Cats spend a lot of time every day licking and cleaning their coats. But cats have a lot of barbs on their tongues, so it is easy to accidentally swallow some of the shed coat into the abdomen while cleaning. In the long run, it is easy to form hair balls, and hair removal cream can better improve this problem.
Does the hair removal cream really melt the hair in the stomach?
The essence of hair removal cream is not really “hair removal”, but the blocked hair balls are excreted through the feces through oily lubrication. Correctly speaking, hair removal cream should be called intestinal lubrication agent.
But many cat owners don’t know how to choose a safe and effective hair removal cream.
The main ingredient of hair removal cream is oil, which is no more than mineral oil. However, frequent use of hair removal cream containing mineral oil may cause the lack of vitamin A in cats. It can cause great harm, and some cats will also vomit. Therefore, parents still have to pay attention to the ingredients of the hair cream. There are many better hair removal creams on the market that do not contain mineral oil, and contain maltose and natural active ingredients, as well as natural cellulose and other ingredients to prevent hair from accumulating into hairballs in food and promote intestinal peristalsis.
It is not recommended to eat hair cream if the cat is too young. Healthy cats can use it when they shed a lot of hair, long-haired cats can be used once or twice a week, and short-haired cats can be used once or twice a week. When using it, squeeze it out and put it on the cat’s nose or front paws, or rub it on the teeth, and the cat will lick it off naturally. Adult cats are given about 3 cm each time, and kittens can use half of it.
However, cats are natural gourmets, some cats like to eat hair cream, and some cats don’t. The easiest way to do this is to have some cat grass
at home that the cat will graze on to help vomit the hairballs out.
In addition, you can also let cats eat cat food with hairball control formula, which can control the formation of hairballs in the cat’s body.
