Little Cow Co.
Brand · Candles
In 2022, when Travis returned home from a deployment, Lesley picked him up from the Portland airport and they headed straight for the Oregon Coast. For over a decade they had been talking with their friends Seda and Ben about starting a candle company. They just hadn’t made it happen yet.
As they were driving down the coast, they began pulling into gift shops and asking the owners: “Is there a candle that you’d like to put on your shelves but can’t find out there?” To their surprise, the owners said: “Yes! We want a simple, all natural candle with a real local ingredient in it.”
If you’ve ever cruised the Oregon Coast, you know there’s cows everywhere. Travis spent part of his childhood living in an apartment that backed up to a dairy farm and has always had a soft spot for the beasts – especially the little ones.
A couple years before the deployment, Travis had been working outside in the cold rain for a while when he flung open the front door and could not believe the scent filling up the house. “What smells so good!?” he yelled. “I don’t know, I just added the butter!” Lesley yelled back… That stuck with both of them.
As they made their way down the Pacific, they pulled into a small dairy farm. They were eating some hearty ice cream and walking along the cattle fields when one of them spouted out: “You think if we mixed some butter into our candles, they might smell as good as it does when we’re cooking…?”
And so the experiment began in earnest.
Hundreds of sputtering wicks later, they found something. A homemade blend of 100% natural soy wax and organic butter that melts and burns beautifully.
When you begin baking a cake with butter, the whole kitchen smells good. When that butter heats up, it can really float some scent around. It brings out the goodness. Little Cow Co. brings that goodness to candles.
