Tallow is the rendered form of beef fat. The rendering process involves gently heating raw beef fat to remove the water and make it shelf stable and usable for things like cooking and incorporating into skincare products.

Go grab the products that are a staple in your skincare routine, find the list of ingredients, and read them. Chances are that half of the ingredients on that list may take you three tries in order to pronounce them properly. Now look at our ingredient list: easy to pronounce and likely an item already in your pantry. Your skincare ingredients should be synonymous with the items you cook with and eat.

Our tallow is sourced from a single regenerative ranch in the USA that owns and operates its own processing facility. All cattle are regeneratively raised on pastures and 100% grass-fed and finished. The regenerative standard is a leap beyond organic because not only does a regenerative ranch abstain from the use of pesticides, fungicides, insecticides, and anything that ends in the word "cide," but it also aims to mimic the cycles inherent in nature. It is an approach to farming and land management that goes beyond sustainability by focusing on improving and regenerating the health of the soil, ecosystem, and biodiversity. The goal is to restore soil fertility, enhance water retention, increase biodiversity, and capture carbon from the atmosphere, contributing to environmental restoration.

Yes, we exclusively use tallow sourced from the suet around the kidneys of cattle because of its superior saturated fatty acid profile, nutrient content, consistency, and texture.

No. Since we use tallow sourced from cattle suet, there is no perceivable beef smell to our products. Even our unscented tallow balms only have the smell of beeswax and honey.

Tallow has become so popular because of its ability to be used on the most sensitive skin. Tallow is in the foods we eat and it passes the test of what we can put on our skin. For the most sensitive skin types, we recommend trying our unscented tallow products first.

When we talk about suet tallow, we are comparing it to muscle tallow. Suet tallow is significantly less greasy than muscle tallow with drastically improved qualities at room temperature. We are using the best tallow possible in our products, with a goal to provide non-greasy results. Remember that a little goes a long way with all of our products, and you should not have anything to worry about!

Absolutely! The same qualities of tallow that make it great for our skin will also work wonders for your beloved pets! The moisturizing, healing, antibacterial, and nourishing properties of tallow work exceedingly well at treating dry paws & noses, hot spots, rashes, and scrapes. We recommend using the unscented tallow balm for your pets, but if any of our other scents pass the sniff test then you may have the green light!

We are passionate about making the best possible tallow products, which led us on a path of finding the highest quality ingredients for our products. We source the most nutrient dense, non-greasy, non-fragrant tallow. We use the highest quality extra-virgin olive oil, beeswax, and raw honey. We are transparent about all of our ingredients, which is why we use steam-distilled essential oils that have been laboratory tested for authenticity and purity. We started Holy Cow Tallow because we tried other tallow products out there that did not meet our personal standards of quality and transparency. We believe we have mastered the qualities of texture, scent, look, and function so that when our customers try our products for the first time, they have no doubts that they have discovered the best in tallow skincare and haircare!