Tallow Cream Lemongrass & Lavender - Moisturizer for Dry Skin - Beef Tallow Body Cream - 2 oz

Most of what is sold as body cream is water with a little oil beaten into it.

Water needs an emulsifier to stay mixed and a preservative to stay safe, and once it has evaporated off your skin the small amount of oil left behind is the only part still working. That is why a tub feels generous going on and is gone by lunchtime, and why the patches on your elbows and knuckles come back looking exactly as they did.

A tallow cream is built the other way round.

• Beef tallow — a fat whose make-up sits close to the fats in skin's own oils, which is why it feels comfortable rather than slippery.
• Organic olive oil — the closest common plant fat to tallow, and the reason the cream spreads instead of dragging.
• Organic jojoba — a liquid wax rather than an oil, and what lets a fat this rich sink in within a few minutes.
• Two organic essential oils — lemongrass and lavender, and nothing else added for scent.

Left to it, dry patches on elbows, knees and heels do not hold steady. They get rougher, they catch on fabric, and they turn up in photographs before you notice them in the mirror.

FERNWOOD Tallow Cream Lemongrass & Lavender is those five ingredients in a 2 oz jar, with no water in it, which means no emulsifier and no preservative either.

• Rough patches that look smoother and feel comfortable.
• Skin that stops feeling tight after a hot shower.
• Nothing left on your cuffs or your sheets.

Take a little on your fingertips, warm it for a second until it turns to oil, and massage it in. It absorbs fully after a few minutes. It suits a desk drawer, for hands and elbows in the middle of the afternoon.

🖐️ The first minute

It comes out of the jar firmer than a lotion and softer than a balm, and it turns to oil on your fingertips before it goes anywhere. On dry skin you will feel it sink in. On very dry skin you will want a second pass, and that is normal.

💧 The first day

Rough patches feel different before they look different. Elbows, knuckles and heels are usually the first places you notice, because they are the places you touch without thinking about it.

🌿 The smell

Lemongrass and lavender, and nothing else. It is at its strongest for the first minute and settles into something much quieter on skin, which is the honest difference between an essential oil and a fragrance compound built to last all day.

📆 Week two, and why it takes that long

Skin replaces its surface on its own schedule, roughly once a month. A cream does not speed that up. What it does is stop the surface drying out between now and then, which is why the look of a dry patch changes gradually rather than overnight.

❄️ When it will feel different

Tallow melts at 85 degrees Fahrenheit. In a warm room it is softer and goes further; in a cold one you will warm it on your fingertips for a moment longer. Neither is a fault and neither changes what is in the jar.

A cream is a cosmetic. It changes how skin looks and how it feels, and that is the honest limit of it.

So: dry, rough, flaky-looking patches on elbows, knees, heels, shins and knuckles are squarely what this is for, and so is the fine crepey look that dryness leaves on the backs of hands. Anything with a name a doctor would use is not. If a patch is spreading, weeping, bleeding, painful or simply not settling, that is a conversation with a doctor or a dermatologist rather than a jar of cream.

Two things worth stating plainly. The label gives no percentages, so nothing on this page claims a strength for any ingredient in it. And the first ingredient is beef tallow, an animal fat, so this is not a vegan product and it never will be.

If you know your skin reacts easily, patch test on the inside of a forearm and give it a day before you use it properly.

It was made for people whose skin has stopped responding to the thing they have been using on it.

It's especially for you if:

• You have a tub of body lotion on the go and your elbows look exactly the same as they did in November.
• You have read a body cream label and given up somewhere around the fourth line.
• You have tried a tallow balm before and put it down because it took ten minutes to stop feeling like a candle.
• You would rather smell two oils you can name than a fragrance you cannot place.
• Your hands take the worst of the year and you have stopped expecting much from them.

Five ingredients: beef tallow, organic olive, organic jojoba and two organic essential oils, in a 2 oz jar made in the USA. No water, so no emulsifier and no preservative, and no scent beyond the two oils. It is made from an animal fat, so it is not a vegan product.

Chances are, this is the cream you have been looking for.

Your order today is backed by our 90-day guarantee. If FERNWOOD isn't right for you, return it within 90 days of delivery for a full refund. Simple as that.