Tallow Lip Balm

A tallow lip balm built on the same grass-finished suet as our five balms: no petroleum, no water, no synthetic fragrance, no dyes. In development, with the price set at launch. The waitlist above hears first.

Why tallow on lips

Lips are some of the thinnest skin on the body, and like your palms they carry no oil glands of their own. Nothing replaces what wind, licking and a dry room take off them. A balm made from suet gives them a fat that closely resembles the lipids the rest of your skin makes, with no water in it to evaporate, so what you put on stays on. Most lip balms are petrolatum or a wax carrying a little oil; ours will be the fat first, with anything else in it there only to hold a shape.

What we can tell you now

• The base is the same grass-fed, grass-finished suet from Montana family ranches that goes into every jar we pour, rendered low and slow and never bleached or deodorized, so it arrives nearly scentless.
• No petroleum, no mineral oil, no water, no preservative system, no synthetic fragrance, no dyes. The Never List applies to this one too.
• A short label. Every ingredient will be stated on this page before the first one ships, at the dose we use.
• Price at launch, and the waitlist hears first.

What we cannot tell you yet

The final recipe, the scent or the absence of one, the format and the size. The bench decides those, and we would rather say nothing than say something we have to take back. The one thing already settled is that it goes on our own family's lips for a full season before it goes on sale.

Until then, a jar you already can use

Bare Silk Unscented has five ingredients and goes anywhere skin runs dry, lips included; a grain of rice pressed onto damp lips at night is the whole method. Honey Glow does the same with manuka honey for lips that crack in winter. Neither one is a lip balm in a tube. Both are the same fat this page is about.