Improve Your Skin Care Routine

Ditch the synthetic products and get back to the roots of skin care

Every day, millions of people lather petroleum byproducts, highly processed vegetable oils, and lab-created chemical compounds onto their skin - AKA, our largest organ.

Oh, and it’s highly likely that if you’re reading this and you either: shower, shave, use face or hair product of any kind, you too are ingesting the above man-made garbage, daily. 

Is it any wonder why people have higher rates of disease and generally feel crappier nowadays?

Back to Basics

Before the world was hijacked by corporations that cut corners to make a buck while being simultaneously enabled by consumers who wanted the next best beauty product at the lowest possible price, people used products that were readily available to them. 

Whether that was in-season produce or locally sourced meat where you probably knew who your farmer was. This is how humans obtained their day-to-day goods for hundreds, if not thousands of years. You couldn’t source niche products from around the globe using 2-day delivery. 

It also meant that you had to make more use of what was available. In the past, our ancestors didn’t just take the ribeyes and filets off of an animal - We took the hide for clothing, the horns and hooves for instruments or jewelry, the meat and organs for nourishment, and the fat for a wide variety of uses. 

For the sake of this article, I want to expand on the latter of those animal products: fat or tallow, and its many uses.

Liquid Gold

I imagine our ancestors roll in their graves each time they see one of their sorry excuses of the most dominant humanoid descendants trim and toss the precious fat off their steaks or drain excess fat into the garbage. 

Fat from wild or properly raised animals was liquid gold for our ancestors! Not only did fat provide the most calorie punch per bite and thus help our species survive and evolve, but even our recent ancestors, while still treasuring the calorie content of fat, found other amazing uses for it, such as candle making, lubricant, and skincare.

Primal Skin Care

Tallow has long been used in the history of our species to soothe, moisturize, and regenerate the skin, dating back to our ancient ancestors to even our recent ancestors just 100 years ago. 

This is because tallow closely resembles the human skin cell structure. They both contain 50-55% saturated fats and triglycerides, which give our skin cells structural integrity. 

Tallow is also almost identical to sebum, allowing nutrients to be easily absorbed.

And what nutrients can be found in tallow? Well, only the ones that are shown to be the best for your skin! 

Tallow contains Vitamins A, D, K, E, & B12, (This powerful combination is only naturally found together in animal products). On top of that, tallow also contains CLA (conjugated Linoleic Acid), oleic acid (omega-9) palmitic acid, stearic acid, Alpha linoleic (Omega-3), and linoleic acids (Omega-6) - All shown to maintain the structure of our skin and contain anti-inflammatory properties. 

Anecdotes have also shown that tallow helps to quell immune responses such as eczema and rosacea!

Tallow is just another example of ancient wisdom, meaning, that while the science to prove it wasn’t necessarily around until recently (speaking in terms of human history), it has been trusted through the ages for its use on the skin and body care.

So, why hasn’t any company taken advantage of this ancient wisdom and put it out in the marketplace? 

Well, companies love to cut corners, raise profits, and have a product pumped out as fast, cheap, and uniform as possible. Mechanized factories and jobs that are shipped overseas and making products using petroleum byproducts, unsustainable palm oil, vegetable oils, and hormone-altering synthetic fragrances at the cost of your health are much more attractive for them. 

Oh, not to mention marketing departments that spin up catchy sayings like “cruelty-free” and pump out claims that their products don’t have any ill effects on humans. Well, how do they ACTUALLY know that? Considering their products have only been around in the last century? And how can you market something as cruelty-free when harvesting palm, soy, and other vegetable oils displace animals, and the factories that produce it pollute our water and air? All fair questions that need to be asked.

Listen, we know that the skin is the largest organ of the body and readily absorbs much of what is applied to it, whether good or bad. Maybe it’s just me, but I think it would be wise to not apply chemicals that I can’t pronounce and that were made in labs on my skin like a human guinea pig. Put it this way, if you wouldn’t/shouldn’t eat it, do NOT put it on your skin. 

The Solution

I have grown tired of this modern mentality of trying to improve on what nature and the earth have provided for us. Whether that is fake meat and the paradox of people saying we shouldn’t eat animals while simultaneously looking for ways to replicate the taste and appearance of a dead animal for consumption (crazy right), or with body care.

This is why I first got into making my own body products or getting them from a trusted source.

I’ve been making body/face/hair balm made from 100% grass-fed tallow sourced from the United States - more specifically, Arizona cows. Tallow can be quite solid at room temperature, so I use an 80/20 tallow-to-oil ratio to make it more easily spreadable on my face, body, and hair. 

And as far as oil goes - You guessed it, sourced only from the USA, 100% organic, non-GMO olive oil from California. I try to eliminate as many sketchy sources as I can, since (unfortunately, I’m not making my own olive oil (one day).

Then, I topped off with 100% organic essential oils that constitute less than 1% of my product and you get a product that is Made in America and is sourced in a way that supports American farmers and workers. 

Each year, I also alter the recipe just a tad to make sunscreen for Maddie to use when we are out all day in our Arizona and New Jersey summers.

To make the sunscreen, I simply add non-nano Zinc oxide (the active ingredient in sunscreen) and beeswax (to make it a bit waterproof so you don’t need to keep applying it). 

I started in on sunscreen after seeing all of the crap ingredients that are in commercially available sunscreens that are not only terrible for you, but terrible for the environment.

Now, I can’t make claims on my product because it’s not inspected by some government agency that is propped up by the very corporations that I’m criticizing… But I will say that your grandparents, Spartans, Romans, Mongols, Vikings, Samurai, the Zulu, all of our badass ancestors probably used something very similar.

Take action: I highly recommend you stop buying store-bought products that are poisoning your endocrine system and learn to make your own. I can all but guarantee, that if you throw out your current face-cleaning routine and replace it with tallow, you’ll get the results you’re looking for.

I walk the walk too - My face routine consists of the water that hits it when I shower (filtered water of course) and bear or beef fat afterward.

If you are interested in making your own tallow or sunscreen, check out my YouTube video I just posted that walks you through the process:

If you don’t feel like going through the trouble of making it, you can also support me and my channel by buying one of my tins that you watch me make!

What other company allows you to watch a video of how their products are made? :)

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-Sebastian