Omega Equine Hoof Perfect – Horse Hoof Dressing

Omega Equine Hoof Perfect Hoof Dressing

Hoof Perfect is an oil and wax dressing rather than a paint or a hardener. Omega build it from coconut, avocado, jojoba and soya oils with animal fat and beeswax, finished with eucalyptus and peppermint oils — a formulation designed to sit on the horn as a barrier rather than soak straight through it.

That barrier is the point. In wet fields it slows the hoof taking up water and going soft; in a dry summer it slows moisture leaving. Omega say regular use helps keep hooves supple and elastic and helps prevent splits and cracks, and credit the dressing with antibacterial properties.

Performance & Benefits

• An oil and beeswax barrier dressing rather than a solvent-based hoof paint.
• Coconut, avocado, jojoba and soya oils as the conditioning base.
• Beeswax gives the dressing its water-resisting body.
• Eucalyptus and peppermint oils, which Omega credit with the antibacterial element.
• Works in both directions — resisting saturation in the wet and holding moisture in the dry.
• Omega say regular use helps keep hooves supple and elastic and helps prevent splits and cracks.

Suitable For

• Routine daily or every-other-day hoof care through any season.
• Horses on wet winter turnout where feet are constantly soft.
• Dry summer ground where horn is shrinking and cracking.
• Shod and barefoot horses alike.
• A dressing works on the horn that is already there. For new growth from the coronet, Omega Equine Biotin Extra 2kg is the supplement that addresses it from the inside.

How to Use

• Pick out and brush the hoof clean and dry before applying.
• Apply to the hoof wall, and over the coronet band where you want to influence new growth.
• Omega publish no application frequency or quantity for Hoof Perfect, so follow the instructions on the tub you receive.
• The dressing stiffens in cold weather — stand the tub somewhere warm for a few minutes before use.
• Keep the brush or applicator clean between horses.

Specification

• Ingredients: coconut oil, avocado oil, jojoba oil, soya oil, animal fat, beeswax, eucalyptus oil, peppermint oil.
• Contains animal fat and beeswax, so it is not a vegan product — unlike Omega's Shampoo Perfect, which is.
• Omega Equine publish no tub size, weight or coverage figure for Hoof Perfect on their own website, so none is stated here.
• Omega publish no directions for use for this product either.