Is beef tallow something you associate more with the kitchen or the bathroom cabinet? Hannah English is a skincare author and digital creator who reviews products and documents her own routines on social media from Naarm/Melbourne. Hannah English is the author of Your Best Skin: the Science of Skincare. She says she now "fairly regularly" gets questions from her followers about using beef tallow or beef tallow-based products as skincare, and it also pops up on her own feeds.
Hannah says she's nervous about some of the content she's seen promoting beef tallow, because of other ideas endorsed alongside it. "I got a video of someone saying that 'skin care is fake ..
. don't use sunscreen and all I use is a bit of beef tallow now and then and my skin's never been better'." .
Tallow can be used as a cooking oil but is also being used in biofuel and animal feed as well as cosmetics and skincare. Does beef tallow have skincare benefits? Experts explain what divides a budget sunscreen from a bougie one. Michael Freeman is a dermatologist working on the Gold Coast / Yugambeh language region.
Dr Freeman says because beef tallow is a . Beef tallow also contains which "have got skin softening, hydration [and] repair characteristics". This means it he says.
It which he says are all used in skin products. Dr Freeman says the animal's diet will have an impact on tallows characteristics. Mei-Heng Tan, a dermatologist on Gadigal Land in Sydney, says these ".
It's a " ", and can be "especially .
