How to Join

If you are a brand owner, manufacturer, distributor or provide a service to the industry you may be eligible to join.  Please note that membership is open to those companies with a cosmetic presence on the UK market and a UK registered office. 

The CTPA has four membership categories:

Full Membership

Open to manufacturers, brand owners, distributors and other companies supplying finished cosmetic products.

Associate Membership

Open to companies supplying ingredients, analytical laboratory services (not contract manufacturing), packaging or other ancillary services such as safety assessment, claims assessment etc.

Retail Associate Membership

Open to UK retailers and wholesalers who do not manufacture but have their own brand cosmetics and/or supply cosmetic brands.

Compliance Associate Membership

Open to companies acting as Responsible Person (RP) to external companies for UK and EU Cosmetics Regulations (either mandated by an external company and so having name and address on pack or under contract to provide service but without name and address on pack). 

To start the process, complete the no-obligation Membership Enquiry  form.  This provides information about your company and helps enable us to determine membership eligibility.  We will then be in touch to to set-up a virtual meeting to explain membership services in more detail.

See our Terms and Conditions of payment to see how we structure membership fees.

CTPA takes the privacy and protection of personal data very seriously and complies with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The CTPA's Privacy Policy explains how we collect, store and manage your information.