Simply Naturals Review: Sizzling mineral wafers
Simply Naturals appears to have launched in 2012 and are based out of Surrey in the United Kingdom.
The company operates in the health and nutrition MLM niche and lists a Peter Willoughby as CEO on their website.
Willoughby (right) is credited with ‘almost two decades’ of “referral marketing experience” in his Simply Naturals executive bio:
Prior to this he was employed by Kleinwort Benson Corporate Finance specializing in the technology and IT sectors and entered the referral marketing sector in 1997.
Simply Naturals appears to be the only MLM venture Willoughby has headed up, although I’m a little unsure of the specifics.
This Simply Naturals newsletter is dated May 2012 and mentions a “pre-launch special”. It’s written in an introductory format by Willoughby and implies the company was only recently launched:
I am pleased to introduce you to Simply Naturals Ltd and look forward to a long and rewarding relationship; Simply Naturals has been established to improve the quality of people’s lives through true health and true wealth.
As we enter a new era of health awareness, coupled with ever increasing life expectancy, the quest for good health and wellness has never been so important.
Then there’s this “U.S. Naturals” newsletter dated November 2006, in which Elmer G. Heinrich wrote:
As you have been informed, I have sold my interest in U.S. Naturals, Inc. to Mr. Peter Willoughby of London.
Simply Naturals obviously existed before 2012, so I’m not sure what’s going on in that first cited newsletter. It appears Heinrich was running U.S. Naturals as a sister company of Simply Naturals (run by Willoughby). He got out in 2006 by selling his share in the company to Willoughby, and both companies have been under Willoughby’s control since.
Again I’m not sure what happened between 2006 to 2012, but there does appear to have been some restructuring that led to a new Simply Naturals “pre-launch”. U.S. Naturals meanwhile is still up and running and appears to function as an independent opportunity selling the same products as Simply Natural.
Why Willoughby continues to use two different company names is a mystery to me, I certainly found it confusing. None of this is explained or clarified on either the Simply Naturals or U.S. Naturals websites.
For the purpose of clarification on this review, it should be known that I’m using Simply Naturals’ marketing material.
Read on for a full review of the Simply Naturals MLM business opportunity.
The Simply Naturals Product Line
Simply Naturals operate in the health and wellness MLM niche, marketing a range of mineral-based supplements.
The company’s flagship product is called “Sizzling Minerals”, and is
The world’s first and only, great tasting effervescent wafer containing 600 milligrams of 75 Pure Plant Derived Minerals.
Sizzling Minerals is the most important product available for fulfilling the nutritional needs for the entire family.
Sizzling Minerals comes in a box of 30 single-serve soluble wafers for £28.97 and is available in cherry berry, orange, lemon lime and natural flavours.
Other Simply Naturals products include
- Plant Minerals Veggie Capsules – bottle of thirty “dried mineral solids” capsules for £26.46
- Powdered Minerals – bottle of thirty ‘dried mineral solids naturally extracted with contaminant free, pure water from a prehistoric plant deposit‘ capsules for £26.46
- Liquid Minerals – sixty four 15ml bottles of ‘the purest and most concentrated plant derived minerals‘ (senonian juice) for £27.96
- Selenium – bottle of sixty ‘essential trace mineral and potent anti-oxidant’ capsules for £14.96
- Vitamin B Complex – bottle of thirty Vitamin B supplement capsules for £8.97
- Vitamin C1000 Complex – bottle of one hundred “GMP certified (Vegetarian/Vegan approved) Vitamin C-1000” tablets for £11.96
The Simply Naturals Compensation Plan
The Simply Naturals compensation plan offers affiliates retail commissions, with residual income paid out using a seven level unilevel compensation structure (extendable via an Infinity Bonus).
Shares in a company-wide Bonus Pool are also offered at the two top-tier affiliate membership ranks.
Affiliate Membership Ranks
There are eight affiliate membership ranks within the Simply Naturals compensation plan. Unfortunately Simply Naturals do not provide rank qualification criteria in their publicly available compensation plan material.
Retail Commissions
Simply Naturals offer retail commissions on all retail customer product orders. The Simply Naturals compensation plan states that retail commissions are ‘30% of available margin volume‘, which I believe is 30% of the difference between the wholesale and retail price of the products purchased in the order.
Recruitment Commissions
When a Simply Naturals affiliate recruits a new affiliate who purchases a “Business Pack”, a recruitment commission is paid out.
An affiliate purchase of “Business Pack 1” pays out £50 commission and “Business Pack 2” pays out £100.
Note that I couldn’t find a quoted price for either pack (or even at least what was contained in either pack) anywhere on the Simply Naturals website.
