Healing your skin by helping your skin heal itself.
Your skin has its own built-in repair and restoration system. But too many products, even expensive ones, override or irritate this beautiful and powerful natural process rather than work with it.
Fat of the Land is made to help your skin do what it does best. Heal.
We have a plan to reinstate tallow as the main protagonist of skincare in modern-day beauty rituals—back to a time when tallow reigned supreme and nourishing animal fats were revered. You heard it here first, the future of beauty is powered by tallow.
Our Name
To live off the fat of the land is an old English saying that means to live well, to live off the surrounding abundance. It has been used for centuries to describe the bounty of the earth. It is a recognition and celebration of the inherent richness and gifts that nature relentlessly provides.
Our Journey: From Farm to Skin
2021 was the year we started asking more questions about the quality of meat we were getting from our organic supermarkets. This curiosity sparked a deep dive into researching local farms around us. Eventually, we found our butcher, who not only provides high-quality, grass-fed, pasture-raised meat but is also a passionate advocate for animal welfare and land stewardship. Throughout our year-long exploration, we became familiar with the concept of eating “nose to tail”. As a result, we started finding ways to incorporate different animal parts into our daily lives, including skincare. Making tallow skincare products is no small labour of love, but we were completely obsessed with the results.
Tallow, rich in vitamins A, D, E, and K, as well as essential fatty acids, proved to be a powerful natural moisturiser that nourished and hydrated our skin. Its nutrients work harmoniously to leave our skin soft, balanced, and radiant. Little did we know that a trip to the butcher would take down us down the road of making tallow skincare today. We are so unbelievably proud to share this ancient powerhouse ingredient with you and know from the deepest crevices of our hearts that you will love it too.
Our Paradigm
We need deep nourishment. The nourishment of bone, blood, meat, fat, organs, eggs, and cartilage. To create life, to be alive, requires an intimate, interdependent relationship with death. In all of life, there is death. We are not above it. It’s a cycle we choose to honour here at Fat of the Land.
Ideally nothing should be wasted when it comes to the death of an animal. Use the bones for bone broth, the skin for leather, the meat for nourishment, the organs for supplements, the tongue for tacos, and the tallow for cooking and healing our skin. When we take a life to sustain ours, we take it with honour and see every aspect of this being for the gift that is it. We are grateful and reverent for this nourishment. 🫶
How Does Skincare Work?
The whole point of skincare is to nourish the skin barrier (the epidermis). If you have that in place then the skin’s normal regenerative process can take over. The skin will be allowed to self-moisturise (via sebum), self-exfoliate (via a shedding process called desquamation) and self-protect (via the microbiome), which neutralises bacteria and pathogens and self heals.