Tallow Balm Recipe
Did you know you can make tallow balm with scraps of fat from cooking? It is actually easy to make your own tallow balm, and much more economical than buying it. With minimal hands-on time, a few extra ingredients, and simple instructions, you can make nontoxic moisturizer with beneficial ingredients that work for you!
Equipment
- 1 heat-safe bowl or pitcher
- 1 pan slightly bigger than the bowl or pitcher or slow cooker
- 1 hand mixer, immersion blender, or food processor optional
- empty jars with lids
Materials
- 1 C grass fed tallow (beef fat)
- 4 T salt
- water
- 1/4 C oil of choice
- 50 drops essential oil or combination of oils
Instructions
- If tallow balm has bits of beef in it, purify it first following instructions above.
- Melt tallow gently with nothing else in it. Once it melts, it is ready.
- For each cup of tallow, add 1/4 cup liquid oil of choice (see suggestions below) and any essential oils you want to equal roughly 50 drops per cup (see below). You can leave out the essential oils.
- Allow tallow balm to come to room temperature and store in containers with lids.
- Optionally, you can whip the tallow balm. Allow the mixture to come to room temperature, then beat with a hand mixer for a minute or two to incorporate air. It will expand a bit in volume and turn paler. Store in lidded jars.