Four ingredients. One balm.
The tallow sun balm — made the way it was made before petrochemicals replaced everything good.
- Grass-fed tallow
- Non-nano zinc
- Beeswax
- Cocoa
Skincare your great-grandmother would recognise — made for the way you actually live now.
[ Apothecary, by the dial — every batch made small in Minnesota ]
The balm · textureFour ingredients. Read them.
No fragrance. No fillers. No preservatives the lipids don't provide themselves. Nothing on the back of the jar that isn't on the list below.
- emollient
Grass-fed beef tallow
The base. Rendered animal fat, near-identical to skin's own oils.
emollient - active mineral
Non-nano zinc oxide
The mineral. Studied in topical skincare for over a century.
active mineral - binder
Beeswax
The structure. Natural emulsifier, breathable barrier, faint honey scent.
binder - pigment
Cocoa powder
The colour. Food-grade, single source, polyphenol-rich.
pigment
Match your skin.
One balm. Five cocoa percentages — Linen through Walnut. We batch your jar to the colour you pick, so it goes on like skin, not chalk.
- Linen
- Honey
- Amber
- Bronze
- Walnut
Linen · base shadeMade by hand, in MN.
Sunnbalm is produced in monthly batches at a small Minnesota facility. Every jar passes through human hands at every stage — no contract manufacturers, no factory lines, no shortcuts.
Render.
Tallow renders low and slow for several hours — wet-rendered, not high-pressure dry-rendered, so the fat-soluble vitamins survive intact. The result is a soft, near-neutral fat.
Blend.
Tallow, beeswax, zinc, cocoa — folded into a single warm lipid matrix. Hand-stirred, never sheared. Five batches per release, one per cocoa percentage.
Pour.
Each jar is poured by hand while the matrix is still warm. Lidded immediately. Cooled slowly so the fat crystallises into a stable structure instead of going grainy.
Ship.
Out of our Minnesota facility, hand-labelled with a batch code, packed in a corrugated sleeve, dropped at the local post office. Usually at your door inside a week.