About us

Our story

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What we stand for

Lanolia is a family run natural skincare company. Our mission is to help you manage your psoriasis, eczema or dermatitis using natural ingredients.

Mother & Daughter team

Delivering naturally effective skincare

Shirley Teskey

Mother

Shirley studied traditional herbalism in Holland and later became a specialist in natural and botanical skin care. Over the last 15 years she has helped over 15,000 people with their skin conditions.

Karin van Soest

Daughter

Karin has been managing her psoriasis flare-ups with natural and botanical remedies since 2005, with Shirley's help of course. Besides Lanolia, Karin is also a program manager, helping startups with validation & growth.

How Lanolia started

Our history

Teskey legacy, natural psoriasis remedies

People came from far and wide for great-grandma Teskey's psoriasis remedy.

Psoriasis is a skin condition that runs in the Teskey family, and we have been solving our own psoriasis issues for over four generations. People came from far and wide for great-grandma Teskey's psoriasis remedy.

The Teskey family have always had a love for growing and nurturing their own botanical gardens. Shirley's mother, Dorothy Teskey, has often been described as “Mrs. Green Fingers” and being able to grow broomstick trees, should she plant a broomstick in her garden.

It was this love for nature and natural remedies inspired Shirley to take a 3-year education of Traditional Herbalism at ‘De Kruidenrijk’, whose practical application of botanical extracts has had a large impact on our product formulas at Lanolia.

Humble beginnings

Launching Shirley's Herbal Care

It was in 2005 that I (Karin) started to notice my first outbreaks of psoriasis. I could no longer use the shampoos and skin products that I bought in the shop, they irritated my over-sensitive skin. It was then that Shirley truly started using her knowledge to create formulas to help care for my skin.

In 2006 Shirley launched her first skin care brand called Shirleys Herbal Care. The products were sold mainly in Ireland at farmers markets, craft fairs. Her customer loved her products, and recommended them to others. The news started to spread about her products and in 2012 Shirley was invited to showcase her natural products to the members of the Irish Psoriasis Association in Dublin.

Lanolia

Specialised skin care for psoriasis, eczema and dermatitis.

In 2017 Shirley and I (Karin) launched our mother-daughter skin care company Lanolia. It brought together over 10 years of experience in developing skin care products for psoriasis, eczema and dermatitis.

Our name, Lanolia, stems from lanolin, one of the core ingredients in our products. Shirley already started researching about lanolin back in 2008, and more recent scientific studies have proven the benefits of using topical lipid replenishment which this amazing natural ingredient can do.

Our formulas are specialised for the symptoms of skin conditions, we combine high quality botanical extracts and natural ingredients to recover and maintain healthy skin.

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Helping people worldwide

15,000+ happy customers

We are honoured to have been giving this opportunity to help so many people all around the world. From the US, to Australia, we have helped customers worldwide to better manage their psoriasis, eczema and dermatitis using natural skin care.

We look forward to helping you too.

Wonderful stuff. Works absolute wonders on my granddaughter's psoriasis.”
Julie Berry - Oregon, United States.

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