Welcome to Well-in-Hand's Center for the Healing Arts!
Our efficient, new 12,300 sq. ft. facility at 5164 Waterlick Road
in Forest, Virginia, 24551-1200, USA. (Detailed Map) Adobe PDF
We are open Monday through Friday from 10 am to 7 pm (EST)
Come by and try our products!
Linda Doby, President of
Well-in-Hand Herbals
thanks you for your support.
October, 2005. Linda Doby accepts the Community Awareness Award from the Dept of Rehabilitative Services for Well-in-Hand's work with the disabled. 20% of Well-in-Hand's employees require special accomodations.
Special: THE NATURAL- An article about Linda Doby and what it's like at Well-in-Hand written by Virginia Tech graduate in journalism, Casey Gillis in May, 2003.
Natural body care works! It is possible to positively affect many common health problems using readily available, simple alternatives. Natural Products is now a $35 billion industry. Be wary, however, of those companies claiming to be natural. I created all these high-benefit products for my own four children, myself, and my friends. Potency, purity and effectiveness were of paramount importance because they had to guarantee results for the most important people in the world. When bringing these same great, truly natural formulas to the marketplace, I certainly would not cut corners. Everyone can now benefit from this expert, loving touch.
A teacher by training, Ms. Doby began to study natural healing immediately after completing grad school 27 years ago. I started the company in the natural products business on a shoestring and based its entire future on the quality of each and every product. Ten years and 50 products later, we sell direct to practitioners, spas, college bookstores, natural foods stores, and through our 17 distribution houses who serve thousands of natural foods stores and hundreds of websites, pharmacies and gift shops, and to individuals and here at www.wellinhand.com..
LOCAL ENTREPRENEUR GAINING NATIONAL ATTENTION FOR NATURAL HEALTH SOLUTIONS
Growing Herbal Business Purchases Commercial Space in Forest, VA for New "Center for Healing Arts"
Lynchburg, VA - Acne, warts, pain, hemorrhoids, yeast infections, dry skin, cold sores and head lice are frustrating conditions experienced by millions of Americans every day. A Lynchburg herbalist is providing natural comfort and confidence for people facing these common health problems.
Linda Doby's company, Well-in-Hand Epic Herbal Care, is carving a niche in the growing $32 billion natural product industry by offering herbal alternatives that address "confidential" conditions. The company was born in 1994 when Well-in-Hand Therapy Oil was judged "Outstanding" by master herbalists and awarded Grand Prize at the 2nd International Herb Symposium. Recent endorsements of Well-in-Hand products in leading national magazines including Teen and YM have reached millions of consumers and are boosting the company out of Doby's basement and into the national arena with big personal care companies.
Well-in-Hand's Zero Zitz! was recently featured by the editors of Teen side-by-side with products from enormous corporations such as Stridex. So how did a small business in a Lynchburg-area basement end up going zit-to-zit with the giants of the industry? "Many years of grass-roots marketing and herbal research is paying off," notes Doby. "Our products are appealing to the growing number of people concerned about the impact of applying synthetic chemicals to their bodies," says Doby. "They are seeking safe, natural alternatives that are effective and affordable," she adds.
Rising Interest in Well-in-Hand Leads to
"Well-in-Hand Center for Healing Arts"
"We are pleased to announce the purchase of a spacious commercial property in Forest, Virginia for our growing business," says Doby. In addition to Well-in-Hand Herbals, the new "Center for the Healing Arts" at 5164 Waterlick Road will host natural practitioners and Earth Munchies, Doby's natural snack and smoothies shop. "We are seeking other healthy enterprises to occupy the commercial space with us," notes Doby. "Potential tenants have been touring the facility," she adds. A Grand Opening celebration will be held in November.
Well-in-Hand, which is moving from the basement of Doby's home to the 12,300 square foot building on more than an acre, has 7 employees. "It is amazing what we have accomplished from the basement of my home," she says, "The Well-in-Hand Center will greatly improve our efficiency and integrate us with the local community." Doby, a former teacher, provides work study and marketing coop programs with locals schools for teens to learn business skills and receive school credit. "The new space will allow us to expand this program," Doby says.
Humble Beginnings For Well-in-Hand Family Business
It all began when Doby had a bad case of tendinitis and utilized her herbal hobby to find a surprisingly effective solution. "When I experienced the pain relief, I was so thrilled I decided to make formulas to help other people," says Doby. She began formulating products to address health issues that affected her family and friends. After gaining accolades from those trying her formulas, she introduced products at trade shows and herb symposiums in the early 1990's. Doby still creates and blends each of the formulas and all manufacturing and packaging is done in-house.
