Most brands position the small size as a sample. Buy the little one, decide you like it, graduate to the big one. That is not what the 2 oz tallow balm is, and buying it that way is how people end up with a 4 oz jar sitting three-quarters full on a shelf.
The 2 oz is a different product for a different job. It is the jar for a face, a handbag, and a scent you want to change with the season. Here is when it is the right call.
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The same balm, a different amount of it
Start with what is not different. The 2 oz is built on the same grass-fed, grass-finished tallow and the same honey as the larger jar. Same slow render, same small batches, no water, no emulsifiers, no preservative system because a waterless balm does not need one.
What changes is everything around the formula: the jar fits in a coat pocket, it comes in four scent options, and it costs less to try. If you have never used an animal-fat balm on your face and you are not certain how your skin will take to it, the smaller jar is the sensible way to find out. Our breakdown by skin type is worth five minutes before you order either size.
Four reasons people choose the small jar
1. It is a face jar
A pea-sized amount covers a whole face. Two ounces of a balm used that way lasts a long time, and it lasts in the one place where you actually notice a product going stale or picking up scent from a bathroom. Keeping your face balm separate from the jar you dig into with post-shower hands is a small piece of hygiene that costs nothing.
2. It travels
It goes in a bag, a gym locker, a carry-on, a desk drawer. Because there is no water in the formula there is nothing to leak in the conventional sense, though in a hot car it will soften and pool toward one side. That is normal for pure tallow and it firms up again once it cools. A few hours in a fridge or a cold room resets the texture completely.
3. You can have more than one scent
The 2 oz comes in Unscented, Lavender, Frankincense, and Santal Vanilla. At this size, having two is realistic: something quiet for the morning, something warmer at night. The Unscented version has no added fragrance and no botanical extract for scent, which is what you want if fragrance is the thing your skin reacts to, or if you simply do not want your moisturizer arguing with your perfume.
4. It is the honest first purchase
Rich occlusive balms are not universally right. Some people with oily or congestion-prone skin find tallow too heavy on the face, and we would rather say so than sell you four ounces of something you use twice. We went through the evidence and the mixed customer feedback in is beef tallow comedogenic. Buy the small one, patch test along your jaw for a few nights, and decide from there.
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Where the 2 oz earns its keep beyond the face
Even in a bag, it does not stay a face-only product for long. The things people reach for it for:
- Lips. The most common reason a 2 oz jar empties faster than expected.
- Cuticles and knuckles. Particularly after hand-washing, and particularly in winter.
- The dry patch nobody else sees. A shin, an elbow, the skin behind an ear.
- Over the top of a serum at night. Balms of this kind work well as a last step, sealing whatever is underneath. The order matters, and we laid it out in the night tallow routine.
- After sun, wind, or a long flight. On skin that feels tight and stripped rather than anything more serious.
What it is not: a cleanser, and not a substitute for professional care. It is a moisturizing balm and that is the whole of what it is for. If something about your skin concerns you, a dermatologist is the right call rather than a jar.
How to get more out of two ounces
Apply it to slightly damp skin. Straight out of the shower, or after a splash of water, or over a hydrating serum that has not fully dried. Tallow spreads much further over a little moisture than it does over completely dry skin, and the finish is lighter for it.
Warm a small amount between two fingertips for a couple of seconds first, then press it on rather than dragging it across. If your face looks shiny after five minutes you used roughly four times what you needed. Take less next time; the jar will last months.
Scoop with dry fingers. Keep the lid on. Keep it off a sunny windowsill. That is the entire maintenance routine, and we covered the reasoning in how to store beef tallow.
2 oz or 4 oz — deciding in one line
If you are using it on your face, or you are trying tallow for the first time, or you want it in a bag: take the 2 oz. If you are using it on legs, arms and hands after a shower, the 4 oz is the one that makes sense, and it works out cheaper per ounce. Plenty of people end up with both, one on the dresser and one in the bathroom.
Where to buy it
Amazon, if you want it on Prime delivery and prefer Amazon's returns process: buy the 2 oz Tallow Honey Balm on Amazon — Prime delivery. The rest of the range is on our Evil Goods Amazon storefront.
Our own site, if you want the full scent selection, the bundles, or a subscription: the 2 oz Tallow Honey Balm on evilgoods.com.
More than 500,000 customers have bought from us, and over 85,000 have ordered again. A good number of those repeat orders are a second small jar in a different scent, which tells you most of what you need to know about who this size is really for.
Dr. Elena Dinkollari
MD, Dermatologist & Endocrinology Assistant
Doctor Approved
