Melaleuca Products Change Lives

Melaleuca products change lives: how three moms discovered the wellness company


When you have a positive experience with a product, it’s natural to share it with family, friends and neighbors. But when a product truly changes your life, you can’t help sharing it with everyone you know.

Women with Melaleuca Products

WHETHER IT’S MELAPOWER, the Access® Bar, GC Control, RenewTM Lotion or the Vitality Pack powered by Oligo®, Melaleuca’s products have been changing lives and starting conversations for 28 years. Melaleuca products have helped millions of families throughout the world to live healthier, happier and safer lives. The word is spreading, and, one conversation at a time, Melaleuca products are becoming a fixture in homes from China to the Netherlands.

Yet with Melaleuca, there’s an even greater incentive to share those products with others. As well as giving customers the widest variety of effective wellness products found at any store, Melaleuca has the most rewarding customer-referral program of any company in the marketplace. Nowhere else will customers find the sort of reliable, residual income they find at Melaleuca.

In the stories that follow, you’ll read about three women who discovered the power of Melaleuca’s life-changing products for themselves. When Melaleuca products made a difference for their families, these women took Melaleuca’s message of wellness to their friends, their communities and beyond.

“What was the name of those bars?”

Shelby & A.J. Ford
Senior Directors VI

Melaleuca Access Bars


Shelby Ford was playing professional softball after college when a relative began sending her boxes of Access® Bars. Using the bars for practices and games, Shelby soon noticed something was different.

“I had played ball my whole life, and suddenly, things were changing,” she says. “I started leaning up, and I had more energy to play. I knew it had to be the bars.”

When her softball career ended, Shelby moved home, and a few years passed before she thought about Access Bars again. But when her husband, A.J., proposed, Shelby wanted to make sure she was in her best shape when she stood at the altar.

“I called my relative and said, ‘What was the name of those bars again?'” Shelby remembers. “Eventually, I got in touch with my enroller, [Executive Director] Maley Walsh. At first, I just wanted her to help me get some bars, but she insisted on sharing a full Delivering Wellness overview with me.”

Shelby and AJ Ford

Shelby didn’t need any convincing when it came to Melaleuca’s products. She already knew the Access Bar was better than anything she’d find on grocery store shelves, and “if the other products were half as good,” she knew she wanted to be involved with Melaleuca.

“I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked the rest of the products,” she says. “I started looking at the business as a source of additional money, $500 or $1,000 a month. That happened pretty quickly, so when I had my first baby, I thought, ‘I don’t want to leave my children with someone else all day–maybe I can earn enough to stay home.'”

When she learned her neighbor was a marathon runner with an interest in health and sports nutrition, Shelby knew exactly the right approach for introducing Melaleuca.com.

“I talked to her and her husband about Access Bars and ProflexTM Shakes,” she remembers. “I said, ‘You have to try these awesome workout bars.’ After being customers for a while, they decided to start building a business a couple of months ago, and now I’m hoping they get to Director III this month.”

Shelby, meanwhile has reached Senior Director VI and earned $50,009 so far in 2013 alone. She just had her second child a few months ago, so she’s once again using the Access Bar to get back in shape.

“I’m not doing as much training as I did when I was playing ball,” she says. “But the Access Bars still work. If I’d never tried them, I never would’ve found Melaleuca, and I never would’ve started this business that has helped me come home with my kids.”

“I fell in love with our products”

Kellee Wip
Senior Director VIII

Melaleuca product FiberWise


Kellee Wip had watched her coworker, Executive Director III Stacy Fiske, leave a career at the height of the Great Recession, so Kellee was curious when Stacy asked to share a Delivering Wellness overview. With a steady job and a hectic life, Kellee had no interest in “building a business,” but Melaleuca’s products seemed like a natural fit.

“The products just made sense,” Kellee says. “I was a busy mom, and I sometimes felt guilty about not being able to take better care of my children. I thought, ‘Why wouldln’t I make the switch to products that are better and safer for my family, and help out a friend at the same time?'”

Kellee Wip and her kids

On Stacy’s recommendation, Kellee bought an Essentials Pack, even though she had no intention of starting a referral business. She quickly discovered dozens of products that she never would’ve sampled outside the pack but that quickly became her favorites.

“FiberWise® is something I never would’ve tried–but it’s one of my favorite products today,” she says. “Every time my Melaleuca order arrived with a Leadership in Action magazine in it, I’d open the magazine and look for Stacy to see how she was doing. I was proud of her and proud of the fact that I was helping her by shopping at Melaleuca.”

Every month, Stacy would give Kellee a call just to chat. Sometimes, Melaleuca would come up, and sometimes it wouldn’t.

“After 14 months, I realized I needed to be at home with my 4-year-old son and my 2-year-old daughter, so I started looking around for something more flexible I could do,” Kellee says. “I looked at a lot of businesses before I thought about Melaleuca. When I did, there was no question about whether Melaleuca was a good business–I’d learned that just by using the products. The only question was whether I would do it.”

One night, Kellee had a conversation with her sister Karree Cline, who’d just had twins and was also looking for a way to come home to her children. The two sisters decided to team up and share Melaleuca with others. Now, Kellee is a Senior Director VIII and Karree is a Senior Director–and both of them are stay-at-home moms.

