SmartNaturals™: Gentle, Botanical Care for Everyday Horse Health
When it comes to caring for our horses, sometimes the simplest solutions are the ones we reach for most often.
Whether it's a mysterious rub that appears overnight, a muddy pastern that needs a little extra attention, summer bugs that seem determined to find every sensitive spot, or muscles that could use some post-ride TLC, there's always small day-to-day health changes and challenges to manage with our horses.
Our SmartNaturals™ line was built around thoughtfully selected botanicals and gentle ingredients, offering a collection of skin, coat, and wellness solutions that make for easy staples in almost any grooming tote, feed room, or tack trunk. Keep reading to learn about the 5 categories of support you can get from SmartNaturals.
Why Botanical-Based Care?
Many of us owners and riders like to try and keep certain aspects of our horse's care routine as simple as possible. That includes feeding supplements, tack and gear, and even (or especially) wellness care. Botanical products have been used for generations to help support healthy skin, maintain coat condition, and provide comfort through changing seasons and environments with simple, straightforward ingredients.
Rather than relying on harsh chemicals, the SmartNaturals line combines ingredients like chamomile, calendula, tea tree oil, aloe vera, lavender, beeswax, citronella, olive leaf, and eucalyptus into targeted formulas designed for everyday use. The full collection of products work with your horse's natural skin and coat health while remaining gentle enough for regular use.
1. The Leave It Be™ Collection: Everyday Skin Support
For horses who need routine skin and coat maintenance, the Leave It Be collection offers a complete approach. Available as a shampoo, spray, and salve, these formulas feature ingredients such as chamomile, calendula, chickweed, and thyme to help support a normal skin microflora while promoting a soft, healthy-looking coat.
The shampoo is ideal for bath day, while the spray makes it easy to freshen up hard-to-reach areas between washes. For more targeted applications, the salve provides long-lasting coverage thanks to its beeswax-based formula.
We like to think of the Leave It Be products as our go-to option for horses who benefit from consistent skin support as part of their everyday grooming routine.
2. The Tea Tree Collection: Ideal for Wet, Humid Conditions
Some horses seem to thrive no matter the weather (if you have one of those, thank your lucky stars for us!). For the more sensitive ones or the ones that need a little extra support when conditions become damp, muddy, or humid, that's where our Tea Tree collection shines.
Featuring tea tree oil, eucalyptus oil, Oregon grape root, and other botanical ingredients, these products were designed specifically with challenging environmental conditions in mind. We have this available as a shampoo, spray, and salve, to suit your needs at any point in your grooming routine. The SmartNaturals Tea Tree collection supports healthy skin and coat condition while providing options for bath day, daily maintenance, and targeted application.
For horse owners battling rainy seasons, muddy paddocks, or humid summers, we highly recommend these products as year-round staples to keep in your tack trunk and trailer.
3. Summer Solutions: Keeping Horses Comfortable
Ask any horse owner what summer brings, and "flies" will probably be near the top of the list, so you know it's at the top of ours, too. SmartNaturals offers two complementary options to help support horses during fly season:
Pure & Simple Plus Summer Spray
The Pure & Simple Plus Summer Spray combines citronella oil, geranium oil, apple cider vinegar, wormwood, and other botanicals into a daily-use formula designed to support your horse's comfort during the warmer months. It's a popular choice for horse owners looking for a botanical-based alternative for everyday summer use.
No Fly Zone Salve
When sensitive areas need a little extra attention, No Fly Zone Salve provides long-lasting weather-proof coverage for our horse's faces, ears, and other areas where summer irritants tend to concentrate. We find it particularly useful around eyes, ears, and other delicate areas where sprays can be difficult to apply. (The spray-your-hand-first method works great, but this version is much less sticky!)
4. Skin Rescue: A Barn Staple for Sensitive Skin
Every horse owner seems to have that one product that lives permanently in the grooming tote "just in case." For us, that's Skin Rescue Sensitive Skin Salve.
Made with olive leaf, lavender flower, comfrey leaf, and unrefined beeswax, this gentle formula was designed specifically for horses with sensitive skin. The waterproof barrier helps provide lasting coverage while supporting healthy skin and hair growth.
We're frequently reaching for this one to help support areas affected by minor scrapes, rubs, seasonal irritation, or everyday skin challenges.
5. Don't Forget Muscle Care
While much of the SmartNaturals line focuses on skin and coat support, the collection also includes a favorite for post-workout care.
Cool Muscle Liniment combines aloe vera juice, arnica, chamomile, and rosemary into a refreshing formula designed to help support muscles after exercise. Because it dries clear and is gentle on skin and coat, it's easy to incorporate into everyday riding routines, whether after schooling rides, competitions, or conditioning work.
Simple Solutions for Everyday Horse Care
One of the things we love most about SmartNaturals is that the products are designed to fit naturally into the routines we as horse owners, riders, and lovers already have down. Whether it's bath day, grooming before a ride, pre-turnout fly guard, or traveling, SmartNaturals are everyday necessities for horse ownership.
By combining practical applications with thoughtfully selected botanical ingredients, we hope that SmartNaturals provides our fellow horse owners with simple tools to help support their horses through all the little challenges that come with barn life, too.