Is tallow bad for your skin?
Is tallow bad for your skin?
If you follow me you KNOW that I’m not one of those tallow is a for everyone product.
You also know I’m evidence based so I’m not going to share misinformation in favor of tallow.
That said ….. there’s a lot of buzz going around about tallow not being good for skin care, about it even being harmful or damaging over time. You can guess who pushes this information…. Dermatologists, Cleveland clinic, some estheticians ..allopathy……
You may also even see some formulators who will say this same thing
“it’s damaging”
“it’s bad for skin”
“tallow will wreck your skin”
However the sources are often lacking; they’ll pull articles with no studies, they’ll cite their own opinion as an “expert” In a field where frankly they don’t actually teach you about tallow.
The truth is tallow isn’t widely studied for skin care. So for them to have such a ….. strong opinion of it and to speak it from an evidence based stance is at best misleading.
Tallow is what one would call ancient skin Care. So a lot of the “evidence” is personal testimonials. I did come across one link which was a meta analysis of other data pulled to conclude tallows safety and if it’s of benefits for skin care and I’ll link that below. 👇🏻
https://www.cureus.com/articles/209121-tallow-rendered-animal-fat-and-its-biocompatibility-with-skin-a-scoping-review?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwLnZB5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHjuP4KgsEy2256J_WK5DIStKQX5Dou7k-5nZntpbJwkYQMcCDJGfYUn9ye6C_aem_yy5PVShKyMWusLGFSg3omQ#!/
As I said I don’t advocate as tallow being a holy grail one size fits only thing for skin care. I may not be a certified consultant or esthetician but I do research 🔬 because it’s so important to know what you’re doing and what you’re talking about when you’re not only formulating but educating. So I can tell you confidently that skin care isn’t one size fits all and when you look at it from a whole body healing approach you learn so many things tie into how our skin looks and feels.
For example - when I was hydrating upon hydrating for an unrelated issue my skin was so much more hydrated. My skins hydration came from within. I found water based products don’t work well for me either but for someone else they might. Diet impacts acne, hormones impact acne, deficiencies can impact elasticity and so on and so forth.
All of this said…. As I got side tracked 😂 the entire purpose of this post is to dispel the misinformation that tallow is bad for your skin. Across the board. It’s so much more nuanced than this and naturally as I said I’m sharing a link for study because often times they’ll try to say that my information can’t be trusted since I sell tallow 🫣 you can’t argue validity with a study though 😅
If you’ve made it this far….. because i appreciate the nuances of skin care. Share your tallow experiences below. Did it work for you? Did it not? Did it cause issues for you? Did it save your skin?
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