Sunscreen for my grey minion?

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Hi all
What's the best sunscreen for a grey minion's pink nose?
High factor please - she doesn't want a tan
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I used to use the sticks...lipstick type...but can't seem to get them at the moment.
I don't use any myself so it's hard to guess what'll stay on her and doesn't smell vile.
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Asda do the sticks for about £3.00/£3.50. I think the colour this year is pale green. Water resistant, sweat resistant & is in a factor 30 or 50. Can't remember but it works for my mare's very pink nose
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Asda do the sticks for about £3.00/£3.50. I think the colour this year is pale green. Water resistant, sweat resistant & is in a factor 30 or 50. Can't remember but it works for my mare's very pink nose
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Ah, but I don't want to be reported for 'vandalising' my horse (Don't laugh, but years ago I was reported to the RSPCA for 'vandalising' a horse with turquoise wound spray
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I may have to visit Asda then...or send OH!
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Any human one!! the kiddies ones are always waterproof, think they are designed for little dribblers!
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Ah, I may go for a neutral human kiddies one...to avoid the RSPCA, and getting unwanted green kisses on my head.
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Some of them are so expensive!
I usually go to Tescos at the end of Summer and buy a couple stocked up for the following year!!
I share the same one between the child and horses!!!
 
I use kiddies factor 40 or 50 on Bob. This year we are using Nivea Children's as it was left over from our hols. Last year I used a roll on one from Avon but they're not doing it this year.

He's such a mard though. He won't let me rub it in properly so he had a green nose before he'd even left the stable!!
 
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Asda do the sticks for about £3.00/£3.50. I think the colour this year is pale green. Water resistant, sweat resistant & is in a factor 30 or 50. Can't remember but it works for my mare's very pink nose
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Ah, but I don't want to be reported for 'vandalising' my horse (Don't laugh, but years ago I was reported to the RSPCA for 'vandalising' a horse with turquoise wound spray
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I may have to visit Asda then...or send OH!
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LMAO!!! You can just imagine the headlines...... "Local Horse Vandaliser Strikes Again!"
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It is a very, very pale green. Sort of a spearmint colour. Or, if you want to be very with it, Boots/Superdrug do ones that go on purple then change to clear after 5 minutes or so
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Is it sad that I love applying coloured sunscreen to my horse?
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I actually gave up using sun screen/block on my horses pink nose because it never worked, it used to get rubbed off on other horses or got washed off in the water tank so I came up with my own invention of a tea towel nose cover. I folded a tea towel in half and stitched it and inch down from the fold and fed it onto the noseband of his headcollar so it was covering his nose, he looked like a complete pratt but he never got a sunburnt hooter again!! It used to get ragged and dirty eventually so I used to go to the pound shop and buy 6 tea towels for a £1, it worked out alot cheaper than sun block!!
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I use Ambre Solaire factor 60 on merlins schnoz and so long as I remember to do it every day he doesnt get blisters
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Last year it was buy one get one free in wilkinsons
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I was just about to post this as Axel has a sunburnt nose already.
He even had a fly mask on with a long nose cover on too, but he look it off and it's in the field somewhere, I might even find it one day!
 
Good old factor 50 or 60 - found in Boots, Tescos etc

It'll be so thick, it stay on for definate!
 
I have not one but TWO chesnut geldings with very sensitive pink noses! I now treat them the same way I do myself, and I think it's expensive but worth it. We all have P20 sun filter, which doesn't block the sun, but filters it to allow a tan. One of my boys has been having this on his nose for 3 summers, and it's worked really well. This was suggested by some mates who are diving instructors, and used it when they were working in Cyprus. Unlike sunscreen it is absorbed into the skin, meaning your horse can't go have a drink and wipe it straight off on his best mate's bum.
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I had same problem with chestnuts pink nose but put this on and never had a problem since, it seems to shield all round his muzzle. No more messy suncreams and it's a damn sight cheaper too. Equilibrium make them - are about £8
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I had same problem with chestnuts pink nose but put this on and never had a problem since, it seems to shield all round his muzzle. No more messy suncreams and it's a damn sight cheaper too. Equilibrium make them - are about £8
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My god you've successfully cross bred the duck billed platapus and a horse - hats off to you
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i use the kids coloured stuff, that way i can see where i have covered as little one tends to try be heading you when you put it on
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Def try the gold label stuff, its a sun block and is so thick, almost like putty a small bit goes a long way and it stays on for ages, its about £5 for a small tub, but lasted me all summer.
 
Tescos children's sun block - very thick, very effective, and is white so you won't get reported for doing a Banksy on your minion
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IIRC Tescos have good offers on sun lotion etc atm
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