Keratex Hoof Soak & Wash - 1 Litre

Keratex Hoof Soak & Wash – 1 Litre

This is a concentrate, and the dilution is what makes it worth buying: a capful to half a bucket of clean water, so one litre yields around 125 litres of working solution. That covers a long run of scrubs or ten-minute soaks, which is exactly what you want when you are dealing with a foot day after day rather than once.

Keratex describe it as a disinfectant cleansing wash for the complete hoof. The everyday jobs are cleaning up a foot between poultice changes, cooling and cleansing heels and pasterns that have been standing in mud, and dealing with a frog that has started to smell. It cleans and disinfects; it does not replace a poultice, a vet or a farrier.

Performance & Benefits

• Concentrate: one litre makes roughly 125 litres of soak, so the cost per bucket is very low.
• Disinfectant cleansing wash intended for the whole hoof, not just the wall.
• Cooling and cleansing on heels and pasterns sore from mud.
• Useful between poultice changes, when the foot needs cleaning without being left open.
• Works on frogs that have begun to smell.
• Can be used as a quick scrub or as a ten-minute standing soak.

Suitable For

• Horses being managed through an abscess or a puncture, between poultices.
• Legs and heels that have been standing in wet, poached ground.
• Routine hoof hygiene on a yard through a wet winter.
• Frogs and clefts that need cleaning out regularly.
• Not a barrier or a waterproofer — Keratex Hoof Gel keeps water out, and Keratex Mud Shield Powder is the one for legs in mud.

How to Use

• Add a capful of concentrate to half a bucket of clean water.
• Use as a scrub, or stand the foot in it for about ten minutes for a soak.
• Pick the foot out first so the solution reaches the horn rather than the mud.
• Dry the foot, heels and pasterns properly afterwards — leaving them wet undoes the point of it.
• Mix fresh each time; do not keep diluted solution standing in a bucket.

Specification

• 1 litre bottle of concentrate. Dilutes to approximately 125 litres.
• Keratex barcode 5036486000185.
• Keratex publish no ingredient list or percentage composition for Hoof Wash, so none is stated here.
• Sits alongside Keratex Frog Power Cleanser, Hoof Putty and Mud Shield Powder in the range.

Care & Caution

• This is a disinfectant concentrate. Never apply it neat — always dilute at the stated rate before it touches the horse.
• Wear gloves, keep it out of eyes, and rinse thoroughly with water on skin contact.
• Do not use it as a wound wash or on broken, bleeding skin unless your vet has said to.
• Keep the bottle capped and out of reach of children and animals, and do not decant it into an unlabelled container.