Prior to the recent magazine publicity, Well-in-Hand's customer list grew steadily by word-of-mouth, a strong presence at trade shows, free samples and tireless relationship building with retailers and distributors. Well-in-Hand products are now available in more than 1000 stores. "Unlike the huge companies we compete with, we don't have a big advertising budget, so we have to be creative and energetic," she notes. "Running a small business, you have to be a jack-of-all-trades doing research & development, production, sales, marketing, design and accounting - it can be nuts," Doby explains. "Fortunately, my four kids ranging 11-20 in age have assumed roles in the business," adds Doby. "Since I homeschool the kids, they have gotten a bonus education in small business dynamics and the nature of healing," she says. "I'm fortunate to teach and work with my kids, we are a true family business."
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Helping People is Natural for Linda Doby of Well-in-Hand
If its so crazy running a small business, why does Doby do it - and why do her products address gross things that people would rather not talk about?
"There's nothing like getting a letter from a customer about how you changed their life by helping them with a serious, painful and embarrassing problem," explains Doby. "My work has really helped people all over the country recover and feel better about themselves, and that motivates me," she adds. Doby enjoys the process of creating and introducing new products. It appears she is good at it too, product names such as Zero Zitz!, Wart Wonder and New Mama Tush Soothing Bath are grabbing the attention of retailers and consumers.
Well-in-Hand's products are handcrafted in small batches with organic ingredients, pure essential oils and natural herbs. All of the products are certified as vegan, cruelty-free and offer a satisfaction guarantee. "We have never had anything sent back to us, and customers like the fact that we never test on animals and our products don't contain animal products or nasty chemicals," Doby explains.
Well-in-Hand Is Going International via BuyUSA.com
Well-in-Hand recently joined The United States Department of Commerce's BuyUSA program in order to increase the worldwide availability and distribution of our products. "The demand for herbal medicinals worldwide is strong and growing," notes Doby. Well-in-Hand is also working on export readiness with the Southern U.S. Trade Association.
The growing line of Well-in-Hand products includes Zero Zitz!, Wart Wonder, Moisture Rescue Sea Scrubs, Pain Rescue, Well-in-Hand Therapy Oil, Cut Rescue, Nit Kit, Herpa Rescue, Yeast Rescue, Soap Soothers, Power Prism Crystal Deodorants, Sleep Rescue and New Mama® Tush Soothing Bath. Customers can purchase Well-in-Hand products through the secure website at www.wellinhand.com, by calling us at 434-534-6050 or visiting and shopping for your Gluten Free Foods at our Earth Munchies store.
Mission Statement:
Well-in-Hand Herbals promises to create, manufacture, and market only genuinely pure, natural and highly effective, ethically - priced topical medicinals. All products guarantee satisfaction. We formulate and blend with only responsibly grown and wildcrafted ingredients and ship every order in a timely fashion using reclaimed boxes, packing peanuts and bubble wraps.
Vision Statement:
Well-in-Hand Herbals, will positively and pleasantly effect lives en masse with an ever-increasing number of innovative and effectual products.
Company History:
The old Lincoln log barn groaned with each breeze as it leaned unsafely to the south. It just had to come down. To keep the children safe I grabbed a crow bar and, for days, yanked a century of rusty nails from some 70 red oak logs.
This left me with a case of tendinitis that rendered my wrist use less and caused me to lose my sense of humor! Taking down that old barn, however, proved to be a pivotal moment in my life and subsequently in the lives of many other people suffering from pain, inflammation and stiffness.
Drawing upon 20 years of the practical use of plants and motivated by relentless pain, I created an herbal and aromatherapy formula and applied it to my wrist whenever the pain reminded me. Eventually, I simply forgot I needed treatment!
I took the formula to the Second International Herb Symposium in Boston where master herbalists judged it "Outstanding" and awarded it Grand Prize.
Because of this auspicious award, orders soon came in from all 50 states due to word of mouth advertising! All this attention for a little bottle with a simple label and a formula developed for my own pain proved that the public is hungry for simple, natural alternatives that work! I named the pain formula Well-in-Hand® Therapy Oil because when pain free, all feels under control.
Relief is Well-in-Hand!