150+ Black-Owned Brands

Looking to support black-owned and cruelty-free? I’ve broken these brands up into categories and labeled which ones are vegan. Though a brand may not be fully vegan, many cruelty-free brands have vegan options.

These are the categories:

• Subscription Box / Marketplace

• Skincare (body & face)

• Beauty (cosmetics & hair care products)

• Sustainable Fashion

• Health

• Home & Fragrance

Creating these lists is so fitting for Empower Palette. With Black Lives Matter coming to the forefront, black businesses being shared and minorities speaking up, I wanted to do my part to create awareness of minority-owned businesses. Women, especially women of color, are often overlooked and passed up over our white counterparts in funding, partnerships, collaborations, social media algorithms, media and entertainment. However, WOC have yet to stop paving ways and building personal success. With the current social climate, we now have the opportunity and momentum to make real change. Being the table instead of being invited to a table that someone else owns. Let’s keep pushing forward for each other, keep supporting each other and speaking up.

As a black woman, I am very inspired by the good work people are doing and for those who are learning and joining the conversation.

Subscription Box / Marketplace

Beauty Beet Box

Consciously Curated Clean Beauty + Wellness

Connect women of color to beauty & skincare brands that are plant-based, toxic-free and cruelty free

BLK+GRN 🌿

Non-toxic marketplace by all Black artisans

Read about the brand and my favorites from their shop

Ethnic District

Shop authentic African products in the U.S.

Everything from pantry to home and beauty

Freedom Apothecary

black + brown women-founded.
wellness + community.

Glory Skincare

Carefully curated seasonal skincare boxes

Marsh and Mane

A better beauty supply experience.

One stop shop for all of your wash day needs from your shampoo to your candles

ALL THINGS SKINcare.

54 Thrones

African beauty rituals

Botanical skincare made with ethical ingredients, sustainably sourced first-hand from cooperatives and artisans throughout Africa

AcARRE

Empowering people to bring the balance to the scalp & skin through Bioactive beauty

AFOKOSKIN

#1 Black Soap Foaming Face Wash

Vegan 🌱

The Afro Hair & Skin Co.®

Multi award-winning hair & skincare
Handcrafted #PurePlantMagic🌿

Ah-Shí Beauty

Indigenous Black-owned & operated
Indigenizing The Beauty Industry

Alaffia

Beyond Fair Trade

Cultivating beauty, equality and empowerment in West Africa and around the globe.

Alikay Naturals

Caribbean. Herbal. Authentic.

Andrelle's

Handcrafted by a clinical herbalist
Minimum Ingredients | Maximum Results

Anita Grant

Small batch, natural afro hair & skincare

Apothecary7

Skincare & lifestyle products rooted in plants & ayurveda

Vegan 🌱

Aqualime

Botanical & small batch

Aster Raine

Clean. Authentic. Affordable.

10% of profit in 2021 go to @remembernhu

Awomi Naturals

Providing whole body care using West African formulas

Ethnically sourced

Vegan 🌱

BASE BUTTER ™

#1 aloe gel moisturizer for oily, combo, and acne-prone skin

Be Transcendent Skin

Plant-based skincare for all skin types

BeautyStat

Award-winning Vitamin C

Beneath Your Mask

We’ve sourced the world’s most potent, organic and wild harvested, botanicals, each chosen for its healing and restorative properties.

Vegan 🌱

The Body Cove

• Raw fruit + vegetable bar soap 🌿
• Slow crafted medicinal balms + salves
• For sensitive + troubled skin
• Small batch + plastic free

Bouquette Beauty

Our ingredients are mostly earth-grown and inspired by healthy, food-grade ingredients and botanicals.

Inspired by the French, but made for all.

Our skincare = your glow

Brown and Coconut

Less is everything.

Quality. Honesty. Sustainability.

Vegan 🌱

Brown Leaf Beauty

For those who value nature and beauty

Burden Free Beauty

beauty obsessed. impact focused.

Vegan skincare 🌱

buttah.

