Arbonne International is a legitimate company with a good BBB rating of A+. The company sells real botanically-based nutrition and personal care products that have been proven to work. A true pyramid scheme in the sense of the word is any mechanism designed to separate you from your money through recruiting other people into the scheme, with no real product, investment or service to stand behind. Arbonne is a legal and ethical company. With real products to stand behind and not a pyramid scheme.