The recluse, whose face and wild beard appeared on company labels, made his fortune after a chance meeting with hitchhiker Roxanne Quimby Burt Shavitz, the reclusive beekeeper who co-founded Burt’s Bees, and whose face and wild beard appeared on labels for the natural cosmetics, has died aged 80.A spokeswoman for Burt’s Bees said in an emailed statement that Shavtiz died of respiratory complications in Bangor, Maine, surrounded by family and friends.