“Every time I do a Delivering Wellness overview, I always share how I started as a customer,” Kellee says. “I fell in love with our products and with shopping for items that are safer for my family. And when I needed to bring an additional income, Melaleuca was already there for me.”

“That’s my passion”

Jennifer & Paul Coffel
Executive Directors VI

Melaleuca EcoSense products


Jennifer Coffel actually was looking for a business she could do from home when she found Melaleuca in 2004. She’d been an occupational therapist for years, but when she became a stay-at-home mom (with a 2-year-old and 1-year-old twins) her family began struggling financially. Yet, after sitting through a Delivering Wellness overview, Jennifer was more interested in what she’d heard about Melaleuca’s products than its financial opportunity.

Jennifer Coffel

“They were talking in the presentation about how these products affected dry or irritated skin, and I had a daughter who had [symptoms associated with] eczema,” Jennifer remembers. “I didn’t really understand the business, but I was so interested in the products. So I thought, ‘Well, what do I have to lose?’ We switched out all of our cleaning products, and I started using RenewTM Lotion on my daughter’s skin.”

Her daughter’s skin quickly cleared up, and Jennifer realized she had something she needed to share with others.

“I’d been reading about products and how they impact our health,” Jennifer says. “When I saw my daughter’s skin change, it was tangible evidence of everything I’d learned. I really wanted to share what I’d learned about safer products with my friends who were moms.”

Jennifer didn’t live very close to her enroller, and she was still a little fuzzy on how Melaleuca’s Compensation Plan worked. But when she started talking to others about Melaleuca’s products, none of that mattered.

“I really had no idea what I was doing, but I was so excited about sharing the products,” she says. “I just started calling other moms. I enrolled 10 customers in my first month and 11 customers in my second. My check for my first month was for $488, and for my second month, it was $1,448.”

In the nine years since she enrolled, Jennifer–a quiet, self-effacing mother of four–has earned $1,305,739 with her Melaleuca business. She now has a team of business builders working with her, but even when she talks to others about Melaleuca today, her highest priority is still telling them about safer, healthier, better products.

“That’s my passion, honestly,” she says, “helping other families switch stores and get healthier products into their homes.”

For hundreds of thousands of customers, Melaleuca’s more than 350 wellness products are hard not to talk about! Whether you’re building a Melaleuca business or simply telling family and friends about products you love, now is the season to share what you have: products that change lives.

7 Comments

  1. Gabriele Schwartz on November 13, 2013 at 6:45 pm

    I have been a happy shopper since 2010 and love being able to not breath toxic chemicals when I clean my house.

    I was not so sure about the Oligo because I had taken supplements for years. About a month after taking Vitality 4 I did not think much about it, but realized I was waking up on my own and not as tired as normal. I still never get much sleep and it has to be the vitamins are giving me better energy. All the other life things are the same… stress and whatever.

    I have a few happy customers and even if I never made a dime, I will always be a loyal happy shopper.



  2. Susan Garese on November 13, 2013 at 7:14 pm

    Melaleuca has changed my families lives being toxic free home



  3. Angela Thomson on November 14, 2013 at 1:32 am

    My name is Angela Thomson Easy and I am now a full time ME with Melaleuca and I love saying that.
    My job was truck driving and I spent the whole first year of my daughters kindergarten year working. I missed everything it broke my heart. I have been a customer since Nov of 2012 and on my one year anniversary of being a PC I decided I wanted to make this my life. I feel so amazing knowing what my life is now. Being at home with my daughter is the best feeling in the world. I need to thank my sister in law Michaela Dagneau for helping she is the one who showed me Melaleuca. It really is a wow factor I love the products and love sharing them.



  4. Karen Floyd on November 14, 2013 at 11:15 am

    I love the convenience and time saved by having products delivered to my door. I can skip several aisles in the grocery store and make fewer trips because I am able to order laundry,dish care, cleaning,skin care,cosmetics,bath&body,over the counter pharmacy,nutritional,weight control,and fitness items (I’m probably forgetting something) from the comfort of my home. It’s great to have peace of mind,knowing I am not exposing myself or the environment to toxic chemicals. My family and I haven’t had a cold or the flu since we started taking the Vitality Pack, me for 10 1/2 years and they for not quite that long. So I really enjoy not getting sick. Of course who doesn’t like money? It’s great to get free products and get paid for helping people, which I would want to do even if I wasn’t getting paid.



  5. Laurie Belisle on November 14, 2013 at 12:07 pm

    You need to see these wonderful products. Have been earning incredible residual income for many years. Would never be without these healthy cost effective products.



  6. John & Teresa Bratcher on November 14, 2013 at 4:11 pm

    Teresa and I have been using the Melaleuca brand for over 5 years now. We love them so much we went from a retail customer to a preferred customer. We are now sharing the opportunity with others also. Why not? We feel Melaleuca is superior then any store brand on the market.



  7. Lucinda on December 16, 2013 at 10:22 am

    Thanks Melaleuca!
    I know my home is a safe enviroment for my children with out all the toxic chemicals that were making me sick. My children were (and still do) breathing faster therefore inhaling more fumes than I was! Just the other day my 3yr old said ‘Mom, melaleuca is safe, other stuff isn’t ” Future ME?? Another thing is my husbands work was cut back and I feel good knowing that I am helping in reducing our monthly budget.