About Texas Beard Co.
Texas Beard Co. makes small-batch, hand-mixed beard oil, beard balm, beard wash and mustache wax in Beaumont, Texas. I'm Ryan Olson. I started it in 2014, and it's still a family business.
How it started
In 2014 most of the beard care on the shelf was harsh chemicals, synthetic fragrance, or cologne strong enough to clear a room. I wanted something simpler: plant oils, a real scent, and an ingredient list you could read without a chemistry degree. So I started mixing it myself.
Big Thicket, cedarwood and pine, was one of the first scents. It's still our best-selling scent. The mustache wax came along not long after and picked up a following of its own.
Who does what
My wife Sara joined full time in the fall of 2014, when things grew faster than we expected. She leads product development and formulation, and she hand-writes a thank-you note on the orders that ship from here. I handle customer service, operations, and everything with a plug. In the early days Adam helped with design and marketing, Aaron drew the logo, the packaging and the first website, and Shayne pitched in wherever he was needed.
What goes in the bottle
Every beard oil starts with the same four carrier oils: jojoba, sweet almond, grapeseed and avocado, plus vitamin E. Beard balm adds cocoa butter, shea butter and coconut oil, and no beeswax. Most scents are essential oils. Two aren't, Cherry Bomb and Holiday Spice, and their pages say exactly what's in them. Our product pages list the ingredients, because we don't print them on the packaging.
Some of it gets more hands-on than that. The Smoke House base gets smoked in a cast iron dutch oven on my own smoker before it's bottled. Pecan Coffee beard oil has real coffee beans in the bottle.
The rule hasn't changed since 2014. If we wouldn't use it ourselves, we won't put it out there. Extensive testing on bearded Texas men, NOT animals (although they have been called worse).
What we don't claim
No oil grows hair, ours included. Beard oil softens the beard you have and takes care of the skin under it. That's the job.
"Small-batch," "made in Texas" and "all natural" cover the oils, balms, washes and similar things we make. They don't cover the combs, scissors, razors or apparel. Those are sourced, and their pages say so.
Twelve years in
We've shipped to all 50 states and more than 85 countries. Customers have left close to 7,000 reviews, averaging 4.7 stars. A few guys have the logo tattooed on them, which is more commitment than we ask for.
Questions? Get in touch.