Our Ingredients
At T’s Tallow, we take pride in sourcing the highest-quality ingredients. All our ingredients are tracable and come from reliable sources. Everything we use is natural and has been minimally processed.
Here are some details on each of our ingredients to give you peace of mind when shopping at teestallow.
Our Irish Tallow
Our tallow is rendered in house by us. We source our raw fat from Dunleavy Meats in Ireland. The cattle are grass-fed on pastures, and when housed, are fed grass-based feeds. Some farmers feed their animals on meal or cereal-based feeds, all of which are declared GMO-free when housed.
Why Irish beef fat? Ireland has a very temperate climate that provides a natural grass-based diet, high in vitamins and minerals which reflect in the quality and flavour of our tallow.
Rendering in-house means we know exactly whats going in our tallow. We remove any meat trimmings, glands and bloodvessels creating a pure rich tallow. Our cooking tallow is traditionally rendered once to preserve the flavour.
Our Skincare
Our skincare is a bit more complicated and requires a few more steps before we can produce our wonderful balms.
We use our same Irish tallow but render it 2-3 times more to create an odourless final result. It is wet rendered to remove as much impurties as possible. This way you wont smell like a steak!
During each render it is allowed to set at a cool temperature, all the impurties are then scraped off. After the third render it is ready to be used in our skincare products.
Our Base Ingredients
Beeswax
Supporting our local beekeeper in Peterborough. We buy unprocessed beeswax to craft our balms. It has a light fragrant smell and gives a balm like texture. When not possible we use beeswax from Spain which has very strict laws regarding honey and beekeeping.
Sweet Almond Oil
We chose this as a base oil as it very absorbing and feels light on the skin unlike olive oil which can be very thick and greasy. This is perfect as it doesn’t clog pores.
Essential Oils
We source our frankincense from Oman. They are known to grow some of the best variets in the world. It has a much more floral scent compare to the Somali varieties. Our organic lavender oil is from Bulgaria which is the world leader in lavender oils. Smells beautiful and relaxing.