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Introducing • Adventure Packs • From the Apothecary

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From the moment we launched our first products, a set of five beard oils in scents that echoed the seasons we get so heartily in this, the Middle West, we knew one day we would need to make a sampler pack.

Primarily because everyone kept telling us to make one. Then we made beard balms and waxes, in all the beard oil scents, plus the unscented Deepwell. The clamor for sample packs grew louder.

And now, inhabitants of the Realm, it is done, our River Peak sampler packs are out in the world. Except we called them “Adventure Packs” because it sounded cooler. And you can, like, adventure through the seasons or some such.

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Introducing • Shave Oils • From the Apothecary

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In the beginning, River Peak Apothecary was just about beards.

Then when we realized we had everything on hand to feed Blademaiden’s lip balm addiction, we started making those collectible, craveable, seasonal lip butters.

Now, with the creation of these barber favorite shave oils (two years in development for these beauties, because we are the pickiest barbers ever), we are going for the throat. Metaphorically.

While you can technically shave with any old carrier oil, our oils blend in varieties and proportions where each ingredient supports and enhances the others.

This blend features light and easily-absorbed Grapeseed oil, rich and nourishing Ricebran, Sesame and Jojoba oils, and the slick glide of Castor and Avocado oils to create the kind of shave approved by a shop full of barbers, and all the faces they shave.

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Mariner Jack • From the Apothecary

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The Apothecary has always scoured the lands for the mightiest of beard goods, but our latest adventure was a bit more… wet. We endured moistness of holds and ports and braved the stormy seas to bring you the fine beard goods of Mariner Jack.

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The Mythology of Beardsgaard • Part I • Beardsgaard Origins {Video}

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We are barbers that make grooming goods. But when we created the world of Beardsgaard and River Peak Apothecary, we literally (if not physically) created a world, because we’re big old nerds who grew up steeped in Tolkien. Each product we make becomes a location on the map, and gets its own story. This is one of those stories.

In this chapter, the world is created and filled with the beings that make the world turn.

Read the rest of the neverending story here, and check out the rest of the YouTube channel here.

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How to ReWhip Melted Beard Butter {Video}

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Our beard butter is made with just butters and oils, and is a dreamy, creamy treat for your beard (or skin, great as a body butter too).

But without the beeswax that balms contain, it is rather heat sensitive. Depending on the climate or time of year, we cannot guarantee your beard butter will arrive unmelted.

But rather than cut off shipping of this product during the summer months, as some companies do, we’ll just show you how to bring a melted jar back to life!

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The Faces of Beardsgaard • Spiritbrook IRL {Video}

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The faces of Beardsgaard series takes you inside the story and the world of each of our products ~ our real live regular clients, cut by the Beardsgaard barbers, groomed by River Peak Apothecary, and on location, often just off the beaten path. Journey to our realm, nerds.

Photos: Left: Natalie Anderson / Right: Jim Richards

We often say that Beardsgaard is the D&D game to River Peak’s LARP tournament, and that is demonstrated nowhere as fully as these fantastical photo shoots we do sometimes.

So while everything is magical and polished over at River Peak Apothecary, at Beardsgaard we get down and, in many cases, pretty dirty. Or at least Blademaiden did this time, skittering up trees and tossing herself in the dirt at every opportunity to get the good angles with the camera.

Photos: Lindsey Roussel

Let us tell you the rest of the story, and get to the bottom of the post for the full video.

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From the Apothecary • Emerald Honey Lip Butter

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{Beardsgaard is the barbershop that spawned our house- and handmade product line River Peak Apothecary. But our own products are far from all we stock on the webshoppe. Everything you can find in shop here in Batavia you can find online too. These are our products, and these are their stories.}

We come out with a new lip butter flavor with the turning of each new season. It’s really quite collectible.

And with a name like Emerald Honey, one might be led to believe that honey would be a flavor note of note in this lip butter.

But while the beautiful beeswax we use lends a note of honey to all our lip butters, the honey we speak of here is of both the dew and suckle variety.

The light but heady florals of honeysuckle play over the top of fragrant green tea, rounded out with the sweetness of honeydew melon, all to make for a delicate, craveable springtime flavor blend.

And it is now available in the webshoppe. Get yours today.

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A Very Beardsgaard Gift Guide • Father’s Day 2017

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Have a dad? Know a dad who’s pretty cool? Want to treat him to something he’ll love to the moon and back? Don’t let Father’s Day sneak up on you on the 18th, it’s racing up on our asses pretty quick.

Because it is your barber’s job to make your life a little bit easier in the areas of our purview, we rounded up a little listicle of our picks for dads this Father’s Day. And when you pick out a trio of goodies from any of the below brands for said dads, we’ll throw in a secret surprise equal to up to 20% of your purchase – for him, or for you!

Remember, if your giftee is already a client of Beardsgaard, we can look up the products he already knows and likes, and guide you to the things we know he’s going to love. Just call us the Gaardians of Gifting.

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The Faces of Beardsgaard • Fjordmist IRL

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The faces of Beardsgaard series takes you inside the story and the world of each of our products ~ our real live regular clients, cut by the Beardsgaard barbers, groomed by River Peak Apothecary, and on location, often  just off the beaten path. Journey to our realm, nerds.

We often say that Beardsgaard is the D&D game to River Peak’s LARP tournament, and that is demonstrated nowhere as fully as these fantastical photo shoots we do sometimes.

So while everything is magical and polished over at River Peak Apothecary, at Beardsgaard we get down and, in this case, literally really dirty, tromping around the woods before the sun was even all the way up, because we’re crazy people, we guess.

Let us tell you the rest of the story, and get to the bottom of the post for the full video.

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Livestream 4/1 @3 • Spring Sample Party

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We don’t know much about livestreaming stuff, but wouldn’t you know it, Beardsgaard has some pros among our clientele who do. Who also happen to be a lot younger than us. Go figure.

But we’ll be doing just that next weekend! We will have on hand some of our biggest product junkie clients to try out all the new potential products we have on hand, and vote on what will be the newest product to hit our shelves this spring. Best of all, you get to vote at home too!

Tune in on Saturday, April 1st at 3 PM to our Facebook Livestream or our YouTube Livestream and tell us exactly what you want. Maybe watch Blademaiden trip over her own feet. Always seems to happen when she’s on live video. Either way, it’s going to be fun. See you then, Gaard!

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