M-T-G for People!

[Druid Acres]

Shapley's is now making a form of M-T-G for people (http://suluhair.com/?), complete with a "human-friendly scent." Hmmm, I thought people wanted to smell like bacon. :winkgrin:

Now, if I could just figure a way to secure that tail bag onto my head ...

[Irish Ei's]

Mane and Tail is still my fave.....

[theoldgreymare]

I am probably the only person in the world who is not impressed with MTG. It did not do anything other than make our horses smell like a rancid Waffle House.

[deltawave]

TOGM, nope, you're not. I think it's vile and virtually useless, except as foal repellent--was the only thing that kept my colt from chewing his mama's tail. ;)

[spirithorse22]

I am probably the only person in the world who is not impressed with MTG. It did not do anything other than make our horses smell like a rancid Waffle House.

Really? Its the miracle product back home in Fl. It cures the gross funk my horses used to get on their canons/above hocks, etc. Got rid of rainrot in a couple days, made their tails/manes fuller and shinier, it even killed the weird fungus my employer's horses got from the HITS show ground.

I loff MTG and am sad, sad, sad nobody seems to carry it around here. :cry:

Plus, I guess I'm weird b/c the smell doesn't bother me at all. I use it bare handed and sometimes forget to wash them afterwards...I hardly notice it any more!

[talkofthetown]

Addressing the needs of ethnic hair care

No offense meant, but is it only for black hair?

[Druid Acres]

No offense meant, but is it only for black hair?

That appears to be their target audience, but I think anybody is welcome to use it. Original MTG apparently already had a following in the ethnic community, so they're probably hoping for even more interest with the new, improved version.

[eclipse]

So, if all you guys think MTG smells like bacon.......what kind of bacon are ya'll eating? I always thought it smelt like campfire! :lol:

[Tiger Horse]

on my current mare - she has really sensitive skin and it bothers her. Used successfully in the past on other horses though and has a big "following" in our barn . . .

[smay]

...SPILLED into the campfire! haha Pretty bad smelling. But I find it works very well for any kind of scurfy skin crud on cannon bones, fetlocks, dock of tail and crest of mane. That's about it.

[Coreene]

Spirithorse, if you squirt baby oil on the front of the cannons and on the gunk above the hocks, leave it on for about five minutes and wash well, all the gunk will come off. It is the oil in the MTG that loosens it, not the sulphur.

Another good one for rainrot is Avon's Skin So Soft bath oil.

And the VERY BEST THING OF ALL, if you ever go to Mexico, is Gelmicin, whch is a combination of clotrimazole and an antibiotic. Gets rid of scratches and rainrot in two days. A tube is about $4. A friend is going to her house there today for the long weekend, and I sent her with $40 so that I could stock up for a long, long time.

[talkofthetown]

It TOTALLY smells like bacon!! :lol:It also smells like you dropped the eggs next to the campfire, and they rotted overnight:dead:

I love MTG, it's worked great on everything I've used it for.

[angtomczak]

I was literally just about to post this exact topic!!!! :D

I was price shopping for MTG and stumbled upon all these forums where women were talking about using this on their hair; complete with pictures showing growth.

I cut all my hair off this summer, and am dying for it to grow back.

Is there any reason why it would make ethnic hair grow back any different than a white persons' hair? I have heard of stories where MTG made the horses hair fall out, so I'm worried that might happen to me....

Would YOU try it?

[tikihorse2]

I'm sitting here laughing at this thread. So many funny things!

"Foal repellent"! I have a friend who calls her BC pills "baby repellent", so that I was like Where's The Fruitbat till I read the whole post! And then no, I don't want to smell like bacon and wake up in the middle of the night with the cats licking my head--they already lick my arms and hands and bite my feet if they think I'm not getting up fast enough! :lol: :lol: :lol:

Angela: On a serious note, there's no reason that the "human-friendly" form of MTG would work any differently on white people's hair than on black people's. The major difference is that black people tend to have drier hair/scalp than white people, so they use heavier treatments. If you're caucasian, you might find the "human" MTG a bit greasy.

Kim

[angtomczak]

Angela: On a serious note, there's no reason that the "human-friendly" form of MTG would work any differently on white people's hair than on black people's. The major difference is that black people tend to have drier hair/scalp than white people, so they use heavier treatments. If you're caucasian, you might find the "human" MTG a bit greasy.

Kim

dang... I really wish one day I would stumble upon a magic cure for something.... ;) Back to the drawing board....

[ThoroughbredFancy]

It smells like bacon grease that's for sure.

However, it did help out my TB's poor whisp of a tail. He has a nice full long tail now. It also helped his mane thicken and grow nicely since part of it was rubbed when I got him.

Also helped another rub on his side and a fungus on his hind legs. I kept using other products for the fungus and gave up and tried my MTG and it was gone in like...2 days.

I don't like the smell but it seems to have worked.

[deltawave]

wake up in the middle of the night with the cats licking my head

:lol:

[Chief2]

I can't stand the stuff. However, it was originally developed for the African-American hair care market. The equine application took off after that. I am a bit of a purist when it comes to dowsing my hair in anything. The first ingredient in MTG is petroleum distillates, so if you don't mind using that sort of thing on your hair, have at it! :)

[Ready2Ride]

I wonder if MTG really has bacon grease in it because one of my mares had a big mark on her nose where the hair was scraped off when I got her, I was told to rub bacon grease on it after asking how to get the hair to grow back. I had her a couple months and tried everything with no luck, I was thinking it was permanent. I did the bacon grease a few times and voila- hair grew back, you would never know her face had looked the way it did!

