Our Journey
I (Myra) and my Mom (Asma) are the proud Founders of Ode to Tallow. Although we officially launched in December, 2023, Ode to Tallow is the culmination of years of learnings, healings, and personal discoveries.
in 2012, After struggling with chronic health issues for most of her life, and finding no answers within the mainstream industry, Mom embarked on a journey of natural healing, holistic changes, and spirituality.
I was 14 years old at the time watching this journey from the shadows, fascinated and inspired. The next eight years were a rollercoaster. We re-learned the beauty of Islam, and with faith pushing us forward, embraced all the natural world had to offer.
Clean eating, DIY skincare, farm-fresh produce, homegrown herbs, traditional practices from our great grandmother’s times became our new way of life, and the Barakah these changes brought into our lives cannot be properly expressed.
2022 met us with the discovery of tallow. A beautiful animal fat which has been used for centuries for cooking, skincare, candle making, and so much more. Our love for animals and respect for Allah’s teachings had us searching for a source which was both ‘halal and tayyib [pure & clean].
Allah opened door after door and we began experimenting with organic, halal, grassfed tallow. Once Mom found a body butter formula which we loved, we began gifting it to friends and family.
The response was overwhelming.
One wintery December evening, Mom was reflecting on a text she received from a friend using our tallow butter. It described how her daughter’s eczema had completely vanished after using the product. She was encouraging us to begin a small business and provide halal tallow skincare to the community, since there was a massive gap in the market..
Mom pondered this aloud, catching me by surprise. Despite making skincare for the family for years, the idea of launching a business was never in the picture, given Mom’s health struggles and my pre-existing wood-burning business which took up all my free time.
However, something shifted that evening.
A door opened, where it hadn’t existed before.
And suddenly, this idea seemed too important, too vital to ignore.
Within three days, we threw together an Instagram, stuck our product on Facebook Marketplace, and we began what is now a movement towards holistic, traditional living.
As the months passed and sales began pouring in, Tallow suddenly went viral on social media, sending waves our way. We learned how to make cold pressed soap, how to infuse different plants and scents into our butters, how to market, price, package, sell.
We slow began curating a new line, Straight from the Earth, featuring wildcrafted plants (foraged and homegrown) infused into organic oils. Our passion of discovering the medicine and power within what grows all around us grew, fuelled by the incredible feedback received by our community.
We have learned that the journey never stops and the lessons never end. Allah’s teachings are so vast, and we love the ride to discovering more, and more, and more.
We can’t wait to see where this journey continues to take us.
We deeply and heartily thank you for your support and love.
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