We Didn't Set Out to Build a Skincare Brand.
The Label Problem
What They Found When They Started Reading
When the pandemic hit and supply chains buckled, Troy saw it coming before most people did. He'd spent decades designing distribution systems. He knew exactly how fragile the modern food supply was, and what it meant when the cracks started showing. Empty shelves weren't a temporary inconvenience. They were a signal. He and Carrie had surrendered control of one of life's most basic needs: knowing where their food comes from and how it's produced.
Around the same time, Carrie started reading labels. Not just on food -- on everything. The moisturizer she'd used for years. The body wash. The sunscreen. What she found wasn't reassuring. Preservatives, synthetic fragrances, and chemical compounds she couldn't pronounce. Ingredients that researchers are increasingly questioning for their effects on hormonal health.
She wasn't looking for a chemistry lecture. She just wanted to know what she was putting on the largest human organ, and whether it was actually doing her any good. The honest answer, product after product, was: she wasn't sure. And that bothered her.
Progress and convenience had driven modern skincare to optimize for shelf life, texture, and manufacturing efficiency. Not for what's actually good for your skin. Sometimes those two things align. Often they don't.
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Around the same time, Carrie started reading labels. Not just on food -- on everything. The moisturizer she'd used for years. The body wash. The sunscreen. What she found wasn't reassuring. Preservatives, synthetic fragrances, and chemical compounds she couldn't pronounce. Ingredients that researchers are increasingly questioning for their effects on hormonal health.
She wasn't looking for a chemistry lecture. She just wanted to know what she was putting on the largest human organ, and whether it was actually doing her any good. The honest answer, product after product, was: she wasn't sure. And that bothered her.
Progress and convenience had driven modern skincare to optimize for shelf life, texture, and manufacturing efficiency. Not for what's actually good for your skin. Sometimes those two things align. Often they don't.
From the Herd and the Hive
The Standard Behind the Jar
Hide & Honey is the natural goods brand built from the Texas Grass Fed Farms world. We partner with beef producers raising cattle on grass: 100% grass-fed and grass-finished, no added hormones, no antibiotics, no mRNA vaccines, no glyphosate on the fields, no grain finishing.
That standard matters more here than it does on a steak, and this is the part most people don't know. Fat is where the trouble accumulates. Hormones, pesticide residues and a long list of industrial compounds are fat-soluble, which means they don't pass through the animal. They store in the fat. And the fat is the entire product.
So we hold our tallow to a higher bar than the beef. Same standard, stricter reason.
Then we render it ourselves, in small batches in North Texas, using both methods. Wet rendering takes out what causes the beefy smell people expect from beef fat. Dry rendering drives off the water, which is the one thing that would spoil a jar with no preservative in it. The honey is raw and unfiltered Texas honey, never heated, the same jar you could put on toast.
Handcrafted in Texas.
Visit Texas Grass Fed Farms
That standard matters more here than it does on a steak, and this is the part most people don't know. Fat is where the trouble accumulates. Hormones, pesticide residues and a long list of industrial compounds are fat-soluble, which means they don't pass through the animal. They store in the fat. And the fat is the entire product.
So we hold our tallow to a higher bar than the beef. Same standard, stricter reason.
Then we render it ourselves, in small batches in North Texas, using both methods. Wet rendering takes out what causes the beefy smell people expect from beef fat. Dry rendering drives off the water, which is the one thing that would spoil a jar with no preservative in it. The honey is raw and unfiltered Texas honey, never heated, the same jar you could put on toast.
Handcrafted in Texas.
The Way God Intended
Texas Grass Fed Farms
The Standard Behind the Suet
The same sourcing standard that governs our grass-fed beef governs the suet we render into skincare. Visit Texas Grass Fed Farms to see how it works on the cattle side.
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