Working shampoo through a wriggling dog with wet hands is harder than it should be, so a sponge that already carries the shampoo in it is really solving a grip problem as much as a cleaning one — one hand holds the dog, the other does the actual washing.

Petkin's bath sponges are sold five to a pack, pre-loaded with shampoo. Beyond the count, the makers have not given us the shampoo's ingredients, scent, or how many washes one sponge is good for, so we can't say more than the format itself.

• Shampoo-infused sponge
• 5 sponges per pack
• For dogs and cats
• Sponge format rather than a poured liquid shampoo

What's not on the card. No ingredient list, scent or wash-count per sponge has been supplied, so we can't tell you what's actually in the shampoo or how far one sponge goes — useful to know before assuming five sponges means five full baths on a larger dog.

Who it's for: owners who find a poured shampoo harder to control on a wet, moving dog and want the shampoo already loaded into something with more grip.