Our family's Whipped Tallow Balm is ready to go! 😀🎉🎈

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December 7, 2023

Good morning Family Cow family!

I have exciting news: On Monday we are announcing our family's very own Whipped Tallow Balm!

This has been a long time in the making but now we are nearly ready to give you full access. Looks like we just barely met our goal to have this here in time for Christmas gifts! :)

Why tallow balm? Let me first ask a few questions...

Would you appreciate a clean, traditional skincare balm your family can use with peace-of-mind? Tired of lotions with weird chemical additives and artificial ingredients? Struggling with dry, sensitive skin or chapped hands? Or maybe you just need a natural, soothing cream for your child's diaper rash?

All of the above is why our family uses Whipped Tallow Balm.

Beef Tallow has been part of clean, traditional skincare for centuries. Now by adding gentle essential oils, you get even more nutrients to naturally moisturize, heal, and protect your skin.

Our family carefully prepares each batch with only the purest 100% Grass-fed Beef Tallow from our farm.

We chose each of the doTERRA® Essential Oils in this balm for optimal skin health. It's safe to use on babies or on sensitive skin such as your face. (I personally love it for razor burn!) As an extra precaution for children, apply to a small area first to double check for any reactions before using extensively.

Once you experience the luxury feel of this soothing balm it's hard to use anything else... Don't say I didn't warn you! LOL

We plan to kick things off early Monday morning with a special Introductory Price that will last till Friday midnight unless it sells out early.

Tallow Balm FAQs

Why does Beef Tallow work so well as a healing moisturizer for my skin?

The short answer is that tallow has a similar structure to our own skin. This allows it to soften, moisturize and regenerate skin health without clogging pores or triggering reactions. God Designed it... We Respect it... That Explains it!

Now for the longer answer: Tallow from 100% Grass-fed & Grass-finished Beef is rich in fat-soluble vitamins A, D, K, E, & B12. It also has plenty Omega-3, CLA, Oleic, Stearic, and Palmitic fatty acids.

All these nutrients are available for your skin to easily absorb since tallow very closely resembles our own sebum, the oil naturally produced by our skin. In fact, "sebum" literally translates to "tallow" in Latin. This similarity allows tallow to absorb deep beyond the skin's lipid barrier and carry rejuvenating moisture and nutrients to your cells. Most moisturizers based on water and plant products are stopped on the skin's surface... Not tallow!

Because of how deeply it absorbs, top quality tallow is critical. Any time you recommend tallow balm to friends or family, be sure they know to source it from a farm that is always chemical-free, GMO-free and antibiotic-free. The same need for high quality standards applies to the essential oils used as well... that's why we chose doTERRA.

Why did we choose doTERRA® Essential Oils?

DoTERRA essential oils are certified pure tested grade. Each essential oil undergoes over 60 tests to verify the pure tested grace before it is ready for market. DoTERRA's essential oils are also 3rd party tested. All this testing is especially important when you realize up to 80% of essential oils on the market today are adulterated in some way. DoTERRA tests at many different steps between the living plant and final bottle to ensure no chemicals or other pollutants sneak in. Then to top it all off, these test results are made available to their customers.

I believe this extensive testing process is probably the biggest reason our family chooses doTERRA. It feels like a kinship with our own Raw Milk safety standards of Every Batch Lab Tested... right down to the part about publishing the results for everyone to see! :)

Aside from the many lab tests, doTERRA also uses co-sourcing to ensure the oils come from plants grown in a natural environment with sustainable methods. Each person involved from planting the seed to filling the bottle gets fair treatment and payment for their work.

Those are just a few of the top reasons our family has chosen to use doTERRA Essential Oils...

We'll share more details on the Whipped Tallow Balm when it goes live next week. Stay tuned!

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All the best,
Wesley

~5th generation on the farm

Rodrick & Jeanette are moving to Colombia, South America

Good morning Family Cow friends, Today I have some news that's a bit personal, but it only seems right that you should know. Our oldest son, Rodrick, with his wife, Jeanette, and family are planning to move to Colombia, South America next month. Yes, you heard right. Colombia South America. Just above the equator. We still can hardly believe it either :) Our church conference is starting a new congregation there at the request of local Colombians asking for a Biblical church and faith community. But it's also located on the border with Venezuela, so a big part of their work will be to help relieve the ongoing Venezuelan refugees crisis. This new congregation, "Amigos del Prójimo" (Friends of the Neighbor), is located near the border town of Cúcuta, Colombia. Jeanette grew up in Guatemala, and Rodrick has spent time there so both of them are fluent in Spanish and understand the Latin American culture. For this reason, Dawn and I were really not totally surprised that the mission board thought of them when looking for families to establish the new church plant. Their combination of skills and cross cultural experiences made them seem a natural fit. But that did not exactly make giving them up any easier! We are still working on that process! Here are a few pictures from the area near Cúcuta. Distributing meals to the homeless... Música, anyone? 😉 I'm not sure what the point of this car was, but Rodrick said they heard it coming from several blocks away... Checking out the countryside... Sofia with a new little friend Exploring a mountain road (part of the Andes mountain range) After months of prayer and consideration and several visits to Colombia, Rodrick and Jeanette made the tough decision to answer the call to move there for an indefinite length of time. Though it is hard for us to let them go, we do give them our blessing.One comfort is that Rodrick is not abandoning The Family Cow. With today's technology, he'll still be able to do much of the management work and accounting work that he has done before... so this change shouldn't necessarily impact you, but it will represent some definite changes for our family and team.Rodrick plans to work remotely, doing many of the same business administration duties, but he will turn over the General Manager role to his younger brother Wesley. Rodrick also plans to continue giving management support to the Olde Tyme Meats butcher shop team.The other four brothers tell Dawn and I not to worry about the farm and business management, but I know there will be changes. We'll just need to find our way one step at a time.Dawn and I are not sure who's making the greatest sacrifice—the ones staying or the ones moving. :) I guess it is all of us. And that's ok.As far as Rodrick and Jeanette's Amen Acres farm, if all goes as planned, we'll have one of the other brothers live on that farm to manage the care of the grass-fed beef and pastured pork.There is no doubt about it... we will greatly miss having Rodrick and Jeanette, Andre, Clara, Sofia and Leo nearby. But they remind us that airplanes fly both ways, that they will return a few times a year for visits, and that we of course can come down to visit them too.Who knows—maybe someday Rodrick and Jeanette can grow cacao beans and make single origin organic specialty chocolate for our Family Cow tribe. How neat would that be? Don't think it's impossible. Just last week we introduced single origin organic coffee straight from Jeanette's family in Guatemala. :)In spite of unknowns, some things never change. We do know that "all things work together for good to those who love God." (Romans 8:28) So... we'll just focus on loving God and we'll trust Him to work out the good that only He knows! Faith, Hope and Love,Your farmer - Edwin for Dawn too

Our family's Whipped Tallow Balm is ready to go! 😀🎉🎈

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