We haven't tested Hearth and Homestead's jars against ours in a lab. Every fact about them here came off their live store pages on October 8, 2026, the same day I checked our own prices. Theirs is a whipped family balm from Virginia, sold in a long run of scents. Ours are five dense jars, sold by weight.
Their Herb-Infused (Unscented) Whipped Tallow Balm lines up best with Bare Silk ($34), our five-ingredient everyday jar, poured dense. Bare Silk Unscented doesn't carry a single essential oil, either.
Who's behind each jar?
Hearth and Homestead's home page says they're "Celebrating 10 Years," with "Over One Million Jars Sold" beside it. Their About page dates the start to 2016. The founder writes that it began in her own kitchen, and the pages describe a "family-owned ancestral skincare company" in Virginia. Each batch is "hand-processed in-house from start to finish," their product page says.
Their shelf's wide. On October 8, 2026, the tallow balm collection carried more than a dozen scented jars, from Vanilla Orange to Toasted Coconut, and the unscented whipped jar is the plainest of them.
We're a smaller line on purpose, with five balms and a kit. Each balm is poured dense into a 2 oz (56 g) jar with no water in the recipe, and each one's built for a single job. The Craft Tallow Kit ($110, on pre-order with about a three-week ship window) hands you the recipes to blend at home.
Their unscented jar and Bare Silk: what do the labels say?
Here's every figure as I read it on October 8, 2026, with ours checked that day.
| Read Oct 8, 2026 | Hearth and Homestead Herb-Infused (Unscented) Whipped Tallow Balm | Craft Bare Silk Unscented |
|---|---|---|
| Sizes as printed | 1.3 oz or 2.6 oz | 2 oz (56 g) |
| Weight or volume | Not stated, plain oz | Net weight |
| Price | $26.97 or $43.97, down from $29.99 and $49.99 | $34 |
| Per printed ounce | $20.75 or $16.91 | $17.00 |
| Ingredients | 2 lines | 5 |
| Essential oils | None named | None |
| Fat as named | Beef suet (kidney fat) | Grass-fed 100% suet tallow |
| Texture | Whipped | Poured dense |
| Made | Virginia, in-house | Small batches, Mountain West |
| Returns | 30 days on unopened items, as store credit | 60-Day Skin Test |
| Free US shipping | Over $99 | From $35 |
Their unscented jar lists grass-fed and finished tallow, plus organic olive oil infused with organic calendula and rose, and the page calls that two simple ingredients. Bare Silk Unscented carries five, all named on the label: grass-fed suet tallow, meadowfoam seed oil, organic jojoba oil, vitamin E and organic arrowroot. There's no water or essential oil in either list. Their page describes "a natural buttery aroma" in the jar, and Bare Silk Unscented smells like nothing at all.
On price, the two land close. Their Large jar works out to $16.91 a printed ounce against Bare Silk's $17.00, and their Small runs $20.75. There's also a $9.99 sample, size not given. Their sizes print as plain oz with no fl and no grams, and the federal rule for cosmetic labels, 21 CFR 701.13, states a semisolid by weight in avoirdupois ounces. So I read their oz as weight, about 37 g and 74 g, though only a scale can confirm it.
Whipped or poured: what changes in the jar?
Their page says the balm is "Whipped to a light, fluffy texture for fast absorption," and that's whipping's whole appeal. Up to half of a whipped jar can be air. We start where whipped ends up, pouring Bare Silk dense so the jar holds balm instead of air.
If their oz is weight, the air doesn't cost a gram. What it changes is the feel, plus how much room a gram of balm takes up in the jar. Their jar isn't one of the eight on order for our bench, so I've got no measured density for it and claim no number past the label. Our bench page, tallow balms bought and weighed, prints the method for testing a jar at home.
What does Hearth and Homestead do well?
I'll name two things plainly, and the first is the range of scents on their shelf. If you like a scented balm, they've got plenty. The Lavender page lists its essential oil by name, and the $9.99 sample keeps a first try cheap.
The second is a short label with the fat named, since their page names beef suet (kidney fat) and a low-heat, dry-rendering process. Suet's the cut we buy too. The product page showed 239 reviews when I read it, nearly all of them five stars.
Where do the two brands differ?
The first difference is how each line is built: theirs runs on scent, and their Lavender jar's the unscented base plus lavender essential oil. Ours runs on jobs: Honey Glow for dry skin, Moonlight Calm for redness-prone skin at night, Velvet for the look of fine lines and Recovery for the look of scars.
The second is how the suet's bought. Their page says it comes from small regenerative farms where the cattle are rotationally grazed. We source 100% suet, the dense fat from around the kidneys, from grass-fed and grass-finished cattle on Montana family ranches, bought direct. We buy the fat. We do not run the ranch. Our Montana render partner renders it, and the balms are blended in small batches in the Mountain West.
