2:40 in the afternoon, in the courtyard of the village house, Tania's aunt sat in the shade of the jackfruit tree rubbing something into her hands and feet. A small tub. The lid came off and a faint honey smell drifted out. It was the third day of the Eid holiday. Tania stood by the tube well, watching quietly.
Her aunt spends all day in the kitchen, in stove smoke, with her hands in cold water at the washing slab — and still her skin is smooth. Tania looked down at her own hands. Below the elbow the skin had gone pale and rough, and there were cracks on her heels. The expensive moisturizer she had carried from Dhaka was still in her bag; two hours after applying it, the same dry skin came back.
"Aunty, what is this?" Her aunt put the tub straight into her hand. The label read Tallow Honey BALM. A relative had sent it from Dhaka before Eid, and it had been in use for three months.
At the touch of a fingertip the balm felt firm, almost like wax. But in the heat of that afternoon, the warmth of her palm melted it at once — thick, a little heavy, not greasy. The smell was honey, very quiet. She pressed it into the cracked heel and the tight, pulling feeling eased, and in the sunlight coming through the jackfruit leaves the skin no longer looked ashy.
100% grass-fed beef tallow and pure honey — that is the whole formula. The vitamins A, D, E and K in tallow feed the skin deeply, while honey holds hydration and keeps the skin barrier soft. For sensitive skin that turns itchy or red at the smallest thing, plain natural ingredients like these are the safest company.
On the day she left for Dhaka, her aunt slipped the tub into Tania's bag and wrapped an old orna around it. Now it lives in her office desk drawer. A colleague reaching for a file brushed her hand and asked — what do you use?
Let that rough, flaking feeling on your hands and feet finally leave too.
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