Todays project: Honey Tallow Face Cream

Super easy to make!

80g rendered tallow

40g local raw honey

20g castor oil

50 drops pure Frankincense oil

Add them all in together and blend with a stick blender. You can melt the tallow if you want to and mix the honey into the warm tallow first but then you need to chill it for 30 min until semi firm before whipping for the best results. I'm really happy with the chuck it all in method.

I've found I only need the very smallest amount to get a lovely silky feeling when it's all rubbed it. I'm excited to see how my skin responds to it over the next fortnight. I might make a few tweaks to the next batch based on my results.

#homesteading #tallow #honey

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It looks pretty. 😍

It smells good too

Ooooh, honey sounds great! I’ll add on mine next time. Thank you! 🙏🏽😊

Is the castor oil needed?

Some sort of liquid oil helps with the texture. You could use olive oil or rosehip old or whatever suits your skin better. I like castor oil for my skin needs.

My wife likes the castor oil too!

Another project with honey? Reposted to bee able to find this recipe again and show my wife… have two hives so far and hoping to catch a lot more bees this year!

The best hive products will all come from treatment free hives, by the way… so, ideally visit your local beekeeper if you can to see their apiary, or ask about their methods. We do not treat for varroa mites, small hive beetles or ever feed sugar water, and we only use locally caught bees. So much less stress for them and us, especially using Layen’s style hives! 🐝😍 #beestr #naturalbeekeeping

I have a hive here and for those without 8 always say go local. The bees harvesting from the environment you live in seems to add something to the honey particular to the area. We use it for hayfever treatment here too in the spring and it makes a big difference.

Another nice thing with Layen’s hives or any horizontal hive really, is that if you don’t treat there are products available that commercial beekeepers can’t sell, like bee bread and I believe also propolis, which is a natural anti-viral

Update:

I've been using this for 2 weeks now and skin loves it! And can highly recommend anyone give it a go.

I only need to use a very small amount so one batch is going to last me several months. I started just at night be it feels great on my skin so I use it in the morning now too. It cost me a couple of dollars to make so it makes sense rather than buying products.

The skin absorbs everything we put on it so it's important to me that I don't put anything on my skin that I wouldn't eat. I know I'm not putting anything on my skin that could do me harm.

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Just forwarded this to Mrs Christopher as she's been looking for something like this. Great timing. Kismet ❤️

At this point between cooking with tallow and slathering it all over my skin I'm pretty much made of tallow 😂

I'd love to hear if she like it.