Unilevel Commissions
Residual commissions in Simply Natural are paid out using a unilevel compensation structure. A unilevel compensation structure places an affiliate at the top of a unilevel team, with every personally recruited affiliate placed directly under them (level 1):
If any of these personally recruited level 1 affiliates go on to recruit new affiliates of their own, they are placed on level 2 of the original affiliate’s unilevel team. If any level 2 affiliates go on to recruit new affiliates they are placed on level 3 and so on and so forth down a theoretically infinite number of levels.
Simply Naturals cap unilevel commissions down seven levels of recruitment, with how many levels an affiliate is paid out on determined by their affiliate membership rank:
- Distributor – level 1
- Qualified Distributor – levels 1 to 3
- Senior Distributor – levels 1 to 5
- Manager and higher – all 7 payable levels
Unilevel commissions are paid out as a percentage of the sales volume generated by an affiliate’s unilevel team, with how much of a percentage is earned depending on the level sales volume is generated on:
- Level 1 – 30%
- Level 2 – 15%
- Levels 3 and 4 – 5%
- Levels 5 and 6 – 4%
- Level 7 – 10%
Infinity Bonus
When a Simply Naturals affiliate reaches the Manager rank, they are paid an infinity bonus on their unilevel team. The Infinity bonus extends payable unilevel commissions down a theoretical infinite number of levels.
The Infinity Bonus is paid out in addition to regular unilevel commissions as a percentage, determined by an affiliate’s membership rank:
- Manager and Senior Manager – 2%
- Executive – 3%
- Senior Executive – 6%
- Global Marketing Director – 10%
Note that each of these percentage levels is cumulative, with affiliates paid their percentage share according to their affiliate membership rank. If leftover percentages remain, the system continues to search the upline for the first qualified ranked affiliate until all five percentage levels have been paid out (23%).
If an affiliate is ranked at the Global Marketing Director rank and no other Manager or higher ranked affiliates exist in a particular unilevel leg, they are paid the whole 23%.
Global Profit Share Pool
Simply Naturals’ Global Profit Sharing Pool is ‘based on a percentage of the global company profits‘ and is paid out annually.
Senior Executive Director ranked affiliates receive 1 share in the pool and Global Marketing Directors receive 3 shares.
Joining Simply Naturals
Affiliate membership with Simply naturals comes in at £167.99.
Note that if an affiliate opts to purchase a Business Pack, the effective cost of affiliate membership will likely increase (Simply Naturals do not disclose the costs of Business Packs on their website or compensation plan material).
Conclusion
Do you want to be a millionaire?
We could already show you some very impressive earnings figures and projections that would cause you to join immediately. However, we don’t need to do that.
Our ‘Sizzling Minerals’, Mega Health product range, market potential and distributor benefits are more than enough to convince you to join this incredible business.
-Simply Naturals’ compensation plan material
Even though they adopting a heavy “lead with the money” approach in marketing the business opportunity, I can’t really fault Simply Naturals as overall they offer a reasonably rounded business model.
That said there are some concerns that should be addressed.
On the product side of things I’m a big believer in a balanced diet and as such am would not be convinced to purchase supplements outside of very specific medial reasons.
One cannot deny the supplement market though so if an affiliate is able to find enough customers then Simply Natural’s products shouldn’t be too challenging to move.
Vitamin B and C supplements might be a bit difficult (competition from local business would be a killer I imagine) but the flagship Sizzling Minerals product and capsule supplements would be easiest to market. Naturally it wouldn’t hurt to check the local competition first as shipping is something you’d need to consider when marketing Simply Naturals’ products.
Internet marketing is of course possible but I think might be limited. The online supplement market is pretty cut-throat competitive and a replicated affiliate storefront just isn’t going to get any passive exposure.
Moving on to the compensation plan, Simply Naturals offer a simple unilevel plan that pays out retail and residuals. I found it easy to understand and there didn’t appear to be any obvious slant towards recruitment over retail.
The 30% retail commission on the margin between wholesale and retail is a bit low (usually it’s 100%), but with the entire product range being monthly repeat-consumables, that might not hurt too much if enough customers are buying from you each month.
I will note the caveat that the company does not make available the qualification criteria for its affiliate membership ranks. There is a possibility that within this qualification criteria there’s an emphasis on recruitment, but without this information I can’t make a call either way.
This I have to flag as it’s basic compensation plan information that should be made available to the general public. No excuses.
Autoship is offered but there’s no inherent commission qualification criteria in the compensation plan tied to it so that’s a plus (again no idea on the affiliate ranks).
The Business Packs were a bit of a mystery in that prices aren’t provided (even on the Distributor sign-up form), but being a once-off purchase and the only commission tied to recruitment, I felt was an acceptable balance.
£50 and £100 once-off commissions aren’t exactly going to leave people focusing solely on affiliate recruitment. That of course also doesn’t mean it can be discounted entirely.
Assuming there’s no retail requirements in the affiliate membership ranks, I’d still advise checking with a potential upline as to how much of their personal sales volume is from recruited affiliates versus retail customers.
