3 New Home User Trials Available At Alba Volunteers So Register Now - Men Too!
3 Trials Available So Register Or Log In Now
Tonic - Females Aged 18-65
Cleanser - Females Aged 25-45
Shower Routine - Healthy Males & Females Aged 25-55
There are also Trials available if you live in, or can get to, Edinburgh, where you get paid!
Who we are
We are Alba Volunteers, the recruitment division of Alba Science. We are the same company. We are responsible for recruiting volunteers to take part in the studies that we run for our customers. We maintain our active panel of volunteers from around the UK and advertise to recruit for our studies. We are the first point of contact for our volunteers.
What we do
We test toiletries and cosmetic products for a large number of global brands. These products need to be tested with consumers before being released to the market, and this testing needs to be done independently, so that's why Alba Science is here. We perform safety, efficacy and home-user studies. We provide our customers with study data which they can use to market their products or to drive their own product development processes. The data we provide our customers with is anonymous. You can find out more about this in our Privacy Policy. Your data is not used for anything else or provided to anyone else.
Our volunteer panels
We maintain 2 panels of volunteers. Our clinical panel perform on-site studies at our Broughton Street facility in Edinburgh. This panel is around 10,000 people in size, mostly from in and around Edinburgh.
Our Home-User panel is around 15,000 people in size. This panel consists of consumers throughout the UK who test products at home for us. At present we are not registering any new volunteers for our Home-User panel. If you can attend our Edinburgh test centre please register with our clinical panel.
Type of products we test
We test a variety of products. The vast majority of these products are already on sale on the high street. We run most of our clinical studies at our Edinburgh facility. Here, we test soaps to ensure that they do not dry the skin or cause any irritation. We test moisturisation and hydration products to ensure that they perform well over a period of time. We test spot and acne treatment products to see if they work. We also perform a variety of hair studies, testing everything from colour and dye-performance to dandruff reduction. These are just a few examples of the studies we run.
Our Home-User panel are sent products to test at home and provide us with feedback on. These types of product can vary, but typically these can be moisturisers, night creams, facial wipes, serums, make-up and cosmetic products, shampoos and conditioners.
Product safety
The safety and well being of our volunteers is paramount. All the products we test are certified to be safe to test and have undergone all necessary testing before coming to us. All our volunteers are provided with full information on the products being tested.
How we compensate our volunteers
For our clinical studies, run in Edinburgh, we pay expenses to each volunteer upon completion of each study. The amount can vary from £20 to £500, depending on the type and duration of the study.
For home-user studies, no expenses are provided. Instead, our home-users receive some of the latest products to test at home for free. The range of products varies from regular personal care or cosmetic products to some of the very latest designer products from some of the largest global brands.
stuartsmith544 Hope you are ok Stuart, you could apply for this one, 'Shower Routine', it's first come first served it seems, so be quick, good luck! x
Thanks mate. Were good , how u been doing? I've signed up to it and then maybe I will be in luck .
stuartsmith544 I'm good too thanks Stuart, rather fed up of the cold wet days now, roll on Spring!! Good Luck! x 
JoTarpley I'm so the same , I am a July baby and I always love hotter weather ,lighter nights and a thing called a social life .
I know what you mean Stuart, I'm an August baby myself! 
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I've been with these for years along with Boots, Clicks, Vogue, Tesco and a few others and these are miles better than Boots. I've had so many Liz Earle items(in fact I'm testing for LE right now 
), Philip Kingsley, Body Shop,, Lancome, and so many more I can't even remember because the kids are driving me crazy. I would definitely urge people to join Alba as they're an honest company and only ask for you honesty in return. Don't lie on the application form because they have something for everyone. Im mixed race, green eye, curly European hair and they've sent me so much. I get at least 1 email a week asking to fill in the questionnaire to see if I fit the criteria for the product they're trialing. Good luck ladies gents and im sorry I don't know the right pronouns so I apologise if I've offended anyone.
Only taking people on who can get to the test center in Edinburgh 
I'm 4hours drive away from it
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