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What products are made from horses?

Asked Nov 17, 2007, 07:42 PM — 10 Answers
Example like is lipstick and soap really made from horses? If so are there anymore or weird things made from animals like also is perfume made from an oxens sweat?

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Nov 17, 2007, 07:51 PM
What an interesting question...

I am interested in this as well....

I've heard that there was whale's blubber in perfume, but I kind of chalked that up to ignorance of the person that told it to me..
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Nov 17, 2007, 07:57 PM


Premarin (estrogen for HRT) is made from pregnant mares' urine. Because of the outcry of animal rights people against the fact that the horses were forced to remain constantly in one place as their urine was tapped and because their foals were usually euthanized, this may have changed somewhat. I think there has been a synthetic substitute mentioned, and foals are now rescued and adopted out.

Many mustangs are rounded up in the Southwest desert and, along with unwanted old or feeble tame horses, are slaughtered and the meat sold to Europeans for food. The last slaughterhouse in the U.S. Recently closed, so now horses are transported to Mexico and Canada for slaughter.
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Nov 17, 2007, 07:58 PM
What is Premarin?
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Nov 17, 2007, 08:09 PM


Premarin is estrogen that can be prescribed for any female who needs more in her system because of a hysterectomy, menopause, etc. That's why PREGNANT mares are used (PREgnant MARes' urINe), because estrogen increases during pregnancy.
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Nov 22, 2007, 02:38 PM
You have to specify what time frame you are looking at. We do a lot of things chemically now that used to be done with animal parts. Rennet (used to coagulate cheese) was made from calf stomach, glue from horses, gelatin from horses and cows, brushes and rope from horse hair (as are violin bows), etc. As to the perfume, you are probably thinking of ambergris, sometimes found in sperm whales. The musk used in perfumes originally came from musk deer.
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Nov 22, 2007, 02:42 PM
Wow!
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Nov 22, 2007, 03:19 PM
The Tail Hair Of A Horse Is Used To Make A Violin Bow. I Didn't Know If You Knew But Yeah..
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Nov 22, 2007, 03:23 PM
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The Tail Hair Of A Horse Is Used To Make A Violin Bow. I Didn't Know If You Knew But Yeah..

Yes we did know...it was listed above

.deleted comments that did not need to be made ( perhaps thanking a poster instead of complaining will make others feel better, FC
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Nov 22, 2007, 03:32 PM
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Originally Posted by ChihuahuaMomma
What an interesting question...

I am interested in this as well....

I've heard that there was whale's blubber in perfume, but I kind of chalked that up to ignorance of the person that told it to me..
They were close.
It's really Ambergris
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