CARNIVORE KORNER

Skincare Built by a Colorectal Surgeon.
Handmade by His Wife.

For people done with chemicals, shortcuts, and guesswork. Grass-fed tallow. Raw honey. Colostrum.
Nothing synthetic. Small batch — when it’s gone, we make more.

Brett Ruffo, MD, FACS, FASCRS • Board-Certified Colorectal Surgeon • Handmade on Long Island, NY…

Instinctive Pleasures Tallow Balm

Our flagship balm. Grass-fed beef tallow pushes fat-soluble vitamins deep into your skin while bentonite clay and colostrum draw impurities out. Raw Manuka honey heals. Beeswax protects. No compromises. Handmade weekly in small batches — when it sells out, you wait for the next one.

$29.99 (2oz) · Also available in 4oz

As seen on TikTok Shop · Handmade on Long Island, NY · Ships next business day

Grass-Fed Beef Tallow, Beeswax, Coconut Oil, Jojoba Oil, Raw Manuka Honey, Colostrum, Bentonite Clay, Vitamin E Oil.

Why Tallow?

PUSH IN

Nourish Deeply

Delivers vitamins A, D, E, and K2 — the ones your skin actually recognizes. Coconut oil and jojoba add antimicrobial protection and smooth glide.

PULL OUT

Draw Out Impurities

Bentonite clay and colostrum draw out impurities and buildup while your skin hydrates. No harsh exfoliants.

PROTECT

Seal and Repair

Beeswax and raw Manuka honey seal and repair without synthetic barriers. Antibacterial. Anti-inflammatory. Natural.

Our Story

I Kept Seeing the Same Problem — So I Built Something Different.

I grew up without much — no money, no real food, just whatever was cheap and available. I got heavy. On January 1, 1998, my third semester of medical school, I was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. I pushed through — residency, fellowship, years of training — managing the disease while building a career in medicine.

Then a training partner in jiu-jitsu showed me a completely different way to eat. Everything changed — my weight, my blood sugars, my life. Around the same time, my wife Christina was building her own path in fitness and nutrition coaching, guiding clients toward real food and natural living. When we came together, we realized we were solving the same problem from two different directions — me from inside the operating room, her from inside the kitchen.

After losing my father to rectal cancer, I became a colorectal surgeon. Years of operating on devastating diseases showed me something simple — what we put in our bodies, on our skin, and in our water matters more than most people realize. No guarantees, no magic cures. Just a belief that going back to nature for solutions is better than trusting the industries that created the problems. Christina builds every product by hand in our studio on Long Island. Every single one exists because we saw something wrong and refused to ignore it.

Brett Ruffo, MD, FACS, FASCRS
Colorectal Surgeon & Founder

Christina Ruffo
Fitness & Nutrition Coach & Production Partner

Going back to nature for more reliable, less toxic solutions.

Raw — real ingredients, nothing synthetic.
Alive — living food, living skin, living gut.
Unbroken — we don’t fix what nature already built. We protect it.

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© 2026 Carnivore Korner LLC. Manorville, NY. All rights reserved.
Founded by Brett Ruffo MD, FACS, FASCRS & Christina Ruffo.
These statements have not been evaluated by the FDA. Our products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

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