Flea & Tick Shampoo for Cats
Shampoo · 12 fl ozFlea & tickScored October 2026
- Flags
- 11 caution
- Ingredients
- 3all in our library
- Brand grade
- Btransparency, costs 2 points
- Recalls
- 0linked to this product
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The full methodologyVet's Best
Flea & Tick Shampoo for Cats
Pretty good
Scored October 2026 · checkthepanel.com
1 flagged ingredient.
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Pesticide actives
Printed as actives: clove oil 0.63% and cottonseed oil 0.03%. Labelled for cats. Clove oil is on Pet Poison Helpline's list of essential oils known to poison cats.
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3 ingredients. 2 of them carry this product's flag and are marked below. The other 1 raised no flag.
Checked against the brand's own page on Oct 24, 2026. A package on the shelf can be older or newer than that page; trust the one in your hand.
Recall record.
This product
None linked
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See all pet recallsVet's Best, the brand
No FDA recalls on fileNone of the FDA recall notices we have imported names Vet's Best.
The brand behind it.
Vet's Best
Medicated oatmeal shampoo with named actives and no added synthetic fragrance or dye.
Vet-formulated with a named, fragrance-free botanical panel built around salicylic acid and tea tree oil. The B grade takes 2 points off this product's score.
Vet's Best brand page
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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