Your skin loves it! You can tell when you begin using tallow products that your skin is simply happy. And there's good reason for that. Beef tallow is biocompatible with human skin. Grass fed and finished beef tallow has many of the same properties as the sebum produced by human sebaceous glands that produce the oils that coat, moisturize and protect our skin.

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For generations people raised their own livestock and harvested the animals for meat to feed their families and they let nothing go to waste. They used the extra fat and rendered it into oil. They would cook and bake with the oil and use a portion of it to make soap by adding Sodium Hydroxide, commonly known as lye.

 

Lye (Sodium Hydroxide) is used in most all soap. Mixing it with water creates a chemical reaction and then adding it to various oils or fat creates another reaction called saponification. It's made from two simple ingredients, ashes from burnt wood and water. Check it out! 

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The absolute best tallow comes from cattle that are grass fed and finished. Cows are a ruminant animal and their natural diet is grass. Today many cattle are put on a diet of grains at some point in their growing season to speed up their weight gain for market. A cow that is grass fed and finished has had a life time diet of grasses. Science says that grass fed and finished beef has the highest nutritional value in the meat and in the fat.

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Our tallow comes from the leaf fat of the animal. The leaf fat surrounds the kidneys and other organs. It has the highest nutrient value and makes great skin care products. Most products used today are petroleum based cleansers and lotions.

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Beef tallow from healthy cattle that have grazed a lifetime is truly a beautiful thing. It's loaded with nutrients that are beneficial both internally and externally. 

• Vitamins A, D, K, & E, & B12

• Rich in minerals  (Grandpa's cattle are on a Free Choice Mineral program)

• Conjugated Linoleic Acid with natural anti-inflammatory properties

• Palmitoleic acid (omega 7) which is one of our skin’s basic building blocks

• Palmitic acid helps improve the protective barrier function of skin

• Stearic acid helps to repair damaged skin, and improves skin’s flexibility and suppleness

No wonder my skin is so happy! It was thirsty for these nutrients and their benefits. It’s important to note that these nutrients are far more abundant in grass fed and finished cattle than cattle that have had a diet including grain.

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sources about the benefits of grass fed and finished beef tallow.