Did you know that tallow has been used for centuries as a skin moisturizer?
In the middle ages, people made tallow-based soaps and body creams to heal skin ailments.
Native Americans used animal fats like tallow to protect their skin from bug bites and the harsh elements.
Even Australian aboriginal tribes used emu oil which is the pure fat of the massive Emu bird, to moisturize their skin!
We’ve been using animal fat to moisturize our skin since the dawn of man, but in the last 100 years, we’ve to putting toxic seed oils and plastic emulsifiers on our skin, thinking it’s good for us…?
Here’s a glance at how beef tallow for skin was used in the past and why it’s made a big comeback.
1. Used as a healing salve in Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egyptians used an animal fat-based cream (often tallow) to not only moisturize their skin, but to protect their skin from the sun.
They also used tallow along with honey to heal wounds, burns and diseases of the skin.
2. Used as a base for soap in the middle ages
Moving up to the middle ages, tallow was the primary base for all soaps, lotions, even candles.
In the 1400s in England, it was a law to keep a lantern outside of your house with a lit tallow candle in it.
Tallow was also central to many soap-making businesses. These soaps were used by the community for both cleansing and moisturizing.
3. Pioneers loved it
Fast forward to the 18th century and both women and men continued to use tallow soaps, however; tallow candles were replaced with cheaper ingredients like paraffin wax.
Soapmakers got more creative with their soaps, adding herbs and other oils to the mix, even making skin creams and balms with tallow.
4. Industrial skin care took over
WIth the industrial age came ‘industrial skin care’.
Soap makers ‘Proctor and Gamble’ were one of the first companies to mass produce a soap not made of tallow, which was too expensive for mass production, but with solidified cottonseed oil.
From that point onward, seed oils were the preferred ingredient in skincare, because why waste money on expensive tallow when you can use ultra cheap seed oils that is so processed, it lasts on the shelf forever?
5. Clean, pure, lab-based beauty
As the decades went on, skin care brands preferred the lab-based, ‘scientific’ image as opposed to natural & earthy.
As long as the concoction was ‘scientifically proven’ to help the skin, it was considered a winning product.
Nevermind that the ingredients used seep into the skin and cause cancer and other diseases. If the skin care product was advertised as being approved by fake doctors and scientists, then the public accepted it.
6. Tallow makes a come back
With the rise of social media, the whole world has recently become more aware of the toxic ingredients in their skin care products.
They started to demand cleaner options, and this is when beef tallow for skin care started to make a comeback.
Now, there are multiple skincare companies offering tallow-based products like balms, creams, lotions, sunscreens and more.
We’re proud to be one of the many tallow-based skin care companies that do not put any toxins or chemicals in our products.
The only thing you’ll find in our tallow balm is grass fed & finished beef tallow, manuka honey, organic olive oil, marigold pot flower extract and organic vitamin E.
It’s our version of the original, ancient tallow balms, that have been used for over a millenia, except whipped up so it’s as satisfying to use as the toxic stuff.
Click here to purchase your own jar of our Evil Goods Whipped Honey Tallow Balm!
