Perfectly Posh Review
Company Name: Perfectly Posh
Costs: $94
Rating: 36/100
Update 2017: Since I’ve been inundated with fanatic Posh sellers on my initial review, I’ve changed the name of the article to reflect more precisely what it’s about. This is a review of the income opportunity, as compared to other similar income opportunities and “work at home businesses” that I’ve done myself, or reviewed in the past. It’s my opinion that selling soaps through network marketing is not very lucrative for most people, so Posh is not the best way to go if you want to create a sustainable business.
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If you like their soaps, great. Keep buying them. If you make some cash on the side, great. Enjoy your hobby. I have no issues with that.
My main issue is Posh being pitched as a great way to make supplemental INCOME. A few hundred bucks on the side is not an income in my opinion. My website is about starting an online business you can rely on for years, not some chump change while you chat with friends over the weekend.
What Is Perfectly Posh?
Another MLM targeted at women, which sells pamper and luxury products.
Short Review
To be honest, there isn’t a lot about Perfectly Posh that makes it stand out. Sure, the products look kind of cool, but there isn’t a shortage of soaps and body butter products already on the market. At the same time, the commission scheme for the company is pretty typical and certainly puts distributors at a disadvantage.
Product Breakdown
Perfectly Posh is a bit of an odd name for the company, especially as the product selection doesn’t really have much to do with the concept of posh. Instead, the company is promoting products focused on the idea of pampering. The selection of products includes things like hand cream, foot products, skin cream, bath bars, face wash, and much more.
The products themselves are fairly unique, largely because you wouldn’t find those specific flavors and descriptions from other companies. For example:
At the same time, the products are a bit on the expensive side ($9 for a bar of soap?). In many cases, people would be prepared to pay higher prices, simply because most people assume that pampering is going to be expensive. Likewise, people often think that a higher price means better quality even if that often isn’t the case.
However, the higher-than-normal product prices are still a bit of an issue, as they decrease how many people you could sell to. After all, spending $9 on one block of soap is really a bit extravagant, even for a treat.
I haven’t seen a lot of talk about the quality of the products, which isn’t that surprising. Realistically, there is a huge number of different companies that sell similar products and for the most part, they are all pretty similar. I mean come on, you can get handmade, high-quality soaps on Etsy in any scent you can think of.
EDIT: Check the comment section! It seems that PP has created such a rabid fanbase of soap enthusiasts that they can’t handle any bit of criticism of the company. OK, fine. If you like the soaps, pay $9 for them. None of my business. But the fact remains that you can find similar soaps for the same price for cheaper at other companies. The fact that so many insane people have berated me in the comment section for even suggesting that their soaps are not 100% amazing is pretty disheartening.
There are some product reviews on Amazon for many of the items, but they aren’t especially helpful. For example, many products just have one or two reviews and those reviews seem to be pretty biased. The soap below is one example of this, as both reviewers were people saying you should buy from a distributor.
In other words, there’s nothing really special about these products. There are good reviews and bad reviews. If you like them and want to sell them, that’s great. But it’s all a matter of opinion, just like any other product out there. Your job as a marketer and salesperson will be to get people to change brands or try a new brand. Are you ready to make a convincing argument of why someone should buy a $9 bar of soap?
Can you really spin it so that Perfectly Posh products sound better than anything else out there?
Chunk Soap Review (Finally)
Well, 99% of the comments in this post say, “You didn’t try it, so you cant’ say anything about the company.”. Though I disagree, I acquired a bar of “chunk”. It was a $5 version, not a $9 version. My review? Yeah, it was a good soap. For $5, I would even say it was a great soap! Smelled great, look like you could eat it, and for five bucks I can’t complain.
- Would I pick up this soap over any other soap in the grocery store? Probably not. It’s just a bar of soap.
- Does it last longer than another type of soap out there? Nope. Probably will last a few weeks, just like anything else.
- If I had a friend selling this would I seek them out to buy a $5 item? Nope. I’d probably just buy from Amazon or switch to another brand. Convenience is important to me.
- Does this make me want to sell it to friends and start a soap/lotion selling business? Not at all. Just not something I’m interested in.
I see the appeal of selling “day spa” related items, and the community aspect women enjoy in MLM. I can see how some people would enjoy recommending products to their friends that they like! However, limiting yourself to a single brand makes you a salesperson, not an honest, objective friend recommending products. Keep that in mind!
