02/06/2026
Two of the ingredients in this graphic have been put on human skin for more than 2000 years. We still use both, on purpose.
Frankincense and Myrrh. You know them as the gifts the wise men carried. What you probably weren’t told is why they were worth more than gold back then. They were medicine - the real kind.
Frankincense is the heart of our Original Balm. People have been burning it, anointing with it, and pressing it into wounds for thousands of years, long before anyone had a word for “active ingredient.”
Modern research is only now catching up and confirming what they already knew: it calms reactive, inflamed, irritated skin. None of this is new, we just forgot it.
Then there’s Myrrh. We put it in our Tallow Sun Balm for a reason. A 2018 study in the Journal of Drugs in Dermatology found that myrrh oil boosted UV protection, with the combination outperforming sunscreen alone. Read that again: a resin tapped from a desert tree, measurably improving sun defense, in a lab, in 2018.
Here’s what nobody in the “clean beauty” aisle wants to say out loud. We did not invent good skincare, we inherited it, then buried it under a list of synthetic chemicals you can’t pronounce and a marketing budget built to make you forget your grandmother ever existed.
Simple, natural ingredients have always worked better than the lab-made stuff.
They worked 2000 years ago.
They work today.
The only thing that changed is who profits from convincing you otherwise.
Frankincense and Myrrh were never primitive. They were the original skin science. And they still hold up.
So what’s sitting in your bathroom cabinet right now that you can’t even pronounce?