Getting white tails white?

[sleepingdragon10]

Right, having bathed the Jellymonster yesterday I need to know from all you showing peeps just how you get a white tail white! Not yellow, not pale cream, but white. OK, so Jelly's tail looks better, but we still have some deliciously stubborn yellow streaks

I have read/heard, but have never been brave enough to try, that a tail dunked in a bucket of (well) diluted purple spray will come out sparkly and clean as the purple spray neutralises the 'yellow'....sooooo, who's going to volunteer to try that theory out for me?

Have also heard that Tresemme shampoo is good for this kind of thing?
Yes? No?....anybody....



HELP!!

Bethxx

 

[JM07]

soda crystals....well diluted in hot water...rinse thoroughly..repeat if required.

 

[pickalilli]

Use really cheap washing up liquid, wash swill repeat.

Works a treat on my white horse

 

[chestnut cob]

I use Tesco cheapy Tea Tree Oil shampoo, brilliant! R is meant to have a white tail and this brings it up really well.

 

[vhf]

Will follow this thread with interest... my mare's tail remains a mixture of black and shades of unmentionable (she's grey) despite everything.
Fairy Liquid seems to do as good a job as any, but I've tried Red Rum coat whitener, Dylon net curtain whitener, Vanish Oxy-Action and clarifying shampoos, as well as various other human and horse shampoos.
Currently washing 2 times a week and just hoping a miracle happens. I tell myself it must be left-over from being bay (she's only rising 4) or it's very clean dirt.

 

[Marilyn]

glo white the net curtain cleaner

 

[druid]

I do mine on the cheap - you get a tail like this:

1: wash tail in bucket of luke warm water with 2 tablets of non-bio clothes washing detergent. Allow sit for 5 mins. Rinse
2: Put a handful of soda crystals in a bucket of HOT water, swill tail in it and rinse.
3: Either apply cheapo tesco own brand conditioner, comb through and leave overnight before rinsing off in morning or apply old lady conditioning hair rinse straight away (We use one in a gold/silver bottle called "White Minx")

 

[GinaGem]

Fairy non bio liquid. Fantastic stuff. Wet the tail, rub a bit in, wash out. Leaves it silky too. xxx

 

[Kermie]

Please be careful with the soda crystals - they are too harsh for some tails. I learned the hard way! I used them on my coloured filly's tail and it went much yellower than before and also coarse and crinkly as though it had been burnt. I only used a small amount and didn't leave her tail in the water for any longer than a couple of minutes.

 

[MagicMelon]

I have used blue rinse shampoo (for grey haired ladies usually!) which has made it white. But the other day Id run out, so I washed the tail twice. Once with Tesco's Citrus Shampoo (tesco's own brand shampoo's are really good for washing!), leave on for 10 mins or so as I wash the rest of him, then rinse. Then wash with Canter shampoo which I also find really good. Then I sometimes condition it with Tesco's own Tea Tree Conditioner which helps repel stains.

 

[FMM]

Mare's tails are much harder (for obvious reasons) than gelding tails. As Kermie has said, you need to be very careful using harsh methods as this can bleach and damage the tail and make it look worse than before. The more you wash it with "approved" products for white tails, the whiter it will go.

 

[ColouredFan]

well I have 4 coloured horses 2 of which are mares that pee in their tails and one really mucky gelding, firstly i wash in cheap washing up liquid then seperate the white hair from black ( u wont need to!) then pour on and rub in ace bleach (do not get on black hair as it will turn it red!) leave in for 5 minutes then wash off with washing up liquid and then condition with any human conditioner. while conditioner is in brush tail through if you want to, it works a treat and get white hair white!!!!

 

[_daisy_]

I use AltoLab's Shimmering white shampoo on my mares tail - one wash as its lovely and bright white

 

[sleepingdragon10]

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I use AltoLab's Shimmering white shampoo on my mares tail - one wash as its lovely and bright white

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Saw that earlier on ebay but as I hadn't heard of it before I passed it up, maybe I should invest in some

Thanks for the suggestions guys.....must admit I'm not particularly happy using anything too harsh, but I may well go and invest in some older ladies shampoo/rinse stuff and see how that goes, do you think it'd be really cheeky to ask my YO what she uses(for her hair obviously)?

 

[wells1]

Someone did a showing bit in horse and hound or horse and recomended the blue rinse thing.

 

[Fiona]

I'm with druid on this - a non bio washing tablet does the trick on my grey mare who routinely pees on her tail all winter. FOr best results I do it about once a week though, and obviously just on the tail hair (not the dock area).

GOod luck with whatever you try.

FIona

 

[Capriole]

i wonder if tesco know that half their own brand shampoos seem to be heading to stable yards around the country?