OK, now I tried it. Now I can have an opinion on it.
Opportunity Breakdown
More Updates 2017: . A lot of gals ripped into me in the comments for saying that women are targeted by MLMs. Here’s an interesting article (from a woman) called How Multi-Level Marketing Targets and Destroys Female Entrepreneurs
The opportunity side of Perfectly Posh is pretty much what I’d expect. You start off by buying a starter kit, which offers a range of products along with business tools. In this case, the kit costs $94 plus shipping and tax – so you’re spending quite a bit just to get going.
Distributors for the company earn 20% commission for sales on the first tier and 25% once they move up to the next rank in the company. That’s not too bad! In fact, 25% commission is good compared to many programs I’ve reviewed. The trouble is that you are selling small-ticket items, so 25% of a $10 item is just $2.50. You need to sell a lot of items. Do you know that many people personally? Probably not. That’s why it’s almost impossible to make money with MLMs unless you have a website.
As a general rule, the amount of money you make actually selling the products tends to be pretty low since you’re selling IRL. Even a large 20% commission on a $10 item is only $2 per sale. Instead, most income will come from bonuses and your downline. Now, a downline refers to the people you recruit, the people they recruit, and so on. This is the core part of this type of business, which is also known as a multi-level marketing business (or MLM).
Essentially, the idea is to increase your downline as much as possible and to also increase the amount of sales the people in your downline make. Doing so helps you increase in rank in the company and also helps to increase your income, like so:
This model is what makes earning money so difficult. Realistically, you need to recruit a decent number of people into the company and have them also be effective at recruiting. Doing that is exceptionally hard.
How many people do you personally know that would be willing to invest the time and money needed to be successful in the business? Probably not many. But, you would need to find people like that to get anywhere in the company. Likewise, those people would have to find others and so on.
Honestly, there aren’t even that many people out there that have an interest in this type of company and have the resources to be successful. Often, this means that distributors might be able to recruit one or two others, but are never able to build a successful downline. The end result is that they never earn much money.
MLMs, Women, and Success
Perfectly Posh is yet another MLM company that targets women. This pattern is incredibly common across many different MLMs and is extremely manipulative. One reason for this seems to be that many women end up staying at home and raising their families. As they do this, women often end up looking for ways to make a little money on the side and MLMs exploit this concept.
This type of company makes it sound like you can have the best of everything. They suggest that women can earn money without having to give up their time with their families. At the same time, they are even presented as ways to be more social, because you are interacting with friends and potential customers.
But, all of this is manipulation, plain and simple. Your chances of making any money with an MLM are small and your chances of making a decent amount of money are tiny. In fact, you’ll end up spending a lot of time away from home building your business since you have to meet people face to face to recruit them and sell. Are you going to drag the kids along to your meeting with a client for while you pitch the products? Are you going to take your kids to their home and have them run around while your friend examines the products? These are things you’ve got to consider!
Realistically, MLMs take advantage of people’s business inexperience. Failure is built into the system. If everyone could recruit successfully and build a downline, then everyone in the world would be a Perfectly Posh consultant. If you want a good idea of the challenge of MLMs, take a look at this quote from an MLM report by the Consumer Awareness Institute:
To make matters even worse, a lot of people actually lose money in an MLM.
After all, you have to buy a certain amount of product to stay active and most companies push members to buy much more than they would otherwise. For example, distributors are often encouraged to buy a large selection of products so they can show those products off to potential customers.
As you can probably imagine, that approach can get expensive quickly.
I’ve personally seen a number of people fall into the trap of MLMs. Often they did make some money from sales, but they ended up spending much more than that on products. They would justify that approach by saying that they wanted the products. However, they wouldn’t have actually spent that money otherwise.
In many cases, people mightn’t pay that much attention to how much money they spend but will get excited about any money they earn. So, it can take quite some time before distributors realize that they aren’t actually getting anywhere. At the same time, those distributors will be recruiting friends and family into the company and convincing them that it is a great opportunity for earning money.
That pattern is one of the reasons I get so concerned about MLMs. Not only are they ineffective as an income approach, but they often suck in people who really can’t afford to get involved.
