I Replaced My Entire Skincare Routine With a Tiny Jar. Here's What Happened 90 Days Later...

On the next page they invited me to start an interesting challenge. I was supposed to replace ALL my products with their new suet balm for 90 days and see if it works for my skin.

At first I ignored it, but that night, I just couldn't sleep. I kept thinking about everything sitting on my bathroom counter.

• Eye cream: hydrates under the eyes.
  
• Night cream: hydrates while you sleep.
  
• Day cream: hydrates during the day.
  
• Face oil: adds moisture.
  
• Hyaluronic acid: pulls in moisture.

All doing some version of... the same thing?

I felt a little stupid. And honestly... a little cheated.

I'd spent decades building this routine. Reading reviews. Comparing ingredients. Waiting for one layer to sink in before adding the next.

And for what? So I can see my own mother in the mirror...?

What if I was overcomplicating this?

What if my skin didn't need multiple steps?

What if it just needed one thing it could actually use?

I ordered three jars on a 40% discount and decided to try it out.

The balm showed up in a small, plain jar. It smelled like nothing, really. Maybe slightly earthy. Not perfumey. Not "luxurious" in that fake spa way I was used to.

I scooped a little out with my finger. It was solid but melted the second it touched my skin. Within moments, it absorbed completely. No greasy film sitting on top.

That was strange.

Every tallow cream I'd ever used left a shine and pilled under my makeup. This one just... disappeared.

I was sold. So I committed to the experiment. For 90 days, I'd use only this balm. Morning and night. Nothing else.

I moved everything else into a box under the sink. Out of sight. If I genuinely missed something, I could add it back. That was the agreement I made with myself.

The first few days felt uncomfortable. Not because my skin reacted poorly—it didn't—but because it felt like I was skipping steps.

No actives? No retinol? No vitamin C?

This couldn't possibly be enough...

Around day eighteen or nineteen, I noticed something.

I woke up and my skin looked... settled. Not puffy. Not red. Not dry around my nose like it always was in winter.

Just kind of settled.

I hadn't changed anything else. Same pillow. Same water. Same stress levels, which is to say... not great.

The only thing different was the balm.

I stood at the bathroom mirror longer than usual that morning. Trying to figure out what had shifted.

My forehead looked smoother. Not pulled tight—just smoother. The texture under my eyes seemed less wrinkled. The redness around my nose had mostly disappeared.

I texted my sister: "Okay this new beef fat thing might actually be working?"

She replied: "I'm sorry WHAT? HOW?" and I just bursted out in laugh... because I didn't know!

I couldn't stop thinking about it. So I did what any reasonable person does at midnight... I started googling "why does suet work on skin."

Turns out, there's an actual answer.

Your skin doesn't feel dry and tight because it needs more moisturizer.

It feels that way because it's chronically inflamed.

And that inflammation is like a low fire burning under the surface that never fully goes out.

Stress. Hormones. Sleep. What you eat. Even the weather. A dozen different things can light that fire, and they stack up as you get older.

But once it's burning, it weakens your skin's moisture barrier. So hydration escapes faster than your skin can replace it. That's why you feel smooth for an hour after applying cream... then tight and uncomfortable again by noon.

The cream isn't failing. It's just fighting a battle it can't win.

Worse, inflamed skin goes on high alert. It shuts the door. Everything you put on either feeds the fire or gets turned away.

And until recently, nobody could figure it out...

But skin researchers found something strange. Like a built-in off-switch inside your skin that can turn inflammation off. And it runs on one thing: a fat called CLA, or conjugated linoleic acid.

Run low on CLA, and the switch won't flip. That's when inflammation lingers. And your skin stays rough, dry and wrinkled.

But supply enough of it, and your skin calms down and stays soft and supple from the moment you wake up to the moment you fall asleep.

There's a problem though: rubbing pure CLA on your face wouldn't work, because inflamed skin is picky about what gets through.

It has to arrive as something your skin already recognizes and trusts.

