If you want a big whipped tub with scent choices and the lower sticker per ounce, Evil Goods is your pick. If you want a dense balm set with beeswax and raw honey, sold in bundles, Based Supplies is yours. Both are tallow-and-honey balms with five ingredients and no water, so what's left to decide is texture, honey form and how each label is published.
We haven't tested their balms against ours in a lab. I read both product pages on September 6, 2026, the way I read every tallow label, line by line. Every price and claim below comes from those pages on that date. Promotions rotate and recipes get revised, so it's a snapshot, not a standing fact.
There's a third option worth naming up front: Honey Glow ($42), our manuka balm poured dense on 100% suet. It's a third set of choices, and I'll say plainly who it suits.
What's in each one?
Evil Goods doesn't print a formal ingredient list on its product page. What you get instead, as of September 6, 2026, is a row of ingredient cards: Manuka Honey, Grass-Fed Grass-Finished Tallow, Cold-Pressed Olive Oil, Organic Vitamin E and Pot Marigold Extract. The FAQ repeats four of those in a sentence and adds that manuka goes into "some variations". That's five named materials, and no water anywhere.
Based Supplies prints its label as an image only. The words don't appear as text on the product page, which matters if you rely on a screen reader or a search box. Their advertorial page does spell it out: grass-fed and grass-finished tallow, organic raw honey, organic beeswax and cold-pressed organic olive oil, plus an essential oil blend "diluted to less than 1%". Five materials again, and again no water.
Neither page says the word suet. Both say grass-fed and grass-finished, which is the better half of the sourcing sentence, and I'd give both credit for it. If the cut of fat matters to you, you'll have to email them, because it isn't stated on either site. I wrote up why the cut matters in suet, not trim.
Whipped or dense: which texture do you want?
Evil Goods' hero product is whipped, and the name doesn't hide it. Whipping beats air into a balm, so it scoops easily from a cold tub and feels light going on. The trade is that up to half of a whipped jar can be air, and it collapses when it warms in transit and often re-sets grainy. Their separate 2 oz version, $19.99 as of September 6, 2026, calls itself "a concentrated, non-whipped formula".
Based Supplies sells a dense balm and leans into it. A customer quote on the product page reads "it is a balm and not a whipped product", and beeswax is what gives it that firmer set. Beeswax also changes the drag: it doesn't glide like a plain tallow-and-oil balm, and it stays put longer. If your last tub came out of a metal mailbox in August looking like a glazed donut that gave up, dense is the texture that survives the trip.
I'll say where I sit. I pour dense and sell by weight, and whipped wins exactly one round: it scoops from a cold tub with no warming. If you'd like the long version, whipped tallow 101 covers the method and the physics.
Manuka honey or raw honey: does the honey form matter?
Evil Goods names manuka. The product cards say Manuka Honey, a landing page says "raw organic manuka honey" in one line and "honey extract" in another, and the FAQ says manuka goes into some variations. There's no MGO or UMF grade shown as of September 6, 2026. Based Supplies uses "organic raw honey" with no origin or grade stated, and their scent note says the honey and beeswax are part of what you smell.
The chemistry matters for a tub you'll keep for months. Raw honey runs about 17% water, and water doesn't dissolve in fat, so raw honey wants to separate out of an oil balm over time. Beeswax and whipping both help hold it in suspension; neither makes it dissolve. I went the other way and use an oil-soluble manuka extract, and manuka honey in skincare explains the MGO and UMF grades and why I made that choice.
What does each one cost per ounce?
Evil Goods lists the whipped moisturizer at $49.99 with a $79.99 compare-at price beside it, as of September 6, 2026. The net weight isn't printed on the product page or the FAQ, which is the one figure a semisolid cosmetic is supposed to declare by weight on the front panel; the store's product data shows 113 g per tub and retailer listings call it 4 oz. On 4 oz that's $12.50 an ounce, and their 2 oz balm at $19.99 works out to $10.00. Their subscription savings read differently on different pages (15% in the FAQ, 25% on the 2 oz page), so I've left subscriptions out of the table.
Based Supplies is $30.00 for 2 oz, or $15.00 an ounce at a single jar. The bundles are where their pricing works: three jars for $60.00 ($10.00 an ounce) and five for $90.00 ($9.00 an ounce). There's no subscription discount shown on the page. Both brands run a 30-day money-back guarantee, and both ship free above a threshold, $50 at Evil Goods and $40 at Based Supplies.
| Spec, as of September 6, 2026 | Evil Goods Whipped Tallow & Manuka Honey Moisturizer | Based Supplies Tallow & Honey Balm |
|---|---|---|
| List price | $49.99 (compare-at $79.99 shown) | $30.00 |
| Size | Not printed on the page; 113 g in store data, 4 oz per retailer listings | 2 oz |
| Price per oz | $12.50 on 4 oz | $15.00 single; $10.00 and $9.00 in bundles |
| Ingredient count | 5 named on cards; no formal list printed | 5; label shown as an image only |
| Suet stated | No | No |
| Water | None named | None named |
| Whipped | Yes (2 oz balm is non-whipped) | No |
| Unscented option | Yes, $49.99 | Yes, No Essential Oils version, $30.00 (sold out on Sept 6) |
| Essential oils | None named; four scent variants | Yes, an unnamed blend under 1% |
| Guarantee | 30-day money-back | 30-day money-back |
| Where made | "Made in USA"; Chatsworth, California address | Not stated; Sanborn, New York address |
Who is Evil Goods for?
