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Tallow Skincare · Cody, Wyoming

Simple Ingredients.Timeless Skincare.

Handcrafted in small batches from locally sourced beef tallow, slowly rendered for a light, silky texture that hydrates deeply and absorbs beautifully.

Beef tallow · Organic olive oil · Pure essential oils

A jar of Before Modern whipped tallow balm on weathered wood with olive branches and dried lavender
  • Simple Ingredients

    Three things, and nothing you can't pronounce.

  • Small Batches

    Rendered slowly, poured and labeled by hand.

  • Timeless Skincare

    The way skin was cared for before modern additives.

  • Handcrafted With Care

    Made in our own kitchen in Cody, Wyoming.

Small batch

What we are making now

Every jar is rendered, whipped, poured, and labeled by hand. When a batch is gone, it is gone until the next one.

Whipped tallow balm, made by hand in Cody, Wyoming

Our story

A family, a jar, and a short list

We're AJ and Jessica Richards. We live in Cody, Wyoming, with our three daughters.

Before Modern is beef tallow skincare, made from a fat our great grandmothers would have recognized on sight. Tallow was in the medicine cabinet and the kitchen long before the word "moisturizer" existed. It's close to what skin already produces, it carries fat soluble vitamins, and it does the job with a short list of ingredients instead of a long one.

Questions?

Talk to the people who made it

We answer our own email and our own phone. If you are not sure which balm is right for your skin, just ask.