Your skin replaces its outer layer on a cycle of roughly 28 days, and that cycle lengthens with age. A 30-day guarantee expires before one full cycle finishes. The 60-Day Skin Test runs two cycles, long enough for you to judge a balm on what the mirror shows. If your skin disagrees with us at day 59, you get your money back.
Why is 30 days not enough to judge skincare?
Because week one is theater. Any occlusive balm makes skin feel softer the first night, and the physics deserves the credit. The question that matters is what your skin looks like after it has fully turned over under the new ritual, twice. The bakuchiol research we cite on Velvet Face Renewal measured outcomes at 12 weeks; dermatologists routinely tell patients to give any new routine 8 weeks. A guarantee shorter than the judgment window protects the seller.
What does the 60-Day Skin Test promise?
Use any Craft Tallow balm or kit as part of your ritual for up to 60 days from delivery. If you are not glad you bought it, for any reason your mirror gives you, contact us and we refund the product price. Original shipping is the one thing we do not refund, and we say that plainly here rather than in footnote type. The refund arrives as money rather than store credit. A used jar stays home with you, and telling us why remains optional every time. The full terms live on the guarantee page.
Can a small brand afford this?
This is the first-hand data most brands will not publish: we designed our unit economics assuming refund requests, and the math still works because a tallow balm is a simple product. Our balms are fat and botanicals, with nothing as fragile as a 40-ingredient emulsion or a fragrance load inside. When the base is grass-fed suet and the label is five to ten lines, the refund rate the spreadsheet fears mostly does not materialize. The small risk stays on our side of the ledger.
How should you run your own 60-day test?
Change one thing at a time. If you start the Craft Tallow Kit, which is sold out at the moment and ships in about three weeks on pre-order, resist the urge to overhaul your whole shelf the same week; you will not know what worked. Take a phone photo in the same light on day 1, day 30, and day 60. Let the photos outvote your memory. That is the test, and it is the same one we run on our own batches.
Not sure which jar? The two-minute quiz sorts it. If you'd rather just start, Bare Silk ($34) is the one I hand people first, and the sixty days start the day it lands on your porch.
Questions we hear
Does the guarantee cover kits and subscriptions?
Yes, everything in the kit collection and every balm, first orders and refills alike. Sixty days from each delivery.
Do I have to return the jar?
No. Shipping a used balm back helps no one. We may ask what did not work for you, because that answer shapes recipes.
Why exclude original shipping?
Because carriers do not refund us, and we would rather state one honest exclusion than pad prices to hide it.
Where do I start a refund?
Email us via the contact page with your order number. That is the entire process.
Go deeper
The 12-week clocks that shaped this guarantee belong to slow actives, and How Bakuchiol Works and rosehip CO2 extract explain why the mirror needs that long. If marks rather than lines are what you are tracking, read tallow for stretch marks and scars. The fat under every jar the guarantee covers is explained in the complete beef tallow for skin guide, and the jar most people start with sits on the Bare Silk page.
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.