Best thing for cleaning white legs!

Supreme Products do a fabulous range of whiteners and brighteners and blue rinse shampoos etc especially for dirty coloureds/greys. They seem to get great reviews and certainly any Supreme Products that I have bought have been well worth the money.
 
persil non bio , used just like shampoo :) only need one wash and their bright white. Never seen a horse have any kind of skin reaction from it and i've used it on a whole range of horses! Think a giant bottle is only £3.00 and you dont even need alot
 
I used dermoline shampoo on my coloured. Its for mites and lice treatment but really makes them white!!

Then if competing used supreme products whitener powder on damp legs. it goes pasty and we left it on over night and brushed out in morning leaving brilliant white legs :)
 
any blue based shampoo works well to get the stains out but my best tip for white legs is chalk powder.

Put quite a bit into a pot and add water until you have a thick yoghurty consistency then either using your fingers or a sponge rub it all over the legs until they have a layer that covers every single bit (you can tell the bits you missed when you brush the excess off!).

Then bandage and leave to dry overnight. In the morning remove bandages and brush the excess chalk out and you will have sparkley white legs!

If its the pone in your signature then I would suggest that you can put it all the way up the legs because even the bits you cant bandage that get stable stained, somehow the stains seem to sit on top of the chalky layer and then just get brushed away with the excess chalk. I have had greys / colourds / white feathers on every horse ive owned and this has been the best method by far !

This is the after effects of the chalk powder - I don`t have a before pic but he lived out 24/7 in a field next to a brook so you can imagine!

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Sorry to be dim but when you say chalk do you actually mean like dig it out the ground to draw hopscotch kind of chalk?:p or is there a specific chalk product?
 
Dottyfordylan said:
Sorry to be dim but when you say chalk do you actually mean like dig it out the ground to draw hopscotch kind of chalk?:p or is there a specific chalk product?
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I just use the normal kind of blackboard chalk but it comes in a powder in a big tub. You can use the gold label whitener but I dont think it came up quite as white and its a pig to get of anything it touches i.e rugs , stable floor etc ! The normal chalk is also a lot cheaper :D
 
BYR said:
my best tip for white legs is chalk powder.

Put quite a bit into a pot and add water until you have a thick yoghurty consistency then either using your fingers or a sponge rub it all over the legs until they have a layer that covers every single bit (you can tell the bits you missed when you brush the excess off!).
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We have a chestnut with white legs and this is exactly what we do too, although I don't bother bandaging over the top. You have to add the water to the powder quite cautiously as it is easy to make it too runny. I use a toothbrush to apply it. I don't even bother shampooing beforehand, just brush off any surface mud/dirt and apply the paste.
 
Having got two 'silver white' Andalucians, I found a 'Cowboy Magic' blue shampoo worked very well, but better still, and by complete accident, I discovered that Hibiscrub was the best! They both live out 24/7, and have snuggy hoods on, which seems to keep them pretty clean, however the legs and tails are a different matter! I used hibiscrub as one of the clever devils managed to get part of a blackthorn bush attached to his floor length tail, and had pricked his legs a bit. Out came the hibiscrub, and lo and behold, spotless white legs and and a super white tail. Mind you, the colour of the foam would have put a capuccino to shame!:D
 
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