originally posted 12 NOV 2014
I was hurt by a Multi-Level Marketing company's "health" product last
year. I learned so much about their products and the ills, overall, of
these MLMs, that I now distrust any MLM that makes any health claims and
I am uber distrustful of anybody who is a distributor for these
products. I put them all cleanly in the 'snake oil salesman' category.
In the last year or so, essential oils sold by two MLM companies have
become very popular here. Have a sniffle? There's an oil for that. Have
an injured toe? There's an oil for that. Have Ebola? There's an oil for
that. Need to put some serious hurt on people you know? There are many
oils for that.
I have some acquaintances who are selling these oils. I've blocked
them on Facebook because the posts just get under my skin (you're
targeting friends and family with these over priced oils so you can make
a buck, yeah, I'm blocking you).
And, frankly, a couple of them stink. I have been struggling with
headaches recently...yeah, I know, there's an oil for that. It doesn't
take much for me to get a migraine right now and smells are a surefire
way to give me a migraine.
Ran into a friend recently. As I gave her a hug, she said gleefully,
"I just worked out but don't worry, I covered the smell in essential
oils." Y'know, I had already clued into that. She reeked. Another friend
has told me she has to sit elsewhere in church now because a gal who is
a good friend, smells so strong with her oils. Thankfully, my daughter
is getting better, now that she is eleven, at not announcing when people
stink but, you can see her nose wrinkle around the essential oil crowd.
The problem is, though, that nobody wants to hurt their feelings. So,
more friends (with apparently sub-par sniffers) begin to drench
themselves and nobody says a thing.
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