Our Council of Reference brings together some of the UK's leading experts in skin health, sun protection, medicine, and science. The council provides independent expertise, guidance, and challenge to help ensure we maintain the highest standards across our products, educational content, and communications.
Operating at arm's length from the business, the council acts as a critical friend, helping us make evidence-based decisions and ensuring our approach to skin cancer prevention and sun safety remains scientifically credible and trustworthy.
Here's what Professor Paul Matts, who leads the council, has to say about sun safety.
“UV filters are amongst the safest molecules used in the personal care product industry. This is a fact backed by a vast, collective, objective body of published, robust, peer-reviewed scientific data. Indeed, the sheer volume of data needed to satisfy a raft of stringent local, international, human and environmental safety regulatory requirements is extraordinary.
In short: UV filters are not ‘toxic’. And they are not harmful.
Skin cancer, however, is extremely harmful. Today, 1 in 3 cancers diagnosed globally are skin cancers, with the overwhelming number of these induced by exposure to UV radiation in ordinary daylight. The burden on patients who live with skin cancer and on the national health systems that treat them is crushing.
Sunscreens such as DIC SPF 30 Sun Protection Spray play a front-line role in skin cancer prevention and their efficacy is indisputable. We’re proud of the role UV filters – and by extension our sunscreen product – play in helping to prevent skin cancer.”
Professor Paul Matts – Distinguished Fellow, Retired R&D VP, Skin Care, Procter & Gamble