Oh and even though the Simply Naturals compensation plan material makes glittery promises about future shares options as a marketing tool, I’d strongly advise any affiliates against using this in their own personal marketing.
Moreso if you’re in the US. Market with the products, not promises of being allocated future shares in the company. Why Simply Naturals themselves do this I can’t say but it’s certainly an eyebrow-raiser.
Actual virtual “share option certificates” are currently being allocated to affiliates via “regular promotions”, with plans to ‘register (Simply Naturals) as a PLC status company to prepare for a full stock market listing‘.
I don’t know what the specific laws are in the UK but this sort of corporate marketing of the business opportunity would most certainly attract the attention of the SEC in the US.
Not so much over Simply Naturals’ plans to go public, but in that it calls into question the motivation behind affiliates joining the company. If it’s on the expectation of allocated shares increasing in value then there’s a problem.
Not helping is Simply Natural’s own comparisons to Microsoft in their marketing material:
Just imagine how excited the 10,000 millionaires who work for Microsoft are now after receiving their share option allocations.
That the shares aren’t currently pegged to any specific dollar value is something, but why offer the them at all until you’ve actually gone public?
That aside, market the mineral supplements and keep that as your core focus. And if anyone approaches you about Simply Naturals and starts talking about share options, run!
Two notes…
1) vitamin and mineral supplements are PROVEN by science to be complete waste of money.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/12/17/251955878/the-case-against-multivitamins-grows-stronger
2) This “share option certificates” is the SAME trick used by Vantone in China (linked to Ming Xu and WCM777) and Interush in Hong Kong (marketed to China) and clearly violates securities law.
Chang, while I don’t have a particular dog in the vitamin fight I do have an aversion to inaccurate over the top statements. Having an opinion is one thing, but making an absolute statement using words like “proven” and “complete” makes your statement simply not true.
There are those more qualified who disagree with your conclusion. Furthermore, the article sited had to do more with particular chronic diseases, not overall health or other various symptomatic conditions.
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/what-should-you-eat/vitamins/
A perfect example of how modern consumers have become oblivious to the language of spin doctors and why the FDA requires the use of disclaimers.
“Some extra vitamin D MAY add an extra health boost”
“That’s why a multivitamin CAN help fill in the gaps, and MAY have added health benefits”
As well, there IS a growing body of evidence from qualified people who really DON’T “have a particular dog in the vitamin fight and whose only interest is presenting verifiable information to consumers and who DON’T rely on the information provided by unqualified and/or inexperienced MLM salespersons parroting the information they have been fed.
Okay, round 2: 3 separate studies in 2013 found vitamins don’t work any better than placebo.
http://www.webmd.com/vitamins-and-supplements/news/20131216/experts-dont-waste-your-money-on-multivitamins
Chang, I’m not disagreeing with your findings, just your conclusion. “Proven” means scientific fact and that’s simply not the case with these studies. While there are more and more studies that are questioning the validity of vitamin usage, that does not mean their conclusions are scientific fact. They are far from conclusive.
My discussion is really not about vitamins, just the usage of “proven” as if those studies are scientific fact when they are not. Scientific studies and repeatable testing to demonstrate something to be a scientific fact are two separate things.
Okay, how many such conclusions would it take for you to accept that it’s “proven”? Give me a ballpark figure. A dozen? Several dozen? Hundreds?
The reason I’m asking is what you said was a common denial technique (probably not intentional), that the denier refutes the other side without defining what’s acceptable. It’s quite often used in climate change (“Scientists don’t have a concensus!”) and other controversial topics.
Scientific fact is based upon one thing, the ability to prove something to be indisputable and verifiable. For example it is a fact that water freezes at 32 degree F. The reason I know this to be true is that I, you or anyone else can lower the temperature of water and it turns to ice. This is a provable fact that can be proven through repeatable present processes.
This standard does not apply to the scientific studies you and I sited. Consensus is not “fact.” Whether 100% or 1% believe something to be true does not make it scientific fact nor does it determine that thing not to be factual.
All kinds of factors drive consensus. It can be presuppositions, worldviews, ability to observe and so on. The studies you and I sited deal with levels of probability, not scientific fact. Probability does not “prove,” it just proposes a degree of likelihood that something could be true.
I was merely taking exception to your original statement when you said something had been “PROVEN by science” when that was not the case. By using a false premise you were essentially asserting that your statement could not be challenged. You would have been more accurate to say, “Some studies have shown vitamins to be ineffectual in preventing chronic diseases.”
I’m sure this conversation is just what Behind MLM readers were looking for.
Consensus may not be an absolute fact, but it is as good as fact for purpose of decision making, esp. if it was agreed upon by majority of experts based on the most recent data.
These three studies, one of them lasting over a dozen years, are certainly several magnitudes more reliable than most studies that most MLM nutrition companies tout to support their own claims.
