Which Arc'teryx products should I avoid?

The lowest-graded Arc'teryx products we have scored are Arc'teryx Venta GTX Gloves, Arc'teryx Therme Jacket Men's, Arc'teryx Men's Beta Pants. Each one links to the evidence behind its grade.

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Arc'teryx Review, Is Arc'teryx Non-Toxic?

The verdict October 2026

Arc'teryx averages 22 out of 100 on PFAS Authority's PFAS and toxin screen across the 38 Arc'teryx products graded as of October 2026, and none of them reach its 70 point pass mark.

Free to quote with attribution to PFAS Authority and a link to pfasauthority.com/brands/arc-teryx.

Arc'teryx grades Bad on our four-band scale.

PFAS Authority is a scoring system, not a laboratory. We do not test products ourselves. Grades are model-based, built from published ingredients, materials, certifications, brand disclosures and third-party lab results where they exist. See the rubric.

What Arc'teryx says and does about PFAS

Arc'teryx says on its sustainability page that it fully supports removing PFAS from its products and that the majority of its products are now PFAS-compliant, with the rest of the line transitioning. That is a claim for part of the range, so we bucket it as lines. Greenpeace lab tests from 2016 detected PFCs in Arc'teryx trousers, though that predates the current transition.

Brand statementArc'teryx says it fully supports removing PFAS from its products and worked with Gore-Tex on ePE, a membrane it says is free of intentionally added PFAS. Arc'teryx sustainability page ↗
Brand statementArc'teryx says the majority of its products are PFAS-compliant and the remainder of the line is transitioning. Arc'teryx sustainability page ↗
MaterialsArc'teryx names its FC0 DWR and ePE membrane as its PFAS-compliant materials. Arc'teryx sustainability page ↗
Independent testGreenpeace commissioned an independent lab to test 40 outdoor products in 2016. It reported that only four were free of PFCs, and named Arc'teryx among the brands whose trousers it tested with high volatile PFCs, per a search summary. The FashionUnited report we could read names other brands and does not itemize Arc'teryx. FashionUnited reporting on Greenpeace ↗
Independent testMamavation's roundup quotes an older Arc'teryx statement that it used short-chain PFCs. The roundup is undated in our extraction and the statement predates the current transition. Mamavation ↗

Sources checked September 29, 2026. A brand statement is the company’s own claim, which we report but have not verified. Our grades are model-based estimates, not lab tests.

Arc'teryx is one of the brands we researched by hand for our record of what every brand has published about PFAS, where the same question is answered for each of them in one line.

Does Arc'teryx have PFAS, by category

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Arc'teryx

Men's Cormac Logo Shirt

65GoodPFAS grade

100% polyester knit, no water-repellent treatment
Heavy metals. Any colored polyester carries potential for azo dyes or trace heavy metals in pigments, but…

3 hazards checked on this product, all on its full breakdown.

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What Arc'teryx says and does about PFAS

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