20Bad

Barbour Review, Is Barbour Non-Toxic?

The verdict
Barbour averages 20 out of 100 on PFAS Authority's PFAS and toxin screen across the 4 Barbour 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/barbour.

Barbour grades Bad on our four-band scale. On disclosure, the brand says nothing publicly about PFAS. See what every brand has published about PFAS for how that compares.

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.

Graded and flagged Poor and Bad, we’d swap these

Barbour Chelsea Waterproof Jacket Mens

Barbour

Chelsea Waterproof Jacket Mens

20BadPFAS grade
  • Waxed cotton blend with water-repellent coating finish
  • We found no PFAS statement from the brand
  • water-repellent coating finish (fluorochemical origin unclear), Traditional water-repellent coating finishes…

2 hazards checked on this product. See all of them.

Barbour Women's Baythorpe Waterproof Jacket

Barbour

Women's Baythorpe Waterproof Jacket

20BadPFAS grade
  • waxed cotton or cotton blend with water-repellent coating waterproof finish
  • We found no PFAS statement from the brand
  • PFAS, Barbour has not disclosed water-repellent coating composition for this model. Traditional waterproofing…

3 hazards checked on this product. See all of them.

Barbour Women's Heron Waterproof Jacket

Barbour

Women's Heron Waterproof Jacket

20BadPFAS grade
  • Waxed cotton with water-repellent coating treatment
  • We found no PFAS statement from the brand
  • PFAS, Standard water-repellent coating finishes on waxed cotton jackets historically use PFAS; Barbour has…

2 hazards checked on this product. See all of them.

Barbour Women's Audrey Showerproof Jacket

Barbour

Women's Audrey Showerproof Jacket

20BadPFAS grade
  • Cotton blend with water-repellent coating water-resistant coating
  • We found no PFAS statement from the brand
  • water-repellent coating durability and particulate shedding, As water-repellent coating coatings degrade with…

3 hazards checked on this product. See all of them.

Barbour and PFAS, common questions

Does Barbour have PFAS?
Barbour averages 20 out of 100 on PFAS Authority's PFAS and toxin screen across the 4 Barbour products graded as of October 2026, and none of them reach its 70 point pass mark. Grades are model-based estimates built from published materials, ingredients and disclosures, not lab tests.
Is Barbour non-toxic?
No Barbour product we graded reaches Good. The best of them is Barbour Chelsea Waterproof Jacket Mens at 20/100.
Which Barbour products should I avoid?
The lowest-graded Barbour products we have scored are Barbour Women's Audrey Showerproof Jacket, Barbour Women's Heron Waterproof Jacket, Barbour Women's Baythorpe Waterproof Jacket. Each one links to the evidence behind its grade.

Every grade uses the same public rubric. How grades work →