Burt of Burt's Bees dies at 80

Burt Shavitz, co-founder and namesake of natural personal care company Burt's Bees, died yesterday of respiratory complications in Maine. He was 80.

According to CNNMoney, the bearded beekeeper sold honey from a roadside stand. He pulled over one day in 1984 to pick up hitchhiker Roxanne Quimby. The two hit it off, and Quimby started making candles from Shavitz's beeswax. Clorox bought the company for $1 billion in 2007.

"We remember him as a wild-bearded and free-spirited Maine man, a beekeeper, a wisecracker, a lover of golden retrievers..." the company said in a statement. "Above all, Burt was always Burt - an uncompromising individual of his own invention."

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