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The heat came on this week. First time since spring.
You probably did not notice. But the air in your house just changed, and so did your skin. Dry furnace air pulls moisture out of you all night, every night, from now until April.
Your hands are fine today. That is exactly the point.
A tallow balm is a moisturizer made from rendered beef fat and wax, with no water in it. Water is what most lotions are made of, and water leaves your skin in about ninety seconds. A balm has none, so nothing evaporates. It also needs no preservative, because there is no water for anything to grow in. Hide & Hive uses six ingredients: grass-fed tallow, beeswax, propolis, royal jelly, olive oil and jojoba oil.
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What Tallow Balm Is Not
Not a lotion.
Not a body butter.
Not a cream.
A balm is fat and wax.
Lotions, butters and creams all start with water. Then they need an emulsifier to hold water and oil together. Then a preservative, because water grows bacteria. Then a thickener. Then something to fix the pH.
Four of those five ingredients are there to manage the water. You pay for all of them. And in October you will not notice the difference. In December you will.
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Why These Four Have Long Been Used For
We will not tell you what they do to your skin. We will tell you what people have worked with them for, and for how long.
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Rendered fat was the base of household salve long before the beauty industry existed. Grass-fed tallow |
Used in skin preparations for thousands of years. It is what holds a salve together and keeps it on you. Beeswax |
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The resin bees seal their hive with. Traditional preparations have worked with it for a very long time. Propolis |
Fed only to the larvae chosen to become queens. Used in cosmetic preparations for centuries. Royal jelly |
That is a careful way to put it, and we mean it to be. Tallow is not a treatment for any condition. What it does is soften dry skin and slow water loss.
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Buy It While Your Hands Are Still Fine
You do not buy a tallow balm for the day your knuckles split. You buy it for the eight weeks before that, while nothing hurts yet.
That is the whole trick, and almost nobody does it. We wait for the damage, then spend six weeks catching up on something that took two days to lose.
So the only thing that matters is whether the jar is somewhere you already stand. There are three of those spots.
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Beside the kitchen sink Use it while your hands are still damp. That damp skin is half the result. |
On the edge of the bath Straight out of the shower, while the steam is still on you. |
On the nightstand Last thing, lights off. That is when the furnace runs longest and the air is driest. |
Give it two weeks before you decide. Skin is slow.
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Why It Costs $29
We would rather tell you than let you guess.
$29
One jar · 2 fl oz
Royal jelly. A colony makes a few grams a season. It is why this is not a $12 jar.
No water. Water is the cheapest thing a lotion is made of. Take it out and every ounce you buy works.
Hand rendering. Slow heat, three purifications, small batches. Slow costs money.
Three jars is $72. That is $24 each. One batch, one box, one label run. We pass that on.
The guarantee runs twelve months for the same reason. Thirty days in October tells you nothing. January is the test, and January is a long way from your order date.
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Fat and wax. No water. Six ingredients.
One jar is $29 and lasts most people about two months. Three jars is $72, which is $24 each.
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Who Should Not Buy This
Anyone allergic to bees or bee products. Three of the six ingredients come from a hive. Propolis is a known contact allergen.
And if your skin is very oily, this may be more than you want on your face. Tallow is not non-comedogenic for everyone. Start on your hands.
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“ Rich but non-greasy and absorbs fast. No scent, no burn, no shine. Alissaya M. · Verified Purchase |
“ What I love most is how deeply nourishing it feels without clogging my pores. Hannah · Verified Purchase |
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Tallow Balm: Four Straight Answers
What is a tallow balm?
A moisturizer made from rendered beef fat and wax, with no water in it. No water means no preservative and no emulsifier.
Is a tallow balm better than lotion?
For dry skin, usually, because nothing evaporates. For oily skin, often not. A lotion feels lighter, and that is a real reason to pick one.
Does a tallow balm go off?
Slowly. Fats go rancid in time, but with no water there is nothing for bacteria to grow in. Keep it out of sun and heat.
How long does one jar last?
About two months for daily use on hands and face. It goes further than it looks.
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Keep It Where Your Hands Already Are
Use the whole jar. If it is not the best you have owned, write to us and we send every cent back. Twelve months.
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P.S. There is no countdown on this page and no sale ending tonight. We make it in small batches and it sells at the pace it sells.
But here is the one honest piece of timing. The jar does its best work before the damage, not after. If you are going to want it in January, October is when to put it on the shelf.
One thing worth knowing now. Use it on damp skin, not dry. That habit changes the result more than the jar you pick. See the jars here.
For external use only. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. This article is educational and is not medical advice. Individual results vary. Do not use if you are allergic to bees or bee products. Patch test new products, avoid known allergens, and consult a qualified healthcare professional for persistent skin conditions.