Your Skincare Routine should Start in your Kitchen

Skincare starts in your gut. You can use the most expensive creams, the most luxurious serums, and exfoliate like your life depends on it, but if your gut is a mess, your skin is always going to be playing catch-up.

Bear was founded from a passion trusting nature. We believe in real ingredients for lasting skin health, not temporary fixes. Your gut is the quiet architect behind the face you see in the mirror. If your skin isn’t thriving, rather than reaching for another skincare product, take a look in your pantry.

The Gut-Skin Connection

About 70% of your immune system lives in your gut. It's focus is not only digestion, it's a central part of your health responsible for inflammation, nutrient absorption, and overall balance. When your gut is inflamed, leaky, or overburdened, your skin is often the first place it shows. Breakouts, redness, dryness, and irritation aren't random cosmetic flaws, they're signals

If your body is fighting internal fires, it isn't prioritising smooth foreheads and glowing cheeks. It's focused on survival. That's why skincare doesn't start with what you apply to your skin. It starts with what you eat.

Foods That Build, and Foods That Break

Choose:

Grass-fed animal fats (like tallow)
Wild-caught fish
Organ meats (nature's multivitamins)
Fresh, seasonal fruits and vegetables
Fermented foods like sauerkraut, kefir, and real yogurt
Bone broth and gelatine-rich foods

Avoid:

Industrial seed oils (canola, soybean, sunflower)
Ultra-processed "food products"
Refined sugars
Excessive alcohol
Anything that comes in a crinkly packet with 27 ingredients

Every bite you take is either repairing your skin from the inside out, or quietly sabotaging it.

The Problem With Seed Oils

Seed oils are EVERWHERE: hidden in dressings, baked goods, snacks, and even "health foods." They are industrial byproducts, extracted using high heat and chemical solvents like hexane. During processing, they become highly unstable and prone to oxidation, meaning they easily generate free radicals that cause inflammation at the cellular level.

Our bodies were never designed to metabolise these damaged fats, and over time, they disrupt hormones, burden the liver, damage the gut lining, and accelerate skin aging.

Tallow is Natures Original Cooking Fat. Grass-fed tallow is rich in the same fats that make up your skin's natural barrier. It's stable, nutrient-dense, and bioavailable, meaning your body recognises it and knows exactly what to do with it. When you swap out seed oils for real fats like tallow, you're not just avoiding harm. You're actively nourishing every cell, including your skin cells. That's why we use it unapologetically in our skincare.

How to Start Caring About What You Eat

You don't need a nutrition degree or a complicated plan to start caring for your gut.

If it wouldn't exist 200 years ago, rethink it.
If you can't picture how it was grown, raised, or harvested, rethink it.
If your great-grandparents wouldn't recognise it as food, definitely rethink it.

Some Tips to get you Started

Read your labels, not just your skincare labels, your grocery labels too.
Ditch fake fats. Bring back real, ancestral foods.
Replace junk food with nutrient-dense, colourful meals.
Support your gut daily, not just when symptoms flare up.
Treat your skin like an extension of your inner health.

Choose real over refined. Fresh over fabricated. Simple over synthetic.

This is not about being perfect. It's about paying attention. Your gut will thank you and your skin will show you.

Prioritise your Gut Health

You can't cover up an unhealthy body with expensive creams.

At Bear, we believe skincare should work with your body, not distract from it. That's why we handcraft products that honour nature's design — real ingredients your body recognises, understands, and thrives on. But we also know that real skin health is earned long before you open the tin.

Feed your gut. Nourish your skin. Trust nature. Start there.

Real skin health isn't luck. It's the outcome of your choices. Make them count.