Nourishment for multicultural skin
Award winning skincare

Cherry Brenchez

Disruptive & innovative formulations for acne

Chloe and Chad

Organic and uncommon artisanal small-batch goods for the whole family

Vegan 🌱

Coco Nyle Skin

Empowering woman to enhance their skin wellness with quality + sustainable skincare

dehiya beauty®️

rooted in Africa. imagined in Morocco. micro-batched in California.

Dirt Don't Hurt

Oral care & skincare

Vegan 🌱

Eu'Genia Shea

100% Natural Raw Shea Butter

Vegan 🌱

THE ESTABLISHED

Clean skincare for the minimalist beauty enthusiast

Vegan 🌱

Flora & Fauna

The Power of Plants & Love

Vegan 🌱

Foxie Cosmetics

I fuse unique crafting techniques of century old ideas + current knowledge, combining nature with chemistry to create useful and intriguing vegan products.

Vegan 🌱

GlowRx

Biocompatible & clinical skincare for even, glowing skin

Vegan 🌱

Hand Scrubs by Faith

Fun and simple.

Non-toxic and handmade in small batches

Handmade Just For You

Beauty and bath. Psalm 91:4

Healing Place Apothecary

Rooted in holistic principles from Asia, Africa, and the Americas

Targets the needs of diverse melanin-rich skin

HunnyBunny

All-natural bath and beauty products designed for families

Ifere Elite

Caters to both men and women. Organic & handmade

JACQ'S

Non-toxic skincare for women of color

Vegan 🌱

KAIKE

Skin should be celebrated. What’s a celebration without a #pieceofkaike

Vegan 🌱

Keta Root

Extraordinary skincare curated from around the world

KLUR

Eco-inclusive, sustainable, skin and body care.

Vegan 🌱

Lauryn’s Garden

Clean, luxurious, and plant-based

Lovinah Supernatural

Luxury skincare powered by green chemistry

LUV SCRUB

Body exfoliator to replace your washcloth, loofa and dry brush

Marie Hunter

Cosmetics and fragrances for the modern muse.

Marla Rene

An eco-conscious lifestyle brand

MISHAL

Everyday luxury for home & body.

All candles, scented oils, and rich, creamy body butters are made slowly with care and intention. With every pour, time and care is taken in order to ensure freshness in every batch.

Mocha Whip

Honest body care with yummy appeal

Vegan 🌱

NARLOA

At NARLOA, we use the power of botanicals and aromatherapy to create natural, therapeutic skincare.

Vegan 🌱

Natural Mixologist

“Skin Cocktails” mixed by an esthetician

Neriyas

Good old-fashioned self-care

Vegan 🌱

Noire Beauté

All natural skin and beauty brand that believes in Shattering Stereotypes & Amplifying True Beauty.

Nolaskinsentials

Skin-loving; plant-based ingredients + handcrafted products = A Glowing You

Vegan 🌱

Novel Skincare

We understand what different lifestyles can do to your skin and create award winning skincare, called Chapters, to target the signs of a life well lived.

Vegan 🌱

Organic Bath Company

Clean. Not Complicated.
Award-winning Bath + Body products, because you deserve quality skincare.

Orire Organics

Originated from a mother’s desire for her new born to use the best products for her skin and hair.

Vegan 🌱

Pooka Pure and Simple

Handmade bath and body

Redoux NYC

Pronounced /ri-du/
Vegan skincare with sophisticated scents 🌿

Rosen Skincare

The next generation of acne care ⚡️

Vegan 🌱

RUT

Organically blended cocktail for day & night

Vegan 🌱

Sénica

Caribbean inspired, biochemist formulated. 🇩🇲🇻🇮

Shimirose

UK Vegan brand 🌱

SIMKHA

Canadian, sustainable skincare

Vegan 🌱

Sula NYC

Exotic, pure and clean

Vegan 🌱

Undefined Beauty

Clean. Conscious. Inclusive. Plant Magic

Vegan 🌱

Uzuri Botanicals

Plant-based skincare

Vie Beauty

At the intersection of hydration & luxury

BEAUTY & HAIR

Ace Beautè

Beauty for All

Aeva Beauty

Multi-purpose highlighter shades & quality beauty products that compliment the hues & skin complexions of everyone

Afro Hair & Skin Co

Multi award-winning hair & skincare.
Championing wellness for black womxn.™

Afrocentrix

Safe & Effective for Kinks, Curls & Coils

Vegan 🌱

Ah-Shí Beauty

Indigenizing The Beauty Industry

AJ CRIMSON Beauty

“I felt like there was an absolute need to bring products to women of color that actually worked and didn’t oxidize or change”.

