About the Owner
Gail Cascio, the owner of Tender Tallow, LLC, creates handmade, high-quality tallow-based skincare products including whipped tallow balm and lip balm.
Gail quickly fell in love with tallow-based skincare after it provided significant relief to her skin which was dry, itchy, and swollen. Gail suffers from eczema and experiences almost immediate relief from her symptoms by using whipped tallow balm and tallow lip balm. Her dermatologist even noticed the significant difference to her skin as soon as she started using tallow-based skincare.
Gail is passionate about sharing tallow skincare with others as it has improved her quality of life after suffering from skin issues for years, and believes that if it can help her, it will help others, too.
Gail’s Story
“I have been suffering severely with eczema my whole life. I have drawers filled with steroid creams. I would walk into the dermatologists office every 3 months begging for her to give me something that will work. Ever since I started using tallow-based skincare it has truly changed my life.”
Tender tallow was born from mother and daughter experimenting in the kitchen together. Gail and her daughter Crystal Pace, Registered Dietitian, Health Coach, and owner of Renourishing Roots, started making tallow balm together using high quality, local ingredients after Crystal fell in love with whipped tallow balm while living in North Carolina. Crystal is extremely passionate about non-toxic living and is always eager to share new information and products with her mom.
Crystal and Gail quickly noticed how it was challenging to find tallow balms made with truly non-toxic, local, and clean ingredients, which is how Tender Tallow was born.
About Tender Tallow
What is Tallow?
Tallow is a solid fat derived from beef and has been traditionally used by our ancestors for skincare, cooking, and more.
Tallow is biocompatible with human skin when applied topically (lips, face, body). It may help with eczema, psoriasis, dry skin, and facilitate wound healing. It has anti-inflammatory, moisturizing, and anti-aging properties.
Tallow contains vitamins essential for promoting skin health including vitamins A and E. The fats in tallow may help to maintain skin integrity by providing the building blocks for skin health.
Our Promise
Locally sourced
We source most of our ingredients from local farmers and producers in New York State
*The exception to this is the lavender oil we use. We use ConsumerLabs approved brands and products for lavender oil to ensure that the product has passed quality testing.
Non-toxic, clean ingredients
All of our ingredients are carefully selected to reduce exposure to environmental toxins. We choose organic ingredients whenever possible.
We ensure that we source beef fat from grass-fed cattle that have been raised without the use of hormones, antibiotics, or drugs.