My name is Rusty Beorn. I grew up on a tobacco farm an hour east of Hopkinsville, and I learned to love the smell of wood smoke and damp leaves before I knew what a candle was made of.
Oshus started in 2019 in a converted barn behind my house on Johnson Mill Road. I poured the first hundred candles for friends and family, mostly as Christmas gifts. People kept asking for more. So I kept pouring.
Six years later, the workshop is a little bigger and the wax pots are a little louder — but everything is still made by hand, a few miles from where I grew up.
American-grown soy wax, pure beeswax, cotton wicks, and fine fragrance oils. No paraffin, no parabens, no phthalates, no dyes.
We pour 40–60 candles at a time. Every jar gets the same attention, even on the long days.
Labels are letterpressed in Bowling Green. Soap is made by our friend Maggie. The honeycomb on our beeswax candles comes from two counties over.
The workshop sits behind the main house, on a gravel drive that runs alongside the orchard. In the spring you can hear the bees. In the fall you can smell the wood stove.
We open the doors to neighbors a few weekends a year for what we call "Pour Days" — bring an empty jar, leave with a candle you made yourself.
First 100 candles poured for friends in the barn.
Opened a tiny stall at the Hopkinsville Farmers' Market.
Goat-milk soaps added — a collaboration with the Garrett family farm.
Started shipping to all 48 contiguous states.
21,800+ candles poured, still by hand.
