Our Story

The Lactowell STORY

Hi, It's Roy from Lactowell.

I started Lactowell because there were no good Probiotics to help my daughter.

Ever since she was little, my daughter fell sick easily.

We followed the advice that other parents and experts recommended. Take vitamins, sleap early, only eat organic food and snacks.

But there was no change...

It was very disruptive for all of us. My wife had to burn her leave just to stay home. While I had to juggle my business, and help look after our daughter.

Many playdates were cancelled, lessons were missed, and the whole family felt it.

It was the crying and suffering our daughter went through, that pulled on our heartstrings.

It was only when we gave her probiotics, when we noticed a bit of improvement.

So we were on a mission to find the best Probiotic to give our daughter.

We tried popular brands, expensive brands and cultured drinks from the supermarket. While some of these had little effect, the others didn't work at all.

We were starting to run out of probiotics to buy. And it was through this process, where I noticed that most brands used the same probiotic strains. So there had to be another reason why some Probiotics had some effect.

Call It Luck Or Fate...

A Korean client, from my advertising business, discovered my predicament, and put me in touch with his friend back in Korea.

Who happened to run a renowned pharmaceutical manufacturing business and also produced Probiotics for some big international brands.

The friend, Mr Kim, invited us down to have a tour of his facility to understand more about Probiotics.

This was a life changing trip! Because Mr Kim revealed that the secret behind a good probiotic is not the types of strains nor the billions of CFU...

The secret behind a useful probiotic is whether it can survive the journey to the digestive system!

He said that there was a technology called Microencapsulation, which protects the probiotics. So that they can survive our strong stomach acids. But in order to lower costs, many brands do not add this extra step of Microencapsulation.

Which is why many Probiotics out there, produced little to zero results!

This was also one of the reasons that contributed to his clients success. And the best part? Mr Kim already had the scale and machinery to add this microencapsulation consistently and affordably.

I took the learnings back home and compared with all the all the Probiotics that we given my daughter.

But to my disappointment, none of them had this special coating.

I did more research and discovered that some premium adult probiotics had this microencapsulation. But none of them were child friendly, as they were in tablet form.

It was impossible for my daughter to take them.

That's when I had my Eureka moment. Since this product doesn't exist in the market, why not create one?!

So I went back to Mr Kim with a list of criterias. Mainly, I wanted a probiotic that is tailor made for kids. And one of the key focuses are the taste and convenience.

It should be easy for parents/ kids to bring it everywhere they go. Be it to school or overseas.

And kids must like the taste too. It cannot be big bitter tablets, and it cannot be full of sugar like gummies.

If the kids like it, the parents won't have to struggle feeding it to them.

And that's how Lactokids was born!

Quality was also a non-negotiable. It's a good thing that our manufacturer, is listed Korean firm whose facilities and probiotics meet strict international standards, including GMP, HACCP, ISO 9001, CCM, and SQF certifications. Plus their facilities are also US FDA certified as well.

Results started showing within a month of taking LactoKids. My daughter' immunity improved by a lot. She had more energy for play, and her focus improved in class too!

When the school had flu season, she was one of the few kids that was unaffected.

And this gave us the confidence that we were on the right track. Years later, and Lactokids are on the shelves in major pharmacy chains in Singapore, including Guardian and Watsons.

Even pediatricians started recommending it to their patients!

And In the last 10 years, we sold more than 200,000 boxes of Lactokids!

What makes us different is that we build for real family life.

Lactowell exists because we needed a better answer. Today our mission is unchanged. We want to help children enjoy their childhood with fewer health disruptions, and give parents one less thing to worry about!