Rose Water Spritz & Wild Salmon Oil (Kai Ken especially)
Hi everyone,
So on the FB Kai Ken page I said I would post this as soon as I knew more with Kitora. Well, I think we officially have great success with her coat texture.
She has been on the salmon oil since a few weeks after we brought her home so.... 9 mths (???) ago. Didn't *see* any real improvement over coat texture but did see reduced flaking of the skin until recently.
She just recently shed out her entire coat. Nothing left but guard hairs and even those exchanged after undercoat started coming back in. She has now almost finished growing in the most beautiful, soft, silky undercoat still with really nice thick guard hairs, but she is really divine to touch now!
The one extra thing that we started doing was 3-4 weeks ago (I think, sorry times a blurr for me right now) was I started using a Rose Water spritz on her tummy and really dry areas where I could get it down to the skin. Now, I make my own for my small little shop that I have but wanted to let all of you know about it as I know that Kai as well as some other NK have problems with really dry skin. My concoction includes rose water, rose essential EO, veggie glycerin and Vit E - it sprays on with a small pump spray. It has helped her tummy flaking immensely and dry skin itching!! She has very little now and when not rolling around outside in our dirt (wish it would snow more) she literally smells like a rose, lol.
Her coat is so lustrous, very comparable to Kunai's now too. They both are thick and fluffy and beautiful... I still need to get more pics up on their threads as Kunai is filling out and Ki's brindle is really showing thru!!
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So on the FB Kai Ken page I said I would post this as soon as I knew more with Kitora. Well, I think we officially have great success with her coat texture.
She has been on the salmon oil since a few weeks after we brought her home so.... 9 mths (???) ago. Didn't *see* any real improvement over coat texture but did see reduced flaking of the skin until recently.
She just recently shed out her entire coat. Nothing left but guard hairs and even those exchanged after undercoat started coming back in. She has now almost finished growing in the most beautiful, soft, silky undercoat still with really nice thick guard hairs, but she is really divine to touch now!
The one extra thing that we started doing was 3-4 weeks ago (I think, sorry times a blurr for me right now) was I started using a Rose Water spritz on her tummy and really dry areas where I could get it down to the skin. Now, I make my own for my small little shop that I have but wanted to let all of you know about it as I know that Kai as well as some other NK have problems with really dry skin. My concoction includes rose water, rose essential EO, veggie glycerin and Vit E - it sprays on with a small pump spray. It has helped her tummy flaking immensely and dry skin itching!! She has very little now and when not rolling around outside in our dirt (wish it would snow more) she literally smells like a rose, lol.
Her coat is so lustrous, very comparable to Kunai's now too. They both are thick and fluffy and beautiful... I still need to get more pics up on their threads as Kunai is filling out and Ki's brindle is really showing thru!!
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And I guess I should say that I don't know if Kitora would have shed out better anyway - but it's the only thing "extra" we have been doing for her. In my opinion, it just seems healthier for her. The biggest thing I think that I can say for sure is that the spritz def. helped her dry skin flaking.
Conker gets salmon oil and it helps his coat tremendously, especially now that we are in Alaska and it's cold out.
The rose water bit is interesting. Toki was kind of itchy a while back so wish I had some of that rose water stuff. Thanks for sharing!
My rose spritz I would just put on her whenever I would think about it and then give her a good belly rub to rub it in really well. Her tummy was of course the most notably flaky area.
I keep thinking that we'll actually get some snow that sticks and then I can get really great pics of how good she looks.... grrrr
Oh - also, shampoo's of any kind are really hard when it comes to dry skin.... (I make all natural soaps as a side business) and no matter what kind of cleanser it is, it is extremely hard to not dry out the skin and strip oils....