Pumpkin Spice everything season is upon us! We southerners look forward to the cooler days of autumn like no one else! And what says fall more that Pumpkin Spice? We infuse freshly roasted direct trade coffee from our friends at Java Genesis Coffee Roasting into our artisanal tallow and then combine with coconut oil and cocoa butter. This luscious body butter smells like the best pumpkin spice latte you've ever had!
Like all our tallow-based products, this body butter relies on the incredibly moisturizing properties of our own grassfed tallow to provide intense skin nutrition. Use Pumpkin Spice Latte Body Butter as an all-over moisturizer, apply to dry or cracked hands, lips, or use to soften up feet.
Grassfed Tallow — Homegrown and rendered in-house, this exceptionally nutritious fat is the basis of all our products. Tallow is not only a traditional skin moisturizer but a truly luxurious one! Read more about our tallow here.
Organic Coconut oil — Rich in medium chain triglycerides, coconut oil gives this body butter more of a slip than the ghee used in our other versions.
Organic Cocoa Butter - This decadent saturated fat prevents the drying of the skin and helps prevent the appearance of crepey skin. Reduces the signs of mature skin and maintains skin's supple look. We use an unrefined form of cocoa butter with its natural chocolate scent intact.
Organic Beeswax - Known in the skincare world to help maintain the skin's natural moisture level and ward off microbes, we use this honey-smelling wax to give our body butter bars a solid structure for easy handling.
Direct Trade Coffee — One of our favorite skin-healing secrets.
Essential Oil Blend (Pumpkin Pie from Revive Essential Oils)
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!