Do Helly Hansen rain jackets have PFAS?

What Helly Hansen says and does about PFAS

Helly Hansen says it is phasing PFAS out, calling the chemistry proven harmful for nature and living organisms, and works with research institutes and suppliers on PFAS-free DWR. It is unusually direct about where it has not got there yet, saying nothing matches PFAS for oil repellency so its workwear fabrics will depend on PFAS for longer. Its published figures are over 70% of sports apparel on PFAS-free DWR and a 100% PFAS-free inline collection aimed for 2023, a target date that had already passed when we read the page.

• Brand statementHelly Hansen says PFAS chemistry has been proven harmful for nature and living organisms and that it is therefore phasing PFAS chemicals out of its products, in close cooperation with research institutes and chemical suppliers of PFAS-free DWR treatments. Helly Hansen ↗
• Brand statementIt says there is still no alternative chemistry that supplies as low a surface tension as PFAS, so it cannot yet make fabrics that are PFAS-free and oil repellent at the same time, and that its workwear fabrics will be dependent on PFAS for a bit longer. Helly Hansen ↗
• Brand statementThe same page says over 70% of its sports apparel uses PFAS-free DWR and that it aims for a 100% PFAS-free inline collection by 2023. We read the page in September 2026, three years after that target date, and it had not been updated. Helly Hansen ↗

Sources checked September 22, 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.