Upgrade Your Self-Care Routine With These Black Owned Health and Wellness Brands
Best Life Organics
Best Life Organics is on a mission to offer self-care products made from non-toxic and ethically sourced ingredients. Their skincare line includes serum, facial mist, charcoal, and a signature rosewater face mask. BLO also offers several products to cleanse and moisturize the whole body: body butter, lip balm, body oil, body wash.
Bathe Beauty
Bathe Beauty was born from a love of bathes and the healing power the ritual can have. Founder, Tiffany, saw relaxing bathes as her own meditation and created a line of products to improve that experience. From cleansing oils to herbal tea bath brews, each Bathe Beauty product comes with meditation, affirmation, and visualization cards for a different theme.
GILDED
Founded by a Dermatology Physician’s Assistant, GILDED is a company helping everyone discover the art and science of skincare. GILDED’s product line is short and simple, just three products because each product is a part of their signature 3-step process: a body brush to exfoliate, body polish to soothe and moisturize your skin, and body balm to restore your skin's flexibility.
Iyoba
Iyoba is an Oakland-based body and home care company founded by Efiya Asabion the principles of being environmentally conscious and made from natural ingredients. Moisturize and restore your skin and hair with Iyoba’s face scrubs and masks, probiotic deodorant, hair mist, root elixir, and handcrafted soaps. All of Iyoba’s products are made in small batches to ensure freshness and high-quality.
Luv Scrub
Born and raised in a Ghanaian family, Caroline was taught early on in the power of the “magical mesh that’s been used in West Africa for generations”. After noticing that her American friends were not hip to this amazing exfoliating tool, Caroline created Luv Scrub. More than a loofah or anything you’ve seen at your local store; Luv Scrub doesn’t breed bacteria and lasts up 18 months.
Organic Bath Co.
Founded by couple Gianne Doherty and Jay Weeks in 2014, Organic Bath Co. is a self-care company that has something for everyone. They offer face oil, body scrubs, hand soaps, and more – all made from “natural ingredients from an ethical supply chain and are 92% Certified Organic, Fair- and Direct Trade for a beautifully simple—and safe—self-care routine.” You won’t find frivolous, unnecessary products at Organic Bath Co; they are all about simple, straightforward products that all humans can use.
The London Grant Co
When Tiffany Staten was pregnant and desperate to keep her skin moisturized without using ingredients that would harm her growing bump, she headed into her kitchen and started crafting her own small batches of skincare that would soothe dry skin, eczema, psoriasis, and irritation from surgical scars.
Today, Tiffany is the owner of The London Grant Co., a clean self-care line to cleanse and nourish your body’s largest organ – your skin. Handcrafted in Atlanta, LGC makes and sells non-toxic, fragrance-free butters, oils, and scrubs.
KLUR creates botanically based skincare products with the intention of offering a simple, minimal step but effective regimen. KLUR offers serums and cleansers, and even a multi-use additive, which you can add to your cleanser to make it an exfoliator.
Hyper Skin
There is something so impressive and enticing about a brand that sells only one product. Like they know they are so good at that one thing that they don’t have to expand. Hyper Skin, founded by Desiree Verdejo, definitely falls into this category. Their sole product is a Vitamin-C based serum made to treat hyperpigmentation. The Hyper Clear Brightening Clearing Vitamin C Serum is made from yummy clean ingredients like vitamin e, kojic acid, turmeric, and bearberry.
Black Girl Sunscreen
The founders of Black Girl Sunscreen were in search of a sunscreen that specifically catered to melanin skin. When they couldn't find one, they made their own. Fans of BGS rave about how the product doesn’t leave a white residue; it dries completely clear, while also serving your skin as a moisturizer. It’s also fragrance-free, meaning the likelihood of irritation is minimal, which makes sense considering the main products are fresh ingredients like avocado, jojoba, cacao, and carrot juice. And bonus: they now offer a sunscreen just for kiddos!
