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• It’s a wonderful Saturday morning. Lovely sunshine, a bit cloudy, and gentle breeze. You can’t wait to go camping with your dearest family. You prepared the whole set of outdoor gears, including tent, backpack, sleeping bags, jackets, pants, gloves, and climbing ropes. But can you imagine this: everything you brought with all your heart might endanger the health of you and your loved ones?

All of the above-mentioned outdoor gears have one thing in common. Lots of them used the “forever” chemical PFCs (Perfluorocarbons) for waterproof function, as well as water and stain repellency. You don’t need to major in Chemistry to understand this: A forever chemical means a chemical that is hard to break down in the environment.

Here are the worst things:

1. 1. It will harm the health of human and animals, such as their hormone system, liver, kidney, reproductive and developmental functions, and the endocrine system.
2. 2. It will pollute the environment (since it breaks down so slowly), including the nature you enjoy in your leisure time as well!
3. 3. It can be easily released and spread out, through water or air. The scientist even found PFCs in the body of polar bears!
4. 4. It can be accumulated and stay in the human body for long periods of time.

This study might scare you: the concentrations of PFCs in outdoor stores in Europe are 1,000 times higher than urban outdoor air. (Greenpeace, 2016)

People doing outdoor activities wish to enjoy the nature and increase health, but using or wearing the wrong outdoor gear, might just leads you to the opposite.

Nonetheless, there’s no need to sell all of your outdoor gears and become a couch potato from now on. There is another way: Xpore. It is based on advanced nanoporous membrane technology, 100% PFC-free and solvent free, non-toxic, and environmentally sustainable, which powers the best-in-class waterproof, breathable, and eco-friendly performance textiles. It abandoned the toxic ePTFE material that is widely used in outdoor industry.

With its best-in-class material performance that coexists with environmental sustainability at a level never achieved before, Xpore enables people to connect with their surroundings in a protected, comfortable, and sustainable way.

Time to plan the next outdoor journey! This time, you have another healthy, eco-friendly, and sustainable option for your outdoor gears.

Reference: Xpore’s PFCs & PFTs Report, Tested by Global Third-party Testing Institute Intertek

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