5 Reasons People Are Replacing Their 30-Ingredient Moisturizer With a Cream Made From One Fat

The KONG Journal  ·  Updated October 2026

Moisturizer was the one product nobody read the label on. You grabbed the bottle that said "hydrating," pumped it twice a day, and reapplied when your hands felt tight again an hour later.

Then a small bamboo brand with a gorilla on the label put out a face and body cream with a label you can read in one breath: grass-fed beef tallow and essential oils. Here is why people who try it tend to stay.

1. Most moisturizer is mostly water

Flip over the lotion by your sink. On most bottles the first ingredient is water. Then come thickeners to make water feel like cream, emulsifiers so it doesn't separate, preservatives so it survives a year in a warm bathroom, seed oils because they're cheap, and synthetic fragrance so it smells like something.

Water-first lotion feels great for a few minutes, evaporates, and an hour later your skin is asking for another pump. KONG Tallow Cream has no water in it at all. Nothing to evaporate.

Tonight, read your lotion's label. Count the ingredients, then count the ones you can't pronounce. For comparison, here is ours: grass-fed beef tallow, plus the essential oils that give each scent its name. That's it.

2. Tallow is made of the fats your skin is made of

Grass-fed beef tallow has a fat profile remarkably close to the oils your skin makes on its own. It sinks in like it belongs there, because it does. No slick film sitting on top waiting to rub off on your sleeve.

Vitamins A, D, E and K arrive the way skin expects them: already carried in fat, in whole food form, not sprayed on top of water. People moisturized this way for centuries before the lotion aisle existed.

3. A pea-size amount does the whole job

This is the part that surprises people. You start with a pea-size amount, warm it between your fingertips and press it into damp skin. It absorbs within a few minutes and leaves a soft finish, not a greasy one.

Because it works at pea-size power, one 2oz jar outlasts bottles three times its size. Face, hands, elbows, knuckles, cuticles, wherever the day landed.

4. Three moods, one ancient recipe

Same cream, three scents, all from essential oils only. Serene Balance (lemongrass and lavender) is the any-time starting point. Night Restore (lavender and fir) is the last thing on your skin before lights out. Sun Kissed (orange and bergamot) wakes the face up before the coffee does.

The scent is light. You smell it while you apply, and it fades once the cream absorbs. Nothing perfumey, nothing synthetic.

5. The founder-price math is almost unfair

A jar lists at $39.99. KONG Members get their first jar at $24.99, that's 37% off, and every refill after that locked at $28.99, for life. Delivery every 1, 2 or 3 months, your call, free shipping over $50, skip, pause or cancel anytime in two taps.

And there's a 30-day money-back guarantee on any scent. If your skin doesn't love it, they make it right.