HSE Hot Oil

For this initial application we recommend using 100-250ml of the hot oil depending on the size of your equine.

Put it in a bucket with enough warm water (generally 5-6 liters works well) to sponge over the horse from head to tail. When you add the oil to the water it will turn a milky white color. Sponge or pour the hot oil mixture over them.

General Conditioning Treatment

Once you’ve done the initial deep conditioning treatment or if your horses coat/skin is looking a bit dry or dull or if you want to get your horses coat really healthy and shiny before a show we do the same as we described for the Deep Conditioning Treatment except we use a lot less oil. Generally 30-50ml is about right.

Everyday Grooming Spray

This is our absolute favorite way to use the HSE Hot Oil and how we use it 99% of the time. Just put a 50-75ml of the hot oil in a spray bottle and then top it up with water. Before you use it just give it a shake to mix the oil and water, it will turn a milky white color. A ratio of 1:10 is a good starting point.

We love Super Sprayers for this job – being a high volume sprayer you don’t need to squeeze the trigger as many times to apply the product to your horses coat and its a 750ml bottle so you don’t need to top it up as often. We like to use 50-75ml of Hot Oil, this is a good general mix for most coat types. If your horse has recently been clipped or if the hair & skin is feeling a bit dry then make it a bit stronger.

This is great as an everyday grooming spray, just spray on and give your horse a brush or use your hands to rub it into the coat & skin. The natural moisturizing ingredients in the hot oil feed the skin & hair, and replace the horses natural coat oils that are lost from rugging, washing, sweat & the weather etc.

Before/After/Instead Washing

The HSE Hot Oil is also great at helping to lift the dirt from the skin and hair and bringing it to the surface. We try not to shampoo our horses too often as it will strip the natural oils from the coat.
Did you know that when we have a shower our body reproduces the sebum on our skin to our natural levels in about 3 hours. But when we wash our horse it takes 17-21 DAYS for them to reproduce the sebum levels back to normal!!

Dilute about 125ml/half cup of oil with 5-6L of water and sponge on. Leave the coat to start to dry then get the horse moving to warm up the skin and soon enough you’ll start to see the dirt coming up and sitting on the surface of the hair, ready to be hosed, brushed or wiped off.
When we don’t want to shampoo we just hose off the horse and find that this method does a great job at cleaning the hair and skin without the need for shampoo, with the added bonus of adding good oils to the hair & skin rather than stripping them.

If you’re also shampooing then this is a great way to get the dirt up to the surface of the coat, making it faster and easier to wash.
Use it after washing to give the coat a lovely deep gloss. For clipped coats we use 125-250ml of oil 5-6L of water. For longer coats we use only a capful to oil to help lay the coat flat and stop that fluffy look.

Top Tip #1

Then use a HSE CoolGroom to remove all the excess water from the coat. This is better than a sweat scraper as the scraper will remove both the water and the oil from the coat, a coolgroom will absorb the water but not all of the oil, leaving your hard earned dollars in the coat where it belongs.

There is no need to rinse the HSE Hot Oil from the coat like you do a conditioner. It is better left in so that it can work it’s magic.

Please note: your horses skin/coat will feel oily after doing this, but THAT IS THE POINT!! But because this product doesn’t contain any silicones it won’t make your saddle slip like other coat sprays.

Manes and Tails

I love to use the same mix as for the Everyday Grooming Spray in manes and tails as a detangler that also conditions, moisturises and strengthens the hair without coating the hair in silicon (which aside from not being great for hair, it also locks in dirt making it hard to get clean).

If your horses tail is quite dry you can make up a mix of 50:50 hot oil with water and either put it in a bucket and dunk the tail in it, or put it in a spray bottle and spray on, there is no need to rinse it off.

I’ve found that it is also great for helping to get rid of dandruff and encouraging new hair growth too.

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If you ever have problems with rub marks on shoulders (or elsewhere) then this is a great help. If the rub marks are already there then it will help stop them getting worse and also help to grow back the hair. Just spray the shoulders liberally before rugging.

Makeup For Show Day

HSE Hot Oil treatment is so versatile that you can use it as a makeup as well. Many of you have probably used makeup products that either immediately stain everything they touch or are difficult and messy to apply, especially for people who don’t do it regularly.

Depending on your horses natural colouring and the look you’re after you can either use it by itself or with chalk as well. It melts into the skin though the hair to highlight the eyes, muzzle, knees, hocks etc. Some products just sit on top of the skin and after a little while you get that horrible beading look with the yucky little balls that seem to sit on the skin.