TEAM

Little Cow Co is about four friends coming together to do something we believe in. While Lesley and Travis are focusing on hand-pouring the best-candles out there, Seda and Ben are establishing Little Cow Co. as a business that gives back.

BUILT TO GIVE

(Section Written by Travis, our Veteran Owner / Operator)

In 2019, during military training, one of my teammates lost two family members on the same day. He needed immediate support. 

We called the Red Cross but they couldn't help. Then we called the Pararescue Foundation. They swooped in right away and helped with travel, logistics and costs. 

That made an impact on me. I knew that one day I wanted to be part of a small business that supported efforts like this. 

Today, 5% of Little Cow Co. revenue goes to support youth and veterans in crisis / need.

We also partner with select nonprofits, giving them 10% of all collaborative sales. If you're part of an organization doing meaningful work, please contact us. We’d love to hear from you.


ORIGINS

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 Seda and Ben about starting a candle company together. 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?” 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.

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.

Little Cow Co. is a premium candle company based in Portland, Oregon.