Heaven's Plant Medicine
Tallow & Honey
Creamy-Lather Body Bar
$10 per bar
The Story
The gentlest bar in the line. Tallow & Honey is 100% tallow with a 7% superfat and a spoonful of raw honey stirred into the warm oils, scented with true lavender and nothing else. The lather is dense and creamy rather than bubbly, the wash is mild, and the scent is the clean, herbal-floral lavender everyone knows by heart. It is the bar for the skin that does not want to be worked over, the one that asks for soft and warm and nothing more.
The Ritual
Slow shower, warm not hot. Work the bar into a creamy lather between the hands or a soft cloth, smooth over skin, rinse gently. Save it for the evenings that ask for calm; the lavender is there for a reason.
Meet the Ingredients — Story, History & Science
Beef Tallow (Bovine Lard)
The history: Tallow is the original soap fat, the hard white bar of the old household, rendered from the kitchen and saponified with lye.
Traditional use: The farmstead soap fat, the bar that lasted the winter.
The science: Its fatty-acid profile is close to the skin's own sebum, which makes for a mild, creamy-lathering bar that leaves skin feeling conditioned, not stripped.
Raw Honey (Mel)
The history: Honey has been found unspoiled in Egyptian tombs, the sweet that never goes bad, the offering of the hive to the gods.
Traditional use: The healer's sweet, stirred into balms and washes for millennia.
The science: Its natural sugars boost the lather while its humectant nature draws moisture to the skin; it also warms the bar to a soft amber-gold.
Lavender 40/42 (Lavandula Angustifolia)
The history: Lavender cleaned linens and calmed nerves since Roman laundry day, the flower that made Provence smell like Provence.
Traditional use: The calm herb of the household, stuffed into pillows and dropped into bathwater.
The science: 40/42 is the standardized lavender, balanced to a consistent ratio of linalool and linalyl acetate, the compounds behind the clean, herbal-floral note everyone knows by heart.
How to Use
Lather between wet hands or a soft cloth, smooth over skin, rinse. Keep the bar dry between uses on a draining dish.
The Details
Hand-cut cold-process bar, cured 4 weeks or longer. Net weight about 3.5 oz (final weights confirmed at cure). Wrapped in unbleached parchment with a belly band; Batch and Best By written by hand on the band. Availability: first loaves poured Oct 13 and curing now — ready mid-November.
Good to Know
For external use only. Discontinue if irritation occurs. Keep the bar dry between uses on a draining dish, never in a puddle.
These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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$10.00
Preorder — ships mid-November
3.5 oz
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