Discovery Trio (0.5 oz Minis)
Best for: Trying everything first — or gifting the whole ritual
- ✓ Vitamins A, D, E & K — whole-food form, across the trio
- ✓ Omegas 3 through 9 — the full fatty-acid spectrum
- ✓ Caffeine — boosts circulation (the exfoliant)
- ✓ Non-nano zinc oxide — the mineral veil (the sun balm)
Complete your ritual
Tick any below — they're added at 15% off and ship together.
Hydrating Cream: Bison Tallow, Jojoba Oil (cold-infused with Calendula, German Chamomile & Helichrysum), Rosehip Seed Oil, Shea Butter, Aloe Vera Oil (in Sweet Almond Oil), Cocoa Butter, Pomegranate Seed Oil, Arrowroot, Kaolin Clay, Sea Buckthorn Oil, Carrot Seed Oil, Vitamin E, Essential Oils, Rosemary CO₂ Extract. All ingredients organic and/or pasture-raised grass-fed.
Sun Balm: Bison Tallow, Non-Nano Zinc Oxide, Shea Butter, Raspberry Seed Oil, Carrot Seed Oil, Jojoba Oil, Sea Buckthorn Berry Oil, Aloe Vera Oil, Arrowroot Powder, Vitamin E, Frankincense, Blue Tansy, and Lavender Essential Oil, Rosemary CO₂ Extract. All ingredients organic and/or pasture-raised grass-fed.
Coffee Exfoliant: Bison Tallow, Shea Butter, Mango Butter, Coffee-Infused Jojoba Oil, Argan Oil, Colloidal Oatmeal, Ground Coffee, Kaolin Clay, Coffee Bean Oil, Coffee CO₂ Extract, Cardamom Essential Oil, Copaiba Oleoresin, Vitamin E. All ingredients organic and/or pasture-raised grass-fed.
Allergen: Contains nut derivatives.
The ritual
Three weeks, one routine
This is exactly how I walk people through it at the market — a simple rhythm your skin learns fast.
IN THE SHOWER
every other day
The Coffee Exfoliant is your face wash and scrub in one. Work it over dry skin before you step in for a deeper polish, or over damp skin in the shower for something gentler. Rinse — and skip the soap after. It leaves a fine layer of moisture behind on purpose.
AFTER THE SHOWER
every time
A rice-grain of Hydrating Cream while skin is still warm — the perfect first layer after a hot shower, the gym, or the sauna. Even on the days you don't exfoliate.
BEFORE YOU HEAD OUT
every morning
The Sun Balm goes on last, right before the door — a mineral-rich morning moisturizer with a soft zinc veil and a subtle natural tint. It also mixes beautifully into foundation.
BEFORE BED
every night
Back to the Hydrating Cream — a little thicker this time, so your skin has something to feed on all the way through the night.
What's inside
Meet the source
One ranch, high in the Sierra Nevada.
Every jar begins at Diamond Mountain Ranch in Greenville, California — a high mountain valley in the northern Sierra Nevada, where the bison roam open pasture year-round.
The Sierra is generous country: snowmelt-fed meadows, mineral-rich mountain soil, native grasses that grow slow and dense in the mountain sun — the kind of high-country pasture the world's great grass-fed traditions are built on. It matters, because the quality of a tallow begins with the quality of the grass.
Grass-fed, grass-finished, raised the old way, by a family we know by name. We buy from this one ranch, and only this one — so we can stand behind every batch, from their grassland to your jar.
The perfect travel kit — it fits in my pocket. It kept my skin happy through two and a half weeks in India.
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The honest comparison
A tallow above
Beef tallow balms share our foundation — animal fat is a genuinely good base, and an honest tallow balm beats a bottle of water and emulsifiers. The difference is degree: single-source grass-fed bison, botanicals steeped for a full season, and every jar poured by hand in Los Angeles.
* The complete omega spectrum (notably 5 and 7) comes from the full formula — pomegranate and sea buckthorn oils — not bison tallow alone.
Our comparison, based on typical formulations in each category.
Handcrafted, not manufactured
Every jar passes through our hands
rendering potSlow-rendered tallow
Rendered gently at low heat in small batches — glass and stainless steel only, start to finish.
botanical infusion jarsCold-infused botanicals
Calendula, chamomile, and helichrysum steep in jojoba oil for a full season before they ever meet a jar.
hand-pouring jarsPoured by hand in Los Angeles
Every jar is filled, labeled, and sealed by the founder in small batches — with care and intention over each one.
Common questions
Each mini is 0.5 oz — roughly two to three weeks of daily use. Enough time to know which ones your skin loves.
It's our most-gifted product — a complete introduction to Ancient Nature in one small box. (And on orders over $100, we add one to your order as our gift to you.)
Every jar, mini or full-size, is backed by our 30-day money-back guarantee. Write to us and we'll make it right.