From our Family to Yours!

This wonderful formula has been in my family for over 40 years… passed down from dear European friends of my Uncles,’ who saw an opportunity to bring this healing remedy to the United States. Dr. Wolfgang Kuhr, a chiropractor from Bavaria, had been using Alpenol, in his practice in Germany for decades, seeing amazing results with his patients pain levels, anxiety, relief from inflammation, congestion… and even swelling and itching from insect bites!

The formula was gifted to Dr. Kuhr from an old Bavarian farmer who had been experimenting with pure essential oils for natural healing. He also discovered how well this blend of oils worked to keep flies and bugs away from his animals!

So, with a background in chemistry, Dr. Kuhr tweaked and perfected the recipe, still using only pure essential oils, to be what it is today: a wonderfully aromatic, deeply therapeutic, all natural, topical analgesic, respiratory & circulatory booster!

Personally, I have been using Alpenol since I was a little girl. I was probably only 3 or 4 years old when I remember Uncle Doug sending our family our first batch; a box full of dark amber glass bottles filled with the most exciting smell I’d probably ever experienced as a child. It became a household staple during cold and flu season, summers in the Canadian woods and all year round for aches and pains. 

Fast forward to adulthood when I headed west to Colorado, just after graduating from high school, to pursue my Massage and Neuromuscular Therapy Degree. I lived with, and then rented space from my dearest Aunt Peggy and Uncle Doug, the original owners of “Alpenol,” here in the states. I was then exposed to ALL of the other individual essential oils that Doug had been carrying from a company named “SunSpirit,” based in Australia. Through this inside family track and exposure within my massage education, essential  oils became a joyful and eye opening area of deep interest and study. Their power and mystery still astound me!

Now, after almost 2 decades in practice, I am still as in love with this product as I was from the very beginning. This past summer (2020) when Doug, now 81, let me know he was going to sell the business, I just couldn’t bear the thought of letting this beautiful time-tested formula dissolve, or be in jeopardy of becoming something else… So, in the midst of a pandemic, with a toddler by my side, and a husband working from home, I decided to take it on! The company name is now my own, Original Therapies, LLC, formerly Alpenol, LLC and all bottling and shipping is done right here in New England; in Millis, Massachusetts.

I’m passionate about honoring the integrity of the original formula, currently our “Muscle Relief” formula, while also making the company and product more sustainable by using recycled and compostable packaging material, ordering oils from only the most reputable companies with source tracing and quality assurance documents, including GCMS (Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry Analysis), so that you know exactly  what you are getting in this vast world of essential oils, where many are often mixed with fillers or synthetic ingredients, or are unsustainable for the environment.

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  (517) 614-2893

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1 Lewis Drive, Millis, MA 02054