Dry, tight, rough skin?

Bad fat. Good skin.

The four-ingredient grass-fed tallow balm, inspired by your skin’s own oils. Way less tallow smell. Made in Scotland.

TriMatch™ – 3 of 3 lipids

Made with the TriMatch™ Formula: all 3 lipids your skin makes. Most tallow balms give you 1. How it works →

Open jar of Talo Malo The Original grass-fed beef tallow balm with the lid leaning against it

£24.99

or £16.66 a jar in the 3 Pack
about 40p a day

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Tried by 227 locals before launch.

  • 60-day money back
  • Made in Clydebank, Scotland
  • Free delivery on 3+ jars
  • Just 4 ingredients

Way less chip pan.

Plenty of tallow balms smell of, well, tallow, and sit on your skin like cling film. We spent 23 batches fixing that.

  1. Way less tallow smell

    Lower tallow odour than many basic tallow balms. The Original has no added fragrance covering anything up.

  2. A less greasy feel

    Olive squalane keeps it lighter. Rub it in and get on with your day.

  3. Inspired by your skin's own oils

    Your skin's own oils are mostly fats, squalene and wax esters. Grass-fed beef tallow brings the fats. Olive squalane and Golden Jojoba Oil bring the rest.

Jar of Talo Malo balm on a kitchen counter beside a chip pan

Four ingredients. No filler, no faff.

  • 01

    Beef Tallow

    Grass-fed and UK-sourced. The rich bit: fats your skin already knows.

  • 02

    Olive Squalane

    Makes it lighter and less greasy.

  • 03

    Golden Jojoba Oil

    Mostly liquid wax esters, like the ones your skin makes.

  • 04

    Candelilla Wax

    Plant wax. Holds it all together.

TriMatch™ – 3 of 3 lipids That’s TriMatch™: all 3 lipids, from 4 ingredients.

The Original: no added fragrance · No industrial seed oils · No water · Nothing else

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The Original

One balm. Done properly.

Three jars of Talo Malo The Original, the 3 Pack

One jar lasts about 6 weeks. In the 3 Pack, that's about 40p a day.

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227 locals tried it first.

Before we sold a single jar, we handed them out round Clydebank, Scotland, for honest feedback.

“Picked this up after seeing the videos with the wee boss. Came for the laugh, stayed for the balm. Brilliant stuff, and nice to support a small family business.”

Lucy, Yorkshire

“Good product. Smell is very mild, which I prefer. Delivery was quick.”

Mark, Midlands

“It’s a good balm but a bit heavy for daytime under makeup for me. I’ve switched to using it at night only, and that works well.”

Sophie, East Anglia

Testers got a free jar in exchange for honest feedback. Names changed for privacy.

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Dad does all the work.

Vito isthe boss.

I’m Bobby. A few years ago I had a mole removed from my face, bought my first-ever moisturisers, and found them full of stuff I couldn’t explain. Then Vito, my 9-year-old, picked one up and asked, “Dad… what even is all this?”

So we made our own, in the living room. Lots of binned batches later, Vito sniffed batch 23 and said, “That one!” Four ingredients, now made in small batches in Clydebank, Scotland. He’s the boss. I do all the work.

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Vito, the 9-year-old boss behind Talo Malo

Tester #1

Don't love it? Send it back. We'll even pay the postage.

No ‘damaged or defective only’ small print. Vito’s orders.

  1. Use it for up to 60 days.From delivery. Partly used is fine.
  2. Don’t love it? Tell us.We’ll email you a prepaid return label.
  3. Send it back. Get refunded.Bought a bundle? Pop the unopened jars in the same parcel and we’ll refund those too.
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Made here. Not somewhere mysterious.

Map of Scotland with a pin on Clydebank, just outside Glasgow, where Talo Malo is made
  • Small batches in Clydebank, Scotland, by a Bankie
  • Every jar heat-sealed before it leaves
  • Dispatched in 1–2 working days, Royal Mail Tracked
Map of Scotland with a pin on Clydebank, just outside Glasgow, where Talo Malo is made

Questions. Answered.

Can I use TALO MALO on my face and body?

Yep. Face, hands, elbows, knees and those random dry bits that appear from nowhere. Just keep it out of your eyes.

What is the TriMatch™ Formula?

Your skin makes its own oil, called sebum. It’s built from 3 main lipids: fats, squalene and wax esters. The TriMatch™ Formula matches all 3: grass-fed beef tallow for the fats, Olive Squalane for the squalene and Golden Jojoba Oil for the wax esters. Most tallow balms give you 1 of the 3. Ours took 23 batches to get right. See how it works.

Does beef tallow balm smell?

The Original has no added fragrance. We formulated it so you're not opening the jar wondering if you've accidentally walked into a butcher's. There's no perfume in it, so it smells faintly of what it's made from.

Is TALO MALO suitable for sensitive skin?

The Original has a simple four-ingredient formula with no added fragrance. But skin can be a dramatic little diva, so if you're sensitive, patch test a small area first before going all in.

Where does TALO MALO ship?

UK only for now. World domination can wait.

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