NX1 PROJECT

Read this if your bathroom shelf is full of half-used pots that never quite worked.

The Reason Your Skin Still Feels Dry Isn't You. It's What You've Been Putting On It.

A small Scottish brand went back to one simple ingredient your skin already recognises. Over 2,500 people have reviewed it 4.8 out of 5.

I used to dread the thirty seconds after washing my face.

 

That's when my skin would pull tight across my cheeks, that papery feeling, with little rough patches near my nose that caught on my fingers when I touched them. So I'd reach for whatever cream was current that month, already knowing how this ends.

 

I'd tried the one everyone online swears by. I'd tried the expensive one with the clinical-looking label. I'd tried a handful of things off the shelf at Boots. Some did nothing. One left my face hot and itchy. Most just sat in the jar slowly emptying while my skin stayed exactly the same.

 

And it was never only my face. The backs of my hands went rough and papery all winter, the skin tight over my knuckles. Dry, flaky patches turned up wherever they felt like it. My partner had given up on his skin years ago, just decided that tight, weather-beaten feeling after every shave was normal and stopped looking for anything.

 

At some point I stopped blaming the products and started blaming myself.

 

It wasn't my fault. And it wasn't my skin's fault either. I'd just been asking the wrong question this whole time.

Here's what nobody selling you skincare wants to say out loud.

Most modern moisturisers are built in a lab. Long ingredient lists, names you can't pronounce, formulas engineered to look and smell and feel a certain way on a shop shelf.

 

And your skin has no idea what any of it is.

 

So one of two things happens. The product sits on top of your skin doing very little, a film you can feel but not a difference you can see, until the jar runs out and you buy another one. Or your skin reacts to something in the mix, and now the patch that was just dry is also red-looking, warm, and itchy by mid-afternoon.

 

Either way you blame yourself. You think you picked wrong, or you didn't use it long enough, or your skin is just difficult. So you buy the next one. And the next.

 

Or you're the other kind. You stopped buying anything at all, decided your skin was just rough and that was that. Same outcome. The shelf is empty instead of full, but nothing got better.

 

It isn't you. You've been handed lab formulas and told to be patient with them. That's the whole problem.

Why your skin recognises this one ingredient

Your skin already makes its own protective oil. It's been doing it your whole life. It's the reason a newborn doesn't need a twelve-step routine.

 

So the real question was never “which lab formula should I try next.”

 

It was: what could I put on my skin that my skin actually recognises?

 

That's the idea behind this balm, and it's called the Skin-Match Principle.

 

Tallow, rendered properly from grass-fed beef, has a makeup unusually close to the natural oils human skin produces itself. Not similar in marketing-speak. Genuinely close in structure.

 

(And yes, I had the exact reaction you're having. Beef tallow? On my face? But think about it for a second. Lanolin from sheep's wool has been in skincare for a century. Beeswax is in half the balms you've ever owned. Tallow is just the one nobody bothered to tell you about, because it can't be patented and it doesn't sound clever.)

Because it's so close to what your skin already makes, it doesn't sit on top fighting for attention and it doesn't introduce a dozen ingredients your skin has to negotiate with. It works in step with your skin instead of against it.

 

Here's what that means for the things that actually bother you. That tight, papery feeling after washing? It shows up when your skin's own oil layer is depleted and there's nothing replacing it like-for-like. The rough patches that flake when you touch them? Same story, surface skin left dry and disorganised. Because tallow matches the structure of that missing oil so closely, skin stops reading as tight and starved and starts feeling soft, settled and comfortable again. The redness that comes from a dozen unfamiliar ingredients simply isn't in the equation, because there are only four ingredients and your skin recognises all of them.

 

That's why one simple balm can do the job your cabinet full of products couldn't.

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Four ingredients. One pot. Here's why it works.

01

It's four ingredients, and you can pronounce all of them.

Grass-fed British beef tallow. Scottish raw honey. Beeswax. Coconut oil. That's the whole formula. No synthetic fragrance, no fillers, nothing engineered to game a shelf.

If long ingredient lists have burned you before, there's simply nothing here to react to that you haven't met already.

02

It replaces the shelf, not adds to it.

This isn't step seven of a routine. It's a face balm and a body balm in one pot. Dry cheeks. Rough hands that crack in winter. Tight skin after a shave. Elbows, knuckles, shins, wherever skin goes rough. One pot, used anywhere.

The overwhelm you feel scrolling thousand-product routines? This is the opposite of that on purpose.

03

It works with your skin, not against.

Because tallow's makeup is so close to skin's own oil, it absorbs in instead of leaving that heavy greasy film. People describe their skin afterwards as soft and comfortable, not coated.

If you've avoided balms because you picture a shiny slick, this is the reason to look again.

04

 It's unrefined, and that's the point.

It isn't bleached or chemically processed to look identical in every jar. It's made in small Scottish batches the slow way, so the colour shifts slightly from batch to batch.

