So, cut to the chase...

Are any ingredients in these products derived from horse carcasses? Or, is the English name just a poorly translated Chinese fanciful marketing thing that somehow appeals to its home target market? Could it have been just as legitimately translated to something like "Shining Filly" or "Sleek Pony?"

@1-The characters on the bottle literally translate as "Horse Oil."

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I use shower soap that's made from sheep fat and my shaving soap has beef tallow in it.

@3 you win the internets today.

I have no idea if this stuff actually contains non vegan ingredients but most of the name brand soaps do. For shampoo and shower I use Dr. Bronner's peppermint liquid Castile soap, also available in a range of other scents. Kirk's bar soap is supposed to be vegan and it's strongly surfactant for dirty hands, also cheap at slightly over a dollar a bar at most stores. Dollar stores often have glycerin soap that claims to be vegetarian, and of course the expensive stores are well stocked with hundreds of animal friendly vegan products. Read the labels and look up ingredients you don't know.

@2 Yes, but...

I'm seeing this as a knock off of "Tail & Mane" shampoo, a supposed veterinary care item that some cowgirl tried on her hair once and next they marketed it to people. So, it's more likely implied for horses than from horses.

For example, sewing machine oil is not made from sewing machines.

And for some god-forsaken reason, Chinese manufacturers seem religiously opposed to ever hiring a native English speaker to translate stuff for their export market. So, "oil," which was probably intended to convey conditioning or shininess, becomes "fat," because... it was the first word in some cheap Chinese-English dictionary entry.

@7 Ah, perhaps I should have said "translate literally" as opposed to "literally translate." Wasn't implying any knowledge of the ingredients- the first time I saw it I considered that meaning as well. (Oil FOR horses, not OF horses). Without seeing the other side can't really say. It is Japanese, not Chinese btw (but what you say about lack of translation oversight is equally applicable).

Daiso is a Japanese company that can't be bothered to alter the stock for the American market. (Why else would the Daiso shops in America insist on carrying so many mini disc storage boxes?) And there are parts of Japan where eating horse and rubbing horse oil on your person are considered a regional delicacy, or at least a tourist attraction. This is a country that puts placenta in everything, feeds whale to school children, and has zero issue watching a carved up fish carcass gasp for oxygen while noshing on its flesh. You think they'd be too sqeaked out to put horse oil in shampoo? As far as Japan is concerned the only thing surprising about your horse fat shampoo is that you got it for such a great price.