That upbringing never left me. Neither did my curiosity about biology. I went on to study microbiology, and somewhere between the farm and the lab, I developed a deep appreciation for one simple idea: the closer something is to its natural state, the better your body knows what to do with it.

I'll be honest — I've always struggled to take care of my own skin. For years I cycled through whatever was on the shelf, never finding anything that actually worked consistently. Then I started reading labels and asking a question I couldn't stop asking: why are we putting this on our bodies every single day? Ingredient lists full of synthetic emulsifiers, petroleum derivatives, and chemical preservatives — none of which your skin was ever designed to process.

The answer I kept coming back to was tallow. Rendered beef fat from grass-fed, grass-finished cattle has been used in skincare for thousands of years — not because people didn't have other options, but because it works in a way nothing synthetic can replicate. Its fatty acid profile is nearly identical to your skin's own sebum. Your skin recognizes it immediately. It absorbs instead of sitting on the surface. It delivers vitamins A, D, E, and K in a form your body actually knows how to use.

I started making it in my kitchen. First for myself, then for friends and family who were curious. What happened next I didn't fully expect. People started coming back to me with results I couldn't ignore — dry skin that had resisted every lotion they'd tried, finally improving. Moms who had watched their kids scratch and struggle for years, cycling through products that promised relief and delivered none, were telling me that something I made in my kitchen had done what nothing else could.

Those results are what turned a kitchen experiment into Good Tallow.

Every batch uses 100% grass-fed, grass-finished American beef tallow — never feedlot raised, never cut with cheaper fats. Every ingredient is something you can pronounce and understand. And every formula is developed with the same scientific rigor I brought to my microbiology training — not guesswork, not trends, just biology done right.

This isn't wellness theater. It's skincare that makes sense.

— Tucker Bateman, Founder of Good Tallow