How to Make Tallow Balm – The concept of using tallow to make skin balm is not new to us. We just came across it again, made it more widely known with our article in the Wise Traditions Journal’s Winter 2012 issue, and coined the phrase “tallow balm.” Make your own tallow balm if you’re a do-it-yourself kind of person. We support it! It is preferable if fewer people apply those chemical-laden creams to their skin! It would be our pleasure to produce Tallow Balm for you if you decide that doing it yourself isn’t your thing.
Our method of creating Tallow Balm is more intricate than the recipe provided below, which contributes to its exceptional softness and spreadability. You can produce tallow balm in your own kitchen by skipping some of the trickier procedures!
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How to Make Tallow Balm
First Step
Get tallow from sheep or cows that grown on pasture and fed just grass. Tallow is available from your neighborhood farm, or you can render the tallow yourself using the inside fat (suet). When purchasing tallow, sure it not processed and created from the fat inside the kidneys, known as suet, rather than from leftovers or other types of fat. It loses its entire food status and loses some of its medicinal benefits if it refined to get rid of the smell (or for any other reason).
If you are rendering your own tallow from suet, start here. If you using tallow that has already rendered, go to Step 5.
The exact same method you use to render lard can used to render tallow. There are different ways to render, but we recommend this “secret”, superior, and easy method that works for both tallow and lard and doesn’t use water (i.e., not the “wet” method), ensuring that the tallow will not undergo oxidation or rancidity: Cut up the suet into small pieces as shown, excluding anything that isn’t white. Place it in a vegetable steamer, colander, or pasta strainer over a pot, and put the pot in the oven at 220°F (105°C).
Step Two
Mash and stir the pot occasionally till it melts all of the tallow out of the suet. Leave the saucepan in the oven. There will be tallow drips into the kettle. (The quantity stated, roughly 8 pounds or 4 kilos, renders in 12 to 18 hours and yields about 1 gallon.)
Step Three
Pour the liquid tallow from the saucepan through a fresh colander set over a fresh pot, lined with a cloth (ideally organic), to filter the tallow. Don’t use techniques that sometimes referred to as triple-rendering or triple-filtering in an attempt to “filter out” or refine the tallow smell. This is significant because a product loses its medicinal value the more refined it becomes.
Step 4 to Make Tallow Balm
Should you begin with solid tallow that rendered at the farm or beforehand by yourself, carefully liquefy it in an oven set to 120 to 150°F (49 to 56°C).
To make the tallow softer and more spreadable at room temperature, thoroughly mix in the other pure, natural ingredient(s) of your choice while the tallow is still liquid and as cool as possible (around 120°F or 49°C). (Pure tallow was once used to make candles; it has a hard, waxy consistency.) Place the blend in the fridge to allow it to harden. As opposed to let it to harden at room temperature, this results in a smoother consistency for the tallow balm. (To make our tallow balm more softer, smoother, and more user-friendly, we employ a proprietary method.)
Depending on the ingredient and desired spreadability level, you will need to adjust the amount of additional ingredient(s) you combine with the tallow. Extra virgin olive oil used by us. Because of its calming, purifying, and hydrating qualities, olive oil has used as a skin ointment since ancient times. Since olive oil is liquid at normal temperature, the tallow can softened with little amount.
Using a more solid product—like shea butter, coconut oil, or palm oil—will require you to use more, which will partially negate the intention of creating a balm with a high tallow content. Make sure whatever you use is organic and pure. For instance, refined gasoline called hexane is occasionally used to extract shea butter, coconut oil, and palm oil. Recognize the ingredients. Although it is a little simpler to take from the jar, we do not advise whipping your tallow balm since this adds air and encourages rancidity. The balm will still need to warm up to absorb freely into the skin.
Step 5 to Make Tallow Balm
You can also add essential oils to the liquid mixture if you’d like. We use particular essential oils that have a long history of supporting the best possible skin health, including lavender. Adding essential oils to your tallow balm also has the primary advantage of neutralizing the distinct but not disagreeable tallow aroma and giving your balm a clean, pleasant scent. You don’t need much because essential oils are very concentrated, but you should be careful not to use any that have been prolonged, adulterated, manufactured, or distilled under high pressure or temperature using chemicals.
We use real, therapeutic-grade essential oils because of this. Once more, it’s critical to understand your ingredients and to stick to the rule that you should only use components that are entire, edible meals. Since tallow balm is a nourishing nourishment for the body and skin, you can be proud that you can take out a spoon and eat it!