Why Support Black Owned Businesses?

Beauty & Hygiene

Ace Beauté is a cruelty free beauty brand offering extensive products, from eyeshadow to lip liner. 

Aini Organix offers clean, handmade products for ‘Opulent African Skincare’. 

Alaffia offers award-winning ‘Everyday Shea’ line amongst other products, categorized by their individual base product: Shea Butter, Coconut Oil, or Black African Soap.

Black Girl Sunscreen is a brand offering just that, a sunscreen specifically catered for Black Women. 

Buttah Skincare is a line skincare line that targets ‘dryness, discoloration, oiliness and blemishes with simple, proven-effective, good-for-you ingredients that leave your skin glowing, healthy and renewed.’

BLK + GRN is a marketplace for ‘Black Owned, Non-Toxic, Carefully Curated and Quality Tested’ skincare products. 

Briogeo is a hair care brand that creates 100% cruelty-free ingredients with no harsh chemicals, made for multiple African hair textures.

CoCo & Company is a product line that makes natural and ethically sound hair and skin care products, from hair growth serum to a sea salt body scrub.

Jazz Cosmetics offers handmade, vegan friendly beauty products!

KNC Beauty is a brand of lip masks and eye masks, sold separately in Sephora. 

Koree’s Kare is a sustainable hygiene brand that offers body butters, lip balms, candles & more! Organic, sustainable and vegan friendly!

Melanin Haircare offers four signature hair care products, along with their own headwear.

People of Color Beauty is a Black Owned beauty brand that curates nail polishes specifically made to complement skin of color.

Play Pits offers an all-natural hygiene option for your underarms.

Rooted Woman offers ‘carefully curated, ethical nail polish & treatments’ with a best-selling nail-polish remover.

Bookstores

Brave + Kind Bookshop offers ‘inclusive, classic, artful stories, creative workshops, story clubs and special gifts’ for young children. 

Cafe con Libros is an intersectional Feminist community bookstore and coffee shop based in . Order books through their monthly recommendations & check out their blog as well!

Fulton Street Books & Coffee is a bookstore based in Tulsa, OK that offers shipping on their in house books and merchandise. They have two versions of their “Ally Box” which offers books, resources and suggested action steps for anyone looking to bring antiracism into their daily lives.

Loyalty Bookstores is a fairly new (2019) local bookstore based in Petworth D.C. that offers shipping on their in-house books, as well as book bundles and merchandise. Check out their BIPOC book list as well.

MahoganyBooks is a bookstore based in Washington, D.C. which also offers shipping on their books. Known for containing a vast spread Bestselling and Classic African American Books, MahoganyBooks has books for raising cultural awareness in people of all ages.

The Listening Tree is an online bookstore centered around perpetuating a love for literacy, especially within our youth. They offer children’s books of multiple genres, as well as entrepreneurial education programs for children. Check them out!

Clothing

Young Black Genius is a clothing brand also centered around the Black Experience, except Black Genius is focused on promoting intelligence & intellectual prowess within the Black community. Too many Black youth are put into boxes, more often than not stunting their identity development & intellectual growth, so this brand’s message is one of my favorite on this list. Click the link & use my code ‘JAYDENSTHOUGHTS’ to get 15% off your every purchase (must be using this link from my website).

Black Genius, a different brand than that above, offers apparel & prints promoting the Village of Wisdom’s organizational values of closing the educational opportunity gap and cherishing the Black Genius.

Black Vibe Tribe provides apparel that speaks to the Black Experience, as well as small accessories (mugs, stickers, pins, sunglasses, etc.) with the same message: Love Your Black Self.

Bold Xchange is a Black owned Blog turned retail shop, with products ranging from coffee bundles to cups & clothing.

CBAAF is a ‘high-vibrational’ fashion brand that offers hand-dyed, ethically produced products made of 100% recycled cotton. 

