The SA Association of Health and Skin Care Professionals (SAAHSP) is a Non Profit Organisation serving its members and the Skin, Body, and Nail Care Profession and Industry as the Professional Body in South Africa. SAAHSP is legally constituted to protect the Public Interest in relation to services provided. The organisation will develop, award, monitor and revoke Professional Designations and regulate Continual Professional Development (CPD);

  The SA Association of Health and Skincare Professionals is a non-statutory, SAQA-recognised professional body. They have five professional designations:

1. Advanced Aesthetic Therapist;
2. Beauty Technologist;
3. Nail Technician;
4. Beauty Therapist;
5. Somatologist