The Best Wet Mop

After considering hundreds of wet mops and spending six hours testing eight popular models (and five buckets), our picks are the O-Cedar Microfiber Cloth Mop and the O-Cedar Quick Wring Bucket . This duo beat the competition at sopping up rank gutter water, spilled cups of Coke, and every other test we tried.

The O-Cedar Microfiber Cloth Mop is sturdy, light, nimble, and a superb performer—the best in our test at absorbing spills and scrubbing stains and stuck-on debris. Its long handle is simply built, slim, and stiff. With a lighter overall weight than its competitors, mopping with it is less strain on your back. It’s easier to store than other mops thanks to a collapsible handle with a unique hook. Its synthetic head dries in less than 24 hours, it doesn’t develop a smell, and in a pinch, works as a dust-mop too. With an inexpensive, replaceable head that’s machine-washable and -dryable up to 100 times, it’s seriously thrifty—as little as 7¢ per cleanup.

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The O-Cedar Quick Wring Bucket is everything you could wish for in a mop bucket. Its 2½-gallon capacity can hold enough water for any job, but it weighs less than 20 pounds when full, and is easy to lift out of a sink and move from room to room. Its compact, rectangular shape doesn’t waste closet or cabinet space, it’s easy to pour, and its stable design is less likely to slide or spill than others we tried. Its built-in wringer works beautifully and is also easily removable, converting it to a general-purpose bucket.

The Libman Wonder Mop is a classic for a reason: It works. Not quite as well as our top pick, but better than most other competitors. It has one key advantage: Its built-in wringer doesn’t require a separate bucket, and you can wet, rinse, and wring it in the kitchen sink.