Grass-fed tallow is47% oleic acid.the fat your skin makes.
Grass-fed tallow isrich in oleic acid— the fat your skin makes.
Oleic acid is the fatty acid your skin uses most to stay soft and supple — and your skin produces it on its own. Grass-fed tallow is roughly 47% oleic acid, so it's a fat your skin already recognizes, not a synthetic it has to work around.
Tallow's fatty-acid profile varies by source and season; values shown are category averages for grass-fed, grass-finished beef tallow.
Ten ingredients. Each named.
Full INCI disclosure. No proprietary blends, no fragrance parfums, no "natural" asterisks. Every batch is microbiologically tested by an independent laboratory.
§ 01 — Grass-Fed Beef Tallow
Adeps Bovis
- 01Grass-Fed Beef Tallow
Lipid-rich carrier — vitamins A, D, E, K and oleic acid, a fat your skin also makes.
Adeps Bovis - 02Shea Butter
Triterpene-rich emollient — cushions and softens the balm on application.
Butyrospermum Parkii - 03Raw Honey
Humectant with naturally occurring enzymes. Drawn from unheated hives.
Mel - 04Olive Fruit Oil
Squalene-forward liquid fat — absorbs cleanly, leaves no film.
Olea Europaea - 05Sea Buckthorn Oil
Omega-7 dense. The orange you see; the provitamin A you feel.
Hippophae Rhamnoides - 06Oat Kernel Flour
Colloidal oat — classically tolerated by eczema-prone skin.
Avena Sativa - 07Calendula Flower Extract
Infused, not synthetic. Traditionally used on reactive skin.
Calendula Officinalis - 08Roman Chamomile Oil
Bisabolol-forward. A measured amount — not a fragrance, a soothing compound.
Anthemis Nobilis - 09Aloe Vera Juice
Polysaccharide hydrator. Inner-leaf, stabilized cold.
Aloe Barbadensis - 10Coconut Oil
Structural — raises the melt point so the balm holds its form.
Cocos Nucifera
No synthetic fragrance. No parabens. No sulfates. No petroleum. No phenoxyethanol. No artificial color. No water — so no preservatives needed.
Vegan skincare. Beef tallow is the point. If that's a deal-breaker we respect it and recommend looking elsewhere.
A pea-sized amount warms on contact. It disappears in about a minute.
Warm it
Scoop a pea-sized amount on a fingertip. Roll it between fingers for 3–5 seconds. Solid at room temperature, liquid at skin temperature.
Apply it
Press into affected areas — hands, cheeks, elbows, shins, anywhere reactive. Face, body, and lips.
Don't rush it
Give it 60–90 seconds to absorb. A 2.7 oz jar lasts roughly 8 weeks for face + target patches, or 4 weeks for full-body.
Built for customers with dry, reactive, eczema-prone skin. Patch test first, and read the full allergen note if you have a sensitivity to lanolin or bovine products.
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Small batch. Slow render.
The tallow in every BUTTR jar is grass-fed and grass-finished, rendered slowly under 200°F — not the industrial spin-render shortcut most of the category quietly uses.
Pasture-raised, not grain-finished.
Grass-fed and grass-finished matters. Grain-finished cattle produce tallow with a fatty-acid profile shifted toward omega-6 — structurally the opposite of what your skin needs. The tallow we use comes from cattle fed on pasture through finishing, not a feedlot.
- Origin
- United States
- Feed
- 100% pasture, no grain
- Testing
- Microbiology tested
Slow wet-rendered, not steam-rendered.
We render at low heat (<200°F) in stainless steel over 36–48 hours. This keeps vitamins A and D intact — both are destroyed at the industrial steam-render temperatures the category's volume producers use to hit a cost target.
- Temperature
- < 200°F / 93°C
- Duration
- 36–48 hours
- Batch size
- ~ 200 jars
- Testing
- Microbiology tested
We looked at the tallow category and saw a lot of story, not a lot of rigor.
Most tallow brands sell a homestead aesthetic and a short ingredient list. Very few name their farm. Very few publish a render temperature. Very few will tell you the fatty-acid profile of the specific tallow in the jar.
We built BUTTR because the category's best property — a fatty-acid profile rich in the oleic acid your skin makes — gets buried under folklore copy on every product page. The science is the reason this works. We wanted a brand that put it on the front of the jar instead of the back.
Ten ingredients. Every one named. Every claim on this site sourced. The work is in refusing the shortcuts the rest of the category quietly takes.
Formulated in small batch.
Shipped within 48 hours.
Every jar is rendered and poured in small batches in the United States. 30-day return on any jar, used or unused. Buy more, pay less per jar: the discount applies automatically in your bag.
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