Why Tallow
Cleans well. Leaves skin like skin.
Tallow has been used to make good soap for generations. It creates a firm, long-lasting bar and does exactly what we want soap to do: get things clean without making it complicated. The kind of soap that just makes sense around here.
Stacy renders tallow at the ranch in Moffat County, Colorado, and she kept it at the heart of the recipe while she refined the blend until the bar felt right for everyday use. Read how it started.
Not just tallow. The right balance.
Stacy knew she didn’t want an all-tallow bar. Tallow gives soap a firm, lasting quality, but on its own it can leave a film on your skin. “I don’t want to get out of the shower feeling more grimy than when I got in,” she says. So she built her own recipe to find the balance.
Tallow is part of the Cedar Creek recipe, not the whole recipe. She kept adjusting the blend until the bar cleaned well without leaving skin feeling stripped or coated.
Rendered here. Sourced carefully.
Stacy renders the tallow herself at the ranch, using tallow from their own cattle along with other trusted local sources she knows and is comfortable working with.
She is particular about what she works with and where it comes from. And if a finished batch isn’t what she wants it to be, it doesn’t get sold.
Made for real life.
Around the ranch, soap has a pretty simple job. There are dirty hands, work clothes, chores, animals, and plenty of reasons to wash up again. Stacy wanted a bar that could handle that kind of everyday use and still feel good to reach for.
“We live on a ranch, we get dirty every day,” she says. “We need a soap that gets us clean.”
That balance—clean enough for ranch life, comfortable enough to use every day—is what she kept working toward.
A good bar of soap should look beautiful and smell amazing, but most of all it should feel great and leave you clean.