Ancestral Ingredients Skin Care--News, Research and Information

How VAER Products Are Made Like Food

VAER builds skincare the way you’d build a nourishing meal - whole ingredients, ancestral preparation, and zero synthetic filler. Discover why we render tallow in-house, pair it with nutrient-rich ...

Is Tallow Safe for Sensitive Skin or Babies?

VAER's tallow balms are safe due to tallow's natural ability to mimic the human sebum, allowing healing and soothing the most sensitive and delicate skin.

Tallow: The Forgotten Secret of Ancestral Skincare

For centuries animal fats have been a chosen source os skin protection from wind, rain and cold, and healing balms and medicines. Many people are returning to what always worked with ancestral ingr...

Is Tallow Suitable for All Skin Types - Dry, Oily or Combination?

Tallow's fatty acid structure closely resembles your skin's natural sebum. This means it can replenish, regulate, and feed where your skin is lacking, whatever the cause. VAER balms work across all...

How Do I Use Tallow Balm in My Skincare Routine?

A little tallow can go a long way and be used in a multitude of ways. Moisturizer, barrier cream, and healer all at once. Morning, noon or night, tallow will make a difference in your skins daily r...

Is Tallow an Ethical or Sustainable Skincare Choice?

Suet, which is un-rendered tallow, is a byproduct of the beef industry that normally is discarded.  When sourced from regenerative farms, tallow then becomes a powerful way to reduce waste, support...

Can Tallow Help with Eczema, Psoriasis, or Barrier Damage?

Skin barrier dysfunctions often stem from inflammation, moisture loss, and lipid imbalance. Most conventional creams address the symptoms, but not the root cause. Tallow helps by restoring and repl...

Does VAER Avoid Seed Oils in its Skincare?

Seed oils are everywhere in skincare, and most are highly processed. At VAER, we avoid the highly processed seed oils completely, as the over processing degrades nutrients your skin is hungry for. ...

Tallow vs Coconut Oil: What’s the Difference for Skincare?

Tallow and coconut oil are natural, whole-fat ingredients, but they behave very differently. Absorption, shelf stability and skin compatibility are quite different between the two. Tallow is the ba...

What Makes Tallow Better Than Seed Oils or Coconut Oil?

Tallow naturally occurs containing the vitamins and saturated fats our skin needs and recognizes. Many seed based oils do not and therefore can lay on the skin and clog pores. Your skin is hungry f...

Does Tallow Smell Like Meat or Beef Fat?

Our grass fed beef tallow is slowly and gently rendered to leave you with the purest and cleanest form of tallow. Fragrance free, but still full of all the nutrients your skin recognizes and is hun...

What Is Tallow, and How Is It Made for Skincare?

Tallow is a natural ingredient extracted from the fat (suet) of grass-fed cows and has been used for centuries.  The suet is gently rendered, or purified with salt water to take out the smell and i...

The Best Natural Skincare Routine for Dry Summers

Summer doesn’t always mean glowing skin—heat, sun, and dry air can leave your face feeling tight, flaky, or irritated. This guide walks you through a minimalist, ancestral-inspired skincare routine...

Why Grass-Fed Tallow Skincare Is Taking Off

In a wellness-forward society, it’s no surprise that ancestral ingredients are making a comeback. Here’s why grass-fed tallow—once a forgotten remedy—is now the secret weapon for skin-savvy locals ...