I also find troubling that 1) the Harvard note is UNDATED and lists NO AUTHOR 2) it makes no citings other to other links about other vitamins and nutrients 3) it made a global dismissal of contrary studies with “those studies are flawed” without giving why. I can now say “your citing is flawed” and dismiss your rebuttal. 😀 Just kidding.
I don’t think my statement is *that* over the top, but your point’s taken.
Chang, I enjoyed the discussion. I can tell there’s pollen in the air so I need to say adieu and go take a vitamin C tablet.
It’s 50% placebo effect, man. 🙂 Whatever it takes to make you feel better. 😀
The reason for the six year gap from when Peter Willoughby bought US Naturals was the transition and legal issues etc., even now absorbing the US company into the recently launched UK company is not straight forward.
It happens in all business; (conventional or other), you either do a complete takeover and sack your newly acquired staff and have them re-apply for positions, however in doing so, you’ll very likely lose most of their loyal customers) or if you are a caring company, you take into consideration the welfare of your new customers and your new work force. You treat them with respect.
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One thing is obvious to the educated, it will take a 120 year scientific study to prove or disprove the effectiveness of vitamin and mineral supplements, and where is the profit motive for such a study?
Unfortunately, comments here seem to imply we should choose to rely on fact. We people don’t need facts, we need choices based on what we see to be true. We need to make decisions on what we feel is best for ourselves and take responsibility for our own health and that of our children.
Money and profit is always behind any enforced legislation. Who stands to lose out if all of a sudden the health bill was slashed in half simply because we all finally took responsibility for our own health?
Oh, and if you want to beat cancer and Alzheimer’s, go Ketogenic, and why should there ever be a scientific study to prove that that works when it would only bankrupt all hospitals and food corporations when proven.
There is a reason why all living things eat plants or other animals; vitamins and minerals and of course energy. We are made up of 98% minerals. So if we could eat rocks or have a bowl full of seabed, then of course we wouldn’t be eating plants and animals. Somehow, that’s a given fact that eating that stuff will kill us, unless of course we need a scientific survey to prove otherwise.
How many years was it until scientific proof finally caught up with what people already knew as fact that the world was round and not flat? How about with scurvy and rickets etc.? How about smoking and lung cancers, etc.?
How about sugar and Alzheimer’s, or eating green leafy vegetables and breast cancer prevention, or are you going to say that’s all myth and still needs scientific fact? How about the saturated debate? Who told us saturated fats were bad for us? Vegetable oil companies in the 1980’s.
When did heart disease double yet saturated fat intake was heavily reduced? From the 1980’s — go figure. Profit over health in typical fashion.
Plant Derived minerals certainly make sense, and what better way to get them ALL everyday from a fizzy wafer?
What I have found is having a multivitamin does not necessarily make you feel good, however it does help. The primary factor is what you eat and drink that makes the difference, and how well you can cope throughout the day. Sugar will always stuff people up.
Go Ketogenic, live longer with a quality life and don’t wait for the scientific proof.
Yes, I am a Simply Naturals Independent Distributor. I am currently getting this up and running in New Zealand. For a hundred years, a million people have used Plant Derived mineral supplements. So like it or not vitamins and minerals are here to stay, there use will continue to grow, (pun intended), and Plant Derived Minerals don’t require any scientific proof as nature already tells us the facts.
Go to (Ozedit: recruitment spam removed)
Except “what we see to be true” are often wrong due to all our cognitive biases, and the science of persuasion perfected in the last 50 years by the advertising industry.
You’re a victim of “naturalistic fallacy”, and it’s funny that you chose to pick multivitamins and minerals, some of the most processed stuff on earth, as the means to achieve it.
We’ll see the results of both sides of the argument/story, I am sure in the not to distant future. In the meanttime, I know what works for me.
I am not advocating the minerals you buyt in health food shops etc. and therefore I agree with you that they are useless. However, science cannot disprove facts of nature and regardless whether plant derived minerals come in the form of a tablet or from a freshly picked plant, or even from meat, they are what keeps us alive and promote good health.
Athletes are considered to be the most healthiest of us, however, look at the heart disease rates and they tell a different story. They are the most prone to the disease, even more so than the armchair sportsperson — why, because they sweat minerals quicker than anyone else and even their super nutrient diets just do not replace them adequately enough.
Next you’ll be telling us that none of us exist because science still hasn’t proven how it all started.
Interesting Comments here. it looks like Mr Chang has some strong views…
He is right in one respect… vitamins alone are of little use. but with the presence of the correct minerals they are a very important part of the larger picture of a disease free life.
I have been taking these minerals for a while now. and I would say only this…
give them a try.. you will not regret it. and what have you got too loose?
@christo
So the assertion is that Simply Naturals products prevents disease?
Hmm, interesting. Does the FDA know about these remarkable properties?
And there goes the moving goalpost / no true Scotsman fallacy.
