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Is anyone here making their own beef tallow balm? If so, I'd love to know—are you using the dry rendering method or wet rendering? I’m particularly curious to know which approach you find more effective and if you have insights into which method best preserves the nutrients in the tallow.

#BeefTallowBalm #NaturalSkincare

#TallowBalm #DIYSkincare

#DryRendering #WetRendering

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Callum 1y ago

Replying to the #NaturalSkincare tag (and not the Beef tallow tag), the best and most natural skincare (and haircare) is what your own body produces. It's a mix of oils, waxes and esthers and is produced by your own body with all the benefits of biofeedback. It goes by the (slightly unfortunate) name of *sebum*.

So best skincare is to not strip away the sebum that your body is producing to naturally protect and nourish it. Not stripping it away means not using soaps and detergents on your skin (and hair). Basically what's called 'water only'. In addition, try to keep the water cooler, because hot water also strips away the sebum more. (Cold) water only will give you naturally glowing, elastic and not dried out skin, i e youthful skin.

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Duchess 1y ago

Yeah this is something I trouble with because my showers are basically with boiling water 🥵

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Callum 1y ago

I'm not a cold showers zealot but I did do a year of exclusively cold showers as an experiment. Two things I noticed :

1. I have generally (very) good skin but did have, like a lot of people, drier skin on my elbows. These patches of drier skin went away and turned pink and smooth again.

2. Natural highlights came back into my hair, to a startling degree. I had very blond hair as a child, ageing into a more ash blond. The cold water brought back shining colour into my hair. That convinced me to go 'no poo' (no shampoo), after seeing how good sebum retention is for your hair.

Even just going cooler is better than hot hot showers (I haven't kept to strict cold showers). And hot baths are fine too. It's the hot water continually running over your skin & through yr hair in a shower which is what's damaging.

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Duchess 1y ago

Oh wow that’s nice

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Callum 1y ago

I'm not a cold showers zealot but I did do a year of exclusively cold showers as an experiment. Two things I noticed :

1. I have generally (very) good skin but did have, like a lot of people, drier skin on my elbows. These patches of drier skin went away and turned pink and smooth again.

2. Natural highlights came back into my hair, to a startling degree. I had very blond hair as a child, ageing into a more ash blond. The cold water brought back shining colour into my hair. That convinced me to go 'no poo' (no shampoo), after seeing how good sebum retention is for your hair.

Even just going cooler is better than hot hot showers (I haven't kept to strict cold showers). And hot baths are fine too. It's the hot water continually running over your skin & through yr hair in a shower which is what's damaging.