Turns out, there's one natural source loaded with CLA that looks almost identical to the sebum your skin produces every day. And because it's so similar, your skin doesn't see it as a threat. So it opens the door, pulls it in, and carries the CLA exactly where it's needed.

That substance is beef suet. The richest, deepest grade of tallow. Women have used it since Ancient Roman times.

There's only a tiny amount on each cow, and it gets even richer in CLA when cattle graze on grass in cold, open country at high altitude.

It's incredibly rare. That's why it's called the "sirloin" of fat by ranchers.

And I'd been putting in on for three weeks to knock back the clock on my face.

By day 45, I opened the box under my sink to grab my eye cream.

I looked at it. Picked it up. Set it back down.

Needless to say: I didn't miss it!

Same with the night cream. The day cream. The serum. The face oil.

None of them were doing anything the balm wasn't already doing... better and without the extra steps.

The only thing I kept was sunscreen. Because that's a completely different job.

But everything else? Still sitting in that box. Some of it donated. Some of it tossed.

Not because they were terrible products. In fact, some of them were really expensive. And some had hundreds of glowing reviews. The others I genuinely thought I loved.

But I didn't actually need them anymore.

That was the uncomfortable part I had to sit with.

I'd been solving the same problem twelve different ways. Spending money on it... Just to get mediocre results.

While this completely miracle was hiding in a plain sight...

I took a photo on day one of this experiment. Bare face, harsh bathroom lighting, no filter.

On day 90, I took another one. Same lighting. Same room.

The difference wasn't dramatic in a "she aged backwards ten years" kind of way. I'm not going to oversell it.

But it was undeniable.

Less texture. Less redness. More even tone. A kind of underlying fullness I hadn't seen in years. My skin looked actually nourished instead of just temporarily hydrated.

And I got there with one product. One freaking jar! Thirty seconds in the morning and thirty seconds at night was all it took.

No layering. No waiting between steps. No twelve-product routine.

Just the balm that worked as advertised.

I'm writing this six months in. Still using the balm. Still nothing else except a sunscreen.

A few things I've noticed:

I spend so much less on skincare now. One jar goes a long way. It saves me hundrends, maybe even thousands, on products and procedures I no longer need.

My bathroom counter is empty. Toothbrush, balm, sunscreen. That's it. And honestly, it feels kind of nice having all that space back.

My skin doesn't just look "fine" anymore. It looks healthy, plump and glowing. Last week a stranger asked if me and my daugther are sisters, which basically never happened before!

I stopped thinking about it constantly. That might be the biggest shift. I used to spend hours researching ingredients, reading reviews, comparing options. Now I just don't. The problem's handled. And I can live my life.

The product is called Montana Tallow Essential Face Balm and it's made by a small family in Whitefish, Montana.

The ingredient list is almost silly short: grass-finished beef suet, fractionated coconut oil, arrowroot powder, and optional lavender.

That's it.

No water. No fillers. No unpronounceable preservatives.

It's made from grass-finished Montana beef suet, triple-rendered to remove any animal scent.

And it just smells... clean. Neutral. Or faintly like lavender if you choose that version.

Women use it on their face, neck, hands, anywhere their skin feels dry or uncomfortable.

I know how it sounds. Beef fat on your face. But it's not a generic feedlot fat and the science just makes sense.

After six months, I can't argue with what I see in the mirror.

If your bathroom looks like mine did—products everywhere, mediocre results despite all the effort—then yes, a 100%.

Not because this balm is magic. But because it might help you realize what took me 90 days to figure out:

Your skin doesn't need more products. It needs the right one.

Something it actually recognizes and use - instead of twelve things it's trying to reject.

The company offers a 30-day guarantee to this day, so you can run a small experiment yourself without any risk.

Order a jar. Put your other products away. Use only the balm for 30 days.

If you genuinely miss something, add it back.

If you don't... you might end up like me: staring at an almost-empty counter, wondering why you made it all so complicated for so long.

They're running a generous sale now too with up to 40% off for new customers

I don't know how long it'll last. But if you're even a little curious, it's probably worth trying while the discount's still available.