After you’ve learned how to make tallow balm, you’ll have an extremely healing home remedy right at your fingertips. Grass fed tallow balm is so versatile. The organic tallow is gently whipped with a little jojoba oil to form the balm that gives it a light and fluffy feel that goes on skin like butter. Tallow on its own is quite firm in our temperatures. This balm is so easy to use. Tallow is not only great for repairing skin, but it also helps to prevent damage to skin. All of those skin friendly antioxidants and other nutrients keep skin healthy and strong.

Stearic acid and oleic acid are fatty acids that are found in the outer layer of our skin, and in our sebum. They are softening, moisturizer, regenerative, and anti inflammatory. Stearic acid helps to repair skin, improve the flexibility of skin, improves skin’s barrier function. Oleic acid helps the various beneficial nutrients penetrate deeply into skin. Tallow balm is mostly tallow, with a very small bit of liquid oil (such as olive oil) in it to soften it and make it easier to use. You can add essential oil if you like, or have it plain. Tallow from cows eating only grass has the highest amount of skin loving nutrients. When looking for beef fat to make tallow balm, look for fat from 100% grass fed beef. You can render the tallow from beef fat yourself, or use already rendered tallow.The dry method for rendering tallow is great and very straightforward. You can learn exactly how to render tallow this way in our post, Cooking with Lard and How to Render It Yourself, because the process of rendering lard and tallow is exactly the same. This method is great for rendering tallow to use in cooking but can still leave the tallow with a slightly beefy scent. Rendering lard – the same method used to render tallow at home. Like coconut oil, warm tallow has liquid consistency with bright gold color, but when it's cooled, it hardens, and the color changes to a soft cream. I like to use tallow balm to make even more body care products, like sugar and salt scrubs, lips balms with honey, diaper cream, sunscreen, and a heat protectant for hair. How do you make tallow face cream?

When you use just enough, your skin will drink it right in, and it won’t leave a greasy residue on your skin. If you do feel like tallow is too oily or greasy, you’re using way too much. Can you use tallow for oily skin? The science-based evidence shows us that by using tallow regularly, we can protect the skin from various external damaging factors. Tallow is nourishing and high in vitamins like A, D, E, and K. Vitamin E is especially important for aging skin since it has potent antioxidative properties that protect the skin cells from damaging UV light and reduce existing damage. With this, tallow effectively handles free radicals and prevents fine lines and superficial wrinkles from developing. With regular use, you can feel your skin becoming softer and more radiant.In our experience, because tallow is something that doesn’t typically fly off the shelves, it’s easy to source and at very reasonable prices. How to Render Tallow to Make Tallow Balm

When our infant son began to experience dry skin and eczema patches as well, tallow balm has taken permanent residence in our medicine cabinet. Thankfully, with only two ingredients, making it yourself at home is super easy. We’ll walk you through exactly how you can make your own tallow balm and why you might want to! Our Story – Why We Use Tallow Stearic acid is another saturated fatty acid found in high concentrations in beef tallow. It's used in various cosmetics and personal care products as a fragrance ingredient, surfactant, and emulsifier. Stearic acid has a double function - as a surfactant and emulsifier. Surfactants are compounds that lower the surface tension between two substances, such as two liquids or a liquid and a solid. In other words, surfactants reduce the surface tension so water can penetrate the skin more easily. Stearic acid also acts as an emulsifier, meaning that it helps the product contain both oil and water without separating. What’s so great about putting beef fat on your skin? Isn’t that something that ancient cave people did? People have been using tallow for skin care for centuries. It turns out they knew what they were doing ( source).Many of the nutrients in grass fed tallow help to promote youthful skin by providing substances that our skin naturally loses as we age. I wanted to have something on hand, other than petroleum based Aquaphor, to help when dry skin patches appeared. That’s when I first learned of tallow for skin care. Soon after, I whipped up my first batch of tallow balm and was hooked. Now, almost all of our skin care products are tallow based like our tallow deodorant, magnesium lotion, and sunscreen. What is Tallow Balm? Vitamins A, B12, D, E, and K are extremely nourishing for skin. This particular combination of beneficial vitamins is only found together in animal products.

Tallow has a long shelf life, and you don't need to refrigerate it. Just ensure you're storing it in a glass-sealed container away from sunlight. References Another problem concerning the purity of tallow is the diet of the animals from which its obtained. It's impossible to know how the animals were treated before they ended up where they did. Usually, you buy products containing tallow from companies that don't breed animals but rather buy the ingredient from companies in the meat industry.Of course, there are alternative vegan options available, such as this whipped Mango Body Butter recipe. Storage When we put all these natural ingredients together using our unique method, we created something that's much more than just a moisturiser. It's a lotion, a night cream, anti-wrinkle cream, after shaving balm, a repair cream... and so much more. Absolutely yes! When skin is stripped of its natural oils from over cleansing, it will overcompensate by producing too much oil.