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Clean Beauty

Why Candace Owens Walked Away From Complicated Skincare

She has told her audience about it, in her own words, "a thousand times." The routine is not what you would expect.

By the Nimi Editorial Team

July 2026 · 4 Min Read

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Candace Owens · Nimi Superfan

Candace Owens keeps her skincare surprisingly quiet. No ten-step ritual. No shelf of serums with droppers. When she talks about it, and she has, by her own count, a thousand times, it comes down to one jar and a few minutes.

That is not where most people land after years in the public eye, with every product line in the world happy to send free samples. So it is worth asking how she got there.

Chapter One

The Shelf Kept Growing. The Results Didn't.

The beauty industry is very good at one thing: convincing you the answer is one more product. A serum for this, an essence for that, a cream for the thing the last cream was supposed to fix. The shelf fills up. The routine gets longer. Most of it is ultra-processed and made in a lab. And somewhere in there the actual point, skin that feels good, gets lost.

Candace stopped believing the pitch. Not out of cynicism, exactly, but out of experience. More steps had never once meant better skin.

"The beauty industry kind of convinced us that we need complex formulas to achieve healthy skin, but the secret to healthy skin is actually a lot simpler."

Candace Owens · From her Nimi video

The turn, for a lot of women, is realizing the shelf was the problem, not the solution.

Chapter Two

What She Actually Wanted

Strip away the marketing and what she wanted was not complicated. Three things, really. A routine measured in minutes, not steps. Ingredients she could actually read on the label. And a company whose values did not make her wince every time she reached for the jar.

That last one is the part most brands cannot offer at any price. You can buy clean ingredients almost anywhere now. Finding them inside a company that shares your faith, your sense of family, and your idea of freedom is a different search.

A Routine in Minutes

Ingredients You Can Read

Values You Share

Nimi was the first place all three showed up in the same jar. Made in the USA, by a family-run team, to a written clean standard. The kind of company where voting with your wallet actually means something.

Chapter Three

The Discovery

The ingredient at the center of it is one your great-grandmother would recognize: grass-fed, grass-finished beef tallow from cows raised on Montana pasture. Rendered, whipped, and blended with beeswax and botanicals into the Buzzin' Balm, it is about as far from a lab-designed serum as skincare gets.

That is the whole appeal. Tallow is rich in the same families of lipids your skin already makes, which is why it tends to feel less like a coating and more like something skin simply understands.

Grass-fed, grass-finished Montana tallow: a single, traceable ingredient.

Whipped with beeswax, which helps lock in moisture and shield skin from the elements.

"Its composition is incredibly similar to our own skin's natural oils, which means your skin actually recognizes it. It's not a chemical coating, it's real nourishment."

Candace Owens · From her Nimi video

Candace Made It Easy With Nimi.

The pre-glam ritual she has mentioned a thousand times

Here is the ritual, as simple as she makes it sound. Before hair and makeup, she coats her face in the Buzzin' Balm and lets it sit for about thirty minutes while she gets ready. That is the part she has told her audience about again and again. Not a regimen. A habit.

Chapter Four

One Routine, Two Tallows

What most people miss is that Nimi makes two tallows, and Candace uses both. The rich Buzzin' Balm for the driest patches and the pre-glam soak. The lighter Sunshine Cream, made with aloe, for everyday. Add the Vitamin C Scrub to start clean, and the whole thing is three steps: cleanse, nourish, hydrate.

Two tallows, one routine. The richer balm and the lighter everyday cream.

A woman with dark hair smiles while holding a tube of Nimi Vitamin C Cleansing Scrub.

From Candace Owens

“I wanted skincare that matched my values and didn't waste my time. Nimi gave me both.”

Why Nimi

Made in America, Where the Quality Is Proven

Not all skincare is created equal. Nimi is an independent, family-run brand that makes everything in Florida, with real oversight over every supplier and every ingredient in every batch. Plenty of brands manufacture overseas and cannot tell you where their ingredients actually come from. Nimi can, down to the Montana ranches the tallow comes from.

Made in the USA

Grass-Fed Tallow

Clean Ingredients

Cruelty-Free

Honest Questions, Honest Answers

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Candace did not simplify her routine to make a point. She did it because the shelf full of steps was never the thing that worked.


Three products. A few minutes. Made by people who answer for every jar.

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