The RUNESILK Story · 2023

Dark Night Wins Best Grooming Product at the Beauty Shortlist Awards

We entered Dark Night Bedtime Beard Butter into the Beauty Shortlist Awards and sent our Revolution Beard Butter along for good measure. Then we waited, impatiently, for a few months. When the results came in, we'd won Best Grooming Product. Our honest first reaction was somewhere between disbelief and a very undignified punch of the air.

What Dark Night is built from

Dark Night is a bedtime blend, whipped from Shea, Mango and Cocoa Butters and enriched with Grapeseed, Jojoba, Argan and Sea Buckthorn oils, finished with a calming scent of lavender, neroli, fennel, clary sage and benzoin. It's designed to go on before sleep and do its work overnight, so you wake up with a softer, more manageable beard.

Not our first recognition, but our biggest yet

RUNESILK had already picked up double-digit Golden Beard reviews from the Guardians of the Beard community, which meant a great deal coming from people who actually wear beards for a living, so to speak. But a Beauty Shortlist win sits on a different stage entirely, judged by an independent panel with no connection to our customer base, which makes the recognition feel earned in a different way.

We're proud to be an independent, UK based brand making that kind of impression internationally. It's the kind of result that makes the early starts, the trial batches, and the constant small tweaks to a formula feel worth it.