The directions say to put “2-3 ounces of micro-tek shampoo in a bucket wash horse as you normally would.”
Do they mean just put 2-3 ounce of shampoo in a bucket?
Dilute shampoo with the amount of water in a bucket?
What size bucket?
I am utterly befuddled.
Whatever should I do?
Why can’t they specify the size of the bucket?
Or perhaps offer a dilution ratio such as 1 part shampoo to 8 parts water?
WTF?
Help!!!
I always just put it directly on the horse, scrub and rinse. Caveat that I may not have actually read the directions 
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I love their products.
If you are using it to treat a particular condition, I wouldn’t dilute it, as Mukluk stated, just use the stuff, and let it work it’s magic.
So to be fair, regular Vetrolin Shampoo says “2-4 ounces of Vetrolin Bath in a pail of water”. So we have upgraded from a bucket to a pail. 
I realize that the MicroTek is a higher quality, higher price product, so more no one wants to waste or use too little so it is ineffective.
I gave my Scruff McGruff a MicroTek bath this weekend. I used a “big, firm squeeze” into a SandClear bucket and filled it to the top with water. I shampooed straight MicroTeck into his mane and tail (the most scruffy). Hope that helps!
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If a product can’t be bothered to give clear instructions that can actually be followed, then I have no obligation to bother with those instructions. Plus I have at least 3 different sizes of bucket in the barn. Whoever wrote those silly instructions needs to come out and point to which bucket I should be using.
Whatever shampoo I use, through trial and error I quickly find the dilution that seems to work best for me and my horse.
If you have the time and patience to do it, it would be a good thing to write or call them and point out the flaw in the instructions, and tell them why accuracy and clarity are important to you. Don’t tell this to whoever answers the phone but to someone in a planning and/or customer relationship role. Sometimes a product company just hasn’t yet cleaned up all of the details, sometimes they are blind to how things come across to customers. Most don’t want to come across to customers as sloppy and not so professional. Some customer feedback may actually point out something that they may actually fix.
You’re over-thinking all this LOL
What do most people use to wash horses with? Usually a 5 gallon bucket, that’s typically always around. Maybe someone does an 8qt bucket for smaller jobs.
You’re not going to kill the horse if you use too much. You might not get as good a cleaning if you use too little.
Applying a glug of shampoo directly to the horse is always more wasteful than making sudsy water and sponging and scrubbing. Direct application may be useful for some really grungy spots.
You can either keep adding shampoo as you work your way around the horse, or add water to the direct-soaped horse to dilute it enough to spread it around in which case you might as well have started with a couple glugs in that 5 gallon bucket.
It’s really not that complicated :lol:
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Totally agree JB!
Do people really measure the number of ounces of shampoo they put in a bucket of water?
I am sort of a mixologist when it comes to what I put in my horse’s bath water. And I can’t remember ever reading the directions on the different things I use. :eek:
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I admit, I have never read the directions on any horse shampoo product.
I have read the label of some conditioner products to see if it is marketed as a leave in conditioner or a rinse out conditioner, but past that… no cleaning product label reading.
Shampoo in the bucket is measured by glugs.
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I love their products and have been known to not follow directions. I love the marigold spray and use it regularly in the winter. Really helps keep the static down to a minimum.
And I wish they still made their blanket wash. It was the best in my opinion. The blankets were clean and actually smelled good, too.
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In my world, all baths are just " a glug of shampoo in the bucket, add water til it seems sudsy enough." This highly technical approach has never yet failed me.
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My 2 cents is that you should check to see if shampoo is listed as a concentrate before applying full strength to the horse. I had a very hard time rinsing when I missed that bit. Any size pail/bucket of dilution would have been helpful
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I put a solid squirt in about a gallon of water to get a nice sudsy mixture. That is usually enough to sponge over and lather the horse, leaving enough to dunk the tail in the bucket afterwards and give it a good wash too.
For a really filthy tail, I’ll put straight shampoo on, but otherwise I never use undiluted shampoo on a horse because it takes too much, and is really hard to rinse off thoroughly.
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I just fill my ezall sprayer with it and let it mix with the water… but in the past I’ve just added enough in the bucket to make plenty of soapy suds. I love the MicroTek products
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How many ounces are in a glug? :winkgrin:
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I’d say a generous 2 ounces. Says the former bartender…
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You’re over-assuming all this, thinking your bubble is everyone’s bubble. :winkgrin:
Everyone I know uses a garden hose, and and just rubs the horse with a wet sponge and a few squirts of whatever shampoo they want to use. They may use 5 gallons of water or more, but buckets aren’t on scene except to carry supplies.
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I recently found an Epona scrubber hand mitt that I forgot I had. I have recently used this with recently purchased Equiderma shampoo and I’ve seen great results. I’m not sure if it is the equiderma or my really getting to the skin with the Epona mitt. I rinse the horse first and then apply the shampoo to the mitt and then to the specific itchy areas of the horse.
Last I checked, “most” != “everyone” 
To be fair, MicroTek is a medicated shampoo, so I can understand why someone would want to clarify directions. I wish all people would make sure they understand the directions before use on anything labeled as “medicine.”
In 20+ years of using MicroTek, I’ve applied it straight to areas with active rain rot/scratches/crud (I think it recommends doing so on the bottle). If I’m bathing the horse head to toe with it, I do the standard “glug” in a 5 gallon bucket.
Me and MicroTek had a good run together. But then Equiderma came along and that was the end of my love affair with MicroTek. :lol:
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Did you find Equiderma shampoo to be more effective than EQyss Micro-tek?
I have some of both. I’m not sure the Equiderma ‘shampoo’ is really a cleansing substance, as it were, it seems to be more of another way to apply lotion.
The Equiderma skin lotion has done wonders for my horse’s itchy areas. It has been a great itch relief as well as healing to the skin.
