History
The benchmarks and milestones of a spiritual company
Extraordinary companies always begin with the story of a special founding personality. Margot Esser-Greineder is such a personality. Her achievements so far include being a committed pioneer and nature researcher with a passionate relationship with healing and rejuvenative plants, Sacred Plants.
2020
EMAS signifies comprehensive environmental certificate: how PHARMOS NATUR puts sustainability into practice
Relaunch of PHARMOS NATUR Green Luxury natural cosmetics. An energetic, holistic design, hand-painted Zen decoration, all products in ecological packaging, climate-neutral production
2019
Development and new launch of SUN HARMONY, taking cosmic rhythms and geomancy into account The knowledge of the Achuar and Shuar peoples in the Ecuadorian Amazon defines the SUN HARMONY product range
Ancient plant knowledge and shamanism combined with modern scientific discoveries
2017
Product development with a future: the first men’s range using Sacred Plants –NATURE OF MEN Receives the Gala Spa Award, the highest beauty award in the world
2016
30 years of PHARMOS NATUR Move from Uffing on Lake Staffel to Bernried on Lake Starnberg, into a new, beautiful company building
2014
Joins the “Biodiversity in Good Company” initiative Visit to our Aloe Vera and Babaco smallholders in Ecuador, with customers Awarded the SPA DIAMOND for a unique overall concept based on our sacred plants
2013
Successful launch of the exclusive rohini range
Paul Greineder receives the Environment Prize from Baum e.V.
2012
“Ethics in Business” award Travel to Nepal to visit our smallholders,
accompanied by customers for the first time
2009
Co-founder of Schülerhilfe für Nepal e.V.
2005
Margot Esser wins the peace prize for “Humanity and ecological enterprise” from the “World Association of Private Schools and Universities for Complementary Healing Practices” in Graz, Austria
2003
A successful partnership with the University Children’s Hospital in Bonn using holistic Aloe Vera pure organic juice in children with cancer. Led by Prof. Dr. med. Udo Bode and Gisela Blaser, naturopathic care management.
2002
Launch of VegetoDynamik® as a training method for “finding happiness through your body. Awaken your consciousness with and about the body,” according to Margot Esser
PHARMOS NATUR® develops the name Lebensgesundmittel®, and registers the trademark internationally
1997
Paul Greineder, Margot Esser’s life partner, becomes Managing Director
The ecological Aloe Vera mixed cultivation project with MAYA farmers in Yucatán gets underway
1995
1 May 1995, the company moves to new headquarters in a haven in Uffing on Lake Staffel. Attempts to cultivate Aloe Vera in different climatic zones around the world Biophoton measurement of different Aloe Vera plants by Professor Fritz-Albert Popp of the Institute of Biophysics in first Kaiserslautern, then Neuss, confirms high light energy in the Aloe Vera from Central and South America LACON certifies the starring plants in our cosmetics under the Food Act
1990
Launch of the first Lebensgesundmittel® – Aloe Vera pure organic juice Recognition of the holistic interrelationships between the internal and external for beauty and health Close working relationships with biologists, ethnobotanists, agronomists, doctors and naturopaths to develop further holistic Lebensgesundmittel® and the best natural cosmetic products, without alcohol, citric acid and water
1987-90
Research and development have pride of place, with a global search for the most exceptional plants to ensure the highest product quality
1896
Margot Esser founds Pharmos GmbH in Munich. The first cosmetic products are developed and ready for the market on 1 March 1986