White tails... with black hair... how to?

[Queenbee]

Hi there,

Over the weekend I intend to attack bens tail to get it white, I was thinking of a blue shampoo, or a shampoo with bleach powder added or a hydrogen peroxide, milk of mag and cornstarch paste... the top is already lovely and white but the bottom of the tail is typically yummy yellow. My query is that ben has a small section of his tail that is black, will a hydrogen peroxide paste or the bleach affect this? If I use a bleach shampoo, I will only leave it in for 5 mins max... but I just wondered if anyone had a horse with a white tail with black bits, how do you go about getting the white bits white and leaving the black bits black, or do you just wash it as per a normal white tail?

Many thanks, Em

 

[Queenbee]

anyone????

 

[ROMANY 1959]

Know it's unothodox... But I dipped my big boys white and black tail in solution of vanish and warm water, for five min then rinses well it came up a treat

 

[Queenbee]

Know it's unothodox... But I dipped my big boys white and black tail in solution of vanish and warm water, for five min then rinses well it came up a treat

We used to use vanish on white socks

 

[Slightlyconfused]

Haha.....I keep threatening the appy who is white all over but thankfully had a black tail and lower legs that I'm going to get a vanish stick and use it on him!!!

 

[Cinnamontoast]

I've used Vanish, just be very careful not to get it on his dock! If its for a show, can you plait the tail so the black bit is hidden or make a feature of it and interweave it through the white?

 

[PolarSkye]

Blue shampoo and warm water . . . wash several times . . . leave the blue shampoo on for a bit. Works a treat on my boy - but I do wash his tail rather a lot so I tend to stay on top of the yellow bits (can't stand seeing him with a yellow tail).

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[BlackRider]

I use the gallop extra strength stain removing shampoo, then wash off, and then use the blue shampoo, and have a nice sparkly clean tail

 

[Queenbee]

Well, I did a bit of a google search earlier and got the tip of shampoo and purple spray. I dunked the tail, applied and lathered and scrubbed with a brush and left for 5 mins, rinse and repeat. I also made up a bucket of water with dermoline and a cap full of purple spray added for the rest of the coat... Scrubbed sudds into legs and rinsed... Looking good, legs are sparking and tail is gleaming too

 

[mcnaughty]

Bleach powder and hydrogen peroxide!! Big extreme!

Biological powder would do the job - whatever you decide to use please make sure you patch test first!

 

[Skippys Mum]

Fairy liquid followed by Head and Shoulders gave me this result

 

[Queenbee]

Mcnaughty a lot of the blue shampoos are just shampoo with a dab of bleach powder, and the HP mix seems to be fairly widely used too, you will see in my post that I was considering the use of this for his tail, it would have been on the yellow hair which was well below the dock anyway. In the end as I said, I ended up using dermoline and purple spray which bought him up lovely, maybe a couple more goes on the tail to go but a huge improvement, both products have been used on Ben before, I was actually very proud of him as last time it took 2 people with buckets and sponges and a lot of ad lib chaff to do him, today I managed to douse him, scrubb him and hose his whole body off on my own