If you love lavender, Buffalo Gal Grassfed Beauty Lavender Aloe Soap is the one you've been dreaming about! Lavender-infused tallow, fresh aloe vera leaf (gel and juice from their farm), and the natural color of Brazilian purple clay make for an attractive, fresh-smelling, super soothing soap. Excellent for both face and body.
Buffalo Gal Grassfed Beauty makes their soaps so pure and basic -- free of harsh surfactants, dyes, detergents, or anything synthetic. Your great-grandmother would approve!
Ingredients: Saponified grass-fed tallow, shea butter*, virgin castor oil*, aloe vera*, argan oil* Brazilian purple clay, lavender buds*, and lavender essential oil blend. *organic
Buffalo Gal Grassfed Beauty Tallow is:
Home Grown - Most of the tallow they use is from livestock that are regeneratively raised on their own farms in Monroe and Covington, Georgia. Their ruminant animals eat a variety of cool-season grasses, warm-season grasses, legumes, and foods growing in holistically managed soil. Their tallow tends to be stiffer than commercial tallow thanks to its high content of naturally occurring stearic acid, which is great!
Water buffalo have a broad palate, increasing the concentration and range of nutrients they consume into their fat. Buffalo are heavy salivators and have a long, slow gut. This combination of factors yields higher nutrition than beef tallow, especially Omega-3 fatty acids, retinol, and stearates. Another interesting tidbit about water buffalo tallow is that it is never yellow. The yellow color in the fat of beef and dairy is generally considered a good thing. This indicates that the animal has grazed fresh forages abundant in beta-carotene. But note that this can be contingent on the season. When this fat is consumed, the human body breaks down much of the beta-carotene by absorbing it from the intestines and converting it into vitamin A with bile acids. Water buffalo fat and milk, even when 100% grass-fed, lack the yellow color because the highly efficient gut of this animal fully processes beta-carotene into its most bioavailable form: retinol.
Home Rendered — Their tallow is dry rendered using stainless steel equipment and stored in glass containers or BPA-free food-grade plastic tubs.v Additionally, they never refine or "purify" their tallow with the salt water boiling method that's popular these days. Suet is a very pure fat by nature, which is what makes it an ideal fat for skincare. It only needs to be properly trimmed, gently warmed to separate it from the protein tissues that encapsulate it (cracklings) and lightly filtered to remove any remaining bits. This minimal processing preserves the precious compounds found in tallow and prevents the growth of pathogens that water exposure can lead to.
Hypoallergenic and Non-comedogenic - Their Tallow is rendered only from Suet (cavity fat surrounding the kidneys). Rendered subcutaneous fats are often confused with or mixed with suet and called "tallow". But fat drained off of meat may be contaminated with blood and other tissue. It's not harmful, but not what we consider the purest or the best quality for skincare. Additionally, pure, unrefined tallow will not clog pores!
