
Cassy Burnside, FATCO Founder
Hi, I’m Cassy. Mechanical Engineer turned FATCO Skincare Engineer. Nice to meet you! I love to hike, ride bikes (mountain & road) and run (usually with my dog)! I am passionate about spreading the word about the chemicals & toxins that are found in our everyday skincare products. I hope to bring awareness to people and educate them about how making small changes in their lives can improve their overall health.
I think that our society is at a crossroads. For a long time, we’ve sustained ourselves on allowing others to be responsible for our health. Now we’re at the point where we’ll pretty much eat anything that has the word “natural” on the package. And if you look around you can see the effects (obesity, heart disease etc).
But in the words of Tupac Shakur, “It’s time for us as a people to start makin’ some changes!” We need to start taking responsibility for the things that we consume. We need to start reading labels and understanding what we are putting INTO and ONTO our bodies. Our health is no one’s responsibility other than our own.
If you’re at all like me, you care a lot about the food that you eat. You do this because you know that it affects the way you feel, look and function. And you know that good food choices will keep you healthy for many years to come! So why do we put so much energy into the foods that we put INTO our body, but hardly any thought into the stuff that we put ON our body!?!?
Our skin is our largest organ, and everything that we put onto our skin gets absorbed and must be processed by our body! Unfortunately, almost every store-bought product contains ingredients we wouldn’t dare to eat. If you wouldn’t EAT something, then you shouldn’t put it on your skin. In my quest to find pure, raw, natural skincare products, I didn’t find anything that fit my criteria …so I decided to make my own! And this is how FATCO Skincare was born!
All of our products are hand-made in small batches to ensure freshness and quality.
FATCO Skincare specializes in making Organic, Natural, REAL skin care products that aren’t full of preservatives, chemicals & toxins. We believe in using healthy fats to nourish our skin instead of dry it out! We use plant based fats like organic coconut oil and raw shea butter, as well as tallow from pastured, grass-fed cows.
Why go Tallow?
It might not be a common modern practice to rub beef fat all over your face, but that doesn’t mean it’s not good for you.
Hand-in-hand with FATCO’s Paleo philosophy is our belief in looking to the past for fundamentals of healthy living. To us, going back to using early beauty remedies like pressed plant oils and animal fats feels natural. Pun intended.
Tallow is derived from the fat of grass-fed cows, mutton, and bison. For centuries, humans used tallow in skin moisturizers and healing balms, but unfortunately, the topical application of these fats seemed to stop around the same time that animal fats disappeared from our diets. But we missed fat so much that we're helping it make a comeback!
Tallow from grass-fed cows has a ton of natural, nourishing benefits. It contains abundant natural fat-soluble activators, vitamins A, D, E, and K, which are all necessary for general health and skin health.
Tallow is packed with good-for-you ingredients — making it the foundation for many FATCO products. It's our flagship ingredient and the reason we truly believe that fat is your friend.
Why Oil Cleansing?
We’ve got some bad news to break to you right now. You might be destroying your face forever. Calm down. We’re only slightly kidding.
See, all those facial cleaners you’ve been using your whole life? Many of them can be incredibly harmful to your skin. You’re probably wondering if so many traditional cleansers contain harmful ingredients (like chemicals, preservatives and alcohol), then why do so many skincare companies include them in their products? Often these ingredients are used to keep formula stable, allow it to sit on a store shelf for a long time or make it feel nearly weightless. That might be good for the product, but it's awful for your skin. By scrubbing your face in an effort to "get it clean,” you may be causing more damage than you realize — stripping your skin of healthy oils. These oils are essential to skin health and should be balanced, not eradicated. And that’s where we come in.
FATCO uses the science of oil dissolving oil to craft skincare products that do right by your skin. Using oil to clean an oily face might sound counterintuitive, right? If you're not too familiar with the science of oil cleansing, the whole concept feels a little strange. But FATCO specializes in this kind of thing — the science of natural products for healthier skin. Our cleansing oils are formulated to balance your skin, using all-natural nourishing oils and essential oils. You’ll wash away all of the icky, dirty oil on your face and replace it with clean, healthy oil.
It may take a few months for oil cleansing to truly balance itself out. Depending on your type of skin (normal, dry, oily) you’ll need a special formula, but we’ve got you covered from every angle.