@ Oz
I never said that these products prevent disease. i mearly said that if people get the correct minerals. from this company or another, or from food or what ever. it will really help to maintain a disease free life.
and the FDA are over rated in my eyes. so i wouldnt pay to much of a wink to what they say. and i certainly wouldnt make an effort to give them something to talk about around the boardroom table.
@ k. chang.
I just read you posts about myths in the MLM. very interesting. you have alot of interesting things to say. i will subscribe to your posts on your blogs etc. and yes indeed there goes the moving goalposts… needless to say this same metaphor could be used for any ideas, information or “facts”.
great topics coming from this comment section.
Do you want some Gatorade with that backpedal?
No doubt. I doubt they’d return the courtesy though if you’re running around telling people Simply Naturals products prevent disease.
NONE of you, on either side of the fence, have any formal, accredited training on the efficacy or viability of supplementation or nutrition.
You ALL look a bit foolish here with your opinions because they are nothing more than that. OPINIONS, MOST of which are extremely off base and would have NO merit within the medical community.
There is PLENTY of clinically backed, science based, published, peer reviewed, studies and trials showing that there is a time and place for natural solutions. Preventative and otherwise.
Natural solutions are neither here nor there. My interest is restricted to claims that Simply Naturals’ products “prevent disease”.
How the h*** do you know that to be true ???
Simply Naturals giving you psychic powers now ???
1. Based on the responses that reflect exactly that.
2. People thinking that a simple study done on Centrum in regards to cognitive function and heart health holds any water.
There was no control on diet. Centrum is about the worst type of multivitamin that could have been used due to its glues binders and fillers which allow for about 10% biavailability at best.
In Most cases a Centrum tablet will make it all the way through the body and to the waste treatment plant without breaking down or disolving. But, Thats neither here nor there. There has never been any claims as far as I know that a multivitamin was supposed to support congnitive or hearth health. There are other things for that.
Either way, that “study” is not published OR peer reviewed. Its complete nonsense. The best it can show is that Centrum is garbage. ANYONE who gives a report that is so grossly incomplete any value is OBVIOUSLY not formally trained and barely informed.
I do not work with Simply Naturals. Thats why I said you ALL sound clueless. INCLUDING the Simply Naturals people. Doctors and health professionals get something called CME’s and CEU’s (continuing education credits) for attending certain types of ongoing training. They are required to have a certain amount of those credits every 2 years.
When Doctors can get those credits by attending one of the Simply Naturals product/nutrition trainings, let me know and I will change my tune.
Until, Simply Naturals training or the crap you hear on the news or internet becomes accredited by the AMA or (other governing bodies of the medical community) You really should not talk in absolutes when voicing an opinion.
In this case, I cant even begin to tell you how much credibility you lose by doing so.
Do people have a right to think that supplementation has no value? Absolutely! Does it have some basis in fact? Yes, because there is ALLOT of garbage and mis-information out there.
If all you are going to look for is negative reports you will be sure to find them.
At times, I work directly with the highest degreed and the foremost experts in cardiovascular health, Nutrition, and other specialties. As a group, we have trained over 6000 Medical Doctors in clinically backed, science based nutrition. We are certified through the AMA to certify these health professionals.
What we teach is widely accepted by the medical community. I have also, personally, been through 290 hours of formal, UNSPONSORED, AMA accreddited training on health an nutrition/supplementation. I am STILL not an expert on the science and the subject but I can tell when someone is talking out of their ass pretty quickly.
What a load of crap the AMA and the FDA and and most doctors are paid to the hilt by the legalized drug company’s to promote and sell there drugs that are killing the majority of patients that take them and when were Doctors trained in nutrition they know nothing about nutrition.
All there training comes from the books produced by the drug dealers and they are paid very well to distribute them .
So the last person is talking bullshit with his 290 hours of training directed by the drug company’s probably a dealer by know.Drug Company’s control the health industry and most governments and that has been proven time and time .
I am not sure what your point is Ray. If you are referring to me. Yes, I have that many hours and more of accredited training on nutritionals. We have the only training program in direct sales that offers accredited continuing education to medical professionals.
You are correct. Most continuing education credits can only be aquired from programs that are sponsored by drug companies.
What is your point?
I have reviewed these posts with interest as my wife has been taking these sizzling mineral wafers for the past 5 months.
Prior to this she was on medication (drugs) for an autoimmune disorder. It is fact that the foods of today are processed, high in fat and sugar, mineral and vitamin deficient and basically, suck.
These sizzling minerals contain 75 trace minerals (plant derived) NOT the garbage chelated minerals (ground up rocks) found in most health stores.
My wife is no longer on medication and is convinced sizzling minerals has helped her recovery.
If the foods of today contain the same amount of trace minerals as our forefathers had then please explain the dramatic rise of diet related disease now prevalent worldwide.
