Limited-Edition Flower-Shaped Dandelion Infused Grapefruit Tallow Lotion Bar (large marbled tin with lid, flowers vary)

Now, before I show you how infuse our tallows, let’s cover some basics. Remember, you can infuse tallow not just with dandelion oil, but with any oil you want to infuse on your homestead that you find beneficial to your own needs! This recipe is completely versatile! We use our own beef fat that we render on the farm! And I highly recommend sourcing a good quality, grass fed, leaf fat to begin with either from your own cows or a local farmer! Also, let’s review the difference between salves and balms before we begin, too! A balm is defined by adding a ratio of four parts oil/fat to one to two parts beeswax. For this recipe, I added a bit more beeswax, closer to the two parts. Mainly because we’re making lotion bars, and it’s summer, and I want to make sure they hold their shape. If you were to make just a tallow balm to pour into a jar, I would do the one part beeswax for a bit less of it, to make it more “scoopable”. And now that I mentioning that, you could also whip this and make it