The third is what happens if a jar doesn't suit you. Their refund policy takes back new, unopened items for 30 days after the order ships, and refunds come as store credit. The customer pays return shipping. Ours is the 60-Day Skin Test: sixty days with any jar, and if your skin disagrees, we refund it. Their free shipping starts over $99, and ours at $35.
Who should buy which?
Buy theirs if you want a light, whipped feel and a wide choice of scents. Bare Silk is the jar I'd hand someone who wants a dense balm sold by weight, with sixty days to decide. It's cosmetic care, not a treatment, and your provider's plan comes first. If you've got a particular job in mind, one of the other four jars was built for it.
Start with Bare Silk ($34), five ingredients and sixty days to disagree.
Questions we hear
Is Hearth and Homestead good?
Without a lab test of their jar beside ours, I can't grade it for your skin. Here's what their pages showed on October 8, 2026. The unscented whipped jar had 239 reviews, and the shop reported 4.8 out of 5 overall. They've been at it ten years. If a light, whipped jar suits you, their $9.99 sample is worth trying before a full jar.
Is Hearth and Homestead tallow worth it?
On price, it sits close to ours, and the bigger jar's a little lower. On October 8, 2026, the unscented jar was $26.97 for 1.3 oz or $43.97 for 2.6 oz, about $20.75 and $16.91 an ounce. Bare Silk is $17.00 an ounce by weight. If their oz is weight, the whipping changes how the balm feels and leaves the grams of balm alone.
Hearth and Homestead vs Craft Tallow, which is better for the face?
Neither page can promise that, and we haven't tried the two jars side by side on one face. Theirs is sold as a "full body balm" for head to toe. Bare Silk ($34) is the jar we'd put on a face first, with no essential oils in the Unscented. For the look of fine lines, it's Velvet Face Renewal ($89). Your skin will tell you.
How much balm is in a Hearth and Homestead jar by weight?
Their page prints the sizes as 1.3 oz and 2.6 oz, with no fl and no grams. Under the federal labeling rule, a plain ounce on a balm is a weight, so that reads as about 37 g and 74 g. Whipping adds air, and air weighs next to nothing, so it doesn't eat into a jar sold by weight. We haven't weighed one, so those grams are my conversion of their label.
Does Hearth and Homestead use essential oils?
Their unscented jar names none, and its page describes a natural buttery aroma instead. On October 8, 2026, it listed grass-fed and finished tallow plus organic olive oil infused with organic calendula and rose. Some of their scented jars do carry them. The Lavender Whipped Tallow Balm lists organic lavender essential oil after the same tallow and infused olive oil. Bare Silk Unscented doesn't have any.
Go deeper
Hearth and Homestead vs Vintage Tradition sets their whipped jar beside Vintage Tradition's, with Bare Silk as a third jar. Suet, not trim covers the cut both of our pages name. How to read a tallow label turns a page like theirs or ours into a quick check, and best tallow balm lines up eight brands. If you're starting from zero, the beef tallow for skin guide begins with the fat itself.
Sources
- Hearth and Homestead, the brand's own website (2026). Herb-Infused (Unscented) Whipped Tallow Balm, with its sizes and ingredients, read October 8, 2026. hearthandhomesteadstore.com.
- Hearth and Homestead, the brand's own website (2026). Home page, with their ten years and free shipping over $99, read October 8, 2026. hearthandhomesteadstore.com.
- Hearth and Homestead, the brand's own website (2026). About Us, on the family and how they render, read October 8, 2026. hearthandhomesteadstore.com.
- Hearth and Homestead, the brand's own website (2026). Refund policy, 30 days on new, unopened items as store credit, read October 8, 2026. hearthandhomesteadstore.com.
- Hearth and Homestead, the brand's own website (2026). Tallow Balm collection, with more than a dozen scented jars, read October 8, 2026. hearthandhomesteadstore.com.
- Hearth and Homestead, the brand's own website (2026). Lavender Whipped Tallow Balm, with its essential oil named, read October 8, 2026. hearthandhomesteadstore.com.
- US Food and Drug Administration (2026). Code of Federal Regulations, title 21, section 701.13: declaration of net quantity of contents. eCFR.
- Craft Tallow, our own Journal (2026). Tallow balms bought and weighed: eight jars on the bench, part one. crafttallow.com.
Brian is the founder of Craft Tallow, a small-batch tallow skincare line shipped from Cottonwood Heights, Utah, built on 100% grass-fed suet. Questions? Reply to any email from us; it lands with him.