Other Comments
Earning income from any MLM is always harder than it sounds. You might know some people interested in buying products from the company, but that doesn’t mean those people are going to help you run your business. A few sales, in the beginning, is great, but is it a sustainable business model?
Besides that, most people end up trying to sell products to friends and family, while also trying to recruit them. That approach can often lose you friends, which is just one more reason not to even get started.
MLM VS Affiliate Marketing Online
As I mentioned earlier, the MLM model is difficult. It is possible to make money (and some people do), but most people don’t. In fact, most people end up losing money buying the products for themselves. That makes you a customer, not a distributor!
The thing is that you CAN work for yourself by selling products you love. By building a simple website and promoting products you’ve tried or want to buy yourself, you can make money online. It means you don’t have to recruit friends and family, you don’t have to post on Facebook, and you don’t have to stick with one brand. If you think home spa treatments are fun and that’s what you’d like to build a business about, go for it! Make a website and reach millions of people online instead of just your close network of friends.
You can learn how to make a simple website through online training, including free resources here on my website.
I made a website about computer software a couple of years ago and now it allows me to work full time from home. I love writing articles for it and talking to other people enthusiastic about the software, and I don’t even have to sell it to anyone in my family or try to get them to join a “club”.
What do you think? Would you build a website for women looking to pamper themselves, or would you pick a different topic? Do you think selling soaps is an exciting business venture or just another run-of-the-mill biz op? Let us know in the comments! Oh yeah, and what do you think of all the rude people in the comments? Do you think they are helping Perfectly Posh by telling me I’m an idiot or are they dissuading potential sellers from getting involved?
Can You Generate Reliable Income With Perfectly Posh?
The Perfectly Posh Review
Products
Business Opportunity
Final
This is not a "bad" company or scam. I just don't believe the products are good enough to get excited about, and I don't think the multi-layer compensation plan will help anyone profit significantly here.
Update Friday, July 1: I see there are a lot of upset ladies about my review. This is just not a company that I would recommend to a friend or for someone starting an online business. Just my opinion based on my experience selling things online.
MLM Critic & Author: Nathaniell
What's up ladies and dudes! Great to finally meet you, and I hope you enjoyed this post. I have to be honest though. I'm not a big fan of MLM. Tried it. Hated it.
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Jayne
I’m sure your thoughts on the products, which you haven’t tried, and the experiences of consultants, whom you didn’t interview, is extremely important. The starter kit contains over $250 for that $99 dollars (occasionally on sale for $94), and also includes business tools (sample containers, labels, shirt, etc). So a lot of people buy the kit just to get the “free” stuff and use the discount for a while. The requirement to remain active is only $300 per six months, so it’s not that difficult to maintain. And that soap you were so worried about being so expensive? I’ve been using the same one for four months, it’s smells great and leaves my skin feeling soft and clean. Maybe next time actually do some investigating before slamming a business opportunity that actually works for some people.
B
I love PP products. It’s like Bath and Body works without all the nasty chemicals. I joined as a consultant only for the start up kit because it’s a great deal compared to normal prices. I realize it would be too much effort for too little payoff to actively attempt to sell the stuff and I suspect there’s a lot of others out there like me who join for the start-up kit and are too uncomfortable with spamming their friends and family with sales pitches.
So while I think it’s true of any MLM company that it won’t turn into a sustainable source of income – this doesn’t mean joining is a loss and the products mediocre. Joining and expecting to make a decent wage would surely be naive, though.
Nathaniell
But that begs the question – why get mixed up in MLM when you can choose perfectly legitimate companies, with equally good products, for comparable prices. They are not the only company that makes soaps without chemicals.
Michellexo
I completely agree with you. Plus if you read the comments you can see just how people can get. Unfortunately, I made the mistake of falling for buying perfectly posh. I had a girl breathing down my neck about how I’d love the products, how great they were etc. I got a few products that were on sale but still out of my price range. Definitely not impressed. The soap smelled good, but still dried out my skin like normal soap. The acne stuff did nothing for my acne. The lip balm dried out my lips. I ended up just giving away everything but the soap. Oh and the soap doesn’t last as long as they claim. I ended up asking for three samples. The girl gave me a huge guilt trip saying she had to pay thirteen dollars to have it shipped to me and all these hassle she had to go through. Though, she still hoped I would enjoy it and buy it even though she wasn’t making money. I tried them, I didn’t like them. This continued for a while where she would push products on me and guilt trip me. She is still trying it to this day. Ugh! Honestly wish I never would have tried their products. I’m more than happy with Walmart products that are much better for much less. Thanks for your review!
