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How Fierce Nature’s Catherine Farrant Found Wellbeing And Healing In Tallow-Based Skincare
The founder started brewing bone broth from her kitchen while on maternity leave with her first child. The rest, as they say, is history.
Written by: the Healf Editors
Written on: February 24, 2026
Around 2012, when Catherine Farrant became pregnant for the first time, she started to realise just how much her body craved nutrient-dense foods — not the low-fat yoghurts and meat-free meals she’d been consuming for years in the name of health. “I was like, ‘Okay, hold on a minute. I'm actually not that well,’” she says of that period of her life. “Everything flipped on its head for me when I started looking into nutrient-dense foods.”
That lightning bolt moment eventually led the founder to create her first company, Ossa Organic, which produces high-protein, nutrient-rich, organic bone broth, and later, Fierce Nature, a tallow-based skincare and makeup line. The two brands are separate yet connected in their mission and in their natural ingredients.
While making her bone broth, Farrant quickly realised that the nutrient-rich fat rising to the top during the bone boiling process could be skimmed off and turned into tallow. In 2015, she started experimenting with the ingredient, creating chemical-free creams for herself in her home and launching a tallow product in the supermarket through her existing brand, Ossa. “I think they thought that I was crazy,” Farrant says. “Even my friends at our barbecue in our house were like, ‘This is just a jar of fat.’ And so I knew it was going to be a long road, but the way that I was feeling and what was happening in my life was absolutely transformational.”
That dietary and skincare swap out changed her whole life and approach to wellbeing. And before long, friends and neighbours started asking for the creams—just as they had her bone broth years before. In 2022, Fierce Nature officially launched.
Recently, the brand filled its 100,000th order. People want what Farrant is offering (89,000 people alone signed up for product emails) and the company has started expanding both its production facility and warehouse operations to meet that demand. If you pay attention, you may even notice the brand featured in London underground stations.
“It's been amazing,” she says, “really amazing.”
Finding her drive
Farrant always had what she calls an “entrepreneurial essence,” but for a long time, she ignored that creative voice inside of her. At university, she studied business because that’s what she was encouraged to do. “I went along and did that, and just kept quashing every instinct that I had that was natural,” she says. “Then, I ended up looking around and went, ‘Well, everyone looks so nice in a black suit, I'm going to go and get one of those and get myself a job – a corporate job,’ which I did for 10 years.”
She only started making bone broth while she was on maternity leave with her first child between 2013 and 2014, and when, as she puts it, “I had the complete constraints of this corporate job in the city thrown off of me.” Away from her desk job, she started to find health and purpose in nourishing herself and her growing family.
It wasn’t long before she realised that she not only wanted to stay home and care for her children, but also build something. “I love to create and make and do,” she says.
Her husband was actually the first one to recommend she dive deeper into her nutrition and bone-broth-brewing fascination. As Farrant tried to find her “passion” during the postpartum period, he quickly weighed in: “He was like, ‘Um, you spent nine hours making broth. You've learned everything there is to learn. You've transformed all of our family's lives health wise. And you made me buy you, like, a 50-litre stock pot for Valentine's Day.’”
Maybe, he suggested, bringing people back to health is what she was meant to do. And Farrant took that to heart. The answer was clear.
Using her own savings, she funded Ossa, which launched in 2015, and later Fierce Nature, which launched in 2022. The demand for her products—and the people they helped—did the rest of the work.
Making the leap to tallow skincare
Fierce Nature’s early days were incredibly fun for Farrant because she knew exactly what she wanted to make and where she wanted to take the brand. “I formulated these ideas in my mind of what I wanted to use every single day. I wanted a non-toxic foundation. I wanted a color on the cheek that was quick and easy. I wanted my skin to feel nourished and not dry,” she says.
As someone who struggled with her skin since she was in her early teens, tallow-based products were the first ones that didn’t irritate her skin and actually helped restore her skin barrier. She likes knowing exactly what ingredients she’s putting on her skin, and knows her customers appreciate that too.
And of course, being a busy mother, Farrant also wanted to make sure her products were safe even if her kids’ got ahold of them. She’s quick to reference an anecdote from the night before where her baby had “pulled out the little honey balm and ate it all.” Farrant’s response? “That doesn’t really matter. It’s actually very good for her.”
Farrant made sure to take her learnings from launching Ossa Organic and applied them to Fierce Nature. “Everything I did wrong at Ossa, I’m going to do totally right,” she says of her thought process in the early days.
By the end of 2022, Farrant, along with a small team, launched their first products. And it’s only grown since then.
It hasn’t all been smooth sailing. There’s a lot of pushback surrounding tallow-based products, especially in the skincare realm. But Farrant has learned a lot about resilience, and focused her efforts on educating people about what she was creating. “Most women have grown up spraying aluminium and they use very synthetic, cheap perfumes off the shelf and those roller lip glosses that are flavoured with all sorts of chemicals, so it’s a mindset shift,” she says. “The education piece is as much my passion as the product piece.”
Farrant’s favorite products
It’s clear that Farrant isn’t just passionate about health and wellbeing education—she lives and breathes the lifestyle, using all her own products daily. During her video interview, she sported glowing, clear skin, and explained that she was wearing all her favorite products.
Curious to know what this founder picks for her own daily use? She gave us a few insights:
Right when she wakes up, Farrant starts her day with one of the Whipped Body Balms—either vanilla or unscented—which she massages in using her gua sha along her jaw line. She then applies the Skin Tint like a foundation, and the Selfie Stick (specifically in “Dew”) to add a bit of color in her cheeks. The rose-tinted Pure Tallow Nourish Balm goes on her chest, and she keeps the honey balm in her car for a quick lip fix. Farrant doesn’t dye her hair, but uses the dry shampoo “every single day.” At night, she uses the Magnesium Balm to help promote sleep, even putting it on her sons’ legs because she says it seems to help their growing pains.
Right now, her favourite products are the Skin Tints, which she’s especially excited about because they offer a clean makeup alternative for young girls and women alike. “The reviews are coming in [are] amazing, amazing, amazing,” she says. “That, for me, has been wonderful.”
Here are her top favourites:
Whipped Body Balm
Skin Tint
Selfie Stick
Pure Tallow Nourish Balm
Magnesium Balm
The Fierce Nature founder's advice for women like her who are hoping to start their own businesses is simple: Success is built on trust, passion, confidence, and contentment in your home life. Motherhood and family come first. It’s a tenet she champions amongst her 40+ staff and anyone who works on the brand. These foundations also help her draw boundaries in her work and in her life. “Don’t start a business from a place of burnout,” she warns.
In some ways, that deep focus on her family has helped Farrant stay out of the founders’ fray and industry chaos. She isn’t trying to compete with anyone—she keeps her eyes and ears open, learns a lot, and takes opportunities as they come. “I’ve just got my head down. I really believe that I meet the right people at the right times, and I've always felt well respected and cared for by the industry as a whole,” she says.
And, of course, wellbeing education is at the core of what Farrant does, which gives her business a bigger sense of purpose—one that resonates deeply with her. “It’s been a privilege. I'm so happy to call myself a female founder, I really am.”
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