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Born To Be Free
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Skincare for sovereign humans. Tallow-based. Handcrafted. No compromise. We accept Bitcoin 🧡 We live the lifestyle. You get the results. Freedom is our foundation. Bitcoin is our tool.
Sun Armor is for everyone🙌🏼 It blends in beautifully without the thick, chalky finish so many mineral sunscreens are known for. Made for men, women, kids, and every skin tone in between. ☀️
Sunday Dinner 🍝 •Sourdough einkorn pasta •Ground beef meatballs from the ranch •Homemade tomato sauce made by our family •Fresh grown basil from our garden Proof that healthy can still taste delicious😉 image
Imagine spending your entire life chained inside a cave, only able to look at a wall. Behind you, a fire casts shadows of people and objects onto that wall. Since the shadows are all you’ve ever known, you believe they are reality. One person breaks free. At first, the light outside the cave is painful. Everything feels confusing. But as his eyes adjust, he realizes the world outside is real, and the shadows were only reflections. In Plato’s allegory, the sun represents ultimate truth (Bitcoin). It is the source of light that makes reality visible. You could think of it this way: The cave = the system. The shadows = the narratives we’ve accepted without questioning. The sun = Bitcoin… because it leads you toward truth. Not just truth about money, but truth about incentives, governments, inflation, central banking, freedom, and how the world actually works. When the man returns to the cave to tell the others what he discovered, they laugh at him and reject him. Accepting what he’s saying would mean admitting that everything they believed was only a shadow. Maybe that’s why the hardest part about finding the truth isn’t discovering it. It’s accepting that everything you once believed might not have been reality after all.
An effective moisturizer for eczema-prone skin has to do three things. It needs to occlude, meaning create a physical layer that slows water from escaping through the skin. It needs to provide emolliency, softening and conditioning the surface so the barrier can knit back together. And ideally, it provides fats the skin can actually use, ones that fit into the gap where ceramides and sebum-derived lipids are missing. We always recommend our Naked Body Butter for those suffering from severe eczema
We started making our own skincare because we couldn't find products we trusted. Every bottle we picked up had either water near the top of the list, synthetic fragrance somewhere in the middle, or ingredients we couldn't trace to anything we understood. So we stopped buying and started making.
Stacking sats > buying new beach chairs Who can relate ? image
Well teach you youngins a thing or two about tanmaxxing 😉 image
How to Read a Skincare Label Yourself 👇 You don't need a chemistry degree. You need about 2 minutes and a consistent method. Step one: Look for water. If "water" or "aqua" is the first ingredient, the product is water-based. Everything that follows on the list exists partly to manage the problems water creates in a formula. Step two: Look for fragrance or parfum. If either word appears anywhere on the list, put the product back. There's no way to know what's inside that word, and it's not worth guessing. Step three: Read every ingredient you don't recognize. Some INCI (International Nomenclature of Cosmetic Ingredients) names sound alarming but are benign. "Sodium cocoate" is just coconut-derived soap. "Tocopherol" is vitamin E. The Environmental Working Group's Skin Deep database rates over 100,000 products and ingredients on a 1-10 hazard scale, drawing from published scientific literature, and it's free to use. If you're standing in a store aisle, you can look up an ingredient on your phone in under a minute. Step four: Count the ingredients. There's no magic number, but shorter lists mean fewer variables, fewer potential irritants, and less complexity to evaluate. A product with five clearly identified ingredients is easier to assess than one with thirty. Step five: Check the packaging. Products stored in plastic leach plastic compounds into the formula over time, particularly in warm environments. Lip balms are a notable example because they're often filled while hot, and they sit in plastic for months before use. Glass or kraft packaging is a meaningful upgrade.
Formaldehyde-releasing preservatives like DMDM hydantoin and quaternium-15 slowly release small amounts of formaldehyde in the product over time. Formaldehyde is a known human carcinogen at sufficient exposure levels. The concentrations in cosmetics are typically low, but daily repeated exposure to multiple products containing these preservatives is a recipe for disaster and totally unnecessary to have in your skincare routine
Just had a conversation with a couple of older men in their 60s about bitcoin One actually has it in in a wallet off an exchange We overheard Bitcoin and had to jump in Great to see 🧡
Tallow has been used on skin, including infant skin, for centuries before the modern cosmetics industry existed. That historical record isn't a clinical trial, but it's not nothing either. Our natural baby skincare and diaper cream products are built around that foundation, with ingredient lists short enough that you can evaluate every item on them in under a minute.
Most people think the big things matter most. We’ve found it’s the small, everyday choices that quietly shape your health over time. These are a few of the priorities we choose, even when they’re not the popular opinion. Which one would you add to the list? 👇
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Your skin doesn’t always need more products. Sometimes it just needs better ingredients. One week. Softer skin. Less visible redness. A healthy glow. That’s the kind of feedback that reminds us why we started Born To Be Free. Thank you, MT, for trusting our Hydrating Face Butter. Nothing makes us happier than hearing stories like yours. If you’ve experienced a difference with our products, tell us below. Your story might be exactly what someone else needs to hear. 🤍 image
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The law that governs cosmetics in the United States was passed in 1938 and wasn't substantially updated until the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2022, which added some new reporting requirements but still does not require pre-market safety approval for ingredients For comparison: the European Union has banned or restricted over 1,300 chemicals from use in cosmetics. The U.S. FDA has restricted approximately 11.