That variation is the receipt. It's what skincare looks like before a lab flattens it.

05

One jar lasts about six weeks.

A little goes a long way, so a single pot stretches roughly a month and a half of daily use.

Set against the stack of half-used creams you've already paid for, the maths is friendlier than the price tag first suggests.

06

There's a version for sensitive skin too.

It comes in Mandarin Silk and Lavender, both lightly scented with essential oils. And a completely Unscented option for anyone whose skin doesn't get on with essential oils at all.

No second-guessing which one is safe for you.

07

150,000 customers in just 14 months — and 2,500+ have rated it 4.8 out of 5.

This isn't a launch gamble. It's a balm thousands of people have already bought, used, and come back to rate. The reviews are public on Trustpilot. Read them before you decide.

What people say once they've switched

How It Works

— 01

Warm a little between your fingers. 

A small amount is enough. It softens with your body heat in a couple of seconds.

— 02

Press it into clean skin.

Morning, night, or both. Face, hands, anywhere dry and rough. It absorbs in rather than sitting on the surface.

— 03

Put the other jars away. 

That's the part people don't expect. Once this is your one step, the shelf goes quiet.

NX1 is a small independent Scottish brand. Every jar is made in small batches, the slow way, which means stock genuinely runs out and the bestselling scents are the first to go. If the variant you want is in stock today, that's the moment to order it. Restocks aren't instant.

Why the 5-jar set is the popular choice

Most people don't buy one.
 

Once the balm replaces three or four products, a single jar starts to feel small. That's why the 5-jar set is the most popular choice by a wide margin, and it works out at £12.90 a jar instead of £29.99, with free shipping included.
 

The 3-jar set lands in the middle at £17 a jar.

 

Two practical reasons people go bigger. First, mix the scents: Mandarin Silk for the morning, Unscented for sensitive days, a jar of Lavender by the bed. Second, it gives without effort. A jar of honest, simple, Scottish-made skincare is a genuinely nice thing to hand someone, and you'll have one ready when you need it.

 

One balm fixes your shelf. Five fixes it for the year.

Try it for 21 days. If your skin doesn’t feel the difference, email us, and we’ll give you a refund.

You have two options tonight.

 

Buy another lab formula, give it a month, and probably end up back where you started with one more pot on the shelf.

 

Or try the one ingredient your skin already recognises, and see what your skin does when you stop fighting it.

Try it for 21 days. If your skin doesn’t feel the difference, email us, and we’ll give you a refund.

You have two options tonight.
 

Buy another lab formula, give it a month, and probably end up back where you started with one more pot on the shelf.
 

Or try the one ingredient your skin already recognises, and see what your skin does when you stop fighting it.

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Questions people ask

Does it smell like beef?

No. The most common worry with any tallow product is a beefy, meaty smell, and it only happens when low-grade fat is poorly rendered. Ours is properly rendered from grass-fed British beef, so it doesn't carry that odour. Mandarin Silk and Lavender are lightly scented with essential oils, and even the Unscented version has only a soft, clean natural scent — not a steakhouse one.

Is it suitable for sensitive skin?

 Yes, it's one of the reasons people switch to it. The whole formula is four recognisable ingredients (tallow, raw honey, beeswax, coconut oil), so there's far less in the pot for reactive skin to argue with than a typical lab moisturiser. If essential oils don't agree with you, the Unscented option is made specifically for sensitive skin. As with anything new, dab a little on your inner arm first.

Will it clog my pores or break me out?

For most people, no. Tallow's makeup is unusually close to the oil your skin already produces, so it tends to absorb and balance rather than sit and block. That said, skin is individual; if you're very oily or acne-prone, start with a thin layer a few times a week and see how your skin responds before using it daily.

Will it feel greasy?

No. Because it's so close to your skin's own oil, it sinks in instead of leaving a heavy film on top. A little goes a long way — most people describe their skin afterwards as soft and comfortable, not coated or shiny.

What's the guarantee if it doesn't work for me? 

Try it for 21 days. If your skin doesn't feel the difference, email us and we'll refund you. 

Is it vegan? 

No. Tallow is rendered beef fat, and it's blended with raw honey and beeswax, so the balm isn't vegan or vegetarian. That's deliberate — 

these animal-derived ingredients are what make it so close to skin's own oils. It is, however, free from synthetic fragrance and fillers.

Tallow & Raw Honey 
Face Balm

★★★★★  4.8 out of 5 — 2,500+ reviews

The one-balm answer for skin that's tired of being dry. Grass-fed British tallow, Scottish raw honey, beeswax, sweet almond and coconut oil. Made in small Scottish batches. Works in step with your skin, not on top of it.

  • Buy 1 — £29.99
  • Buy 3 — £17 per jar (43% off)
  • Buy 5 — £12.90 per jar (70% off) + free shipping — Most popular

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