There are very few brands that can trace their roots back to the Viking era. Pommade Divine’s history starts over 1000 years ago when the first healing ointments were made in monasteries using apples.
Fast forward a few centuries and we stumble across one of the oldest written documentations found to date: a handwritten recipe from 1694. Among the ingredients on how to make Pommade Divine were clove, cinnamon and nutmeg — three of the same essential oils we still use today.
Then, in 1718, Princess Elisabeth Charlotte (the great-grandmother of Marie Antoinette) wrote about pommade divine to her half-sister sharing that it was “the best thing if you burned yourself on sealing wax.”
In 1800, Butler & Co., chemists to the Royal Family sold their first jar in the City of London. Soldiers carried it in their haversacks and mothers and nannies swore by it for adventurous children.
Centuries and centuries of care, countless stories and generations of people reaching for the same little jar.
Pommade Divine's history is anything but ordinary. From its earliest beginnings to the homes and handbags of today, Britain’s Original Remedy Balm has truly stood the test of time.