[deltawave]

The similarity to bacon grease is because of the sulfurous smell. Both bacon and MTG have sulfur/sulfite compounds as part of their particular nature. Sulfur-containing compounds are reputedly good for various hair/skin conditions, ergo MTG's shtick and also, more than likely, the use of bacon grease.

[spirithorse22]

Spirithorse, if you squirt baby oil on the front of the cannons and on the gunk above the hocks, leave it on for about five minutes and wash well, all the gunk will come off. It is the oil in the MTG that loosens it, not the sulphur.

Another good one for rainrot is Avon's Skin So Soft bath oil.

Yep, I use baby oil too. I use it every other day and rotate w/ MTG. I personally just really don't mind the smell of MTG. I use both pretty religiously and my horses are usually considered some of the best groomed/glossiest in the barn. So, I'll stick with them! I like the oil of MTG b/c its so thick and creamy, it really gets into the tail hairs and the roots of the mane. I massage it in after baths and then once every two weeks. Use the baby oil mixed with Avon skin so soft and water in a fly spray bottle for the coat and every day grooming.

Yes, I'm a grooming fanatic. lol

[FancyFree]

Use the baby oil mixed with Avon skin so soft and water in a fly spray bottle for the coat and every day grooming.

How does that work out? It doesn't end up gunky? I'm a grooming obsessive too, so any tips are most appreciated.

MTG stinks so bad, I could vomit from the smell, but it works so well! My horse had some kind of fungus and rubbed her tail out. I used the stinky stuff for about two weeks and it totally cleared up. My eyes may be deceiving me, but it looks thicker too.

I was researching MTG and landed on an African-American hair forum. They swear by the horse products. It supposedly made a lot of posters' hair grow at a rapid rate. I'd like my hair to grow faster too, but couldn't put that stuff on my head for anything!

[spirithorse22]

How does that work out? It doesn't end up gunky? I'm a grooming obsessive too, so any tips are most appreciated.

MTG stinks so bad, I could vomit from the smell, but it works so well! My horse had some kind of fungus and rubbed her tail out. I used the stinky stuff for about two weeks and it totally cleared up. My eyes may be deceiving me, but it looks thicker too.

I was researching MTG and landed on an African-American hair forum. They swear by the horse products. It supposedly made a lot of posters' hair grow at a rapid rate. I'd like my hair to grow faster too, but couldn't put that stuff on my head for anything!

I forgot something else, lol. I put a couple cap fulls of: avon skin so soft, vitrolin shine, baby oil and then 3/4 of the rest is water. Shake it very, very thoroughly before spraying it. I spritz it across the coat at the very end of the grooming session (as in, done riding, horse is being put up/out for the day), and spritz lightly! Then I take either a baby soft face brush or a chamois type cloth and rub it into the coat as well as possible. They gleam and glimmer. I went to work for a lady in Ocala whose major complaint when I started was 'these are show horses and they're so dull! Can you do anything about that?'. I spent twenty five to thirty minutes on each horse for six days (two days they were left alone without any product touching them) when they were going to be put up, curried w/ two different curries, stiff brush (flicking HARD!), firm brush, soft brush, spritz w/ my weird mix of stuff, rub into the coat, finish w/ a light scrim sheet.

Two months = she walked up to me, pointed to a horse and said, "They look like mirrors. My horses have never looked better!" :yes: I loff grooming. :lol: Give me a line of horses to work through and a radio set for hard rock or country and I'm a happy girl, MTG smell or not. :winkgrin:

Hope that helps! It works wonders w/ a lot of elbow grease and consistency. :yes:

[lauriep]

Smells like tar to me.

I use it on rainrot and to grow tails. ALL of our babies (yearlings and 2 y.o.) have tails much longer than they should have for their ages. Love the stuff. I apply it to the tails maybe 2-3 times over the winter and voila! Great tails in the spring!

[Luckydonkey]

I just recently tried some- and i think i can see a visible differnce in the appearance of my horses tail... It does appear thicker an healthier than it looked before....

[FancyFree]

Thanks for the recipe spirithorse. I will try it.

[suz]

spirithorse22------let me know when you are headed to vermont!!! my wooly mammoths sure could use your attention---and i've got tons of great music for you to work with!

[spirithorse22]

spirithorse22------let me know when you are headed to vermont!!! my wooly mammoths sure could use your attention---and i've got tons of great music for you to work with!

Well, I've always wanted to see Vermont! ;) As for the music, bring it on! Have you heard Shinedown's new CD? I'm in heaven listening to that man's voice. :)

No problem, FancyFree. Hope it works for you!

[lauriep]

We never use any "product" on our horses as part of their grooming, except in tails, and our horses look like mirrors. A good feeding program, plus lots of elbow grease, is the key in our barn, not spray on shine. I am completely against using "stuff" that eventually attracts and holds dust. Don't shortcut.

[Jumphigh83]

Whomever said they would "never" use petroleum products on themselves...baby oil is NOT made from babies...yeah...petroleum..vaseline...uh huh....I like using MTG on legs and bellies when going out hunting it does wonders preventing crud as well as curing it!

[Come Shine]

Can you use the non-smelly stuff on horses, too? Or is it just for people?

Even though I use gloves and wash my hands a ton after, I swear you can still smell it the next day. Blech!