About Us

The Head-2-Toe Tallow story began in the spring of 2023. I had been looking into the benefits of tallow for a couple of years, and wanted to purchase tallow lotion/balms for my family. As I browsed online, I had 3 major hangups:

1. I wanted something made with organic, hexane-free castor oil from a glass bottle, not olive oil. Castor oil is known for it's host of health benefits, and I knew it would be a perfect match for tallow. Cold-pressed Olive oil is great...if it's not cut with low quality seed oils. Much of the "pure" olive oil available in Canada has been shown to contain mostly low quality inflammatory oils. If you get a moment, go down that rabbit hole! 

2. I didn't want a product that contains "mystery tallow". In my mind, mystery tallow is any tallow that is purchased from a 3rd party. I believe that anyone who makes tallow skincare should render their own tallow to ensure the end product is of the best possible quality. "Mystery tallow" leaves the manufacture at the mercy of someone else's standards.

3. I didn't want tallow with unnecessary ingredients or confusing names. I wanted something that was simple, pure & versatile. 

Unable to find a product that checked off those boxes, I decided to start making my own. I am obsessed with providing my family with fresh local foods and eating seasonally, so I already knew a host of local ranchers whom I had been purchasing meat from for years. They are my friends and neighbours. The salt-of-the-earth kinda people who work hard and treat their animals with the respect they deserve. I started purchasing bison suet from local ranchers and started with making bison tallow lotions & balms. It was a hit!

Being that bison suet was trickier to come by, I eventaully expanded into beef tallow making with grass-finished beef suet. I shared my tallow goodies with friends and neighbours and recieved rave reviews! I started selling locallly and the demand just kept growing!

Fast forward to summer of 2024. I knew that I was on to something special. I had taken a year to fine tune my recipes and procedures, and decided it was time to give the people what they kept asking for, Canada-wide shipping! In July of 2024 the Head-2-Toe Tallow website and socials launched.

I absolutly love every part of the process, from greeting local ranchers at my door with an arm full of freshly harvested suet, to carefully processing the suet for rendering, to the actual rendering, to making the lotions/balms. It is such a fun little hobby to take something that is often discarded, put some time, love and intention into it, and create a valuable product that helps so many people! Thanks for being part of my journey!

Melissa

Head-2-Toe Tallow

Proudly made in Rocky Mountain House Alberta with grass-fed/finished beef suet with no hormones or vaccines.