Front of the packageShampoo · 16 oz bottle

Vet's Best Oatmeal Medicated Shampoo, front of the package

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Vet's BestBrand transparency B

Oatmeal Medicated Shampoo

Shampoo · 16 oz bottleGroomingScored October 2026

Flags: 11 caution
Ingredients: 8all in our library
Brand grade: Btransparency, costs 2 points
Recalls: 0linked to this product

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Why 9096 to start

It adds up, line by line.

Every product starts at 96. Flags, the brand's transparency grade and any recall linked to this product take points away. Nothing else moves the number, and no brand can pay to move it.

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Vet's Best
Oatmeal Medicated Shampoo

Starting point96

Brand transparency · B-2

Documented recall · none0

Panel Score90 A

Pretty good

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

Tea tree oil

Tolerated diluted, a documented poisoning risk concentrated; cats are markedly more sensitive.

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IngredientsAs published by the brand · 8 lines

Every ingredient, top to bottom.

Listed as printed on the package. Tap any line to see what it is and why it's there.

8 ingredients. 1 of them carries this product's flag and is marked below. The other 7 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.

RecallsFrom FDA notices

Recall record.

This product

None linked

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Vet's Best, the brand

No FDA recalls on file

None of the FDA recall notices we have imported names Vet's Best.

Brand9 Vet's Best products scored

The brand behind it.

BTransparency

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.

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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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This page was corrected once.

Oct 24, 2026 Panel Score 94 → 90: added a caution for Tea tree oil. The panel lists “Tea tree (Melaleuca alternifolia) leaf oil”, and the record was not carrying the flag. Vet's Best's product page, checked on October 24, 2026, prints the same ingredient list.

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