The dreaded orange beard

The Miniature Schnauzer is a smallest dog in the Schnauzer breed and originated in the mid-to-late 19th Century from Germany. The Miniature Schnauzer is a cross between the Standard Schnauzer and other smaller breeds such as the Poodle. A miniature Schnauzer is a spunky, but aloof dog who does things their own way. They tend to be good guard dogs without the tendency to bite.
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Buttermilk powder works wonders on saliva staining. Just put about a tablespoon on their food once a day and it helps to correct the dogs pH level. It takes a little while to notice a difference but it does help. I have had great success with my grooming clients who have this problem.
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I gave always fed Dorothy on a mix of various fresh home cooked meats and RC mini shchnauzer dry, which to be honest she has flourished on, but been reading more and more about Lilly's kitchen dry I have decided to perhaps change to that. Just hoping that her beard doesn't go orange!
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Shantyll wrote:Buttermilk powder works wonders on saliva staining. Just put about a tablespoon on their food once a day and it helps to correct the dogs pH level. It takes a little while to notice a difference but it does help. I have had great success with my grooming clients who have this problem.
Are you in US? I ask I've not seen consumable buttermilk power for sale so had a look on ebay. It was all for sale in US, only for use in cosmetics in UK :))
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Dawnspell wrote:Are you in US? I ask I've not seen consumable buttermilk power for sale so had a look on ebay. It was all for sale in US, only for use in cosmetics in UK :))
Good heavens, Dorothy is already such a precious one I am not going down the bloody foundation route, it's bad enough getting my own without her getting in on it
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You can get buttermilk powder on amazon

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Now-Foods-Butte ... ilk+powder" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

If it doesn't work, you can make pancakes with it.
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I have stopped using the medicated shampoo as it was making Roxy's chin itch. I still wash her beard every 3 or 4 days but with mild baby shampoo as before. I will go back to coconut oil as a conditioner as she loves it as the strawberry leave in conditioner makes her turn her head away. I use that on her legs now. I am increasing the amount of apple cider vinegar temporarily in her water as I think it is helping and I want to test it more.

last time I washed her I tried soaking her beard in olive oil mixed with lemon juice as a prewash. She liked the taste and I got some red staining off naturally on to a paper towel.

She is less pink burgundy and more gingery orange now. We went to Weston-Super-Mare for a blustery play on Saturday so there is some sand blended in on this picture.

Maybe I should wash her every day to get it whiter. I don't want to use chemicals around her mouth any more so if the natural ways don't work I will accept her as she is as it clearly doesn't bother her.
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Does the buttermilk raise or lower the pH values? I'm always trying to raise Lottie's, it needs to be about 7 to 7.5. A whiter beard would be an added bonus.
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Buttermilk is alkaline - as is Apple cider vinegar (I believe!)

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Nika C wrote:Buttermilk is alkaline - as is Apple cider vinegar (I believe!)

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I would have thought apple cider vinegar would be acidic which would be below ph 7. I do have ph papers will test later for definitive answer.
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I thought that too but on a chart I still have from school gave it as alkaline

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Nika C wrote:I thought that too but on a chart I still have from school gave it as alkaline

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Charts from school :-B :))
In the interest of science I have just tested Organic Apple cider vinegar made from apples produced in a local orchard and it tested as pH 2-3
so very acidic.
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See, schools are useless, no one should go ;-)

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Just need buttermilk power now to test that :))
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:-B :-B how cool that you just happen to have pH papers. Loving the now geeky approach to the beard problem.
My money is on buttermilk being alkaline? :D
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Yes I was a chemistry nerd! And my mother never threw a single school book away!
I did think it sounded wrong but I had no reason to distrust the books heehee
And now I don't even look like a clever nerd :-/

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