Coco and Breezy offers stylish eyewear and a pretty cool ‘Business Woman’ T-shirt. If you are one to spend pretty change on sunglasses, this is your place.

Definitive Style Exclusive  offers clothing & accessories with pro-black sentiment on them, as well as really cool art & abstract products.

Diop is a fashion brand with West African roots, offering clothing that reflects the owner’s mother’s work with Ankara fabric she would get from Nigeria during his childhood (face masks & filters available, too)

Guérison Globale offers innovative streetwear for anyone ready to embrace the world from a global perspective.

KAI is a ‘multi-dimensional’ clothing brand made for those who ‘embrace their femininity in all its various forms.’ Owner, Fissayo Longe of London, says she works implies that KAI works with ethical manufacturers. 

Label by Three is a group of three women of color designing & hand-crafting ethical, minimal clothing (mainly dresses, skirts & blouses).

Nude Barre is a ‘specialty line of intimates (Thongs, Fishnets, & Hosiery) made in 12 shades of nude to match all skin tones.’

Oma the Label is a jewelry & accessory brand that is ‘focused on challenging the homogenous industry standards, while creating quality and affordable pieces for the everyday woman.’

Onion Cut & Sewn is a clothing line that aims to produce comfy, effortless clothes for women that ‘feel like lotion.’

Proper Gnar offers super dope clothing (mostly for women, some unisex) and really unique skateboards decks & other skate gear.

Riot Swim offers a handful of innovative swimwear for women.

Small Needs has an etsy page in their bio called ‘RetroRhaposody’ that offers vintage clothing, jewelry and accessories. 

Telfar offers unique unisex clothing and accessories.

Jewelry & Accessories

Humans Before Handles is a ‘global’ jewelry company that offers affordable, yet stylish jewelry, socks, sunglasses and more. 

Nandi Naya offers ‘sculptural silhouettes handmade to compliment modernist women.’

Springbreak Watches offers vibrant, unique watches from $70-$80 & comfy, yet durable apple watch bands.

Stella & Haas is a Black, female owned accessory brand that makes dope, simple jewelry for all. 

The Pink Locket offers unisex ‘Metal Modern Minimalist Jewelry’ and small storage dishes with unique designs and affordable prices.

Talley & Twine is a time-watch business, offering Metal, Leather and Canvas Watches to both Men & Women. Featured in numerous popular magazines.

Tree Fairfax offers beautiful, handmade, minimal leather products, from belts to satchels.

Food & Drink

A Dozen Cousins offers authentic Creole, Carribbean, and Latin American flavored 60-second bean packets.

Black White Roasters is my last coffee brand on the list. They offer multiple different blends and roasts, but what is most unique is the detail they give the consumer. When you buy from Black White, you learn the producer of the coffee, which farm the beans were from, and the process they went through. Check them out! 

Blk & Bold offers micro-roasted specialty coffee blends and loose leaf speciality teas.

Global Village Foods is an allergen-free African restaurant, located in Vermont. They also offer their healthy ethnic snacks & meals through their online shipping (coming soon), or use their store locator to find their products nearby you. 

Ivy’s Tea is a ‘ pop culture and Hip-Hop inspired holistic health brand.’  Owned & led by Black women, Ivy’s Tea offers herbal tea and herb-infused sweeteners ‘for the culture.’ If you want to start ‘drinking tea like an adult’, check them out ASAP! One of the coolest businesses on this list in my opinion.

Jones Bar-B-Q is a BBQ line based in Kansas City, with two personal BBQ sauces (Sweet & Tangy, Coconut Pineapple) and their own BBQ spice rub. 

Lillie’s of Charleston is a South Carolina based BBQ sauce & spice brand. Carrying on the legacy of their Aunt Lillie, their recipes have been passed down generations, so there is outstanding culture going into their products. Check them out, and go learn about the Gullah History & Culture!

Maison Noir Wines considers themselves to be a ‘lifestyle project’, in which they put forth a t-shirt line and Oregon wines. Their great wines & wine-themed shirts speak to the creator, Andre Mack’s commitment to the wonders of the drink itself. Check them out! 

