With the awareness about pets’ hygiene, pet shampoos are becoming increasingly popular and more and more products are being introduced with various features, numerous enough to make pet parents daunted. However, to keep your dog clean even a simple homemade dog shampoo with natural ingredients is better than branded shampoos with harsh chemicals. You may not consider it very serious, but a wrong bathing product can damage your dog’s health and look. Better you use a homemade shampoo for your beloved pet. Here are the benefits.
As you use all natural ingredients for making your own pet shampoo, the shampoo is absolutely safe for your pet. These ingredients are various types of oils like coconut oil, olive oil and castor oil, herbs, lemon juice, oatmeal, and more. All these ingredients have been proven to be safe and good for skin health for humans as well as pets.
As a parent of your pet, you know your pet’s skin very well and also know what can cure it. So, you can add remedial ingredients accordingly to your homemade shampoo. For example, you can add aloe vera if your pet’s skin is suffering from red spots, hot spots and inflammation, or can include apple cider vinegar in the event of ticks and fleas.
Though price is not an important factor when your pet’s health is concerned, it is true that homemade dog shampoos do save your money. Branded shampoos have to keep their prices high to compensate the advertising and distribution cost, which is not the case when you buy products and prepare a shampoo on your own.
If you feel that a certain ingredient should be added to the shampoo, you can add it easily to your homemade shampoo. Even some ingredients can be removed if you don’t want them while preparing your next shampoo. So, formulation is totally under your control.
Your homemade dog shampoo made with natural ingredients is biodegradable and safe for the environment, whereas a chemical shampoo when goes into the sewage system harms the ecosystem there because of its chemical composition which may be non-degradable.
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