When it comes to keeping your horse clean, healthy, and comfortable, the products you use make a big difference. If you’re still using conventional horse shampoo from plastic bottles, it might be time to rethink your routine. Switching to a natural horse shampoo in solid bar form offers benefits for your horse, the environment, and your grooming kit. Here are five great reasons to try a horse soap bar today.

1. Gentle on Your Horse’s Skin and Coat

Many liquid horse shampoos contain artificial chemicals, fragrances, and sulfates that can irritate your horse’s skin, especially if they have sensitivities or allergies. In contrast, a natural horse shampoo bar is often made with skin-friendly ingredients like coconut oil, shea butter, and essential oils. These gentle horse soaps cleanse thoroughly without stripping the coat of its natural oils, leaving your horse’s skin healthy and their coat soft and shiny.

Chester & Cooke Luxury Horse soap doesn’t contain nasties such as parabens, SLS, SLES, no artificial surfactants, perfumes or preservatives. Just Coconut oil, water, Lye and dog and horse-friendly essential oils. 

Starting at £6.95 for our 100g bar and £10.95 for our 200g soap on a rope, these are a brilliant way to give your horse or dog a bath. You can purchase them HERE

2. Eco-Friendly and Plastic-Free Grooming

Switching to a solid horse shampoo bar is an easy way to reduce plastic waste around the stable. Unlike traditional horse shampoos packaged in bulky plastic bottles, bar horse soaps usually come in recyclable or compostable packaging. Natural ingredients are also safer for the environment when rinsed away, making your grooming routine more sustainable.

3. Cost-Effective and Long-Lasting yet Luxury

A high-quality natural horse shampoo bar is concentrated and water-free, meaning it lasts far longer than liquid alternatives. Just a few swipes of the horse soap bar can produce plenty of lather to clean even the muddiest coats. Because it doesn’t contain water or filler ingredients, one bar often outlasts several bottles of traditional horse shampoo, saving you money over time.

Our Chester & Cooke Solid bar Horse & dog soap are only made from the highest quality plant ingredients and the essential oils are a real luxury treatment. It really is like a Dog or Horse spa treatment using this soap, use a sisal wash mitt to massage it in and they will be in dog or horse heaven. (yes our solid shampoo bars can also be used on your dog too. Also, the fact it is handmade means that every care and detail has gone into making it a luxury product for your horse or dog and let’s face it they are worth it.

With 3 scents available your horse or dog will love their bath times – Purchase your Soap HERE 

4. Horse Shampoo bars are Travel-Friendly and Easy to Use

Whether you’re grooming at home, at a show, or on the trail, a solid horse shampoo bar is incredibly convenient. It’s compact, lightweight, and leak-proof—no more mess in your tack box! Simply wet the bar, rub it directly onto your horse’s coat or a sponge, lather up, and rinse clean. It’s that easy, and the results speak for themselves.

At Chester & Cooke our 200g soaps all come on a rope this is highly recommended for horses for a few different reasons, 1. While you are scrubbing away, soap can be slippery and you could be always picking it up off the floor. Not great if like me you get on a step to wash your horse!! Simply slip the rope around your wrist and your job will be so much easier. 2. When you have finished washing your horse and dog you need to hang it up to dry. So it is perfect for this.For our smaller soaps please use a soap dish. 

5. Naturally Nourishing for a Healthy Coat

Natural ingredients mean better results. With a natural horse shampoo, you’re avoiding synthetic chemicals that can dry out or irritate your horse’s skin. Instead, your horse benefits from nourishing oils, herbs, and essential nutrients. The result? A glossy, flake-free coat and a horse that looks and feels their best—naturally. Coconut oil is well known for it’s natural anti-fungal and anti-inflammatory properties. It contains Vitamin E and is an excellent moisturiser. All our Solid bar Horse & dog soaps contain free-floating coconut oil within each bar, just enough to moisturise the skin without weighing down the coat.

Make the Switch to Natural Horse Shampoo Today

If you’re looking for a more natural, effective, and eco-friendly way to keep your horse clean, a solid horse soap bar is the perfect solution. Ditch the plastic, skip the chemicals, and treat your horse to the gentle power of natural horse shampoo. Buy your Chester & Cooke horse shampoo bars HERE

You May like to buy it as a gift and combine it with a stable name plaque. For a nice saving.

Ready to upgrade your grooming routine? Try a natural horse shampoo bar and feel the difference—your horse will thank you!  You can shop our equestrian range HERE 

or shop all of our product ranges for your Home, Garden, Horse & Dog HERE. 

Thanks for reading

Liz