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Roxanne Quimby (born 1950) is an American businesswomen notable for founding the Burt’s Bees personal care products company with beekeeper Burt Shavitz.Quimby was originally from Lexington Massachusetts a daughter of an engineer and salesman father. Although her family was business oriented she initially took a different path going to art school in San Francisco where she was influenced by the back to the land ideas of Helen and Scott Nearing. In 1975 she and her boyfriend George St.