Leovet First Aid MED Wash Lotion, Great for Mud Fever - Wound Cleaning 250ML

Leovet First Aid MED Wash Lotion – 250ml

MED Wash is leovet's cleaning lotion for skin you do not want to scrub. They list it for superficial wounds, sensitive skin, cracked heels and irritated skin areas — the sort of lower-leg work where an ordinary shampoo is too harsh and plain water will not shift the crusts. The surfactants are described by leovet as extra mild and soap free, and the lotion is pH skin neutral.

It is also perfume free and free from essential oils, which is the detail that matters if you are washing a horse that reacts to everything else in the wash box. Two plant-derived ingredients are named: Pentavitin from wheat, which leovet say binds durably to the skin's own keratin as a natural moisturiser, and anise acid, which they say restores the skin's microbial balance and stabilises its pH.

Performance & Benefits

• Soap free and pH skin neutral, so it cleans without stripping the skin's own acid mantle.
• Perfume free and free from essential oils — leovet position it for allergy sufferers.
• Pentavitin from wheat binds to keratin, which leovet describe as durable moisture retention.
• Anise acid is credited by leovet with restoring the skin's microbial balance.
• Lifts dirt and crusts from sensitive areas without hard scrubbing.
• 250ml is a first aid kit size rather than a bulk wash bottle.

Suitable For

• Cleaning superficial wounds and the skin around them.
• Cracked heels and the backs of the pasterns — the store title calls this mud fever; leovet's own wording is cracked heels.
• Sensitive, irritated or allergy-prone skin that reacts to ordinary shampoo.
• Routine leg washing on a horse living out through a wet winter.
• A full-body wash needs a proper shampoo — Leovet 5-Star Body Wash Biotin is the everyday one.

How to Use

• Wet the area with clean, lukewarm water first.
• Apply the lotion, work it gently over the skin with your hands rather than a stiff brush, and let it soften the crusts.
• Rinse thoroughly with clean water.
• Dry the legs properly afterwards — leaving them damp undoes the point of washing them.
• leovet publish no dilution rate or frequency on their website, so none is stated here.

Specification

• 250ml bottle.
• Named ingredients: Pentavitin (wheat extract), anise acid. Extra mild, soap-free surfactants.
• pH skin neutral. Perfume free. Free from essential oils.
• leovet publish no full ingredient list, no concentrations and no pack size on their website, so none is stated here.
• Made by leovet Dr. Jacoby GmbH & Co. KG, Lahnau, Germany. Sold in Germany as Erste Hilfe MED-Waschlotion. Barcode 4033081130317.

Care & Caution

• This is a cleaning lotion, not a medicine. It does not treat an infection.
• Deep, dirty, bleeding or infected wounds, and legs that are hot, swollen or lame, need a vet rather than a wash.
• Keep out of the eyes; rinse at once with clean water if it gets in.
• Do not pick or scrub crusts off cracked heels — soften them and let them lift, or you make the wound larger.