Salinity Presents: Tru Tallow

For somebody who might be listening and who's never heard of tallow and really doesn't understand why you're talking about farms, you give a little tallow 101.

Absolutely.

Tallow is fat from any ruminant animal.

So any animal that chews its cud, you can get tallow from.

Specifically for skincare, tallow should be taken from the suet of the animal.

And the suet is a large chunk of fat that surrounds the kidneys.

That's just great place where a lot of nutrition is stored in that big chunk of fat.

And you'll hear about tallow for cooking as well.

And a lot of that tallow that you're finding offered in stores is not necessarily from the suet of the animal.

It's from trim fat or other sources of fat within the animal.

And that's fine.

But for skincare, we've realized it's really important that you use the suet.

You get a much cleaner, more golden, richer product.

by using the suet.

And we had to go through, it was more than a year, about 18 months of testing and trialing our rendering process.

So you take the suet, this big chunk of fat, you chop it down into little pieces, and then you go through a rendering process, which is heating it.

But you want to heat it very low and very slow to retain as much nutrition as possible.

You don't want to cook out the nutrition.

We end up rendering the suet in order to get what is called tallow.

And you can do that with any ruminant animal's fat.

You can do it with deer or sheep, bison.

There's a lot of different types of tallows being offered right

now.

In a nutshell, that's what tallow is.

And if you wonder, why would you want to put it on your skin? It's full of nutrition.