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Nobody warns you what happens to your skin after 50. It's not your imagination, and it's not your fault.

"I didn't recognise my own skin." If your neck looks crepey and the backs of your hands feel papery, here's what actually changed.

Somewhere in your fifties the skin you've had for decades starts to look papery and feel tight. Here's why it happens, and the simple thing that helps a crepey neck and the backs of your hands look smoother and feel softer.

You're not imagining it. Most women notice it within a year or two of their fifties, and almost no one warned them:

You catch your neck in a photo and the skin looks crepey in a way it never did before.

The backs of your hands feel papery and thin, almost like tissue.

Your foundation now settles into fine lines it used to glide over.

Your skin feels tight after washing, and the moisturiser you've used for years doesn't seem to touch it anymore.

It's not that you've started doing something wrong. Something changed, and no one explained it.

Here's the part nobody tells you.  

As you move through your fifties, your skin gradually makes less of its own natural oil than it used to. Less oil means skin holds onto less moisture, so it starts to look drier and more papery, and fine lines and crepiness show up more. That's why the routine that worked for thirty years suddenly doesn't. Your skin's needs changed; your moisturiser didn't. It isn't a failure of willpower or the wrong ten-step routine. It's a simple shift in what your skin makes, and the fix is just as simple: give it back the kind of rich, oil-based nourishment it's now short on.

NX1 PROJECT's Face & Body Balm is built around one idea: skin recognises fats that are close to its own. It's made from grass-fed beef tallow and raw honey, with beeswax and sweet almond oil. Tallow is the same kind of rich oil your skin makes less of as you get older, so a thin layer drinks in rather than sitting on top, and papery-looking skin looks softer and more comfortable.

The Scented variant has a light, warm scent that makes it feel like a treat morning and night, not a chore. A little goes a long way: smooth it over your face, neck and the backs of your hands wherever skin feels dry, tight or crepey.
 
Four ingredients. No synthetic fragrance, no seed oils, no 30-ingredient label. Made in Scotland in small batches.

The women who needed it most are the ones who keep reordering it.

4.8

2,500+ reviews

150,000+ customers

Made in Scotland

After 2,500+ reviews, women over 50 keep telling us the same things:

That it's the first thing in years that made their skin feel like itself again.That a little goes a long way, and skin looks less papery and more comfortable.That they wish they'd found it when their old moisturiser first stopped working.

What Our Customers Say

I'm 58 and it's the best my skin has felt in years.

Jane Richardson 

It feels plumper, and no longer drier than the Sahara Desert. A little goes a long way.

Denise Meredith

I have had sensitive skin all my life (59!)… Absolutely fab, skin feels so smooth and hydrated.

Susan Tait

I'm hooked already. I love the feeling it gives. I'd recommend this for anyone with dry skin.

Anne Taylor

Rated 4.8/5 by our customers

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1 Jar of Tallow & Raw Honey Face Balm

Per Jar:

£29.99

Rated 4.8/5 by our customers

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3 Jars of Tallow & Raw Honey Face Balm

Per Jar:

£17.00

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5 Jars of Tallow & Raw Honey Face Balm

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£12.90

FAQs

Is this an anti-ageing cream?

No, and we won't pretend it erases lines. It's a rich, simple balm that helps dry, mature skin look softer and feel more comfortable, so a crepey neck or papery hands look and feel better cared for. It's skincare, not a miracle.

Why beef tallow at my age?

Tallow is a traditional skincare fat made of the same kind of rich oils skin makes less of as you get older. A thin layer drinks in rather than sitting on top, which is why mature, dry skin tends to like it.

I've used the same moisturiser for years. Why change now?

If it stopped feeling like enough, that's usually because your skin's needs changed, not because you did anything wrong. This is a richer, oil-based balm rather than a light lotion, and it's backed by a 21-day money-back guarantee, so it costs nothing to find out.

Your skin didn't let you down. It just started making less of what it needs, and no one told you.
 
Give it back something simple. A little Scented balm, morning and night, on your face, neck and hands. If your skin disagrees, the 21-day money-back guarantee means it costs you nothing to find out.

TRY THE SCENTED BALM

4.8

2,500+ reviews

150,000+ customers

Made in Scotland