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Quality products, not scare tactics.
Have you ever noticed that many natural brands rely on fear as a marketing tactic? Anything with "chemicals" might be poisoning you and your children. Everything must be "clean" and "natural." And yet, what is soap making but chemistry that is thousands of year old? What is more natural than smelling a bit ripe after working up a sweat all day?
Humans have been unnaturally altering the world around us for as long as we've existed. Just as we've been running across the dangers of the natural world in forms like infection, toxic mold, lead, mercury, asbestos and more. Dividing the world into "natural and safe" vs. "chemical and dangerous" is fairly useless as categories go.
That said, I would certainly describe our products at Fat Chance Farm as "all natural". We don't use synthetic fragrances or preservatives in any of our products and our Farmer Pits deodorant is aluminum and paraben free. But I want you to use our products because you like them and they work, not because you're afraid of what might happen if you use conventional products!
I've made it my mission to write about body products (and occasionally farming) in a way that is based on scientific research and is as unbiased as possible. So scroll on down and I bet you'll find at least one topic to learn something new about!
Why Animal Fats?
- Supports our local community by buying from small Vermont farms
- Prevents waste by making use of unwanted animal fat
- Long lasting soaps that are palm oil free
- Our tallow is from grass-fed and grass-finished cows
- Our lard is from pasture raised pigs
About our Ingredients
Learn more about rendering
Lard vs. Tallow
Frequently Asked Questions
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Farmer Pits Natural Deodorant

The Story of Fat Chance
I started making soap while working on diversified livestock farms in northern Vermont. I noticed that the leaf lard and suet were often slow to sell, beef suet sometimes doesn't even make it home from the butcher!
I knew there must be something that could be done with all that fat and decided to "give fat a chance" by making it into soap.