Sunbird Collective

Three autumn favorites, gathered for the season 🍂

Garden Reverie — back in stock. Our softly tinted lip + cheek balm in a deep, lived-in Merlot hue. Grass-fed tallow, olive oil + beeswax are slowly infused with calendula, elderflower, marshmallow root, lavender, rose petals, orange peel, cardamom + vanilla. Nourishing, buildable color that feels especially at home this time of year.

Chai Whip — our little jar of autumn. Regenerative tallow whipped into a rich body moisturizer with warm clove, cinnamon + vanilla and skin-loving helichrysum. Cozy, softly spiced and made for the return of dry-weather skin.

Forager — the harvest serum. Pomegranate, meadowfoam + pastured emu oils slowly infused with hibiscus, calendula, orange peel, thyme and wild rosehips we gather ourselves along the river at our family ranch in Wyoming, right at peak harvest. A whole-food vitamin C serum made to soften, brighten + support the skin through the changing season.

Three formulas that feel like fall in their own way — garden, spice + harvest. 🍂

Made here, from the beginning.

Sunbird has always been a little different from a traditional skincare company because so much of what goes into our jars begins right here at home.

We render the tallow. We infuse the herbs. We distill the botanicals. We formulate, blend + pour in small batches, with little hands often somewhere nearby.

It’s honest skin + body care made close to its ingredients, with a deep appreciation for where they came from and the hands that carried them along the way.

From raw ingredients to the jars that eventually find their way into your homes—this is Sunbird. 🤎

Made slowly. Made here. Made to be lived with.

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At 38 weeks with my third baby, I haven’t developed stretch marks from pregnancy. I could easily give a jar of moisturizer all the credit—but my honest take is that healthy skin is never built by one thing.

Stretch marks are influenced by hormones, diet, inherited skin structure, collagen and elastin, and how quickly the body changes. But I don’t believe our only choices are “it’s genetic” or “this moisturizer will prevent them.”

Skin is an organ, and it is nourished from both directions.

From within, it needs adequate protein and amino acids to build collagen, vitamin C and minerals to support that process, and nourishing fats for healthy barrier function. The skin even has its own circadian clocks involved in repair, renewal and water loss—which is one reason I believe our light, sleep and daily rhythms belong in the skincare conversation too.

Do I think eating well, seeing morning light and applying moisturizer guarantees a stretch-mark-free pregnancy? No. We don’t have evidence to make that promise, and every body responds differently.

But I do believe resilient skin is cultivated over time.

At Sunbird, I often describe skincare as 90% foundations and 10% the supportive fence. Our whipped tallow moisturizers are part of that fence: slow-rendered tallow and botanical oils that soften the skin, replenish its surface lipids and help slow moisture loss while it stretches.

I cannot separate my natural skin makeup from my gradual pregnancy changes, nourishment, rhythms or consistent body care. I suspect they are all pieces of the same story.

That is my honest answer: moisturizer is not magic—but deeply moisturized, well-nourished skin is better supported than skin left dry, tight and depleted.

And when my body is doing this much work, I want to tend it from every direction.

Shop Sunbird body care through the link in our bio. 🌷

One of the hardest parts of skincare shouldn’t be figuring out what to buy.

Over the years, I’ve realized that more products aren’t necessarily the answer—often, it’s understanding what each step is actually doing for your skin.

So I took three of the routines I find myself recommending again and again and put them together for you.

The Daily Face Ritual for a simple everyday rhythm.

Clear + Calm for skin that feels reactive, blemish-prone or overwhelmed.

The Body Ritual for simple, nourishing care from shower to bedtime.

Each one is intentionally small. No 8-step routines. No products thrown in just to make a bigger bundle. Just a few thoughtfully chosen formulas that each have a purpose.

And because you’re choosing the full ritual, you’ll save 10% compared with purchasing each piece separately.

Not sure which one is yours? Tell me what your skin is doing below and I’ll point you in the right direction.

-Haley 🌷

Not all tallow is created equal, and “grass-fed” or “hand-rendered” doesn’t always tell the whole story.

When I started rendering our own tallow, I realized just how much the process matters. Where the fat comes from. Which fat is used. How hot it gets. What’s added to it. How many times it’s rendered.

There’s become such a push for tallow that is perfectly white, completely odorless and almost scrubbed clean of any evidence of where it came from. But that has never been our goal (although we are proud to have perfected it in this way through much gentle trial and error over the past six years!).

We want the real thing.

Beautiful suet from healthy, grass-finished cattle raised on a regenerative Colorado ranch. Rendered slowly, in small batches, without salt, baking soda or chemical deodorizers. Handled as little as possible so we can preserve the integrity of the ingredient we chose in the first place.

Because to us, how your skincare is made matters just as much as what’s on the ingredient list.

Slow skincare. Thoughtful sourcing. Barrier-supportive formulas. From hands and land we know. 🤍

And today, we’re making choosing your ritual a little simpler, too.

Our three new Sunbird Ritual Bundles are officially live—three thoughtfully paired routines created to take the guesswork out of finding what your skin + body need.

The Daily Face Ritual • Clear + Calm Ritual • Daily Body Ritual

Now live at Sunbird Collective.

A little long-weekend offering from our shelves to yours 🌷

Enjoy 15% off orders of $100+ and free shipping through Monday with code STOCKUP15.

As we prepare to welcome our baby and enter a slower season at Sunbird, this is a beautiful time to restock the small-batch rituals you and your family don’t want to be without. Some products may not be replenished right away once they’re gone.

And a reminder: the final batch of Sunroot Nectar is already 20% off while it lasts.

This antioxidant-rich everything oil can be used to gently cleanse away sunscreen, makeup, and daily buildup—or left on to replenish the skin with beautiful fatty acids, sea buckthorn, and fruit extracts. It’s especially lovely for anyone wanting a softer, calmer, more nourished barrier without a complicated routine.

Once this final handmade batch is gone, Sunroot will return with its new name: Sun Nectar.

Shop through Monday at 11:59 PM MT.
Use code STOCKUP15 at checkout.

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Sunroot Nectar is 20% off ✨ Our final batch before it becomes Sun Nectar.

In our love affair with saturated fats, I think we’ve forgotten some of the most beautiful fats for skin.

I love tallow—we render ours ourselves—but skin benefits from more than one kind of fat. Linoleic + oleic acids and the compounds found in beautiful whole plant oils have an important place in a balanced skin ritual, too.

That’s why Sunroot is built around carefully chosen, cold-processed, stable plant + fruit oils like camellia, meadowfoam, pomegranate + sea buckthorn. It gives skin a diversity of lipids while working beautifully as both a cleansing oil and a leave-on facial oil.

Your skin is a garden, and needs a balanced ecosystem to thrive. 🪴

The last jars of this handmade batch are 20% off now as we make way for Sun Nectar. Same formula, just a slightly simpler name.