Tallow based skincare for life in the elements.

Two lines. One philosophy: simple ingredients that work.

Built for surf, sun, and everyday skin.

Tallow based skincare for life in the elements.

Two lines. One philosophy: simple ingredients that work.

Built for surf, sun, and everyday skin.

Choose Your Line

Different conditions. Same integrity. 

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Daily Series

Face. Hair. Body.

The everyday products. Same ingredient standards as everything else we make. Grass-fed, grass-finished tallow, botanicals that earn their place, nothing you’d want to avoid.
Barrel Series

Barrel Series

Built for harsh conditions.

Surf-tested sun protection with the water resistance to stay on through a full session. For the days that don’t let up.

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Why it works.

 Most skincare is built on petroleum derivatives and silicones that sit on the surface and call it moisturizing. Or seed oils that absorb and then oxidize under UV. Ours does none of it.
 
 Regeneratively raised, grass-fed, grass-finished tallow shares a fatty acid profile with your skin’s own sebum. It integrates with your lipid barrier, stays stable in sunlight, and doesn’t generate free radicals while it’s doing its job. Every product is finished with botanicals that earn their place. Nothing that disrupts your hormones.

No synthetic chemicals. No industrial seed oils. Ever.

Reef-safe. Actually.

Not just a marketing line. Our sun balms use natural ingredients and non-nano zinc oxide — the only UV blocker proven safe for coral reefs.

Long-lasting, sweat-resistant, and built to stay put through a full session — without poisoning the ocean.

Small-batch. Always.

We don’t mass-produce. Every order is made by hand in small batches, tested on real skin, and shipped fresh. No warehouses. No middlemen. Just us and you.

What people are saying

Founder Photo using early version of barrel balm.

The Story...

Most skincare and sunscreen is built on seed oils. Seed oils oxidize in sunlight. When they oxidize, they create free radicals that damage your skin. That’s the stuff you’re putting on your face.

I’m a surfer. I spent years buying expensive “natural” products thinking I was doing the right thing. Avoiding the reef-killing, hormone-disrupting chemicals. Turns out most of them still had the same problem. Full of seed oils and didn’t last long in the ocean.

When I started making my own, I built them around stable ingredients. Grass-fed tallow, mango butter, lanolin, beeswax, castor oil, zinc oxide. Nothing that breaks down in the sun. The Barrel Series is what I wear in the water. Sun protection that holds up for hours, not minutes. The Daily Series is what I use the rest of the time. Face, hair, body.

No industrial seed oils. No bullshit.

 

Founder Photo using early version of barrel balm.

Michael Perez
Driftwood Organics

Founder Photo using early version of barrel balm.

The Story...

Most skincare and sunscreen is built on seed oils. Seed oils oxidize in sunlight. When they oxidize, they create free radicals that damage your skin. That’s the stuff you’re putting on your face.

I’m a surfer. I spent years buying expensive “natural” products thinking I was doing the right thing. Avoiding the reef-killing, hormone-disrupting chemicals. Turns out most of them still had the same problem. Full of seed oils and didn’t last long in the ocean.

 

When I started making my own, I built them around stable ingredients. Grass-fed tallow, mango butter, lanolin, beeswax, castor oil, zinc oxide. Nothing that breaks down in the sun. The Barrel Series is what I wear in the water. Sun protection that holds up for hours, not minutes. The Daily Series is what I use the rest of the time. Face, hair, body. No industrial seed oils. No bullshit.

 

Michael Perez
Driftwood Organics

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