There’s nothing like having your own health setbacks to sharpen the focus on getting well. That’s exactly how our founder, Malcolm Harker, came to be one of New Zealand’s leading master herbalists. He spent years researching and experimenting with ways to use plants to heal himself and later, his friends and family.
While we'd love to say his tonics were an overnight success, the truth is that Malcolm's early formulas were hit and miss. More than one person came back with remnants of a bottle that had exploded in the cupboard or overflowed on the kitchen bench.
The magic of getting the herbals just right came a bit later, in the early 1980s. Then demand for his tonics soared...so you know how the rest of that story goes.