Rodan & Fields?

No experience with this line, but I used to buy expensive facial products from spas. I found a book / website called Don't Go to the Cosmetics Counter without me. I spent time reading about substitutes for each of my expensive products and now have a really cheap routine that works as good as the expensive stuff. I am talking about brands like Dove, Oil of Olay and Origins and have been really pleased with the results and cost. Good luck

I'm with Mom B. most stores and even MLM's will give you a sample that lasts 1-2 week to see if you like the product.

I've never purchased any of my new products without first using a samples. I purchase from department stores, neimans, sephora and I've always been given a sample.

My red flags would be waving high if someone tried to sell me skin care with no sample. What is the return policy if you don't like it? Beware

I've never heard of this product.

I don't remember what the Redefined and Macro-E are, but that thing that you scrub your face with? Seriously! Ouch! No way! The stuff in the little pearl broke me out. (Sorry that I don't remember the names of these.)

I understand that the difference in this face care line of products and any other is that OTC medicine is in it. Not sure what else.

What I didn't like about the parties I attended was that most of the emphasis was on how much money you could make if you sold their products. And here I am sitting here thinking that THIS is what my money is going to. NOT that the product is worth the money, but that all the people involved in the selling are dividing up most of what I pay.

Anyway, that's my point of view.

NEVER heard of this product.

I would ask for a sample and see if you like it and it makes a difference on YOUR skin.

I have used NuSkin and Olay....I really like NuSkin, it's expensive, lasts a long time and does make a difference in my skin.

Does she have any sample or trial sizes? That would be a good way to start.....

My opinion is that MLMs suck.

My second opinion is that women who have dropped a ton of cash on some skin products are NOT the best sources for testimonials, because they have too much skin in the game (ha!). They want to believe the cash outlay was worth it, they want to believe the product is verifiably better than a cheaper option, they want you to buy them too so that they won't feel like they got duped.

My third opinion is that products sold via the MLM model end up hugely marked up over their actual value in the regular retail market place, relying on coercion and peer pressure to string people along.

Just say no!

I do not use it, but I have a few friends that swear by it!

I think it was developed by the same doctors who developed ProActive.

I use something else, but I use topical skin products in conjunction with cellular nutrition. I think if you rely entirely on topical products of any type, you can't expect major results without nourishing the skin from the inside as well. You also want to find out if they are making their own products (either doing the manufacturing themselves or at least directly supervising it in an outside facility, vs. just slapping their label on someone else's product that you can buy under other labels).

To evaluate a product sold through sales reps, you can check on their Chief Scientific Officer and how that person rated in the ExecRank survey of last year. CSOs were rated based on their reliance on research and clinical data, their integrity, and other factors. To evaluate a company, go to the Direct Selling Association website and see if they are members. The DSA is an invitation-only watchdog group for network marketing companies. Before a company is invited in, the DSA spends at least a year reviewing the company's books, checking on openness and integrity, reviews the compensation plan for distributors, and even interviews distributors to see how they are treated by the company. So a company that makes big promises to new distributors but then funnels all the profits up to the long-time distributors or the company executives will be weeded out. The DSA looks at start-up costs as well as initial and ongoing training (and whether it's paid for by the distributor or given for free).

All of those factors help determine whether the price of the product is based on research, decent compensation of the distributor/rep, and whether there is too much profit going up the line to management.

If the cost is due to research and patents, that's one thing. If it's just to make you feel that you're getting a better product and all the money is going up to the company executives, that's another.

I was at one of these parties a month or so ago since one of my neighbors started selling the products. There were about 7 ladies there and everyone bought a lot of the products. The girls have said they really like the products thus far. I was talking with the girl who sells the products recently and she said that people are texting her and telling her how much they love the products and she is not even asking. The products are returnable if you do not like them. I purchased an eye cream, that stuff in the little pearl(like Doris Day called it.....sorry I don't know the name either), and the hand rejuvenation stuff. I am liking all three products and I may try their skin care system when my Obagi skin care products run out.