I’ve told you this before I am a tallow convert. It is especially soothing when skin is sensitive or the skin barrier needs time to heal. In situations like eczema or rosacea it can often be soothing when other creams and topicals have too many ingredients. Or when skin needs time to heal like after too much exfoliation or harsh cleansers that have stripped the skin, in this situation the skin often needs something gentle and soothing that is not overly complicated.
Tallow is compatible with our skin and has a similar make up of essential fatty acids.
It soaks in amazingly quickly
It keeps your skin moisturized all through the night.
It’s soothing to irritated skin conditions (looking at you eczema type skin conditions)
It’s deeply moisturizing for mature skin and dry skin.
And it's loaded with skin loving vitamins, like A, E, D and K and antioxidants that skin drinks up.
Tallow combined with colloidal oatmeal, another powerhouse for calming irritated skin, is the perfect combo to ease and soothe sensitive and upset skin.
If you make it, make sure you get a high quality tallow from healthy grass fed and organic cows to avoid toxins but also because the tallow will be higher in all those skin loving nutrients. I’ve included links to the ingredients I use, most of them are affiliate links, so I make a little money when you buy through it (thanks, if you do!)
Whipped Tallow & Colloidal Oatmeal
½ cup Grass Fed Tallow (3.5 ounces)
1 tbs Apricot Oil
1 tbs Rosehip Oil
After melting
-Add 1 tsp of Colloidal Oatmeal Powder
Add 1/4tsp of Vitamin E
Directions
1. Melt the tallow on low in a double boiler.
2. Once it has melted, remove from heat and place it in the refrigerator to solidify. This takes about thirty minutes or so. It should still be somewhat soft so that the rest of the ingredients fully combine and so that air can be whipped into it, to make it lighter and silkier.
3. When the tallow has cooled and solidified add the Rosehip Oil, the Apricot Oil, the Colloidal Oatmeal and Vitamin E and using a hand held mixer whip it until its light and fluffy.
4. Pour the whipped tallow into clean jars.
It will set up and get a little firmer in the jars. If you want a more solid constituency then add more tallow or less apricot oil.
