Khloé Kardashian Joins the Growing List of Celebrities Endorsing Beef Tallow for Skin
Khloé Kardashian has become the latest celebrity to endorse beef tallow for skin, telling her podcast listeners she dabs the rendered beef fat around her eyes every night to help fight wrinkles. Her endorsement has driven a fresh round of search interest in a trend influencers have been pushing for years.
Kardashian shared the unexpected addition to her routine during an “Ask Me Anything” episode of her Khloé In Wonderland podcast.
The 41-year-old Good American cofounder was responding to a listener who asked how she stays so flawless and what her skincare routine looks like. Most of her answers were conventional: regular facials, washing her face daily and a strict rule against sleeping in her makeup. Then came the suggestion no one expected.
“I believe in hydration for your skin — moisturizers at night,” Kardashian said on the podcast. “I love beef tallow that I put specifically around my eyes.”
She framed the choice as part of a broader strategy of keeping the skin around her eyes saturated overnight to fend off fine lines.
“Something that makes your eyes — it could be an oil, Vitamin E oil — anything that makes your eyes really lubricated, so when you sleep you don’t get wrinkles around your eyes,” she explained.
Kardashian didn’t name a specific brand or formulation of beef tallow, and she presented Vitamin E oil as an interchangeable alternative — suggesting the goal, as she sees it, is hydration of the eye area rather than the rendered fat itself.
What other celebrities use beef tallow for skin?
Kardashian joins a small but vocal list of celebrities that use beef tallow as a skincare product, including health and wellness influencer Hannah Bronfman, pop singer Jack Gilinsky and TikTok creators Nara Smith and her husband, model Lucky Blue Smith.
Bronfman has been using beef tallow since at least 2021 and first endorsed it publicly in a March 2023 Instagram post.
“Guys, I literally slather this all over my face every single night,” Bronfman said in the video, calling beef tallow a “game-changer” for her skin. She argued that beef tallow shares molecular biology with the oils in human skin and is rich in lipids and fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, K and B12.
“This is literally the last step in my skincare routine and it actually leaves a nice slip so if you wanted to have a face massage moment, here is the time,” she added.
Gilinsky, one-half of the duo Jack & Jack, confirmed his own beef tallow habit during a February 2024 appearance on the Zach Sang Show. When host Zach Sang asked whether he used beef tallow, Gilinsky was quick to confirm.
“Beef tallow is just beef fat,” Gilinsky said. “I rub it all over my face.”
His pitch echoed Bronfman’s appeal to simplicity. “Go look at your moisturizer. It probably has like 50 ingredients and you might know what two of them are,” he said. “Beef tallow is just beef tallow — it’s just beef fat.” He also pointed to its lack of smell and a sense of connection to his ancestral roots.
Nara Smith went viral in May 2024 after sharing a video of her husband making a homemade beef tallow moisturizer from scratch. “My husband’s usual moisturizer ran out, so he decided to whip up a batch from scratch!” she wrote in the caption. “This #homemade #skincare recipe is simple and perfect for couples!”
Smith, a longtime advocate for natural, homemade skincare products, has said the approach helps her manage her eczema. “I grew up with eczema, but then it kind of just went away,” she told ESSENCE in a 2025 interview. “When I gave birth, I had a tiny little flare up on my hand and I thought it would just go away [again].”
Does beef tallow for skin actually work?
Dermatology resident Dr. Angela Wei told the Cleveland Clinic that beef tallow doesn’t appear to offer any benefits for your skin beyond serving as a natural moisturizer — and that it can carry real risks, including clogged pores, irritation, allergic reactions and sunburn.
Wei said the appeal is rooted in marketing more than evidence. “It gets promoted a lot on social media because it’s natural,” she told the Cleveland Clinic. “People seem to like it because it’s something that’s been around for a long time and marketed as ‘chemical-free.’”
The case for beef tallow, as influencers describe it, leans heavily on its fatty acids and fat-soluble vitamins. Wei isn’t disputing that those components are present. But she said the research isn’t there to support the broader claims being made about it on social media.
“There’s no evidence that shows beef tallow has any additional benefits for your skin beyond being a natural moisturizer,” Wei told the Cleveland Clinic. “There are other moisturizers out there with more consistent formulations that are better and safer for use on the skin.”
For readers who land in the same place as Kardashian, Bronfman, Gilinsky and the Smiths, Wei’s view is that there’s nothing unique about beef tallow itself. It can act as a moisturizer. But so can a long list of other products formulated specifically for skin, with fewer unknowns attached.
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