Best shampoo / product for getting white hairy legs clean?

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With his summer coat Hovis is mainly a ginger beastie but he has long white socks on all four legs, which being a feathery dude are very hairy.
Any recommendations on a product to get them as white as possible? (I mean clean obviously not bleaching them!!!)
 
ASDA smart price washing up liquid......

VERY white!!!

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Wow! Thats white! I'd have never thought of washing up liquid - I assume you have to be bl**dy careful to get it all off or they start lathering up in the field when it rains?!!
 
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13p a litre - christ I paid about £5 for a bottle of whitening shampoo that when tried made no chuffing difference at all!

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i just get him soaked all over pour a big stripe down his back, and then just trickle water all over him scrubbing as i go..with a plastic scrubbing brush, also from ASDA, 70p!!!, adding WUL to the brush as i do his legs....
 
On my clydesdale who doesn't show - grannies soapflakes and hot water if not too grubby. Very mild and gets them nice and clean.

For my gyspy cob who I do show, if filthy and oily, i e end of the winter, then persil washing up liquid and then persil non-bio washing liquid mixed with some shampoo.

If still looking a bit yellow, then tresume deep cleansing mixed with equine blue - I use this on his body as the blue gets the white up and makes the bay areas look richer.

You need to hose down, then wash two or three times and you can add equine blue to the final rinse.

Be careful with leg whitner - I do use a little on the tips of the hair sometimes if desperate, but it can make feather look flat and course and if you have a black tail like mine does that goes to the floor, the tail goes a horrible grey colour.

Then when you have legs whiter than white, go to a show on black horrible rubber surfaces and watch them go grey then manky black in 10 mins.
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Dirty Beastie by Whal (them that make the clippers) its blue, smells nice and removes stains and leaves the coat nice and soft, used it on my grey cob and he was a dirty beast!

Also on the top end of the market Supreme Show Products do a good shampoo, that also blue and smells good enough to eat, can't remember what they call it though, again brilliant on grey and for white tails!

I would be careful with things like washing up liquid, or any other mild detergents just in case your horse has a skin reaction, not so bad for the ends of their tails but horses with feathering on their feet or greys can have delicate skin around there feet and on their legs.
Remember horses coats/skins were not designed to be shampoo'd in the first place so using anything other than a horse shampoo or a human shampoo could upset the skin...not always but just be warned.

Head & Shoulders I've heard is wonderful for a getting a sheen on their coats.
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NOT at all PC... im going to get slaughtered for this.
But, I find, cheap shampoo like morrisons own, wash off and tehn chalk up straight away, and put stable wraps on.
White legs, Nightmare!
 
Tesco value shampoo
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Be careful if using washin up liquid ... if your horse has sensitive skin they can react to it, so still use but ensure you don't leave on for long and rinse off thoroughly.
 
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