Coming soon to the UK

We currently have someone setting up a website in the UK for all customers who reside in the UK and neighboring countries to the UK. As soon as it is available there, we will put a link on our website for people to click on and it will take you straight to the Porter's UK website..

Porters Lotion Bozeman, Montana Video

We are very proud of our newest video from the "National Environmental Report" hosted by Hugh Downs. Porter's Lotion Treatment for Dry, cracked and damaged skin. Filmed in Bozeman, Montana.

Porter's Lotion Video

The Porter Family

Porter’s Original Lotion is the same great, dry skin lotion it has always been, same quality, same legacy, but there is a new chapter to the Porter’s story.

The precursor to Porter’s Original Lotion began in Montana in 1915 with Dr. C. E. Whitehead who compounded a similar formula with camphor, alcohol, glycerin, ammonia and water to be used for workers at a local cement plant to treat dry skin. He passed his formula on to Heber Porter, a Bozeman pharmacist, who started Porter’s Pharmacy in the newly constructed Baxter Hotel in 1931. He began to compound the original formula for Porter’s Lotion, as we know it today. Although Heber Porter died in 1955, the same lotion continued to be compounded in a barrel in various local Bozeman pharmacies until 1994, when the Bungalow Drug, the last to make it, was closing its doors.

Fearing an end of the Porter’s era, Michael Anderson, a fourth generation Porter’s user, and Con and Daphne Gillam of Bozeman purchased the rights and formula to Porter’s Lotion, started Gallatin River Products, and took Porter’s nationwide and to four continents. They continued the same tradition of Porter’s Lotion for dry skin, and added a complete group of family safe skin care products including organic soaps, moisturizers, shaving accessories, an herbal bug repellant, lip balm, muscle rub, household cleaner and laundry soap.

John Hearnsberger, M.D., a retired heart surgeon from Little Rock, Arkansas, began his surgical career in 1973. Daily scrubbing left his hands and arms irritated, red, and dry with an incessant itch. He tried numerous lotion including topical steroids, nothing worked. In 1996, he bought his first bottle of Porter’s lotion, experienced immediate relief, and has used it daily since, even as an aftershave. It worked then and is still working now.

Remember the old Remington Electric Shaver commercial? “I liked it so well, I bought the company.” Well, that is Dr. Hearnsberger’s story, the new chapter in the Porter’s story. Yes, we have a new owner and a new name, Porter’s Lotion, LLC; and a new chapter to the story and even a few ideas for new products. However, the rest is unchanged. Michael Anderson will continue as a consultant, and Mary Mackay, the familiar voice on the telephone will continue as office manager.

Above all, we are committed to the legacy of Porter’s Lotion and to providing you with quality skin products at reasonable prices.

In April I had a melanoma removed from my arm: a surgical procedure that required 80 stiches. The plastic surgeon instructed me to wash the area with antibacterial soap for several weeks, which left my arm feeling like sandpaper. Last week I applied Porter's Lotion to my arm and with after only two applications the arm felt as moisturized as the other arm. What a wonderful product!
Quick and effective.

Karl Helicher King of Prussia PA

Bought this product on a whim at a national outdoor outfitters. It is truly the only thing that has provided relief to my seasonal dry skin

Alexandria VA

What an incredible product, the quality of life has improved, as I can now live without cracked fingers!

Thanks

I will pass this along...

Paul Clifford
Island Musehick Productions

My (late) husband brought back a bottle of the Original Lotion for me, while on a business trip to Montana, several years ago. He knew that I always complained of dry skin, especially on my back. We all know how hard it is to get lotion of any kind there ! I poured some in a small spray bottle, and then could spray it on my back after showering. Since then, I have been buying the Original Lotion, several bottles at a time, for over 6 years. When winter arrives, I got thru LOTS – in the summer, dry, sunned skin loves it too !

Thanks for a great product, and for not changing the formula !

Christine Jackson