What were soaps and beauty products made out of before we had highly processed seed oils and mineral oils?Animal fats.
It’s really only been in the last 100 years or so that these processed oils were available and in EVERYTHING.
And it’s not because they’re better for us… it’s because they’re cheaper.
I know we want to believe that if a product is on store shelves it’s safe, but unfortunately that’s just not the case.
Most soaps and lotions available today are made with cheap oils + chemical colors and toxic fragrances.
These products don’t just sit on top of our skin, our bodies absorb and circulate them.
We’ve been making Old Fashioned Lard Soapsfrom our pastured pork fat for years.
It’s all we use for hand soap, body wash, face wash, and if we didn’t have such hard well water I think it would be great as a toxin free shampoo too!
I hadn’t found a good alternative for lotion until tried my first tallow balm a couple years ago at a homesteading conference.
The conference room was so dry that my hands and lips were cracking and bleeding, so I went to check out the tallow vendor.
I reluctantly handed over my credit card when she said the little jar was $45, but I quickly realized it was worth every penny.
It felt incredible, and only took the tiniest amount to rehydrate my dried cracking hands and lips.
Plus, it healed my skin instead of just temporarily making it feel better then needing to keep applying more lotion and chapstick. You know how once you use chapstick you seem to never be able to stop using it?! That doesn’t happen with tallow.
The little jar I bought at the conference lasted me almost a year.
I decided then I wanted to make tallow lotions and lip balm out of the suet from our beef cattle, but like most other projects it kept being put on the backburner, until….
I was introduced to Alyse Lewis from Butter Hide - a woman owned startup business located near us in Southern, Ohio.
Alyse takes the suet from our beef cattle, and turns it into all these nourishingtallowproducts!
As we’ve released these products, it’s brought up lots of questions aboutwhat is tallow, what is a tallow balm, how do you use it, and what’s all the hype about tallow balms anyway?
Tallow is made from beef suet, a specific kind of fat that protects the organs inside a beef animal.
To make tallow the fat is rendered, aka gently melted down. The final product is tallow!
Tallow is great to use for cooking oil, but it’s also AMAZING for our skin.
It’s full of vitamins and minerals including A, B12, D, E and K, which are all so so nourishing.
Unlike seed oils, the nutrient profile of tallow is very similar to our own skin so it absorbs easily.
Tallow also helps boost our skins ability to fight free radicals, plus increases collagen levels and skin elasticity.
Tallow balm is rendered tallow that has been mixed up to create a lotion type skincare product.
Our tallow balm includes our tallow + organic cold pressed extra virgin olive oil, raw honey, beeswax and organic essential oils. Click here to see all our options.
Just like you’d use any face moisturizer, lotion or lip balm!
Our whipped tallow balm can replace all your body lotions, hand lotions and facial moisturizers.
We recommend our unscented tallow balm for young children.
Any of our other scents can be used for hands, body, or face, but each essential oil also has a specific healing property.
Lavender:Anti-inflammatory, best for soothing skin ailments such as eczema and psoriasis. Calming
effect on mood, anxiety, stress and depression.
Vanilla Bean:High in antioxidants that combat free radicals to reduce the signs of aging.
Frankincense:rejuvenates mature skin while helping soreness and pain
Peppermint:cools and soothes irritated skin, and can help reduce tension due to headaches or upset
Rose Absolute:rejuvenates mature skin, reduces the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles
Indian Sandalwood:Helps Balance skin tone
Rosalina:Anti-bacterial while reducing th
