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A bar of tallow in a tin, for hands that take a beating.
No pump. No bottle. Nothing to spill in a toolbox or leak in a bag. Twelve dollars.
Most men won’t carry a bottle of lotion
So it sits under the sink at home, and your knuckles keep splitting through February. That’s the actual problem. Not the formula, not the ingredients — the fact that the thing is a bottle and you’re not going to carry it.
This is a solid bar in a screw-lid tin about the size of a hockey puck. It lives in a coat pocket, a glovebox, a toolbox, a dopp kit. Warm it between your hands for a second and it melts on contact.
Nothing in it can spill, freeze, separate, or go off. There’s no water in it at all.
A bar against a bottle
Both ends of it, including the two rows where the bottle wins.
| This bar | A bottle | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it lives | Pocket, glovebox, toolbox | Under the sink |
| Can it spill | No | Yes |
| Water content | None | Mostly water |
| Preservatives | None needed | Required |
| Ingredients | Six | Often twenty-plus |
| Percentages published | Yes | No |
| Works instantly in the cold | No, rub it a second | Yes |
| Cheapest thing on the shelf | No | Usually |
If the drugstore bottle is working for you, keep buying it. This is for the case where it isn’t, because it’s sitting at home.
Timber & Rind
Cedarwood and sweet orange. Dry and woody with a bit of bite, and it fades to almost nothing within the hour. It’s there so the bar doesn’t smell like a kitchen, not so people can smell you coming.
$12
Net weight 33 g (1.15 oz), in a 2 oz screw-lid tin
Poured 24 at a time, each bar weighed by hand
Good for 12 months from the date on the base
More scents are coming, along with lip balm and soap.
Softer hands in 30 days, or your money back
Use it for a month. If your hands aren’t softer, write to us and we’ll refund what you paid. No form to fill out and no argument about it.
Six things go in it
Every label lists ingredients in descending order and leaves you to guess the proportions. Here’s ours, to the half percent.
38% Beef tallow
Rendered and deodorized, so it doesn’t smell like a kitchen. This is the part doing the work.
33% Beeswax
White and refined. It’s what keeps the bar hard in a hot car, and there’s more of it here than in most.
18% Shea butter
Refined, so it carries no scent of its own. Softens the feel so the bar isn’t just wax on skin.
10% Coconut oil
Helps it spread instead of drag. It used to be a fifth of the bar, until a batch of twenty-four came out too soft to use.
1% The last two
Half a percent of vitamin E, which stops the oils going rancid. Half a percent of cedarwood and sweet orange, which is the whole scent.
No water in it, so nothing needs a preservative to stay stable. That’s most of the reason this list is five lines instead of twenty. The lip balm uses the same six things in different proportions, and those numbers are published too.
No reviews yet
We haven’t sold a bar yet, so there’s nothing honest to put here. We’re not going to write some in the meantime.
When the first batch goes out we’ll ask the people who bought it what they thought, and whatever comes back goes in this space. Including the parts we’d rather not print.
This space is for what customers say once there are customers.
It isn’t for sale yet
We pour twenty-four bars at a time, and the first batch isn’t spoken for yet. Put your name down and you’ll get one email when it’s ready, with a link to buy before anyone else sees it.
No payment, no card, no obligation.