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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | This stuff gets good reviews as a fingernail conditioner - even tho it was originally meant for horses hooves! http://www.wintercreekstore.com/shop/pc/viewPrd.asp?idcategory=32&idproduct=179 It's only $3.49 plus postage in the US. I've found it down here, but for $17 plus $17 shipping! If one of the US OFC brethren could buy a tube, get it sent to them, then ship it on to me, I'll transfer your out-of-pocket expenses thru PainPal, plus the PainPal fees. Shouldnt be anywhere near $34... Any takers, please PM me. Cheers and thanks in advance! |
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Location: SoCal | We've used it in the past. It's main ingredient is lanolin. One of the places I order pet meds from sells 32 ounces in a pump container for $7.99 + $5.99 shipping. Winter Creek Store wants $3.49 + $7.23 shipping for a 6 ounce tube? I'll get the stuff for you and send it on. 
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Thanks Bruce. Did you use it on your horses or your fingernails?
If fingernails, did it do what people claim? |
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Location: SoCal | We tried it for a while on the dried-out pads of our dogs' feet. We went back to using petroleum jelly (Vaseline).
Fingernails... you have to grow them strong and keep them from drying out. Read-up on the effects of nutrition and chemical exposure on nails.
What do people claim Hoofmaker does for fingernails?
Active Ingredients: Water, Stearamidopropyl Dimethylamine Lactate, Distearyldimonium Chloride, Cetearyl Alcohol, Polysorbate 60, PEG-150 Stearate, Steareth 20, Cetyl Alcohol, STEARYL alcohol, Glycerine, Coconut Oil, Sodium Chloride, Vegetable Oil, Fragrance, Methylparaben, Propylparaben, DMDM Hydantoin, Phenoxyethanol, Protein, Lanolin, PEG-25 Castor Oil, Allantoin, Isopropyl Alcohol, FD &C Yellow #5, FD & C Yellow #6.
The chemical list looks like the make-up of hand lotion or hair conditioner and it lacks the one ingredient (petrolatum) that they say is the best at keeping in moisture.
Our nails are porous and it seems that applying chemicals just makes them brittle. I've noticed less nail issues now that I wear nitrile gloves when working with chemicals in the shop. I'll always have a weak area on my thumb, as the matrix is permanently damaged.
If you really want the stuff, I'll get it and send it on to you... but first look at all the alcohol that's in there and what ingredient(s) are a benefit to fingernails? |
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Location: New Hartford CT | muzza - plain old lanolin may do the trick; the stuff I use comes in a little metal squeeze tube. A neck carver I worked with used it to help heal up small cuts on the fingers. Getting nicked by a 3" sanding disc spinning at 10K RPM was part of the job. Used with a bandage it can provide instant pain relief (sometimes those little slices hurt and take forever to close up) and faster healing, important if you have a gig coming up. Word of caution, some are allergic to lanolin and unfortunately can't use it.
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Location: SoCal | I'm with Geo. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | My fingernails are a good shape, but they're too thin & flexible and keep splitting.
I was investigating nail hardeners when I came across the hoof stuff.
I eat pretty well and I'm not interested in taking supplements just for my nails.
Do any of you use or recommend a nail hardening product? |
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Location: south east Michigan | 
First designed for cow udders. Works well... and afterward, I feel content. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I tried to harden my hyper flexible nails at one time and the research lead to using Formaldihyde based products.
I gave it up.
Try Nail Polish. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Muzza, no offense, but the rumor is that you could also use some of this
http://www.horsehealthusa.com/details/Bye-Bye-Odor/152-2.html |
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Location: Northwest Arkansas | A LOT of guys in Nashville go to the nail salons and have nylon nails put on. No color and no shine. You can't tell they're fake. I have strong nails. I am a fingerstyle guitar player. That's what I'll do if I ever have to have 'em. I don't know how long they last . But I heard it's a long time. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Perhaps a Cultural exchange is in order... 
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | I tried to grow my nails long one time. Being a lifetime flatpicker, I just couldn't stand the feeling. When I use a finger style technique, which is rare, it is just flesh which creates a very mellow tone. Hats off to those of you who can tolerate long nails! |
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Location: SoCal | "You start off playing guitar to get chicks and you end up talking with middle-aged men about your fingernails." - Ed Gerhard
"I learned to play the guitar because I thought it was a good way to get girls… and now at my shows the first three rows are always nothing but middle aged guys, staring at my hands." – Ed Gerhard |
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Location: Ohio | MWoody - 2012-08-01 9:56 AM
Perhaps a Cultural exchange is in order...
This is made from the waste product associated with brewing beer. I just learned that about a week ago. |
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Location: Massachusetts | aaronharmon - 2012-08-01 3:23 PM
MWoody - 2012-08-01 9:56 AM
Perhaps a Cultural exchange is in order...
This is made from the waste product associated with brewing beer. I just learned that about a week ago.
Be careful with this stuff. I hear that the Pillsbury Doughboy is in the hospital right now with a yeast infection |
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Location: Fort Worth, TX | On another forum I've been on for 8 years I got to know an Australian guy pretty well. He and his wife were coming to the United States for a convention in our industry and he wanted to make a side trip from Vegas to Fort Worth, Texas to meet me personally. We had them stay at our house the weekend and cemented for life what had only been an online friendship before. They brought us a bottle of Vegemite and it was ALL I could do to finish chewing a bite of it on bread and swallow it. Definitely an acquired taste! On a side note... we had plans to go to Australia and stay at his house for a week, but a few months ago he had an accident on his Harley and was killed instantly. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | <p>I use a bit of clear nail polish on the ends of my nails, it provides a little help/strength. My main tips are to have ready access to an emery board so you can file away little chips before they become big splits and train yourself to reach into tight spaces with your fretting hand.<br /><br />Vegemite now comes in new wussy version for those who can't handle the real thing:
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | aaronharmon - 2012-08-02 This is made from the waste product associated with brewing beer. I just learned that about a week ago. Just goes to show that in Australia there is NO waste when making beer. Different in the States. Over there they bottle the waste and slap a Budweiser label on it ;-Q |
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Location: Tennessee | muzza - 2012-08-01 4:38 PM Just goes to show that in Australia there is NO waste when making beer. Different in the States. Over there they bottle the waste and slap a Budweiser label on it ;-Q You are of course not referring to the yeast aspect, but rather the recycled waste that starts developing about 45 minutes following the initial intake. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | You got it in one Bobbo :-) |
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Location: Right now? | DaveKell - 2012-08-01 7:34 PM On another forum I've been on for 8 years I got to know an Australian guy pretty well. He and his wife were coming to the United States for a convention in our industry and he wanted to make a side trip from Vegas to Fort Worth, Texas to meet me personally. We had them stay at our house the weekend and cemented for life what had only been an online friendship before. They brought us a bottle of Vegemite and it was ALL I could do to finish chewing a bite of it on bread and swallow it. Definitely an acquired taste! On a side note... we had plans to go to Australia and stay at his house for a week, but a few months ago he had an accident on his Harley and was killed instantly. So sorry about the death of your friend, Dave. Condolences to you and your family. I laughed out loud at your story of your introduction to Vegemite. 
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | The mistake people make with vegemite is they apply it like peanut butter or jam (jelly). Way too thick.
The trick is to spread it really thin, just enough to make the butter a light brown color.
A small jar of Vegemite should last a LOOOOONG time.
Unless I start spreading it on my fingernails... |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | I bought a jar of vegemite and several packets of Tim Tams to the Smokey's Jam a few years ago. The Vegemite got tasted, but the Tim Tams went like hot cakes. |
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