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Post by midimoos on Dec 21, 2011 16:16:38 GMT 1
Can anyone tell me how to get it back to white? I would say its not been washed in a very long time and am hoping its not stained!
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Post by apacherose on Dec 21, 2011 17:26:06 GMT 1
My friend who does showing swears by washing it in whatever you choose and then leaving a really good lather on it and putting some hydrogen peroxide on and tieing a black sack on the tail and leave for a little while. Brings her horses up white when they've been off resting and then she can easily maintain it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2011 17:30:35 GMT 1
Just a decent shampoo. Might need to wash a couple of times if you tail washing skills are as pants as mine.
Peroxide will bleach the hair and make it brittle - think cheap bottle blonde and you're there.
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Post by helenj on Dec 21, 2011 17:53:14 GMT 1
Try the blue shampoo for greys. Give the hair a good thorough wetting, wring it out, then get a really good lather and leave for 10 mins or so. Rinse well, repeat. It may take a couple of days of doing this, and it can go a bit green in the middle, but it does work.
Someone also told me a long time ago that slathering with conditioner, leaving overnight, then shampooing out works, as the conditioner brings the dirt out with it, but I'm not conviced as I thought that conditioner was supposed to penetrate into the hair.
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Post by steve on Dec 21, 2011 18:51:43 GMT 1
Fairy washing up liquid and hot water is the only thing that gets Casper's nearly white again.
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Post by julz on Dec 21, 2011 19:58:55 GMT 1
purple wash up liquid first wash then Quic Silver lathered and left then rinsed.
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Post by KoLaTo on Dec 21, 2011 20:40:06 GMT 1
Biological washing powder, any sort, wash once and rinse, wash again and leave to soak, rinse then soak in lace curtain whitener, fail safe cheapest way to get a tail back to resembling some form of white. Rinse the dock area really well afterwards so no residue left.
To maintain a white tail, the oldest shampoo i know that works is Hydrophane normal shampoo for horses, one of the cheapest but most effective shampoos on the market for horses. Blue bottle with white writing, not the one they do for greys, it's useless!
I showed my Palomino for 20 odd yrs and the above routine never failed to work even after up to 5mths in a bog field over winter dragging thru lord knows what every day!
I only have one white sock between all of mine now thank god but even so i still maintain their tails in winter by washing then soaking in coconut oil and wrapping in a tail bag all winter, saves a whole lot of faffing in summer and their tails are beautifully soft and conditioned for spring shows. Wish i'd known about tail bags when i was showing the Palomino - LOL!
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Post by laurac on Dec 21, 2011 23:41:34 GMT 1
a friend of mine who showed a grey to a high standard swore by washing up liquid!
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Post by hammie on Dec 22, 2011 9:20:10 GMT 1
I use washing up liquid, and sometimes Vanish powder. They get the dirt out of my pony's tail, and the Vanish makes it lovely and soft, but they don't shift the stains really. In the spring I will try some of the blueing stuff.
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Post by outoftheblue on Dec 22, 2011 12:26:05 GMT 1
We use pig oil on the tail for a few days, which lifts the dirt to the surface and then shampoo with purple shampoo. Cowboy Magic also do a product called Yellow Out which is good.
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