RioMarziliano
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Do any of you condition your tortoises shell. If so what do you do. I see this shell conditioner at the store but wasnt planning on buying it. Do tortoises even need their shells conditioned?
Yes...I love conditioning my skin with nice oils mixed with herbs now and then. After a shower even better. If I'm all dried out it helps. Have I turned into a tortoise?I don't think tortoises necessarily need shell conditioners, but it does make them look nice, and maybe in extreme cases of dessication....
Anyway, I make some in my home-kitchen from coconut oil, almond oil, olive oil, and a dash of tea-tree oil; if nothing else, discussing it is a good canary in a coal mine for rooting out old-school dogmatic tortoise keepers who will yell at you about suffocating their carapaces.
Jamie
Even as a manly man I do enjoy facial Fridays-basic cleaning, organic sugar scrub, mud mask, and a collagen cream. Keeps my mug only moderately ugly!Yes...I love conditioning my skin with nice oils mixed with herbs now and then. After a shower even better. If I'm all dried out it helps. Have I turned into a tortoise?
Same here.Even as a manly man I do enjoy facial Fridays-basic cleaning, organic sugar scrub, mud mask, and a collagen cream. Keeps my mug only moderately ugly!
I do but really lightly. I like jshefields formula. After a shower then buff him up. I think they need it now and then. So they don't get dessicated. But also not too soft.Do any of you condition your tortoises shell. If so what do you do. I see this shell conditioner at the store but wasnt planning on buying it. Do tortoises even need their shells conditioned?
I have a colleague who, I swear, looks like he washes his face with a pork chop. I'm gonna offer your recipe to him.Even as a manly man I do enjoy facial Fridays-basic cleaning, organic sugar scrub, mud mask, and a collagen cream. Keeps my mug only moderately ugly!
Yes. Even with human skin all you are really doing with lotions is holding in some water. They sell lotions with aloe vera but aloe vera is an herb that will sink the other ingredients into your skin. So...Every once in awhile I’ll rub some organic cold pressed coconut oil on our Sully’s shell. Let it soak in a bit, then wipe off with a good clean towel. Applying lotions to tort shells prob does more good for the keeper, than the tort. Routine soaking is probably better.
I especially have been thinking about the tea tree oil as probably really a good addition. It repels mites.I don't think tortoises necessarily need shell conditioners, but it does make them look nice, and maybe in extreme cases of dessication....
Anyway, I make some in my home-kitchen from coconut oil, almond oil, olive oil, and a dash of tea-tree oil; if nothing else, discussing it is a good canary in a coal mine for rooting out old-school dogmatic tortoise keepers who will yell at you about suffocating their carapaces.
Jamie