Evil Goods does the big-tub, whole-body job well. Five recognizable materials, a whipped texture that scoops straight from a cold shelf, and four scent variants plus Unscented, all at the same $49.99 as of September 6, 2026. Their FAQ says the scents come from the ingredients themselves rather than added fragrance, though no oil is named. If you'd rather try the recipe before the tub, the 2 oz non-whipped balm at $19.99 is the low-cost way in.
It's the pick for someone buying one tub for arms, legs and kids after the bath, who likes a fluffy scoop and wants a choice of scent. Their product page shows a 4.5 rating from 39,000 reviews and the homepage says 30,000+, so read the count as a range. Their page also says the balm "fights irritation and speeds up healing" and names eczema, psoriasis and acne. That's their claim to make, and it isn't one I make for any balm, ours included. Worth knowing as a shopper: health-related advertising claims are supposed to rest on competent and reliable scientific evidence, and a marketer carries that burden for what an ad implies as much as for what it says. It's cosmetic care, not a treatment. Your provider's plan comes first.
Who is Based Supplies for?
Based Supplies does the dense, travel-proof balm well. Beeswax sets it firm enough to ride in a bag or a glove box. The scent is what's in it: honey, beeswax, and what their page calls a "green and woody" note from the essential oils. A No Essential Oils version exists at the same $30.00, sold out on September 6, 2026, with 160 reviews of its own. The main balm shows 1,966 reviews, 97% of them five-star, and the company describes itself as small and family-run.
It's the pick for someone who wants a firm balm for hands, cuticles, lips and heels, buys for a household, and likes the bundle math at $9.00 to $10.00 an ounce. Their page says the balm is "potent enough to heal the skin" and lists Neosporin among the products it can replace. Again, that's their claim, not mine.
Where does Craft fit as the third jar?
Honey Glow ($42 for 2 oz, $21 an ounce) is the jar I'd set beside these two if the honey is why you're shopping. The tallow is 100% suet from grass-fed and grass-finished Montana cattle, rendered low and slow by our Montana render partner, and the label says so. Manuka goes in as an oil-soluble extract, so there's nothing to separate and no beeswax needed to hold it. Oat oil, squalane and calendula sit alongside it, and the Classic carries no essential oils. Alison Harris's verified review calls out "the smooth feel on my skin and the lightly sweet scent". The balm is poured dense and sold by weight, 56 g with no air, blended in small batches in the Mountain West. Its one job is dry, thirsty, barrier-stressed skin when lotion never lasts, and every jar carries the 60-Day Skin Test. Here's Honey Glow.
If you take one thing from this: start with Honey Glow ($42). Sixty days on your skin; if it disagrees, we refund it.
Questions we hear
Is the Evil Goods whipped moisturizer the same thing as the Based Supplies balm?
No, though they're close on paper: both are tallow-and-honey balms with five ingredients and no water. Evil Goods beats air into a bigger tub with no beeswax; Based Supplies pours a dense balm set firm with beeswax. Texture, honey form and label format are the real differences.
What size is the Evil Goods whipped tub?
As of September 6, 2026, the net weight isn't printed on the product page or the FAQ. The store's product data lists 113 g, retailer listings call it 4 oz, and the separate non-whipped balm is 2 oz.
Does Based Supplies show its ingredient list?
On the product page it appears only as an image, as of September 6, 2026, so you can't search or copy the text. Their advertorial page spells out tallow, raw honey, beeswax, olive oil and an essential oil blend under 1%.
Which one is cheaper per ounce?
At a single jar, Evil Goods is lower: $12.50 an ounce if the 4 oz figure holds, against $15.00 at Based Supplies, as of September 6, 2026. Buy Based Supplies in fives and it's $9.00 an ounce, the lowest number on either page.
Which one for eczema-prone skin?
Both pages name eczema, and I don't make that kind of claim for any balm. Eczema-prone skin tends to run short on ceramides and reacts to fragrance more often than average. A short label and a patch test on the inner arm matter more than the brand name, and any balm stays off broken skin.
Is there a Craft honey balm without essential oils, or a way to blend my own?
Yes to both. Honey Glow Classic carries no essential oils, and Bare Silk Unscented ($34) is the plain five-ingredient jar; the full line is in the balms collection. If you'd rather blend your own, the Craft Tallow Kit ($110) makes all five balms at home and is on pre-order with about a three-week ship window.
Go deeper
Start with the complete guide to beef tallow for skin if tallow is new to you. Then read what oat, squalane and calendula do inside Honey Glow and what to do when a balm arrives melted or grainy. If you're weighing the whole category, tallow vs traditional moisturizers explains why an oil-only balm behaves so differently from a lotion, and the tallow balm comparison page puts 12 brands side by side on the same columns used here. With our jar in the frame, Craft Tallow vs Evil Goods reads the whipped manuka jar against a poured one.
Sources
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration. 21 CFR 701.13, Declaration of net quantity of contents. eCFR.
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service. FoodData Central: Honey (FDC ID 169640). USDA.
- Federal Trade Commission (2022). Health Products Compliance Guidance. FTC.
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.