Is Tallow Good For Your Skin? Dermatologist Weighs In #dermatologist
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Happy Sunday Dr Dray excited to be here. Thanks for your input about this have a good night.
No. Plain and simple.
Also, what else is in it? Has it been processed? I keep thinking about salmonella.
Beef tallow is rendered/pulled out of the meat through heat process. I don’t think salmonella is a risk, but I still wouldn’t use it on my face 😭
As another derm said, keep the tallow in the kitchen and off your face.
It could work as a basic moisturizer for people with super dry skin, but probably contains essential oils to decrease the smell if its been sold as a beauty product.
Beef… tallow… ……?
Get down on one knee for coconut oil😂 Dr Dray you have me cracking UP😆
Ha ha, yes it does stink. Walking around smelling like a week old Big Mac just doesn’t sound appealing…
Funny, the unscented tallows I have tried don’t smell at all. One was mixed with emu oil and the other one with extra virgin olive oil. I would recommend the whipped ones as they’re easier to spread.
Well yeah, because unscented is not the same fragrance free.
They can be using ‘masking’ fragrance so it doesn’t stink so bad. Also I have very sensitive sense of smell. Most fragrance-free products has a scent for me. Fragrance gives me headache and nausea.
@Ancient Dragon Knight: RK Correct, but I used it in the same sense though. I’m very sensitive to fragrances too and those tallows literally have very little odor nor caused any reaction to my skin.
Niacinamide has that hype right now
Except I actually love it! I never follow trends only studys and dermatologists, niacinamide has worked wonders for me, I don’t get why people use raw things like coconut oil when you can get something like the cetaphil moisturizer range for example, they’re reasonably priced and contain vitamin b3, b5 and clean ingredients such as petroleum. Their moisturizers have always been good for my sensitive skin. I also don’t understand why people buy expensive moisturizers, it’s one of the things you can get cheap since it just needs to protect your skin, important role obviously but there’s more options, I prefer to spend my money on high strength serums because serums are ment to do the treating
At least niacinamide deserves the hype. Beef tallow does nothing exceptionally well and smells like a gas station burger.
I would have to say no.
Dogs chasing her down the street 🤣
Lets appreciate how pretty Dr Dray is here
Also beef tallow sounds almost okay. I’m putting cow lard on my face sounds a bit more unhinged.
❤❤ thank you for pointing out the coconut hype.
Breast milk on a blemish works wonders
Omg was not expecting that 😂
I am Hispanic (Cuba). Grew up in the USA. While I never considered using tallow on my face, when I was a teenager my mom used to prepare a concoction of rendered tallow with oil – mineral oil I think but not sure – to dab onto my scalp, roots and hair as a “hot oil treatment.” After sitting with it under the dryer for 30 minutes, I’d shampoo it off, etc. My hair would always be really shiny and soft after treatment. Considering the innumerable allergies I now have to products and the ever-present dryness in my gray hair that nothing seems to remedy, maybe I should give this old concoction a try. Certainly can’t be any worse than anything else I’ve tried on my hair, without success. 🤔
TikTok is bro science
I need to make beef tallow with “clean” spf – make a quick buck or two off the wellness girlies and dudes. 🤣