Small Business Spotlight: Beardwood Beard Oil bringing premium beard care products to Bend

BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) -- For this month's Small Business Spotlight, KTVZ is highlighting Bend-based Beardwood Beard Oil, a company specializing in premium beard care products.

"We're both pretty witty and have a good sense of humor. So we're like, let's have fun with this,” said Amy Lovlien, the co-owner of Beardwood, in a recent interview with KTVZ News. "The witty names and also the bottle and the branding, people love it, and they keep coming back for more."

Amy and Billy Block started Beardwood a year ago.

"We started playing with different types of oils, looking at the benefits of jojoba oil and sunflower oil and the effects on your skin. And so we started playing with combinations and recipes and things like that,” Amy said. "Men don't realize that you have to nourish your skin, not just the beard. And so I think a lot of the other beard oils, they have the fragrances that contain chemicals, things like that. And we wanted something that was organic and all-natural."

Combining their talents to bring a unique product to the table.

"(Billy) works in a seed oil company, and he has been using seed oils for years and years…and he's like, this could be a product," said Amy. "My background is weddings and events. I was like, 'Well, we need to make this pretty.'” 

They tested their product out on friends before taking it to the shelves.

"They were like, ‘Oh, our beards aren't getting crusty and they're not gross.' And so it was born," said Amy.

And Billy agrees.

"Since we live here in Central Oregon, I have really, really dry skin. Even my barber, she tells me that she has a lot of people that come in and they have really, really dry skin as well," Billy said. “I notice using the products that I make, I don’t have any issues. I’m not sitting there scratching my face like a dog."

The couple says living and working in Central Oregon has been nothing short of a dream come true.

"It’s fun to be able to work your job, but then hit the mountain or go paddle boarding," Amy said. "And between the two of us, we have three kids, and raising kids here is excellent. So that's really why we are in Bend. But also the people."

For more information on Beardwood, click here.

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