A dog's nose is between 10 000 and 100 000 times more powerful than human noses, and the part of a dog's brain that is devoted to analyzing smells is about 40 times larger than ours. This makes picking fragrances for dog shampoo an important task!
You wouldn’t really go with a dog shampoo smelling of fox poo, even if your dog might actually prefer it.. But while we at Masimalo cater to human taste when it comes to our shampoo scents, we consider dogs’ preferences too. Here’s what we consider when it comes to the scents of our dog shampoo and fur oil.
It’s important that the smell is not too strong and stays too long, your dog will want to keep their own familiar scent as well. Therefore our shampoo scents don’t linger too long but just stay as a fresh and clean hint of citrus or green tea.
We select scents that dogs enjoy such as smells from the forest and natural scents that they would be intuitively interested in and that are sometimes used in nosework training..
Recent studies have shown that dogs are drawn to the flowery scents of rose and lavender, some of the natural ingredients used in our fur oil that also humans find pleasing. The scent of lavender also has a calming and soothing effect on dogs and is used in our Lavender Field shampoo bar.