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This isn't OK is it? Forever Living on FB.

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IHeartKingThistle · 25/06/2015 15:58

I have a couple of FB friends deeply into Forever Living at the moment. I'd hide them but there's some weird fascination in watching it play out.

Anyway one of them has linked something today where a FL person is telling a story about a relative of theirs with cancer who wasn't tolerating chemo and is now doing much better after drinking Aloe Vera gel. It's not making any claims that it treats cancer (it says he now could be strong enough to restart treatment) and it's only anecdotal but it just doesn't sit right with me. I have no experience of the products at all btw.

AIBU to feel a bit uncomfortable about that?

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wowfudge · 25/06/2015 19:28

An old school friend is busy peddling FL on FB. Shame of it is she recently gave up a career to do it - I think she felt guilty working full time when she has a young child. She will probably be successful, but she could have been successful running her own proper business and gain so much more from it rather than lining the pockets of these snake oil salesmen.

Littlecaf · 25/06/2015 19:32

I mainlined aloe vera juice when pg. massive cravings. Then found out it was prob not great to do so.

I had some excellent aloe vera sunburn gel years ago in the states. Can't find it over here. Is probably illegal due to some toxic which is allowed there but not here!

Ihave a FL maniac on my FB friends. I'm so disappointed in her. Confused

RiderOfDragons · 25/06/2015 19:33

Very true thereyouarepeter.

MrsDeVere · 25/06/2015 19:35

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CrystalHaze · 25/06/2015 19:37

I would love to know how much the parroting minions at the bottom of the pyramid are actually making Wink

CrystalHaze · 25/06/2015 19:40

have a FL maniac on my FB friends. I'm so disappointed in her.

I have one too. I genuinely thought she was quite bright. Sadly all the 'cleanse' hyperbole has disavowed me of that notion.

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Smudgeandpudge · 25/06/2015 19:46

I think it must be "make spurious claims about cancer" week. My FL bot has just posted that aloe vera can help cure cervical cancer!

CrystalHaze · 25/06/2015 19:48

how have they fiddled with it to stop their 'customers' sh!tting their insides out with every dose

That'll be how the 'cleanse' works Wink

CrystalHaze · 25/06/2015 19:49

I think it must be "make spurious claims about cancer" week. My FL bot has just posted that aloe vera can help cure cervical cancer!

Despicable Angry

Thereyouarepeter · 25/06/2015 19:49

it's well evidenced that the vast majority of people in MLM schemes 90%+ make a loss or nothing.

A large amount of the rest will not make enough to really justify the amount of man hours they have put into it.

A few..and im talking a couple of hundred out of potential millions of distributors...might make a decent amount of money.

Google Herbal life "statement of compensation for 2014". This is information produced by the company so likely to be on the positive side of things. It gives a good indication of the amount you are likely to make through being involved in an MLM scheme. namely nothing.

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Pippidoeswhatshewants · 25/06/2015 19:57

No, it's not only you, OP.

I suffer from a very rare disease and was looking for some help and/or wisdom and all these FL living loons tried to sell me their shit. I loved the "I have never heard of your disease, but Aloe Vera is really good for eczema, which is similar." It's not. I wish it was, you stupid fucking idiot.

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Oldraver · 25/06/2015 20:03

I have a couple of people on my FB that do FL..One doesn't push it but says...this worked for me, if you want info....

Other one speaks the evangelical speak and all the rest. When two friends were discussing their bridesmaids dresses that had arrived and didnt fit..she jumped in with 'time to get on a detox girls'. They ignored her and bought bigger sizes Grin

Another friend had announced today she is 'starting up her business with her fiancee' doing FL. There were a few negative comments but already she is saying everyone she knows who does it is succesful [hmm}

jeanmiguelfangio · 25/06/2015 20:04

My FL bot claims her aloe can help eczema. She hasnt been down the cancer route. I'd like to think she wouldn't, I know her from way back so I'm hopeful. I'd test most things at the moment on my toddler's eczema, but i cant see the difference between the lovely cooling aloe gel from the supermarket for much less money than the stupidly expensive FL stuff.
Plus surely I can just have a plant on my windowsill for much less for burns and things? And im not eating the stuff thats for sure!!

TheWintersmith · 25/06/2015 20:06

I have an aloe plant on my windowsill. It cost 50p from a roadside stall. It grows like fuck and I have split and repotted the bits loads of times and given the new plants to mates, often in exchange for cake.

It is 100% pure aloe. If I break a leaf off it is 100% fresh.

I use it on insect bites, spots and sunburn and it is very soothing. Given the little bastard grows like a weed I'll be bollocksed if I'd pay for actual money for diluted squished up aloe with preservatives.

Especially given that my plant generates cake based income for me.

FatimaLovesBread · 25/06/2015 20:09

I haven't any FL friends but have one who does JuicePlus on FB. Drives me mad but I can't help but read.
Her magic fruit and veg capsules cure loads of illnesses, and help you grow hair to your bum and mean you're really thin and toned Hmm

wickedwitchofwaterloo · 25/06/2015 20:16

I have a JuicePlus friend on FB too, she posted the other day about having to cut her hair again because her 'caps' had made it so long, thick and luscious. Right then.
She also hashtags everything #elitegirl.

Sallystyle · 25/06/2015 20:17

It is sickening.

Who would have thunk it? My ex could have possibly had an easier time with countless amounts of chemo if he (drank??) aloe vera crap.

I wonder why no oncologists told him this? Guess they were either too uneducated to know or just wanted him to suffer.

wickedwitchofwaterloo · 25/06/2015 20:20

She has just reposted this.

This isn't OK is it? Forever Living on FB.
toffeeboffin · 25/06/2015 20:23

Yup, it's bizarre.

FL seems to have some bizarre hold over people, not sure what the fascination is really.

And why they think I'm interested in your cleanse or whatever the fuck you are eating for dinner is beyond me.

MrsDeVere · 25/06/2015 20:56

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FatimaLovesBread · 25/06/2015 21:06

JuicePlus girl has posted a photo that she's borrowed from another JuicePlus rep showing her hair growth from behind. Except in the second photo she has blatantly back comber the hair to give it more volume and I lifting the top of her hair higher. Either that or as well as the length growing an inch or too, her head has also got about 3 inches taller Hmm

RiderOfDragons · 25/06/2015 21:26

She's an idiot to put a supplement in a babies bottle. She has no idea what's actually in it because there's been no real testing on it to confirm it is what it says it is and is that concentration. She could be giving her baby a good herbal, alternatively she could be doing the equivalent of pissing in her bottle.