Fat Ritual wasn’t born in a lab it started at our kitchen table (aka: Emma's homework desk)

It began as a high school project with my daughter Emma. While she had to create a business from scratch, she was curious about skincare (since pimple season was upon us), she wanted to know what was in her so called favourite face care... so we started digging into the ingredients.

"What we found shocked us"

big-name products... many with “clean” labels were packed with cheap fillers, oils that caused more harm than good, synthetic chemicals, harsh fragrances with parabens and lab-made ingredients that do nothing for the skin.

Emma researched and beef tallow was all the rave, so we went to visit Mario's Meats our local butcher. We saw firsthand how much good fat is available, and how disconnected most people are from the ingredients they use on their skin. That visit made our mission clear: to use what’s already here and turn it into something purposeful.

But there was one big problem: the smell.

Beef tallow, while powerful, has a naturally strong scent and we knew that would be a barrier for a lot of people. So we started experimenting. First, we began infusing our oils with calendula, known for its calming and skin-soothing benefits. It helped tone down the scent naturally plus the benefits of the extracts. Then we added a skin nourishing blend of essential oils gentle, and specifically selected for both their skin benefits and soft, grounding aroma.

And it worked.

What we ended up with was something we hadn’t seen or smelt before in natural skin care:

a tallow skin balm that smells beautiful, feels luxurious, and works with your skin not against it.

This is what happens when you listen to your ingredients, respect the process, and build something real.