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Front of the packageShampoo · 14 fl oz
Hartz Nature's Shield Flea & Tick Dog Shampoo, front of the package
Turn it over: every ingredient is below
HartzBrand transparency C

Nature's Shield Flea & Tick Dog Shampoo

Shampoo · 14 fl ozFlea & tickScored October 2026

Panel Score 87 out of 100, grade B: Good, check the flags
Flags
11 caution
Ingredients
7all in our library
Brand grade
Ctransparency, costs 5 points
Recalls
0linked to this product
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Hartz
Nature's Shield Flea & Tick Dog Shampoo

Starting point96
Brand transparency · C-5
Documented recall · none0
Panel Score87 B

Good, check the flags

Scored October 2026 · checkthepanel.com

Flags-4 points in all

1 flagged ingredient.

Avoid first. Each flag costs points in the score above; where a flag has an entry behind it, it links to the evidence.

Caution-4

Pesticide actives

Printed as actives: sodium lauryl sulfate 5.7%, eugenol 0.8%, cinnamon oil 0.8%, geraniol 0.4%, citronella oil 0.4% and rosemary oil 0.08%. Labelled for dogs. Several essential oils are toxic to cats.

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IngredientsAs published by the brand · 7 lines

Every ingredient, top to bottom.

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7 ingredients. 5 of them carry this product's flag and are marked below. The other 2 raised no flag.

Checked against the brand's own page on Oct 17, 2026. A package on the shelf can be older or newer than that page; trust the one in your hand.

RecallsFrom FDA notices

Recall record.

This product

None linked

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Hartz, the brand

No FDA recalls on file

None of the FDA recall notices we have imported names Hartz.

Brand3 Hartz products scored

The brand behind it.

CTransparency

Hartz

Flea and tick collars, sprays and shampoos. Graded from the 3 products of theirs in this catalogue, not from an audit of the company.

Two of the 3 products we hold name their actives and give the rest as one unnamed share; the minimum-risk shampoo names every ingredient. All three panels were read from label photos on its product pages, which print no ingredient statement in text. The C grade takes 5 points off this product's score.

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Independent testing & contaminants

No independent testing on file.

Third-party lab findings for things that never appear on an ingredient label. This is separate from the score above and does not change it.

We haven't found published third-party lab results (PFAS, heavy metals, phthalates) for this product. That is not a clean bill of health, just an absence of data.

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