Vellum Street Soap Company
Tallow Bar Soap
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$10.00
"Locally minded, sustainably focused & chef made" For use on lips, hands, face, ass... tallow’s great for skin when it's been fed grass! Chose from the available scents in the drop down menu.
Made In Philly 
Plastic-Free
Summary
Tallow Bar Soap
$10.00
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$10.00
The heart of the brand, these grass fed, tallow based bar soaps are a wonderful way to keep your skin clean & in fighting shape. Locally minded, sustainably focused & chef made, they source many otherwise discarded, food grade ingredients from area restaurants & farms, seeing their value & saving them from waste bins. Starting with biocompatable grass fed tallow, these bar soaps are gentle enough for the face, yet effective enough to wash away any dirt & grime you may accumulate in your day! Noncomedogenic & ultra moisturizing, tallow makes the perfect soap for the whole household, no matter how dirty! The fatty acids in tallow are much closer in molecular structure to the oils our own skin produces than more commonly used plant oils & is extremely rich in the same kinds of lipids present in youthful, vibrant skin. Being chock full of vitamins A, D, E, & K doesn't hurt either!
Soap, at its inception, was regularly made from a combination of animal fats & alkaline salts (the Egyptians), or tallow & ash (the Celts/Germans). Tallow/other animal fats are also highly sustainable, as they are quite often a rather underused by-product of the meat industry. Quality matters, which is why all of their animal fat comes from pastured, humanely raised animals, from local farms & butchers. What you put ON your skin is just as important as what you put IN your mouth, which is why they use upcycled & local food grade ingredients, all safe enough to eat - it's the soap you wish your mouth got washed out with!
Founded in 2015 by Melissa Lynn Torre, a chef interested in both nutrition and food sustainability, it wasn't long before Vellum Street soap maker/mayhem slayer Melissa Lynn Torre started paying attention to not only what she put IN her body, but also ON it. After battling an auto-immune disease for decades, and finding no relief via traditional channels, Melissa began to realize so many commercially available soaps & skin care products today are formulated with ingredients you would never eat, so why slather them on your skin, which, like your digestive system, absorbs everything you put on it?!
After a growing interest & extensive research, Melissa discovered a slew of ingredients, many of which were leftover/excess ingredients in her cafe Cookie Confidential's own kitchen, that held numerous benefits for the skin, most notably, tallow. Not long after, Melissa stepped away from the world of pastry and private cheffing, and into the world of upcycled skincare. Creating products that are comprised of nothing that doesn't directly benefit skin health, along with being able to put to good use many food "scraps" that were once headed for the trash bin in many commercial kitchens, led Melissa to an exciting new venture that combined her love of food & creating in the kitchen with her desire to improve nutrition and food sustainability for both her and those around her struggling with similar issues.
At Vellum Street, they don't believe you should put anything on your skin that you wouldn't put in your mouth. All of their tallow based soaps, balms, lotions, salts, and candles are made from high quality, food grade ingredients, locally & organically sourced, often from the kitchens of local restaurants & farms in the form of upcycled material that would normally be considered waste. Vellum Street has been commercially selling and formulating tallow skincare since 2015. They work with a handful of small farms in the Philadelphia/Bucks/Chester/Lancaster County areas, but mainly Tussock Sedge and Wyebrook.
Blood Orange Bourbon: Saponified tallow, essential oils (bergamot, patchouli, cedar, clove, vetiver), turmeric, paprika, annatto, spent bourbon grains, dried blood orange peel, corn silk, honey
Lemon Ginger Oatmeal: Saponified tallow, essential oils (lemon, ginger), vanilla absolute, lemon, oats, turmeric, honey
Matcha Mint Rose: Saponified tallow, essential oils (spearmint, rose geranium), rose absolute, spinach, matcha, rose petals, spearmint leaves, honey
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