Nathaniell
Sounds like the experience of the “silent majority”…meeting a pushy salesperson who things the products are so awesome you can’t live without them…then gets offended when they are too expensive to order on autoship. Many people (sellers) that have a few successful parties quickly learn that friends buying stuff from you only goes so far in terms of starting a business.
Thanks for adding another honest comment here Michelle.
Sara
So, you are selectively picking which comments you allow through. You don’t want to publish the comments I previously made nor the comment my friend made. I’m curious, why is that?
Nathaniell
Umm because I don’t have 100 hours in a day to respond to everyone going cray cray. Geeze. Gimme some time and hold your internet rage please. And didn’t I publish enough negative comments here to satisfy you people?
Crystal Dawn
“I review products…”
My only suggestion to you, is to do as you write.
I tend to agree with your analysis with respect to the platform. The module. However, Perfectly Posh does not follow the predictable pyramid in the world of the MLM. An upline does not earn on their downline if they, themselves, do not work their business. Sure, they earn on both their purchase and that of their direct customer base, but not on their downline. Should they fail to meet the required monthy quota to hold their rank, not only do they not earn a bonus, they won’t be the fat cat sitting back and letting the little people do all the work.
For arguments sake, let’s call it goal setting. I’m sure we can both agree that it is a healthy practice for one to set a goal, to then work toward meeting said goal; no matter the setting? One need only be self driven and self motivated to set a goal, work toward the goal and achieve the goal.
While I don’t agree with the portrait many of the little pictures have painted across the canvas of their manipulated minds, brandishing verbiage and mentality prohibiting constructive criticisms in areas begging improvement, I do believe in the bigger picture.
The uniqueness you fail to see in a “bar of soap” made by Perfectly Posh begins with quirky names and fun in the pun printed on its 100% recycled material. There is an entire culture of environmentally aware tree huggers being catered to in that unique element alone.
I do believe Perfectly Posh carried a sugar based lip scrub by the same name “Tree Hugger.”
Before ever undressing a “bar of soap” it has the uncanny ability to tickle a funny bone, perhaps two, prior to being invited into the intimacy of your shower or bath. A pretty personal act. Don’t ya think?
Before smoothing all 7 ounces of a naked chunk of hunk all over your bare naked body, you’ve already come to know of its vegan friendly promise and are assured that you won’t be showering with or violated by, TALLOW. He’s a no, no.
As you remove the wrap from “a bar of soap,” your senses become aroused and alive as scents of naturally based oils, butters and extracts tease your anticipation. All that tantalizing goodness awaits you. There’s no turning back. It’s just you, a bar of soap and long list of essential oils, butters, extracts and glycerin on your skin. Sounds naturally posh to me.
One thing you neglect to consider in your write, are the thousands of jobs Perfectly Posh has created in not outsourcing their work to foreign entities while preparing naturally based products that refrain from forcing foreign and unnatural substances onto then into our bodies. I’m certain you are privy to our country’s weighty tax burden on small businesses and the cost to any company, especially, a small startup company of five years, to do business on normal terms, using ingredients not uncommon to the majority of food and cosmetically based goods. How much more of a challenge it presents when you are not only a start up company, but a stand out company because you don’t outsource your work to little kids working for a fraction of a penny.
Suddenly, under $25 and $9 for a 7 ounce chunk of vegan friendly, naturally based bar of soap that will last up to six months if not left sitting under water beating down on it, doesn’t appear to seem all that unreasonable.
I would be both humbled and honored were you to email me your address. A PO Box, even? I am eagerly willing to gamble on your natural instinct to want both the best and healthiest of products on and in your body. You don’t come off as an individual who would intentionally self mutilate his own source of income. Himself.
I have a 7oz chunk of “Rollling in the DEEP” all wrapped in 100% recycled material loaded with certified palm oil, Cannabis Sativa (Hemp) Seed, Sunflower oil, Palo Santo extract and Glycerin ready to mail.
Now. How ’bout you email that address. I’ll send you this “bar of soap” and you csn write that review you declare in your bio. It smells like a little piece of heaven. 😉
— Me