Tattoo artists have quietly recommended plain tallow for years, and for the same reason we build balm out of it: short ingredient list, fats your skin recognizes, nothing in the tin that has no business being on broken-in ink.
First things first: listen to your artist
Your artist's aftercare instructions outrank anything a company selling balm tells you. Every artist has a protocol and every tattoo is different. This page is about what's IN our balm, so you and your artist can decide if it fits their process.
Why people use tallow balm on tattoos
- Seven ingredients, no fragrance option. Raw is tallow, coconut oil, beeswax, shea butter, jojoba, castor oil, and vitamin E. Nothing else. Fragrance on a fresh tattoo is a bad time, which is exactly why we make one without it.
- No petroleum. Many artists steer clients away from heavy petroleum products that sit on top and suffocate. Tallow absorbs.
- Thin layers work. A little covers a lot, which is what healing ink wants: moisture without smothering.
For old tattoos
This is where the balm earns a permanent spot: regular use keeps healed ink from going dull and gray-looking, because color reads through moisturized skin better than through dry, flaky skin. Any scent works on healed tattoos.
Made by hand in small batches in Wakarusa, Indiana.