Can I make my own 'hoof stuff'?

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Had a look at the red horse products hoof stuff and it says the ingridients are natural fibres, zinc oxide and unpasteurised honey. I'm thinking mix some unpasteurised honey( wherever u get that from ?) with sudocrem and cotton wool. Do you think this would work? I would like to buy it but I want 2 other products and it's just pushing the price up too high.
 
You could try. I'd use good quality Manuka honey and zinc oxide myself. Chemists sell both.

I take it the other products are more necessary?
 
I think the hoof stuff just sounds like a simple concept which was why I thought I could try and make it. The other things I was going to get was sole cleanse and field paste.
 
I've tried :)

It was not pretty ;)

Seriously, I'm not sure how they do it, but trying to incorporate sudocreme and honey into cotton wool just does not work. It is much harder than you would expect to get the right consistency - too liquid, and it all squidges everywhere. Too dry, and there's not much honey in it. It is very very difficult to get it *into* the cotton wool, you tend to get big lumps.

I made one attempt, and then ordered another pot of HoofStuff, with a new admiration of whoever at Red Horse makes it :)
 
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Ha ha! I expect it's the structure of the carrier material as well as the ratio of ZO to honey.
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Yes, I think it's not cotton wool, but something else. In fact, I suspect gathering lambswool off the local fences might get a better carrier material! And I think the ZO they use is less oily than sudocreme. Good on them, coming up with something so effective!
 
I wonder if slightly warming the ingredients, then mixing before combining with perhaps gauze (?chopped) would work better than cotton wool? Manuka honey isn't cheap either so probably as cheap and much less hassle to buy a pot. lol

ps. You could use a salt and water solution scrub instead of the sole cleanse to start off and get that next time?
 
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I have no experience of this product but I quite like making things of various kinds if it means I don't have to buy it so thread title piqued my interest!

Have had a look at the website and from the description it sounds like you would need the fibres to be well separated and shredded, which would be hard to achieve with cotton wool. Something like wool tops would probably work quite well:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Icelandic...erCrafts_Spinning_Weaving&hash=item5af687e239

The fibres are long compared to cotton wool, so should be a good binding agent.

No idea how far this would stretch compared to a pot of the real stuff though, so by the time you've bought it, and the manuka honey, it might be more expensive.
 
Thanks for the replies I might have a go once I price everything up. When I first left school I actually worked in a zinc factory which was made in a powder form so I probably could have had as much of that as I wanted. Doh maybe it will be less ambitious to start out making my own sole cleanse and work from there lol
 
I do like the Red horse products but do think a lot of them are the same key ingredients in different textures and consistencies.

I've thought the same thing but decided life's too short. It's possibly arguable that with the hoof stuff and field paste, it's all about the texture as that's what makes it stay where it's put.

I just stocked up when someone was offering a 50% discount a while back.
 
50% wow I'd try one of everything at that price! Ive decided to just order the hoof stuff and mix my own sole cleanser. Ive also just bought some silver hoof so i'll try that before ordering the field paste.
 
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