Leovet Tea Tree Shampoo, for Horses 500ml

Leovet Tea Tree Shampoo – 500ml

This is the wash to reach for when a horse is rubbing rather than simply dirty. Tea tree oil is the named active plant ingredient, and Leovet credit it with soothing and regenerating skin and horn, regulating sebum, holding moisture and cooling the skin — which between them are what take the edge off an itch.

Leovet's own claim is modest and worth repeating as they put it: it soothes itching, reduces the inclination to scratch, and leaves the skin and coat healthy with a silky look and a lasting scent. It is a grooming product rather than a treatment, and Leovet make no claim that it treats sweet itch, mud fever or ringworm. Sold in the UK as Tea Tree Shampoo, it appears on Leovet's own site as Tea-Tree Body Wash.

Performance & Benefits

• Tea tree oil as the named active plant ingredient.
• Leovet state it soothes itching and reduces the inclination to scratch.
• Regulates sebum and helps protect the pores, which suits a greasy or scurfy coat.
• Leaves the coat with a silky finish and a long-lasting scent.
• Rinses out cleanly, so it can be used through the season rather than saved for show days.

Suitable For

• Horses and ponies that rub manes, tails or the base of the neck.
• Greasy, scurfy or dandruff-prone coats.
• Routine washing where a plain shampoo has not been enough.
• Owners who also use Leovet's Tea-Tree Grooming Lotion, which is the leave-on version of the same idea.
• Not a treatment for a diagnosed skin condition — sweet itch, mud fever and ringworm need a vet, and Leovet do not claim this washes them away.

How to Use

• Wet the coat thoroughly with warm water first.
• Work the wash in with a sponge or rubber curry until it lathers.
• Keep it away from the eyes and out of the ears; wash the face with a damp cloth instead.
• Rinse until the water runs clear, then sweat-scrape and dry the horse out of the wind.
• Rinse thick manes and feather especially well — residue left in there can itch in its own right.

Specification

• 500ml bottle.
• Tea tree oil as the named active plant ingredient.
• Leovet publish no full ingredient list for this wash on their product page, so none is given here.
• Listed by Leovet as Tea-Tree Body Wash; sold in the UK as Tea Tree Shampoo.
• Leovet publish their doping-relevance classification as a separate FN/ADMR list rather than on the product page, so no competition status is claimed here.

Care & Caution

• Avoid the eyes. Rinse with clean water if any gets in.
• Do not use on broken, weeping or raw skin.
• Tea tree oil is a potent essential oil — patch test a small area and leave it a day before washing the whole horse.
• Wear gloves if your own skin reacts to essential oils.
• Keep the bottle and the wash water away from cats, for which tea tree oil is not safe.