Open jar of whipped grass-fed tallow next to an amber essential oil bottle on a wooden counter, with assorted unused ingredient bottles softly blurred behind. Open jar of whipped grass-fed tallow next to an amber essential oil bottle on a wooden counter, with assorted unused ingredient bottles softly blurred behind.

OUR INGREDIENT STANDARD

WE NEVER DILUTE OUR TALLOW TO MAKE IT MARKETABLE. WE REFINE IT TO MAKE IT EXCEPTIONAL

Tallow is the primary ingredient in our products, not diluted as a base afterthought. We don’t use fillers for cost-cutting or any unnecessary ingredients ‘just because’. Each added ingredient must serve a functional purpose and every ingredient earns its place.

Our No-Filler Promise

Most brands try to "improve" tallow by adding more ingredients. We have taken the opposite, and better, approach that can be summed up in five simple words:

Simple | Pure | Potent | Biologically Correct

We Refuse To Use:

❌ Coconut Oil
❌ Olive Oil
❌ Jojoba Oil
❌ Almond Oil
❌ Shea Butter
❌ Generic "Seed Oils"
❌ Synthetic Fragrance
❌ Preservatives
❌ Stabilizers
❌ Waxes used as fillers or texture shortcuts
❌ Petroleum-based ingredients or derivatives
❌ Hormone disruptors or irritants

Why do we refuse these ingredients? Because they tend to clog pores, cause irritation, add their own greasiness to the formula, oxidize quickly, create rapid spoilage or instability, disrupt the skin barrier, dilute the potency of the tallow base, and are often used to reduce cost or mask odor from inadequate rendering.

Our Intentional Additives

Added ingredients must have a functional purpose and provide complementary benefits, which is why we only use them intentionally, never indiscriminately. These are supporting ingredients, not base fillers. Our tallow always remains the main ingredient by a mile.

Unbranded amber essential oil bottle being tipped over a stainless mixing bowl of freshly whipped grass-fed tallow.
Single drop of essential oil meeting the surface of whipped grass-fed tallow in a stainless mixing bowl beside a stand mixer.

Certified Pure Essential Oils (Moisturizers, Body Butters, Limited Drops)

We only use the most tested, most trusted, certified pure essential oils. Chosen for more than scent; they are selected for compatibility, documented benefits, and formulation discipline. We never use inferior adulterated essential oils or synthetic fragrences.

Refined Hemp Seed Oil (Body Butter Only).

Body Butter serves larger skin areas that produce less natural oil. A small amount of refined hemp seed oil provides a softer glide and deeper nourishment for these areas without compromising the tallow-first formulation principle. Non-comedogenic and quick absorbing, it supports the skin barrier, and is high in omega-3 and omega-6 essential fatty acids. Refining removes chlorophyll, odor, unstable plant compounds, and plant particulates, resulting in an extremely stable oil with zero odor contribution to the finished formula.

Refined hemp seed oil being poured in a thin stream into a small ceramic bowl on a wood surface in soft window light.
Amber jar of Tallow & Things Roman Chamomile & Lavender Body Butter beside refined hemp seed oil and hulled hemp seeds on a wood surface.
Four Tallow & Things limited edition products — Frankincense & Myrrh Holiday Blend, Summer Butter, Rose Essence Wearable Scent, and Minty Rose Tinted Lip Balm — arranged together on a whitewashed wood surface with an evergreen sprig, dried rose petals, and a pale stone.
Tallow & Things limited edition ingredients — vitamin E, beeswax, castor oil, non-nano zinc oxide.

Seasonal, Subscriber-Only, Limited Editions

A few times a year, we create small-batch, subscriber-only, limited edition drops — like our Holiday Blend, Lip Balm, Wearable Scent, and Summer Butter, among others.

All are built on the exact same foundation as the rest of our line: 100% grass-fed tallow infused with certified pure essential oils, like Frankincense and Myrrh in our Holiday Blend or Rose in our Wearable Scent.

A small number of additional ingredients sometimes appear in these limited edtions, chosen with the same restraint we apply to everything we make, a few of which you'll recognize by name.

In our Lip Balm, Vitamin E offers antioxidant and barrier-stabilizing support; hexane-free castor oil brings glide, cling, and comfort, and beeswax provides the structure that keeps it all in place.

In our Summer Butter we add a small, amount of non-nano zinc oxide, a finely milled mineral with a long history in calming topical formulas, is included for its gentle presence.

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