Dr. Bosshammer

Dr. Bosshammer is the brand of dr. bosshammer Pharma GmbH, a small health and personal-care company based in Gießen, Germany. It is not a cosmetics house in the usual sense. Its range mixes over-the-counter health products with body care: home diagnostic tests, a vitamin product for children, leg and foot balms, shower gels, seasonal winter sweets and teas, and the insect-bite treatment After Bite®.

The company builds its business around the pharmacy. It says its products are available in pharmacies throughout Germany and Austria as well as through its own online shop [2]. The care and cosmetics side of the range is split into several sub-lines, among them Apothekers, Anifer, Velvet and Croldino, while the products the company itself highlights as its most popular are a vein balm, a children's vitamin product and After Bite.

dr. bosshammer Pharma GmbH is a limited liability company (GmbH) entered in the commercial register at the district court of Gießen under the number HRB 2696 [4]. Its entry in that register describes the business as the distribution of pharmaceutical products and of everyday goods, including food supplements and cosmetics, to pharmacies [10]. That description matches the way the company presents itself: as a marketer of pharmacy products. None of its own pages name a factory or a manufacturing site.

The company is led by Dr. Barbara Boßhammer-Junk, who is named on its website as managing director (Geschäftsführerin) and who represents the company in its legal notice. The company has not published a founding story, and no founders are named in its public material.

The company's tagline is "Freude an Gesundheit", which translates as "joy in health". According to dr. bosshammer Pharma, its aim is to offer products with a clear health benefit and good tolerability at prices that are fair to consumers [2]. It adds that it is always searching for, and further developing, new treatment concepts and products.

The company describes its staff as a young but experienced team of doctors, pharmacists and employees with a grounding in pharmaceutical and medical knowledge. In its own words, this is how it creates products designed on a scientific basis. No clinical studies or patents are cited in support of individual products.

The pharmacy sits at the centre of this positioning. The company calls it the guarantor of individual advice and local supply, and its range is pitched as everyday pharmacy items rather than premium cosmetics. Dr. Bosshammer does not claim third-party labels such as vegan or cruelty-free certification for its products.

The online shop divides the range into four areas: diagnostics, food supplements, care and cosmetics, and a seasonal autumn and winter section [6].

The care and cosmetics area is the part closest to beauty. Under the Apothekers name, which means "the pharmacist's", the company sells a "Spezial" Venen-Balsam (vein balm) and a Fuß-Frische-Balsam (foot-freshness balm), along with a hand balm and a eucalyptus herbal bath. The Venen-Balsam is one of the three products the company features most prominently on its homepage. The Anifer line consists of a lip balm and a wash lotion made with whey. Velvet is a line of "wellness" shower gels in four variants: Sport, Milk & Honey, Aloe Vera and Aqua-Line. Croldino is a hand-cleaning cream [3].

After Bite® is the one product with its own website, separate from the main shop. It is a liquid applied to the skin after insect stings and similar irritations, and the company markets it with the slogan "Die Nummer 1 aus den USA" ("the number one from the USA") [5]. The brand's sites do not name the product's US maker or licensor. Ammonia is given as the main active ingredient [5]. The full ingredient list is short: water, ammonia, mineral oil (paraffinum liquidum), the silicone dimethicone and a surfactant, C12-13 Pareth-3.

According to the company, After Bite is meant for itching and burning after stings from bees, wasps, mosquitoes and horseflies, as well as ant bites and contact with stinging nettles or jellyfish. It is labelled for adults and children from the age of three. The company notes that a brief, mild burning sensation can occur after application, which it describes as a natural reaction showing that the product is working. Its product information warns that the liquid is for external use only, contains ammonia and should not be inhaled.

Outside personal care, the company's food-supplement line is built around Kinder Vitaminchen, a strawberry-flavoured vitamin product for children that is labelled vegetarian. It also has a dedicated website and is sold in a "Schultüte" (school cone) gift version. The diagnostics range includes an early pregnancy test sold under the dr. bosshammer name. The seasonal section adds mulled-wine flavoured sweets, sold as Santa Claus Glühweinbonbons and Apothekers Glühwein-Bonbons, and a winter fruit tea.

According to the company, After Bite has been featured in "Die Gesunde Stunde" ("The Healthy Hour"), a health segment on the German radio station Klassik Radio. Both the company homepage and the After Bite website carry the line "Bekannt aus der Gesunden Stunde im Klassik Radio" ("known from the Healthy Hour on Klassik Radio") [1]. No broadcast date is given.

Dr. Bosshammer is active. As of 2026, the company runs an online shop with current product listings and a seasonal autumn and winter category, and its websites carry a 2026 copyright notice [7]. It maintains Facebook and Pinterest accounts under the company name, while its Instagram presence is the account for After Bite. Distribution remains focused on pharmacies in Germany and Austria and the company's own shop; no wider international distribution is documented.