[3][4] Founded in Orem, Utah, United States by Mørck in 1980, Arbonne is named after the Swiss village of Arbon.

In 1975, feeling the ingredients used were harmful to the skin, he moved to Arbon and started working on his skincare line with Pierre Bottiglieri, an employee of Laboratoires Cosmetiques Arval.

[1] In January 2010, Natural Products Group LLC filed for bankruptcy protection in order to reduce company debts.

[16] In April 2020, 10 multi-level marketing companies, including Arbonne, received a warning from the Federal Trade Commission that ordered them to "remove and address the claims that they or their participants are making about their products’ ability to treat or prevent coronavirus disease or about the earnings people who have recently lost income can make, or both."

This was due to the risk of possible Salmonella serotype Typhimurium contamination of peanut-based products consigned from a Georgia processing plant.

[21] In September 2009, Arbonne voluntarily recalled a production lot of branded foaming sea salt scrub, due to the risk of contamination with Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria.

[22] In January 2013, Health Canada advised of Arbonne's voluntary recall of one batch of branded facial moisturizer for men.

[23] In January 2014, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) recalled sample tubes of branded day cream due to the presence of the bacterium Enterobacter gergoviae.

[25] In October 2017, the ACCC recalled one lot of branded body wash due to unacceptable levels of Staphylococcus cohnii.