Mannatech is a nutritional supplements company which sells is products via multi-level marketing. Their products feature “glyconutrients” and are sold in 24 countries.
Mannatech Award Winning “200 Best Small Companies”
Mannatech was founded in 1994 and having been in business that long in the supplement industry you’d expect some controversy. Well, Mannatech has had its fair share…several researchers have put Mannatech products under the microscope (literally) and questioned the company’s claims.
Mannatech was also subject to a class action lawsuit about a decade ago and in 2009 they settled when the Texas attorney general accused them of false advertising.
Turns out Mannatech, like many nutritional companies, has made some pretty wild claims regarding what their products can actually do. And whether it’s Corporate or a distributor making the claims, the company is responsible either way under the law.
Confessions aside, the company has also won awards…like “200 Best Small Companies” (Forbes) and “Top 100 Hot Growth Small Companies” (BusinessWeek Magazine).
Based in Texas, Mannatech is a publicly traded company (NYSE:MTEX) and employs over 300 people. There are almost a quarter of a million distributors around the world. The company competes with AMWAY, Herbalife and Usana Health Sciences in the nutritional supplement industry.
Mannatech does not produce its own products but rather sources them from third-party manufacturers.
The Science Behind Mannatech Products
Glycans are the key to Ambrotose and many other Mannatech products.
The science goes like this: glycans are like communication relay towers, sending signals to other cells. Apparently when cells communicate better they perform better too.
A short promotional video for Ambrotose explains what glycans are but doesn’t exactly make it apparent what Ambrotose has to do with that cellular communication. Nevertheless, it’s implied that the product aids those glycan molecules in doing their job.
Glycans are also featured in Mannatech’s skincare line, Uth. Cellular communication helps your body renew your skin, and they claim the Manapol powder in Uth assists in this process. There is plenty of science on the Mannatech website to support the concept that glycans exist in almost every cell in our bodies, that the glycans diminish as we age, and that causes wrinkles. It naturally follows that administering glycans through products like Uth will reverse that process…but that’s where scientific criticisms come into play.
The science of glycans is also applied to weight management and skincare products.
Mannatech’s Compensation Plan
- Retail sales: buy wholesale and sell retail
- 15% member bonus on sponsored member’s product purchases
- $10-$15 (depending on rank) direct bonus on sales of product packs
- $5 -$8 generation direct bonus on product packs sold by 1st and 2nd generations in your downline
- Personal Power Bonus: for All-Star rank, sell 4 All-Star packs and get $400
- 3% automatic order bonus at higher ranks, paid on autoship amounts
- $60 team bonus when you sell 600 GPV distributed among your 2 legs
- more bonuses as you work your way up in rank and sales
Here’s The Verdict!
It’s called “glyconutrition” and it’s hot right now. The problem with “hot” new science, however, is that in its initial stages it’s not fully tested and completely controversial in products such as Mannatech’s. Eventhout its hard to deny the products do have results.
This can be seen clearly in all the press circling around Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson lately. The retired neurosurgeon used to recommend Mannatech products to his patients, apparently. Mr. Carson’s opponents have had a field day with this fact, and he’s tried (in vain) to hide it. Mannatech may have made huge strides in the market but public opinion tells the real story: we’re not sure this stuff has merit. Nevertheless…it seems to sell!
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