About Hope's Relief
Our Story
Body & Soul Health Product Pty Ltd was started over 20 years ago and is a family owned business, based in South East Queensland. The success of Body & Soul Health Products Pty Ltd, and the development of the Hope's Relief range, is the shared journey of 2 very dedicated people, Malcolm and Julie Lynch. Our passion is solving skin problems, namely Eczema, Psoriasis and Dermatitis, and making positive changes to people's lives and their overall well-being.
This journey is highly personal for Malcolm. As a child, he suffered constant eczema for over 10 years almost all of his childhood life. In countless attempts to ease his suffering, his parents tried numerous products, visited an array of skin specialists and also made lifestyle changes too in attempts to try & ease their son's skin condition. Even to this very day, his parents look back at that time with sadness, and remember the feeling of helplessness, as they watched their child try to cope with his eczema suffering. Malcolm fully appreciates the negative impact skin conditions can have on your life & how skin conditions also impact on supportive families too.
For Julie, a working Mum at the time, this journey commenced with her beautiful baby daughter and her continual quest to keep her babies skin healthy. This personal commitment led her to become self-taught with the benefits of natural ingredients. She brought her expertise and motherly knowledge into the business. This partnership between Julie and Malcolm has seen the further development of the Hope's Relief range creating unique natural products for those suffering with skin conditions.
We are devoted to natural and organic ingredients and will continue to explore new ingredients and develop exciting new natural products to help make a difference to people's lives.
Growing Up With Eczema
As a child, I suffered from severe eczema for nearly 10 years, and I can fully understand just how it can impact upon your life, and of those around you. My parents tried so many different products, eating programs and specialists in search of relief for my itchy-scratchy skin.
I recall heading off to school on a regular basis with my legs covered in cream and wrapped up in glad wrap! I was worried about making scrunching noises as I walked down the corridors. Even to this very day, my parents look back at that time with sadness, and remember the feeling of helplessness as they watched their child try to cope with eczema.
Devoted to natural and organic ingredients
Yet this experience shaped my direction in life, and for that I am truly thankful. I’ve spent the last thirty years working in the natural products industry, and just love to see the positive difference quality natural products can make to people’s lives. The Hope’s Relief skin care range embraces this power of nature’s botanicals to get results.
A Queensland Family Business
In 2006, I founded Body and Soul Health Products. Our head office is on the sunny Gold Coast, Australia. My wife Julie and I have complementary backgrounds in natural skin care, research and development, manufacturing, marketing and sales, and we’ve gathered a team of enthusiastic natural health experts that share our values and commitment to making a positive difference.
The cream was originally created to help a mother’s daughter that had eczema. The formula took over two years of research and trials in a naturopath’s clinic to arrive at the current formulation. The initial request was for a product with natural ingredients and no steroids to help relieve the symptoms of eczema. Soon the results with the daughter led to the cream being offered to other people with eczema and psoriasis to try.
Customers Soon Raved About The Results, and Word Soon Spread.
More and more people used the product and got results —and the rest as they say is history. It is now available throughout Australia and New Zealand in over 5000 pharmacies and health food stores.
After suffering so long as a child, I just wanted to see this product help as many people as possible, so we brought this formula under the Body and Soul Health products umbrella and launched it to market Australia-wide. Not knowing it would also attract worldwide international attention.
Word of the Hope’s Relief Premium Eczema Cream even spread overseas and it is now available in over 10 countries. How this network came about was simple—international visitors tried it, got results and loved it so much they wanted to share it with their home countries.
The success of Hope’s Relief Premium Eczema Cream has enabled us to expand the range to ten complementary quality natural products: an all over body and face moisturiser, body wash, cleansing bars and scalp care, barrier lotion, soothing Gel Lotion and Topical Spray. Our focus is on products that not only relieve, but are natural, non-toxic and skin-friendly.
Our mission is to share the benefits of naturally active ingredients with as many people as we can. One of our greatest joys is receiving letters or emails and photos from parents emotionally telling us how Hope’s Relief products have helped their babies or children. This is something very close to our own hearts.
We will continue to explore new ingredients and natural products to help make a happy difference to people’s lives.