{"id":18461,"date":"2024-12-17T09:02:09","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T10:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18461"},"modified":"2024-12-17T10:23:29","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T10:23:29","slug":"people-are-putting-beef-on-their-faces-what-could-go-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=18461","title":{"rendered":"People Are Putting Beef on Their Faces. What Could Go Wrong?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Natural, tallow-based cosmetics can be made at home or bought from artisans. Doctors aren\u2019t thrilled, but they\u2019re all the rage on TikTok.<\/p>\n

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Beauty content creators on TikTok have found an audience hungry for products made from beef fat.<\/span>Sascha Green, Savanna DiMuccio<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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When Sascha Green goes to Costco, she buys ground pork, turkey and chicken breasts for a week of dinners. And then she gets steak for her face.<\/p>\n

It may seem gross, but beef tallow \u2014 rendered fat from around a cow\u2019s organs \u2014 has become a popular ingredient in cosmetic products. Customers swear by its natural moisturizing properties while businesses have begun selling tallow-based creams to meet the demand. But dermatologists warn that just because something\u2019s natural doesn\u2019t mean you should put it on your face.<\/p>\n

\u201cI give it a thumbs down from the scientific and dermatologic perspective,\u201d said Dr. Zakia Rahman, a clinical professor of dermatology at Stanford University School of Medicine. \u201cIt could potentially cause acne flares or cause irritation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Still, many people swear by its benefits. Last year, Ms. Green, 28, stopped spending a fortune on a litany of skin care products when she started seeing TikToks from people promoting what they described as a natural miracle ingredient that\u2019s cheaper than Sephora products.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cI made my own to start, just by getting meat from Costco and stripping the fat off the meat and rendering it,\u201d said Ms. Green, who lives in Hillsdale, Ind., about 70 miles west of Indianapolis. <\/p>\n

In a video documenting<\/a> her process, she cooked the fat repeatedly with water and salt, removing brown-colored impurities until she was left with a white, waxy disk. She then whipped it up with essential oils and declared it ready.<\/p>\n

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Natural, tallow-based cosmetics can be made at home or bought from artisans. Doctors aren\u2019t thrilled, but they\u2019re all the rage on TikTok.Beauty content creators on TikTok have found an audience hungry for products made from beef fat.Sascha Green, Savanna DiMuccioWhen Sascha Green goes to Costco, she buys ground pork, turkey and chicken breasts for a week of dinners. And then she gets steak for her face.It may seem gross, but beef tallow \u2014 rendered fat from around a cow\u2019s organs \u2014 has become a popular ingredient in cosmetic products. Customers swear by its natural moisturizing properties while businesses have begun selling tallow-based creams to meet the demand. But dermatologists warn that just because something\u2019s natural doesn\u2019t mean you should put it on your face.\u201cI give it a thumbs down from the scientific and dermatologic perspective,\u201d said Dr. Zakia Rahman, a clinical professor of dermatology at Stanford University School of Medicine. \u201cIt could potentially cause acne flares or cause irritation.\u201dStill, many people swear by its benefits. Last year, Ms. Green, 28, stopped spending a fortune on a litany of skin care products when she started seeing TikToks from people promoting what they described as a natural miracle ingredient that\u2019s cheaper than Sephora products.\u201cI made my own to start, just by getting meat from Costco and stripping the fat off the meat and rendering it,\u201d said Ms. Green, who lives in Hillsdale, Ind., about 70 miles west of Indianapolis. In a video documenting her process, she cooked the fat repeatedly with water and salt, removing brown-colored impurities until she was left with a white, waxy disk. She then whipped it up with essential oils and declared it ready.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18463,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18464,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18461\/revisions\/18464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}