Horrible burning weeping rash with little pustules everywhere. And THEY PUT IT IN THEIR EYE CREAM. 😱😱😱 I’m out. I’m done. I’m ded. There is no reason to put those oils in skincare. Yeah they smell good. But they serve no purpose otherwise and can cause some of our faces to turn red and swell up and take weeks to heal.
It makes it easy to get the huns off your back. I've used "sorry, but I'm allergic to your products" to get several friends to leave me alone.
Thank you for the honest review, it was very much needed.
O. M. G. & L. O. L. The soccer mom description -I laughed so hard! We all know a person like that. 😂
BRO I WAS WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO TALK ABOUT THIS! THANK YOU!
I tried Monat out for a few months because I was genuinely curious. One of the first requirements is posting a photo of you “smiling” on social media talking about “how excited you are for the new experience you’re about to take on” there was no minimum sale required unless you wanted to go on their “free trips” which obviously aren’t free lol but I knew a lot of people that signed up for the big “employee discount” on the products. However the products are already way overpriced priced. They gave me some products to try out and it made my scalp hurt and my hair fall out, I had hair down to my butt and I was pissed! It definitely was an interesting experience I got a full refund probably because they didn’t want to be sued…but I had to fight so hard to get my money the lady I talked to was absolutely horrible. Worst customer service ever. Overall I only tried to make one sale and it made me soooo uncomfortable that I “quit” the next morning
Wow, okay, so I was about to buy Monat last night but got an error when paying. Now I will not try again… Thank God for you! ❤❤❤
I was a victim of this scam and I have pictures to prove that my hair fell out in handfuls until about 7 months later after continuing to listen to these ppl tell me I was detoxing I was DONE I found later that there is red clover in alot of there hair products which can be devastating to your hormones and can cause MAJOR hair loss. Anyway I stopped using Monat and completely quit the company shortly after going to a major convention in DC in 2018 this company is a joke and it is 2021 and my hair is still not back to normal I don't know that it will ever be back to normal after such a devastating hair loss experience due to Monat! I do know why they were pounded with lawsuits!
What your saying is intelligent, articulate, logical, and I very much value your information. Thanks for that!
the description of a monat user was far too accurate 😂 down to the lexus lmfao
OMG woman!!🥰 My friend signed up to Monat and she keeps telling me how great it is!! 🙄 I’ve been in marketing before and I hated it and quit! So I keep telling her im not interested!! 😤 Thank you for this video! 😘 This is exactly what I needed to know to continue to firmly state that im happy with The Ordinary brand skincare line.. and even though its cheap, it made my skin better and im sticking to it! By the way I heard about the The Ordinary brand from you too! You’re awesome! Love your videos!!❤️💋💋💋
I’ve been waiting for a large public figure to talk about monat!!! I think everyone is too nervous to tackle this
I hate hearing the “I’m my own bossss”‘when they clearly are resellers . it’s annoying.
Be sure not to go to the store and buy anything other than the generic brands then. All places are resellers. Grocery stores, retail shops, etc. In network marketing you are your own boss! If you aren't getting a check monthly and not asking someone for time off...You are your own boss.
I usually can’t sit to watch longer videos but this was fantastic and incredibly helpful! There have been so many Monat Babes popping up on my IG feed and it’s piqued my interest as a business student because they are structured a bit different than older MLMs. Plus their products are not horrible as you said but not for $100+ more like $20. I was approached by one of these monat babes and she was so aggressive and manipulative and would not let up. I told her repeatedly that I’m not interested and it escalated really quickly
Can you do Mary Kay and Arbonne next? I know you already covered younique
There are a number of videos like this on both companies.
@@db-gb5xi Not by Cassandra and those focus more on the business than the formulas.
THANK YOU FOR THIS. Monat always rubbed me the wrong way. So many of my friends joined and when I’d ask them about ingredient lists or if they had fragrance they couldn’t answer. They would always talk about the products and they really had no idea what they were talking about.
There’s little berry seeds in the berry refine scrub though so is it really better than walnut shells??😬😬
Thank you so much for doing this video. I was in Monat since a few months, spent a lot of $$$ on the products and the shampoo didn’t do much to hydrate my hairs. In fact, it removes the color i put on them. For skincare, I have rosacea and let me tell you how the berryscrub HURTS my face. I had doubts about this compagny and you confirm all those doubts in your video. I really like your videos cuz they are instructives. Plz continue to warn us about compagnies that are trying to exploit people so we become more aware and hopefully stop them by not becoming a member 🙏😊
Cassandra Bankson is literally the most adorable person on earth 💕💜💜💜💜💜💕
I almost got myself into this online MLM. Thank you for exposing this company..