For most of human history, the ingredients women used to care for their skin came from simple, recognizable places. Animal fats, beeswax, honey. They worked, because they're close to what skin is already made of.
Then, in the middle of the last century, the recipe changed. Not because something better came along. But because petroleum byproducts and cheap seed oils were less expensive to produce, lasted longer on a shelf, and made far more profit per jar.
They were marketed as modern. Scientific. Clean. And the old ingredients were quietly recast as primitive — the language of progress used to bury what already worked.
Three generations later, we're left with bathroom cabinets full of products that sit on top of the skin, coat it, and call that moisture, while the one ingredient skin actually recognizes was left behind.
That ingredient is tallow. And your skin has been asking for it ever since.