The House of Mistry was opened in the Summer of 1975 as a small chemists in South End Green, Hampstead. It was Dr C D Mistry’s second pharmacy and before long Dr Mistry started to take another look at the natural remedies that he used as a youngster in Africa and India and started to develop these for his customers who wanted an alternative to the offerings of the big pharmacutical companies
Before long word spread and Dr Mistry found himself producing batches at a time and the House of Mistry name was applied to a range of Natural Products.
In 1978 the store expanded taking over the shop next door as well allowing us more space to display more alternative products and our own expanding range.
New products were constantly developed and in 1998 Dr Mistry had a chance to focus on his research and spend more time developing his products as his son Rajesh took over the pharmacy.
Our online history starts back in 1994 with a basic website allowing the ordering of products and providing information and in 2001 we launched our first full e-commerce website, we now sell direct to customers around the world via multiple channels.
House of Mistry products are now sold in countries around the world including, Canada, Australia, India, Africa, the US, Thailand and in the Middle East.
In 2005 we started to look at where we had come and more importantly where the world had come since we started. It was clear that we no longer had to convince people that the natural way was a feasible way and that more and more people we’re turning their back on the chemicals used for so long in the industry.
Realising that the time had finally come when ‘the natural way’ would once again be the way people wanted to live, we put together a plan of action to rebrand as Mistry’s and after much long hard work, we have a new look which has reinvigorated the company and gives us a more mainstream appeal.
Dr Mistry
Born in Kenya in 1941 to Indian parents, Dr Mistry held a strong interest in nature as a child. As he grew up he joined the scouts and there learnt many ways to use nature to help take care of himself and others. While still in Africa he became a teacher and one of his passions was passing his knowledge of natural healing on to his students.
In 1965 aged 24 he came over to England with the aim of becoming a pharmacist. With his African qualifications holding little weight, he started off fresh by getting A-levels in the science subjects and overcame poverty, working nights as a waiter and washing dishes, going on to study Pharmacy at Brighton University. Here he was lucky to have a chance to study at their pharmacognosy unit.
From here he began his career with Boots the Chemist working his way up to a management position in their Edgeware Road branch, while he enjoyed this, he was always restricted by being a small part of a big company. In 1972, just 7 years after coming to England he opened his first pharmacy in Hendon. This allowed him to explore his ideas further without the limits that come with working for someone else. In 1975 he got the opportunity to acquire a shop not too far away in South End Green with a house for his young family above. He took it up and sold his Hendon shop to pay for it. He called it The House of Mistry.
Living above the shop he turned the family kitchen into a makeshift lab and spent much of his free time developing Homeopathic, Ayurvedic and other natural remedy’s along with other products for natural living.
In the time since then he has developed over 100 products and has constantly developed his knowledge through courses, research and discussions with others in his and related fields. He has won a number of awards for his work during this time. He was keen that all products come from natural and organic sources and where possible this is the case to this day.
Even today Dr Mistry spends much time researching and developing his products as well as giving free consultations to his patients every Saturday (contact us for further details or to arrange an appointment)