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What is beef tallow?Updated 3 months ago

Beef tallow represents rendered fat from cattle, specifically sourced from the nutrient-dense suet surrounding the kidneys and loins. This premium fat undergoes careful processing to create a luxurious, butter-like consistency that has nourished human skin for millennia.

Quality tallow has a fatty acid makeup that is nearly bioidentical to the natural oils our skin naturally produces (called sebum). Because of this close match, our skin recognizes tallow almost like it's our own natural moisturizer, which means it absorbs really well and rarely causes irritation - unlike a lot of synthetic products that can feel foreign to our skin.

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