Scented tallow and beeswax!
"Less wind-resistant are laurel oak, turkey oak, Chinese tallow and red maple.
Those cows will still be used for pet food and other products, including tallow and cosmetic ingredients.
Early on, American Indians blended wild cranberries with tallow and venison to form a kind of pemmican.
Fuller's earth is used to refine and decolourize petroleum products, cottonseed and soy oils, tallow, and other fats and oils.
But perhaps the most striking entry in the Sheridan business directory was the one tucked in between "Tallow and Grease" and "Taxidermists": "Tamales".
When mixed with turpentine, tallow and white lead, it was traditionally smeared on the undersides of ships to protect the timbers from woodworm and barnacles.
He says being part of the Small Biz 100 was a big boost for Wick & Tallow and has helped it to attract media attention.
With his brother, James Darcy Lever, he began to make soap from vegetable oils instead of tallow and registered the name "Sunlight" for the product.
Making fabrics softer and sometimes also increasing absorbency involves the addition of such agents as dextrin, glycerin, sulfonated oils, sulfated tallow, and sulfated alcohols.
The Farrow & Ball colour chart rather expressively gives you a sense of how studiously these tints avoid glamour, with names like Mouse's Back, Dead Salmon, Tallow, and Lichen.
