Spigen Review, Is Spigen Non-Toxic?
Spigen averages 80 out of 100 on PFAS Authority's PFAS and toxin screen across the 28 Spigen products graded as of November 2026, and 25 of them reach its 70 point pass mark.
Spigen grades Excellent 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 Spigen says and does about PFAS
Spigen publishes a materials field and a Proposition 65 warning on each product, which makes the gap easy to see. It never uses the words fluoroelastomer or fluororubber anywhere on its own site, and a site search for PFAS returns only product listings. On one watch band it names nylon and warns about nickel and bisphenol A. On its current Pixel Watch band the materials field says only fabric. A university study of 22 watch bands found elevated PFAS in nine, tied to fluoroelastomer construction, but named no brands.
- MaterialsOn its Apple Watch Band Lite Fit, Spigen names the material as nylon and carries a Proposition 65 warning naming nickel and bisphenol A. No PFAS chemical appears in that warning. Spigen ↗
- StudyA University of Notre Dame study of 22 fitness tracker and smartwatch bands found elevated perfluorohexanoic acid in nine of them and tied the results to bands made using fluoroelastomers. It named no brands, so no result is attributed to this brand. University of Notre Dame ↗
- StudyThe same study reported that elevated results were more common in bands costing more than about fifteen dollars, which is the only lens its published findings offer on aftermarket band brands. University of Notre Dame ↗
Sources checked October 1, 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.
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Which Spigen products contain PFAS? Poor and Bad, we’d swap these
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- Copper conductor corrosion and oxidation
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Spigen and PFAS, common questions
- Does Spigen have PFAS?
- Spigen averages 80 out of 100 on PFAS Authority's PFAS and toxin screen across the 28 Spigen products graded as of November 2026, and 25 of them reach its 70 point pass mark. Grades are model-based estimates built from published materials, ingredients and disclosures, not lab tests. Spigen publishes no PFAS statement and never uses the term fluoroelastomer on its own site. It does publish a materials field per product, naming nylon on one watch band and only fabric on another, so the polymer is often not identified. A university study of 22 watch bands found elevated PFAS in nine and tied it to fluoroelastomer construction, but named no brands.
- Is Spigen non-toxic?
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- Which Spigen products are lower concern for PFAS?
- The highest-graded Spigen products we have scored are Spigen EV603BT Car Charger, Spigen Durasync C To C Cable Power Delivery Pd Fast Charging 60w Usb, Spigen Rugged Armor Band for Samsung Galaxy Watch 4/Watch Active 2/HUAWEI Watch GT. That is our model-based estimate from materials and public disclosure, not a lab test.
- Which Spigen products should I avoid?
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