Hooflex and alternatives

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Does anyone have a can of Hooflex handy that can list the active ingredients? I
am having a hard time finding it. A store near me says they carry it, Absorbine(Hooflex maker) says they carry it but they never have it. I'm looking for alternatives for my horn handle. It is always good to have alternatives for khukri kare. Sometimes the alternatives actually work better. Fo instance I use Bag Balm for my hands rather then conventional hand cream, Bag Balm is for cow teats, really. My wife said it stinks and can't work as well as her expensive and pretentious hand cream, but she tried it. It works better. Ok, enough of a digression. Thanks in advance.
 
get some handcream with lanolin. Good for khuks, good for hands.


It might interest you to know that in Winter when it gets below zero and very dry I used hooflex on the callouses cracking on my heels. It lets the excess tissue slough off, just like it does on a horse's hoof.


munk
 
the important ingredient is lanolin, a fat developed on sheep`s wool. It is also in lip balms and similar stuff, ask in the pharmacy. I use "Pedocan" (hoof-strenghener) from time to time and Ballistol more often. Ballistol is kind of a khuk-care product as it is good for the blade, for the horn, the leather and wood. I found out it leaves spots on the brass if you are not careful. Hope this helps.

Andreas
 
Thanks,
If lanolin is the primary ingredient in Hooflex I'll just give the Bag Balm a try. That's its main ingredient. Drdan, thanks for the reminder on the pure lanolin. I have purchased that before.

I'll let y'all know the results.
 
The lanolin used available in the pharmacy is for the same usage as Bag Balm. Pharmacy lanolin is essentially Bag Balm for humans. I have a tin of Bag Balm but I haven't used it on any khuks yet. There is lanolin in it and it'll probably be ok to use. In fact, I reckon it probably has more lanolin content than the Hooflex.

Hooflex has lanolin, pine tar, and er... goop in it. I think it's about 12% lanolin or something.
 
Bruise, you forgot "I think it smells festive". Good to hear from you again.
 
Bag balm is grea tstuff, should work fine for your khuks, though I ahven't tried it(could, course wouldn't technically be on khuks, as the horn handles are on a different shelf than the khuks :)
 
Bag Balm Ingredients Lable

B-Hydroquinoline Sulfate 0.3% in a Petrolatum, Lanolin Base

One of those is the smelly stuff, the other the sticky stuff I guess...;)
 
I've got some pure lanolin & it's pretty smelly. Ingredients on the Hooflex bottle:
Petrolatum, Neatsfoot oil, Lanolin, Turpentine, Pine tar, Rosin, chloroxylenol 1.5%.

"I love the smell of Hooflex in the morning! It smells like.......khukuri!" Apologies to Robert Duvall.:rolleyes:

Steve
 
Just used a good bit of udder balm on a khuk. The horn seemed to accept quite a bit and it appears to have "plumped" up the handles considerably.
 
I have put mineral oil on one old khuk and lanolin on another with the hope of comparing the results. I know mineral oil seem to bring old kitchen knife handles "back to life," but that's wood, not a protein.
 
Bruise wrote:
Hooflex has lanolin, pine tar, and er... goop in it.

The "goop" part is probably the petrolatum or petroleum jelly (a.k.a. Vaseleine). The pine tar, turpentine and rosin certainly do have odors ;)
 
Originally, I thought Bag Balm was a male hygenic product. I've since learned it was for cows. :rolleyes:
 
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