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My Favorite Black-Owned Skincare Brands to Support This Month
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items These Black-owned skincare brands are leading the way in innovative, effective beauty products. Here’s why I love them!
Ozohu Adoh, founder of Epara (meaning "to cocoon oneself" in the Nigerian dialect of Ebira), created this brand in hopes of giving Black women the luxury line they deserve with products that truly meet the skin-care needs (like hyperpigmentation) of ...
Epara Skincare: EPARA | Luxury Natural Skincare for ...
Celebrity esthetician Shani Darden's namesake skin-care line is a multi-time Allure Best of Beauty Award winner. The luxury lineup, which the beauty industry vet launched in 2020, features gold-standard formulations suitable for a wide range of skin ...
Shani Darden Skin Care | Clinical Facial Products
The brand, founded by Olamide Olowe and Claudia Teng, became an instant viral hit when it launched in 2020, selling out on Nordstrom's website within 48 hours of hitting virtual shelves. Fast forward to now and it’s earned the cliché but accurate tit...
Topicals
Get your glow on with Hyper Skin, a hyperpigmentation-targeting skin-care line founded by Desiree Verdejo in 2020. Currently, the brand has three beauty products, each formulated to target dark spots, discoloration, and uneven tone for all skin types...
Hyper Skin | Best Skincare For Dark Spots
Founder Kristin Noel Crawley launched the brand in 2016 as an ode to her favorite beauty product: lip masks. Now, the Black-founded brand has a whole lineup of lip, face, and eye masks as well as lip balms.
KNC Beauty
Nigerian American founder Christina Funke Tegbe was inspired by African beauty rituals and ingredients, which she harnesses into 54 Thrones products. Shea butter from Ghana and hibiscus from Kenya are just a couple of the ingredients Tegbe and her te...
54 Thrones
4.5.6 Skin puts a heavy emphasis on science-driven data to formulate its gentle yet effective products. Founder and CEO Noelly Michoux started in beauty e-commerce and later partnered with scientists to create clinical skin care for darker skin. The ...
4.5.6 Skin: The Science of Skin Tone.
Founder Jamika Martin launched Rosen in 2017 as a student at the University of California, Los Angeles. Seven years later, the brand’s budget-friendly lineup of acne- and dark spot-targeting products can be found at retailers like Ulta Beauty.
ROSEN Skincare
Board-certified dermatologist Rose Ingleton, MD, is a resource to many skin-conscious people in New York City, including a handful of beauty editors. In 2019, she combined her medical expertise and knowledge of Jamaican superfoods to launch Rose Ingl...
ROSE Ingleton MD
Eadem founders, Marie Kouadio and Alice Lin don’t just talk the talk when it comes to championing women of color. Their team of chemists, executives, and dermatologists accurately reflects the brand’s ethos: “Keep melanin in mind.”
EADEM
Founded by Idris and Sabrina Elba, the brand aims to bring A-beauty (that’s “African beauty”) into the spotlight through efficacious formulas that are rooted in the healing power of ingredients like baobab, shea butter, and quasil. And if you didn’t ...
All Products – S'ABLE Labs
Katonya B. Breaux (also known as mom to the Frank Ocean) founded Unsun Cosmetics to create a company focused on sun defense suited for women of all skin tones. In doing so, she offers a no-residue option for people of color to ensure they get the pro...
Unsun
Lesley Thornton created Klur after realizing she was meant to dedicate her life to her passion: the cosmetics industry. She began as a makeup artist at Estée Lauder but eventually focused on her love of product development. That's where Klur, a line ...
Klur
Thérèse M’Boungoubaya spent years working for some of the biggest names in beauty before launching her brand. The Congolese native created Koba (in Lingala it means turtle, a symbol of longevity and protection) to fill the gap she saw in foot care, l...
KOBA skincare
Founded by board-certified oculofacial plastic surgeon Chaneve Jeanniton, MD, epi.logic is the cool girl skin-care brand you didn’t know you needed. After clients kept asking the Brooklyn-based doctor to create effective skin care they could use dail...
epi.logic
Cosmetic chemist Ron Robinson spent years formulating products for Clinique, L'Oréal, Revlon, and Avon. After leaving the lab, Robinson started the BeautyStat blog where he shared skin-care knowledge with his followers. It wasn’t long before readers ...
BeautyStat
Black Girl Sunscreen is known for exactly what the name says: sunscreen for women of color. Founder Shontay Lundy created the brand so everyone could have a sunscreen that caters to their skin tone.
Black Girl Sunscreen
Founder and CEO Tristan Walker always wanted a good, clean shave but could never get one that truly satisfied him. Walker created Bevel to provide the perfect, skin-friendly shave for people with coarse, curly facial and body hair.
Skin - BEVEL
In 2015, Karen Young founded Oui the People not to give people "better skin" but to change the way people view beauty. The brand never promises to perfect your skin; it promises to make you feel amazing in your own skin
OUI the People