Timeless skincare
One step. Nothing else.
Handmade tallow-based, nourishing balms. Rendered, blended and poured in small batches on Sydney's Northern Beaches.
aur, for gold
eon, for what doesn't fade
Five ingredients
Nothing unpronounceable
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Five ingredients
Grass-fed tallow, certified organic jojoba oil and castor oil, beeswax, and three essential oils. Everything on the label is something you can pronounce.
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One step
No serums, no essences, no toner, no order of operations to remember. Wash, then this. That is the whole routine.
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Made by hand
Rendered, blended and poured in small batches in Dee Why. Every tin carries the date its batch was made.
Tired of fifteen-step routines? Us too.
Your skin does not need managing. It needs feeding. Tallow closely resembles the fats your skin already makes, which is why it absorbs the way it does, and why women used it for generations before anyone thought to make it complicated.
Five ingredients, and nothing you cannot pronounce
Sourcing and labels
Where everything comes from
One word on a label can stand for a whole formula. The Australian standard lets a maker write fragrance, or parfum, in place of every ingredient that fragrance contains, and nothing requires tallow to say what the animal ate or where it was raised. It is entirely legal, and it is why so many ingredient lists tell you so little.
So here is ours, in full.
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Grass-fed and grass-finished
Pasture for life, never finished on grain in a feedlot. Our supplier traces every animal to its farm of origin and is third-party audited to Australian Certified Humane standards.
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No synthetic feed additives
No Rumin8. No Bovaer. Methane-inhibiting additives are classified as feed, so nothing on a beef label is required to disclose them.
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Certified organic, and named
The jojoba oil, castor oil and bergamot are certified organic by Australian Certified Organic. The frankincense, helichrysum and beeswax are not certified, and we would rather say so than round it up. Every one of them is named on the tin.
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No hormones, no GMOs
No growth promotants, ever. GMO-free guaranteed, in the tallow and in everything blended into it.
Consumer Goods (Cosmetics) Information Standard 2020, s 3(8)
The whole range
The Golden Balm
Five ingredients, and every one of them earns its place. Grass-fed tallow for the body of it, organic jojoba oil to take the weight off, organic castor oil for slip, beeswax for structure, and three essential oils for the scent. Nothing else goes in.
60ml · $34
Tallow
65 per cent. Grass-fed and grass-finished. The body of the balm, with a fatty acid profile close to skin's own.
Organic jojoba oil
18 per cent. Cuts the richness so it absorbs without heaviness.
Organic castor oil
8 per cent. Slip, glide and a soft sheen on the skin.
Beeswax
8 per cent. Structure, and a film that still lets skin breathe.
Essential oils
1 per cent. Frankincense, bergamot and helichrysum. Nothing synthetic.
How to use it
A pea-sized amount, on damp skin
Warm it between your fingers for a second or two and it turns to oil. Press it in rather than rubbing. Night is the easiest place to start, on a clean face still damp from washing.
It replaces a serum and a moisturiser, so if your skin feels greasy you have used too much. One tin lasts most people three to four months.
My story
I did not plan any of this
I have never been a skincare person. I bought the serums, I truly did! And then they sat on the shelf until they turned. Every single thing in my makeup bag is expired.
So I did not set out to simplify anybody's routine. I made the only thing I was ever realistically going to keep using. Real ingredients, five seconds, in my own kitchen, badly at first, for nobody but me and for the sake of exploring something new.
That was years ago now. What happened in between is the longer story.
The Golden Balm · 60ml
Begin with one tin
A 30-day promise. If it turns out not to be for you, tell us and we will refund you.