78 out of 100 Good
Intersand's stronger Canadian clay, and the heavier hitting sibling of the OdourLock litter that sits higher on this list. Made in Quebec by Intersand, Max Care takes No. 26 with seventy eight, a near immaculate performance card undone by a single axis.
Clumping, odour and tracking each score four and a half, a beautifully consistent run of near perfection. The litter sets hard, seals a used box for the long haul through Intersand's patented odour technology, and keeps its grain in the tray rather than across the floor. Dust comes in at a strong four, low and clean, the pour as tidy as clay gets. On the four performance axes, this is one of the better built mineral litters anywhere.
And then sustainability, marked at two, the strip mined floor that no clay escapes. It is the entire reason a litter this accomplished on the bench sits in the middle of the list rather than the top: the material is mined, discarded and never renewed, and the conscience score reflects it without mercy.
What you are buying is premium odour control in clay form, from a maker with a genuine engineering pedigree and a reputation for the cleanest pours in the category. It is the choice for the owner who wants Intersand's celebrated dust and odour performance turned up a notch and is at peace with the mine. Score the box alone and it runs with far higher placed litters. Weigh the whole footprint, and this is exactly where it lands. A formidable clay with a heavy conscience.