Man's Baby Powder
Real sawdust · Real woodshop · Zero talc

It's not for babies. It's Man's Baby Powder.

A plastic jar of honest-to-goodness sawdust, fresh from a working cabinet shop. The funniest gag gift for the dad, the woodworking woman, the weekend builder or the white elephant victim in your life.

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Ships in a sturdy white-box mailer, ready to gift.

A clear plastic jar filled with sawdust, wearing the Man's Baby Powder label: a bearded woodworker with a hammer inside a saw-blade circle.
GradeNo. 1
Manly
The story

Two brothers. One project. A lot of sawdust.

Years ago my brother and I were building something together, cutting a lot of wood, and we both ended up covered head to toe in sawdust.

I said something like, "Oh my God, I'm covered in sawdust." He looked at me, completely straight-faced, and said the line we've been laughing about ever since. I had a vision for sawdust in a jar.

Turns out it's not just a guy thing. Every woman we know who builds, sands or swings a hammer laughed just as hard, and pointed out that she gets covered in it too. Fair enough. The label says "for men & for women" for a reason.

So we bottled it. Every plastic jar is filled with real sawdust from a friend's cabinet-making shop, sealed, labeled, packed in a sturdy white-box mailer and sent off to make somebody laugh.

"Oh my God, I'm covered in sawdust."

"Uh… that's man's baby powder."

My brother said, and I can't stop bringing this up now.
Directions for use

Five easy steps.

  1. Unscrew lid.
  2. Smell.
  3. Remember the deck you built in 2009.
  4. Tell someone about the deck you built in 2009.
  5. Replace lid.
Spec sheetRaw & Unprocessed
Contents
100% genuine sawdust
Source
A working cabinet shop
Container
Clear plastic jar. Shop-floor safe.
Talc
None. Not even a little.
Fragrance
None added. None needed.
Made for
Men & women who make sawdust
Utility
Zero
Laughs
Guaranteed-ish
Shop photos

Straight off the shop floor.

Same stuff that ends up in your hair, your truck and somehow your sandwich, whether you're the guy at the miter saw or the woman running the router. Now in a jar.

Man's Baby Powder jar on a miter saw surrounded by fresh wood shavings.
At home on the miter saw.
The big reveal. Dug straight out of the raw stuff.
Man's Baby Powder jar on a workbench under a drill press, with curled shavings around it.
Fresh off the bench.
The back label of the jar, starting 'Remember your first woodshop class?', in front of its white shipping box.
Back label. Read it to Dad out loud.
Who it's for

For men, for women, for anybody who's swept a shop floor.

White elephant Yankee swap Secret Santa Stocking stuffer Father's Day Birthdays Retirement Woodworking women Woodworkers DIY moms Contractors Weekend DIYers Anyone with more clamps than shirts

One jar for Dad. One for your sister who out-builds him.

$17.95 a jar. Ships in a sturdy white-box mailer, ready to gift.

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Questions

You've got questions. We've got sawdust.

Is it really just sawdust?

Yes. Real sawdust from a working cabinet shop, sealed in a clear plastic jar. That's the whole product. That's the whole joke.

Wait, is it only for men?

Not even a little. The name is the joke. Look closely at the saw blade on the label: "for men & for women." Some of the best woodworkers we know are women, and they come home covered in this stuff too. Man's Baby Powder is for anyone who's earned it.

Can I use it like baby powder?

Please don't. It's a novelty gift, not a cosmetic. Don't put it on skin, babies, or anybody else.

Does it smell like anything?

It smells like fresh-cut wood, which is to say like every good Saturday afternoon. Open the lid and take a gentle sniff. No need to inhale the dust itself.

How does it ship?

In a sturdy white-box mailer, with the plastic jar sealed tight so it arrives clean and ready to hand over as a gift. Add a gift note at checkout on Etsy and we'll leave the receipt out. We weren't going to include one anyway. Nobody has ever tried to return sawdust.

Do you sell wholesale?

Yes. Gift shops, hardware stores and lumber yards, drop us a line using the address below.

Get in touch

Wholesale, press and bulk orders.

hello@mansbabypowder.com
  • Gift shopsWholesale pricing for retailers.
  • Company partiesBulk orders for gift exchanges.
  • PressPhotos and the full, unedited sawdust story.