And how did the 75 sizzling minerals get into the water without being processed ??
And how did the 75 sizzling minerals get into the wafers without being processed ??
Guess you’re not a fan of home cooking then. Not that it had anything to do with how much of a woo are “mineral wafers”, as you setup an unprovable premise, as “foods of today” is a vast spectrum from fast food to gourmet from canned to organic farm fresh.
Typical “political” sales speech trying to setup your loaded premise.
And what better example of artificially created processed food could you find than “wafers” in which the nutritional content of the ingredients is calculated BEFORE the manufacturing process ???
What “Sizzling Minerals” is a rebirth of the old colloidal minerals scam that last surged in the 1990s.
quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/DSH/colloidalminerals.html
Look up the various claimed “essential” minerals in the wafers, and you wil find that a number of them have no known biological value (strontium tops that list, as numerous studies have sought in vain for any biological usage; tantalum – famous as the element which the human body doesn’t react to – is another) or are infamously toxic (lead, mercury, barium, beryllium, thallium, thorium).
One more issue is the possibility of too much of a mineral.
The quantities claimed for aluminium, sodium, manganese, and sulfur are high enough to cause possible concern. Iron, too, if the eater has certain medical conditions. The adaquate amount of manganese to satisfy the needs of an adult human is less than 5 milligrams per day.
One wafer, according to usnaturals.co.uk/minerals.htm , contains 1820 milligrams of this trace mineral. But, that same wafer supposedly includes more than 59 grams of aluminium in it.
I know that aluminium is the most comnmon metal on Earth, but that is serious overkill. How much does one wafer/tab weigh??
Hi, A little late posting this as only just got my hands on some “SIZZLING MINERALS”. It therefore is not fair to comment other than to say surely (I live in the UK) if you feel unwell your first port of call should be your G.P. When I have been to my Doctor’s they have all my medical history to hand and can advise based on that.
From a sporting perspective it will be interesting to see if “SIZZLING MINERALS” stacks up.
In my humble opinion their marketing should be much much more focused towards the fitness industry market. Medical claims and analysis takes years upon years of white paper studies.
So give “SIZZLING MINERALS” a go if into fitness training and see ….you never know. However go and talk to your G.P in the first instance if worried over health issues.
Is this supplement benificial?
I don’t see anywhere stated you tried the product its one the best products I tried and I asked people first, so I dont trust your blog.
Pat
I can see why you’d be disappointed if you came to BehindMLM looking for a detailed review on mineral wafers.
Perhaps you could try behindmineralwafers.com?
I’ve studied mineral depletion for 6 years now, I don’t make a career out of it, Health is just an interest to me.
To those saying you get everything from a good diet without supplements. There’s a chance you’re right as some area’s in the world are doing well as studies I’ve looked at are generally over a Continent not a specific area North America in general has a 85% loss of minerals in soil.
But that doesn’t mean you should assume its that case the whole of North America, some areas have literally only the Chemical fertilizer in their produce where as some area’s are relatively unaffected and have only 13% depletion. But they are few and far between. Feel free to look into UNICEF for support information.
A supplement of minerals (and vitamins) can help in most cases, and its true plant derived minerals are so much better for you then manufactured ones because humans AND animals are designed to eat things in a food state.
In regards to Sizzling Minerals, If you take them and feel the benefits then perfect recommend them to people. If you don’t then that’s perfect to but there is no need to demoralise someone that is.
Health is one of those huge things that many people have opinions on, but as always seek a professional. After all, you wouldn’t ask a dog to teach you to cook!
Sizzling Minerals are Plant Derived minerals, not metallic minerals, there is a difference.
These can NOT be bought at any Holland & Barrett shops, as they say in a forum I read. All you have to do is TRY THEM ask others to try them for 3 months, and it’s not compulsory to carry on if they are not for them, they can finish at anytime.
There is NO SELLING, if you’ve tried them & they have done you good simply recommend them to others, then it’s up to them whether they purchase or not.
It seems a simple business to me. there is a true saying… You NEVER make any money working for some-one else, You can not judge the business until you’ve tried it.
They have now reduced the plant derived mineral content from 600mg to 100mg, changed the compensation plan (surprise surprise) added a monthly recruitment requirement, (surprise surprise) failed to change the contractual details online to accommodate the changes and appear to be trying to collapse the network and run away.
they raised nearly a million pounds on the “informal” share sale to the faithful so that may be why.
Thanks for the heads up. I’ve flagged Simply Naturals for a review update.
I always thought we had a great company designed to help everybody build a business without having to spend a fortune to qualify monthly, how wrong can you be.?
To me that was a great recruiting point, use the product yourself and build a business for no extra cost, imagine a car for FREE, wow.
The company will not survive after shocks like this.
What is the reason for reducing the mineral content, if the product was correct before, it appears they are now expecting us to sell
a inferior product. Yes it looks as if they intend to retire on our money.
