Dr. Sam Ellis

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455 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 25 May

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The Liz Moody Podcast · Ranking Skincare Advice From Social Media (with Dr. Sam Ellis) · 25 May 2026 podcast

It is a rich combination of fats that have a moisturizing effect.

And so for some people, if they are getting acne breakouts because they're poorly moisturizing, they have a disrupted skin barrier, perhaps it could be helpful.

But to me, it's just,

an unadvanced moisturizer.

So what would be an advanced moisturizer?

I feel like when you look at like modern skincare formulations, you're able to take the best ingredients and put them together in a way where they can be highly effective.

You can combine humectants that draw water to the skin and emollients that soften the skin and occlusives, which beef towel is basically an occlusive that prevents trans-epidermal water loss or loss of water through the skin.

And you're able to put them in a more strategic way into a formula that can potentially be more effective.

It's not to say that beef tallow can't be an effective moisturizer, but to say that it has all these amazing effects.

And again, in two weeks, which I don't know why that's like the magic timeline for these improvements.

It's far reaching.

Not that readily comes to mind.

That doesn't mean that it couldn't have some contributory effects like helping regulate some skin cell turnover, but there is no data to my knowledge that this is effective.

effective.

And I could imagine a lot of people out there who struggle with acne.

That's like a real condition that's hard to treat for some people trying beef tallow and being very disappointed.

I think the risk is fairly low.

The main risk would be that beef tallow is thought to be comedogenic or poor clogging for people.

So if you already struggle with acne and you're putting something that's potentially poor clogging on your skin, that could be more problematic.

But we have so many good treatments for acne out there.

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