McBride Sisters offers award-winning wine with a side of motivation. Not only is their wine highly acclaimed, the sisters’ offer an incredible story on how their business came into fruition. Now, over 15 years later, you can order wine from their site & find them in retail stores near you. Go check their award winning ‘Black Girl Magic’ collection now!

Pipsnacks offers a variety of healthy, heirloom snacks. Once on Shark Tank and now in all national Whole Foods, this brand offers popcorn, cheese balls, corn chips and more. This is partially Black owned and 100% minority owned. 

Red Bay Coffee offers just under a dozen different coffee blends (with cool names like Brazilian Cake Lady), along with drinkware, apparel and other small accessories.  

Salt N Sprinkles is a Black, Woman owned, vegan treat business. They offer a few select cookie flavors, as well as plant-based peanut butter cups, all with international shipping. Check them out!

Sienna Sauce is a Black Woman owned sauce brand, based in Houston, TX. The CEO is Tyla-Simone Crayton, who made the sauce when she was just eight years old. Now 17, Ms. Crayton has a mission to create her own lane in the male-dominated sauce industry. Don’t sleep -- Sienna Sauce is a product that can be used as a dip, marinade, glaze or an added ingredient to any recipe. 

The Sip is like a book club, but for champagne. If you are looking to become champagne-savvy, check out their services! For an annual or monthly fee, you can receive different bottles from top champagne brands, monthly.

Trade Street Jam Co. offers a unique variety of fruit jams, like their ‘Smoked Yellow Peach’ flavor. They also offer aprons, wooden jam spoons, sweet potato biscuit mix and more. 

Uncle Nearest Whiskey is a Black owned whiskey brand. With over eight awards in the last two years, Uncle Nearest offers a premium (1856) and small-batch (1885) whiskey, along with a Black Owned Whiskey Discovery Collection. Check their site out!

Fitness & Health

Ailey Extension is an online program that offers almost 100 different drop-in dance classes. From ballet to yoga, West African to salsa, there seems to be a class for people of all ages, backgrounds, and experience levels.

Grillz and Granola offers a series of online, live workouts that are ‘short, effective, and trap music fueled.’ Their unique integration of aerobic workouts and hip-hop music, forming their ‘TrapAerobics’, has been used to teach over 2,500 women since 2016. Beyond yoga, Grillz and Granola has partnered with 20+ organizations for philanthropic purposes. One of the coolest businesses on this list!

Muniq is revolutionizing the nutrition domain with their meal-replacement shakes. These shakes, powered by clinical trials, are made with ‘resistant starch’, made to improve gut health and promote healthy blood sugar levels. Inspired by the death of his late sister who had health issues, Muniq Founder & CEO Marc Washington is on a mission.

The Underbelly is an online yoga class, led by Black Woman Jessamyn Stanley. Every month, Ms. Stanley offers new online classes that have an element of body positivity & transparency that is unique to her. As the site says, “Fall over, fart, curse, get up or stay down. You are the yoga you need.

Household Items & Decor

At Archer Home Design, craftswoman Ntebo Archer offers handmade rustic tables.

Black Pepper Paperie Co. is a Black, female owned business that offers home decor & art, as well as personal adornments. Owner Hadiya Williams says, “My work is inspired by Black culture and Black people across the diaspora, Black women in particular. It is inspired by those who, for centuries, have always managed to turn function into art.”

Bolé Road Textiles offers home decor for every room in your home (Living room, Bedroom, Bathroom, etc.) New York based designer Hana Getachew begins every design with inspiration from Ethiopia’s culture and natural beauty. 

Clare has numerous types of top tier paint & supplies (wall, trim, ceiling, etc.) Take their Color Genius quiz if you need help deciding what color to paint a room!

Copper and Brass Paper specializes in creating Afrocentric wrapping paper and gift-giving accessories. Check them out for greeting cards, notebooks, and journals as well!