I’ve checked my minerals and the total is 600mg of plant derived minerals? am I missing something?
Hi Steven, yes you have. I didn’t intend to add anything here but there is a lot of misinformation being put out.
I am a nutritional therapist and have been with the Company for several years, since they were called US Naturals in fact, the product has always been amazing which is why it was possible to overlook the managerial shortcomings.
Here is the problem: Previously there was 600 mg of plant derived mineral complex containing upwards of 75 plant derived minerals. Now there is only 100mg of the complex and only 2 individual minerals making up the difference.
This means the ratio of minerals is all wrong for the body. The ratio is the important element in nutritional biological support, nothing else really counts and this the reason that many customers are now reporting their symptoms are returning.
Several top people and many customers have left the Company already due to this fact alone
Thete is still another option though… The Company has not (yet) changed the formulation of the “veggie caps” which remain the same and is now my professional recommendation for all customers, until they change that too.
Also, it seems the Company has now back tracked on its monthly qualification requirement, removing it from Senior Managers and above or people with 50+ customers.
Although, they have made getting to these ranks substantially more difficult to achieve with managers needing an extra 35 people and senior managers needing an extra 100 people!
I have been involved with Simply Naturals for a while, having come over from another network and had great results with the product. These results have recently reversed and I had been wondering why. I am not qualified in nutrition.
What ‘Unhappy’ says makes sense. Yesterday I went Online to the world renown mineral expert Doctor Joel Wallach and asked a question on his chat forum. I asked “Is it possible to extract a single mineral or are they always in a complex of all the minerals together?”
The reply from Doctor Wallach’s website was “Yes. It is possible. Yes, they are always together because they do not assimilate properly when separated. The body must have 90 essential nutrients in specific ratios of one another per 100 pounds to survive without, prevent or repair illness”
This supports the view put forward above by ‘Unhappy of UK’ although I imagine they will be in a queue for that nomenclature before long.
I have already stopped being a Distributor due to the changes in the compensation plan and told the Directors of Simply Naturals why, in no uncertain terms.
The destruction of the quality product they had is the same naive and bad business decision as their destruction of the compensation plan and subsequently the Network will be.
I do not know if their actions are a deliberate attempt to destroy the network (they say not and I would like to believe that) but the only other explanation is the desperate act of individuals cornered by circumstances who believe they are running out of options but have failed to ask for assistance. believing they understand what they are doing.
Hi Oz, just wondering if there was any update on your review of Simply Naturals?
Simply Naturals continue to dismay their Distributors, claiming in a recent email to all distributors that it doesnt matter what quantity of certain minerals are in the body.
Even if this was true, its not what they’ve been saying for the last several years!
In response to a question about the financial stability of the Company in a recent Company ‘Leaders call’ we were treated to a long rambling response from the CEO, including a claim that there was nothing to worry about because, for the shareholders security, they have plenty of cash in the bank, £2 million worth of product, at retail prices, in stock and that they own their office building.
I do not know about the cash and stock but the building is definitely NOT owned by the Company. It is owned personally by the 2 of the Directors, as a quick Land Registry Search shows. (Land registry Title Number SY820675)
Therefore, the building provides NO security for the Company’s shareholders at all.
Interestingly, the building was registered in their names in June 2015, shortly after the share purchase scheme raised a lot of money in May 2015. Also, a charge was raised against it by Lloyds Bank in November 2016 after a year of troubles and reducing revenue.
No idea if these facts are connected, just that they are documented facts in the Government’s Land Registry document.
Over to You!
I don’t have anything significant to report on my end. Deffo sounds like things aren’t going to well by your account though.
And that email is a bit weird. Maybe they received a warning from the FDA?
Hi unhappy, I too saw that email but I don’t know enough about the micro or trace minerals to understand, sorry.
the company email kinda made sense but what stood out to me was the amount of sulphur that was there. As long as my mother and me keep getting our sizzlings the rest of the details about buildings stock doesn’t matter to us.
As I am interested in investment property I did look at your land registry and I think you are wrong with your facts as the 2 directors appear to have purchased it outright in June 2014?
Hi Steven, 2 things. First the Company claim the changes are all about rules imposed on them by “European regulations”. But they haven’t changed the veggie caps formula (yet) so if they can still sell those, then the legal thing can’t be right.
Secondly, re the office building, you are exactly right, the Directors do own it personally, which is my point. Anything owned personally by the Directors does not belong to the Company and so does not provide the Company shareholders with any security, which is what was claimed.
When asked if the Shareholders money was safe because the Company was in trouble the CEO stated among other things that all was well because they owned the building.
The Company does not own the building, so the shareholders have no claim on it should the Company fold. It is the Directors own property and would remain so.
Just a final entry because there seems to be little point in trying to demonstrate whats going on here as everyone seems blinded by the idea that doing whatever simply naturals tells you to do will somehow work out right.
