Hey, MB anon here. This is a bit of a belated review since I wanted to do this at the two month mark but I lost track of time (my bad). Besides some of my initial thoughts on the products I've been using, there isn't a whole lot else to say. The topical balm is by no surprise not performing any miracles. Maybe with more long-term usage some of the anti-aging benefits will become more apparent, but as its been thus far - the very faint forehead lines I started with haven't drastically changed in appearance. Because the lines I have are so faint, it's hard for me to really tell they're there sometimes and other times I think they've gotten worse (which has led to me recently biting the bullet and using retinaldehyde) but I'm willing to keep MB in my routine in the off-chance it'll help down the road with maintenance. The tallow formulation I'm using from Meraki is ass though, and once I'm done with my jar I'm planning on switching to a MB moisturizer formulation from either Bluelene or just mixing my own drops into a ceramide moisturizer or something. I do want to note that I've been very consistent with my topical application and have been using it mostly two times a day. I know I initially expressed some concern with my skin dying blue but that hasn't really been a problem. With the tallow formulation I've been using, it has a lot of essential oils that I suspect has been breaking me out here and there. It's nothing too severe - just maybe one or two mild red bumps that form within the week and never fully form into a painful pimple or anything harsh, and it usually goes away after a few days. One surprising side effect that I've noticed is that the bloodflow to my face increases after application, and as a result I've been growing more hair on my face. Ick (I know) but it's been helping regrow some eyebrow hair that I've been trying to stimulate for years with castor oil. After I noticed the regrowth, I thought I'd try applying the mb to a small bald spot I've had on the corner of my hairline since I was a teen and I'm now seeing solid hairgrowth there too! For comparison, with castor oil only I'd have some small fine hairs grow but they'd never fully develop and would fall out after a short time. I tried searching online to see if this is a known side-effect of topical mb usage and saw one or two articles that were filled with science jargon that seemed to suggest it but I didn't really look into it further to confirm that that's what those articles were stating for certain. This is just my anecdotal experience so don't take it as confirmed fact.
Beyond my own usage, I did test it out on my parents too but only on two occasions. My dad has some outdoor allergies that flare up in the summer and last month he developed hives all along his upper back. So I applied the mb tallow cream on the left side and his go-to hydrocortisone cream on the other, and surprisingly after 3hrs the left side became visibly less red than the right. On my mom, I applied a little bit of excess mb cream I had on the back of her hand (habit I usually do with any excess skincare product I may have if she's nearby lol) and she claimed her sunspots became visibly faded afterwards. Again, all of these are just my anecdotal experience. I wonder if some of the other ingredients in the cream are helping any of this too but I haven't deep-dived it a whole lot. Been very busy lately.
As for the mb drops that I've been ingesting, I'm still taking small 2-3 drop dosages but I haven't been very consistent. I'll get into it more later as I'm already a bit burnt out typing all this.