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Best Bottle Brushes

We found that water bottles and delicate glassware require nearly opposite types of products for cleaning

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8 bottle brushes
The type of brush you need depends on whether you're cleaning bottles or glassware.
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The right bottle brush can take washing a water bottle from a pain to a cinch.

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And yet, for years, I’ve been squeezing a standard dish sponge into my water bottles and wineglasses and attempting creative and surely inadequate cleaning methods on the bottle tops.

After testing eight bottle brushes, I’m happy to say my Champagne glasses and Yeti water bottle—and, more importantly, my toddler’s Yeti water bottle—will finally be getting clean, and yours can, too.

Some bottle brushes made a mess during lab tests.

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Angela Lashbrook

Angela Lashbrook is a senior multimedia content creator at Consumer Reports. She has been with CR since 2021 and covers a wide range of topics, but she is particularly interested in anything health- or parenting-related. She lives with her husband, their son, and her dog, a Libra named Gordo.