They have just posted their accounts and the total for Fixed assets is £4080. So as I previously posted there is NO property owned by the Company!
Also, they have posted a huge trading loss, (£393563)
Good luck Everyone!
Oh boy am i mighty glad i found this site!
A friend of a friend told about Simply Naturals – specifically Sizzling Minerals, and about the owner with his motor cylce accident and how he recovered using this product.
What was really over the top though, was this friend going on about how he knew someone making £750K a year promoting this product!
I didn’t want to upset the friend, (of course they were trying to persuade me to join) but my BS meter was hitting the red on every word this person spouted about the money making potential.
I’ve read through all the posts, and I’m not interested to promote this, however i would like to try the product, it does seem good, has a lot of good feedback.
So my question is, is there a product like/similar to ‘Sizzling Minerals’ ?
Because as already stated it can’t be bought from health food shops, is there anything like ‘Sizzling Minerals’ available online?
Thanks for any info.
Hi unhappy, I did look at what you said and the property trail shows it was paid for outright in cash and then refinanced more than 1 year prior to the shareholder funds being raised, in my business is quite the norm.
I have not looked at their accounts I wonder if the trading loss was a stock write off – they’ve nothing else to write off other than stock have they – the comment about the FDA now seems to add up as reading the email again about the formula change does tie in – and with a stock write off this all adds up doesn’t it?
Alex comment is a laugh – how can someone earn £750k a year from such a small company? You are so right to question this Alex.
I suppose the top dog may have more than £750k total sales in the whole of their team business, but that’s in support of Alex’s mate, no way can this be earnings.
As long as I can always get the sizzlings for my mother I’m happy – Alex you can just buy from their website it works for me, the sizzlings are the real deal I’ve seen the results first hand.
There appears to be a lot of talk about vitamins & not a lot of minerals.
Simply Minerals is 75 trace plant derived minerals in a wafer tablet form which effervesce in water; they put the minerals back in your body which are lost in plants because of Commercial Farming methods, fertilizers, acid rain, pesticides and synthetic additives.
If the minerals have been destroyed in the ground they are not in your food, and if they are not in your food they are, unfortunately, not in you.
Simply minerals put the minerals back which have been lost, and you MUST have minerals in you for better health, like magnesium to strengthen your bones. EVERYBODY should have plant derived minerals, NOT metallic minerals, put back in themselves.
You don’t sell anything; all you do is use the product & then tell others how you feel; good. You know, I’ll guarantee then when I go shopping & meet some I know, when asked “How are you” they will come up with some sort of pain, been to the Docs & don’t feel well at all.
Tell him you feel on top of the world because of taking Minerals &* tell him your website where he can get some for himself.
Paying anything up to £200 to get in this business is brilliant; try getting a franchise business. I simply love this business.
@Steven
AND where did i say: such a small company – in my post?
I’m well aware of sharp biz folks making fortunes from just their home, however these shrewd folks have one thing YOU MLM guys DON’T and that in a nut shell is CONTROL!
I just checked amazon and if Simply Naturals was SO good how come there are hardly any reviews which = poor sales… Looking on amazon Simply Naturals looks like a total flop compared to other mineral supplements!
@Alex Black
Forget this or any other company but if, as you suggest we all use Amazon as a marker for sales then there is a real problem.
Insular minded and naïve heroes would make such uneducated comments – the educated would pull out a set of accounts.
I don’t see BMW or Audi competing for reviews, and when does “hardly any reviews which = poor sales” make any sense?
You really come across as bedroom wannabe who has failed or cant be bothered to commit – better go search under your bedsheets.
Not sure where you got your info from @Unhappy of UK, but the Sizzling Minerals still have 600mg per tablet. The Sizzle Sticks that are SAMPLES for distributors to use as taste samples are 100mg each.
I do know that the US blend which is the “original” recipe has less of 3 specific minerals that the UK Blend is requested to have because of a change in their regulations.
That said, when we had to switch to the UK Blend for a while, the tablets are TWICE the size and actually work even better than the US Blend. But from a business perspective I understand why they don’t change our product to match theirs because the US doesn’t require the change and it would cost them more money to add the additional minerals.
I will check the specific amounts of the UK Blend as well. You have made me curious for sure! I am a detail oriented person so I will do some asking.
They have been making many changes since a new partner came on board this past December. Raven is determined to make his company a HUGE success. They have recently added a new medical device product that is likely to help.
Keep your ears open…the company is making good changes. I am a distributor here in the states.
Hi all,
Having received the sizzling minerals this week from UK, I can confirm they have 600 mg. per tablet.
Did you have a scientific analysis done?
If so, could you share the results?
Are the veggie minerals still the old ones? Or have they changed as well in the last year?
Please discontinue my subscription to sizzling minerals immediately. Please.
Not something we can really help you with. You’ll need to get in contact with the company itself.