05/18/2026
Somewhere along the way, I started craving a deeper relationship with the things inside my home.
It started with food.
Wanting to know where it came from.
How it was made.
What was actually in it.
And slowly, that expanded into everything else.
After my second TTC journey and ten early miscarriages, I read the book *It Starts With the Egg* by Rebecca Fett and it cracked open a whole new level of awareness for me around household products, ingredients, hormones, fertility, and the things we interact with every single day without really questioning them.
I started going through everything in our home.
And the deeper I went, the more I realized:
if I truly wanted to know what was in the products going onto my skin (and my daughter’s skin), I needed to start making them myself.
Then almost as if it were timed... my five year old — who struggled with dry eczema on the backs of her hands — looked at me one day and said:
“Momma… we should make homemade lotion.”
So I did.
This whipped tallow became more than skincare for me.
It became part of returning to simplicity.
To trust.
To using ingredients that humans have used for hundreds (if not thousands) of years instead of ingredients designed to sit shelf-stable for years while quietly disrupting the body.
I use organic jojoba oil and naturally infused it with calendula + chamomile for their soothing and calming properties, added organic arrowroot powder for the soft silky finish, and a touch of pure lavender essential oil because the smell is honestly magic.
The texture is rich and whipped but melts right into the skin.
Deeply nourishing without leaving you greasy.
And maybe my favourite part: I know exactly what’s in it.
No ingredient overwhelm.
No twenty-step label decoding.
No wondering what we’ll “find out” about an ingredient ten years from now.
Just simple ingredients.
Made slowly.
By hand.
With intention.
Will have some available by the end of the week! 💜
