Top tips for yellow tail?

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I'm looking for your top tips for getting white tails white again! No amount of purple whitening shampoo seems to work?
 
Fairy Liquid Platinum works. I have been told a few drops of blue food dye, never tired it myself - fear I would have a pony with a blue rinse!
 
I use tomato ketchup, and it works. Thoroughly drench the tail with the ketchup, leave it for about 20mins and rinse then shampoo. There is vinegar in the sauce, so perhaps that relates to the method in the link above?
 
I have used bi carb and vinegar. It works. My mare's tail is still yellow but it started out almost brown at the beginning of last summer. It's gone more yellow again cos I've neglected it over winter but at the end of last summer it was almost white.
 
Blue washing up liquid works a treat! I have found that one from aldi has worked much better than any of the other more expensive ones ��
 
Boring I'm afraid but hot water, a very generous measure of ordinary animal shampoo (horse/farm variety - Battles etc) and leave on to soak for a few mins. Rinse in hot water again. My big lad has a white tail and in winter it's virtually black but one wash and it's snowy again.

Or maybe I'm just lucky and his hair doesn't stain!
 
My former gelding's white tail was a LOT easier to keep clean than my (now) mare's!! I showed him so I thought I knew every trick but they have ALL failed on my mare's tail!! She has a very thick one so it doesn't lift very far and gets clarted in wee, poo and ....um...."lady juices" when she is in season. I absolutely despair of ever getting the lower half white. I have tried all of the above, plus Vanish foam and even bleach. All failed. Has anyone tried Galloping Goop?
 
On my complete minger of a horse I first wash the bottom of the tail in fairy liquid, rinse and then use Touch of Silver shampoo all over the tail. Warm water is best!
 
Tesco value shampoo (not on the dock) and warm water for the scrubbing part, then hose off.

I only use whitening shampoo to enhance it once it's clean.

This is without purple shampoo.

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Hate to say it but once the tail is stained properly yellow, no shampoo will get that out...
I'm on my third grey, and the only thing that works to keep the tail white is washing it every week with quicsilver shampoo then spraying coat shine and putting it in a plait.
I would recommend slowly cutting off the yellow bits as the tail grows, and keeping the rest of the tail as white as possible with regular shampooing.
The one additional extra that I've had good results with is the champion tails stain remover-it's a terrifying purple powder you have to dilute but it does work!!
 
Have you tried Vetrolin white n Brite shampoo...the best purple shampoo ever! I have to be careful as occasionally we can have a slightly blue tinge (but prefer that to yellow ;-). Regular tail washes, warm/hot water and leaving the blue shampoo on for a few minutes also help. My mares tail can be absolutely disgusting from all the delightful mare pee, "juices" and seasonal grass changes but this shampoo always brings it back to white.
 
I do a similar thing to the bicarb mentioned above. I wet the tail thoroughly with water as hot as my hands can take (I don't let it touch his skin) and wash with ordinary human shampoo (Head and Shoulders is good and cheap) to get the worst of the dirt off and rinse. I then mix a good handful of bicarb with shampoo into a paste in a container, apply to the tail, work through and leave for at least 10 minutes. I then rinse thoroughly followed by a soak in a bucket of warm water mixed 50-50 with white vinegar for a minute or two. I then dry with a towel, give a good spray of mane and tail conditioner and brush through.

Both my greys have tail bags which aren't perfect (one manages to get muddy water in the bottom of his every time :rolleyes3:) but they do help a lot by keeping the worst of the mud off in winter)
 
I spent about an hour yesterday doing ten rounds (shampoo, bicarb, vinegar etc etc) with my mare's tail. It did get cleaner but still a bit yellow. I have wrapped it up with vet wrap now to keep the mud and wee off it so I can try doing ten rounds with it again on Friday without it having accumulated any more staining! I'm hoping by that point, with added blue rinse I might have something acceptable for Saturday. I think wrapping, bagging or constant washing so stain doesn't set in is the only way to get them properly white.
 
I feel your pain as I have the same problem with my mares tail. Geldings are so much easier! I have not found a quick fix and had the let the orange grow out (I don't think her tail had been washed for years when I got her). The most useful thing has been to keep it moisturised - pig oil and Megatek Rebuilder are both good but the latter is prohibitively expensive on a thick cob tail. Conditioning helps the prevent the stains taking hold so they wash out easier. This and regular shampooing have improved things but there is still some yellowing. Just to rub it in every show I went to last year the piebald mares ALL had black tails. I will definitely try the bicarb and vinegar. Not tried the Galloping goop. Good luck.
 
Cortez said:
I use tomato ketchup, and it works. Thoroughly drench the tail with the ketchup, leave it for about 20mins and rinse then shampoo. There is vinegar in the sauce, so perhaps that relates to the method in the link above?
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This is what I do I wash the worse of the dirt out rub in the ketchup leave twenty minutes then wash again .
 
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