Effortless Composition works with the local artisans of color in Los Angeles to produce high quality home decor. Outside of their decor, pillows & throws, EC offers kitchen & dining products as well. Check their unique pieces out!

Godly Gorgeous is a line of apparel, prints, and other products focused on inspiration for/by Black Women.

Good Vibes Clean offers a bundle of all purpose, plant-based cleaning concentrate for your home. On their website is a cleaning set, with a bottle for proper dilution. Since it’s plant based & low sudsing, it can also be used as/with laundry detergent. 

Ilé Ilà is a ‘lifestyle furniture-line’ consisting of vibrant, high quality pieces -- all of which are handmade in Lagos Nigeria.  

Jungalow is an LA-based lifestyle brand that puts forth an extensive list of items. They offer high-quality, essential home products & decor for every room in the house. They also offer wallpapers, planters, their own watercolor apparel collection, and art prints from women around the globe. Go shop! (At least) two trees are planted with every transaction.

Pontie Wax offers 100% soy wax candles on their etsy shop!

The Black Home offers select items for home decor that embody the Black experience. Check out Ms. Neffi Walker’s mural wallpaper & hand poured, 100% eco-friendly candles!

Silked is here for all your silk-product needs, from silk/satin pillowcases & eye covers, to silk face-masks and scrunchies.

Simply GVO offers unique and specialized handmade soy candles & energy products, along with a couple of cool necklaces. 

SustainAble Home Goods offers ‘fair and ethical products for your home and life’, from home decor & kitchen products, to jewelry and accessories. Check out their ‘BIPOC Makers Collection’ full of art and other products, too!

Parenting

Just Like Me Box is a one-of-a-kind subscription service. They offer specially-curated boxes filled with fun books, educational resources & a fun gift for your child. These boxes are delivered monthly, and change over time with your children’s age and experience. Check them out!

Kids Swag is a hub for Black Positivity for kids. They offer clothes, backpacks & accessories, plates, and so much more. My favorite item they have to offer are their ‘Nana Dolls’, which are Black alternatives to Barbie/Bratz dolls!

Little Likes Kids offers puzzles, memory games, playing cards, and placemats for little kids. Made for children ages six and under, this brand is focused on creating products that accurately reflect today’s world, with happy scenes and recognizables to which any child can relate, and from which all children can learn.

Miles and Milan is a children’s clothing brand made by a mother who was sick of the gender-polarized gifts she received for her children. Miles and Milan strays away from the pink and blue garments, instead producing minimalist, greyscale, gender neutral clothing for the ‘Kool Kids’. 

Art

Bespoke Binny offers ‘African Inspired’ lampshades, aprons, pillows & more.

Emma Make Studio is where creator Emma Hall creates & makes ‘Contemporary Eclectic Wall Art’ 

The Juno Studio specializes in fiber art & creating essential oil diffusers. Check her out once her orders are fully processed!

Kingsley Leather offers handcrafted belts, wallets, & other accessories. 

Sirking Castro is a creative director/designer with incredible streetwear projects, soon expanding his portfolio with his ‘blk angel baby’ line of free stickers (already out) & custom shoes (available now), with clothing, pins & more coming soon.

Wishful Paperie offers DIY, editable card templates for events, such as weddings, baby showers, holidays & more.

Other

CxffeeBlack is a brand that provides their own coffee blend, musical EPs, and merchandise. I included them in ‘other’ because of how unique they are. Check them out!

The Ron Finley Project was started by Ron Finley, who, in 2010, was cited for planting a garden in front of his South Central Los Angeles home. Immediately after his citation, Mr. Finley started a petition to fight back against the laws he knew were unjust, living in a food desert 45 car-minutes away from fresh produce. His goal is now to create a local, eco-friendly garden in Los Angeles called ‘HQ’. Support his efforts through his merch, donation box, and simply listening & spreading the word.

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