Commodity Chemicals for Taxidermy & Trophy in Namibia

More than anyone budgets: fleshing and degreasing across a season’s zebra, warthog and eland capes consumes 25 kg bags monthly at a mid-sized Windhoek studio — the catalogue’s note that taxidermists use it "to get the fat off from the skin" understates the tonnage. Trade accounts stock ahead of the February season-open rather than chasing bags in July.

Flesh promptly, salt heavily with fine salt into every fold and face detail, drain and re-salt within twenty-four hours, shade and airflow always — in Namibian heat, bacterial slip starts in hours and no studio chemistry recovers slipped hair. Studios that laminate this protocol for their farm suppliers receive capes worth mounting; the rest receive apologies.

In the traditional pickle-and-tan sequence many Namibian operations still run: alum stabilises and tightens skins post-pickle, particularly for dip-and-pack work headed to overseas finishing. It is unforgiving of pH drift — keep the bath tested (strips from our lab shelf) — and document the treatment for the veterinary export file.

Documented, consistent treatment: the dip-and-pack certificate attests specific chemical processes, so the products behind it need consistency (same spec every bag) and paper (SDS, our invoices as treatment-supply records). Export rejections are certificate problems long before they are chemistry problems — keep both files aligned.