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Why groomers like StyptiQ.

  • One ingredient. No proprietary blend nonsense. 100% pharmaceutical-grade potassium alum.
  • No added fragrance. Dogs and cats have sensitive noses. Most commercial styptic powders smell weird.
  • Aluminum tin, not plastic. Doesn't crack at the corner of your grooming station. Doesn't spill on the floor.
  • Same product for everything. Nail quicks, paw nicks, the occasional scissor accident on a foot pad.
  • Bulk pricing for shops. See below.
StyptiQ aluminum tin
Volume pricing

Stock the whole operation.

MSRP $9.89 · wholesale starts at 100 tins. Fleets, schools, and chains: the breaks go deep.

  • 100+ tins$7.99 / tin
  • 500+$7.49 / tin
  • 1,000+$6.99 / tin
  • 2,500+$6.29 / tin
  • 5,000+$5.49 / tin
  • 10,000+$4.99 / tin · private label available
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Single station? The 12-tin Pro Case covers one groomer for months.

Distributor? Want your own label on 10,000+ units? Distributor & private-label program →

Working technique

The groomer's styptic playbook.

Keep the tin clean on a multi-dog day

The habit that separates tidy shops from tins full of crust: don't double-dip. Decant a small amount into a shallow dish or bottle cap at the start of the appointment and work from that, tossing whatever's left with the appointment. A swab that's touched a bleeding nail never goes back in the tin. The powder in your main tin stays dry, clean, and usable to the last pinch — and your sanitation story holds up if a client asks.

When you quick a client's dog

Every working groomer quicks a nail eventually — the difference is what happens next. Treat immediately and calmly, note which nail, and tell the owner at pickup, unprompted: what happened, what you applied, and what they should (and shouldn't) see tonight — a dark crust on the nail tip is normal, fresh dripping or day-two swelling is a call to you or the vet. Owners forgive a quicked nail told straight. They don't forgive finding blood on the dog bed and calling you first. A one-line note on the appointment record closes the loop.

Station and mobile setup

  • One tin per station, parked next to the clippers — the seconds you don't spend hunting a shared tin matter with a bleeding nail and a spinning dog.
  • Mobile rigs: strap the tin down. The aluminum screw-top survives a van better than plastic shakers, but a tin rolling under the seat mid-appointment helps nobody.
  • Restock ahead of it running dry. When a tin is down to the last quarter, that's the reorder signal — see the case pricing above or the wholesale page.
  • Cotton swabs beat fingers for cats and small breeds — precision dosing and no glove change mid-groom.

Why fragrance-free matters in a salon

A grooming floor is already an assault of dryer noise and product smells on animals whose noses run the show. A styptic powder with added fragrance is one more stressor at the exact moment — nail trims — when most dogs are already at their limit. Single-ingredient potassium alum adds nothing to the air, and there's no proprietary blend to explain when a client with an allergy-prone dog asks what's in it. The answer is one word.

New to nail-heavy appointments, or training junior groomers? Our dark-nail trimming guide and quicked-nail first aid page make solid handouts.