Vegan 🌱

Alaffia

Beyond Fair Trade

Cultivating beauty, equality and empowerment in West Africa and around the globe.

Alikay Naturals

Standing by our company’s promise of beauty without compromise; we always source our carefully curated, high quality ingredients responsibly.

Anita Grant

Small batch, natural Afro hair & skincare

Axiology

Eco-friendly, zero waste lipsticks and crayons

Vegan 🌱

Bask & Bloom

Focused on multi-textured curly hair that offers intense moisture with protection from breakage

Beauty Bakerie

Embodies the sweet life not only by developing cruelty-free, all-inclusive cosmetics but more importantly while implementing initiatives such as the 501(c)3, Sugar Homes to support the needs of orphaned children worldwide.

Beauty By Stony

Air Force Medic who found her purpose
quality + affordable = CERTIFIED GORGEOUS

Beija-Flor Naturals

Brazil inspired, organic skincare & natural hair

The Bold Brand

The Bold Brand was founded on the principle that people should live in their own personal truth without letting society dictate what that should be.

Bossy Cosmetics

Igniting confidence in ambitious women through high-performance cosmetics, topical content, & experiences

Briogeo

6-free™ Clean Methodology

Proprietary blend of potent Natural Oils, Vitamins, and Antioxidants instead of superficial ingredients like sulfates, silicones & parabens.

Addresses immediate hair concerns while building the foundation for long-term healthy, nourished, & beautiful hair

Vegan 🌱

Brown Leaf Beauty

To give those who love beauty and are concerned about nature a better option

Burden Free Beauty

To create a new beauty culture and reality where we all are empowered to define our own beautiful

Coloured Raine

Coloured Raine’s mission has always been to spread awareness of beauty diverseness & to embrace all shades of skin tones through a unity bound by cosmetics.

Vegan 🌱

Danessa Myricks Beauty

All products are multi-functional & created to work in multiple places & on all faces

Dimension Nails

Gel, Lacquer & more

5% to animal charity

Vegan 🌱

DSMD Shop

$6 Super Soft Beauty Sponges

Foxie Cosmetics

I fuse unique crafting techniques of century old ideas + current knowledge, combining nature with chemistry to create useful and intriguing vegan products.

Vegan 🌱

Intertribal Beauty Cosmetics

The name Intertribal Beauty Cosmetics came from when visitors or "outsiders' can come into the circle at a powwow and dance. I am biracial and have friends of different races and backgrounds. My non-native friends have been strong allies to me while growing up. So this brand was not only to show my dedication for indigenous peoples, but to show that the way I was raised, the way my family raised me, embraces all differences and all walks of life.

Joséphine Cosmetics

Sultry natural & vegan cosmetics as exquisite as couture. A cabaret for the face - celebrating individuality through glamorously healthy beauty products. We translate runway trends into must-have beauty colors and naturally formulate for optimal results.

Vegan 🌱

Juvia’s Place

Created to celebrate the rebels, rulers, and queens of the African kingdoms who honored beauty through their innovative and soulful techniques that we still use today.

Kitaka of London®

Botanically Formulated Lip Gloss

A brand which focused on high performing lip products using natural and organic ingredients alongside recyclable packaging, and a space which empowered and encouraged women to enhance their natural beauty, ethically.

Klarity Kosmetics LLC ™️

Kaptivating & bold beauty

Vegan 🌱

Kreyòl Essence

Clean + Ethical Beauty Products from Haiti for ALL

Fair wages for Haitian employees. Uplifting communities

Lamain Beauty

Built on inclusivity, diversity and non toxic products all made in USA

Vegan 🌱

Lamik Beauty

Made with natural and organic ingredients for multicultural women

Vegan 🌱

Lauren Napier Beauty

Makeup wipes reinvented

Co-Packed by the Foundation for the Handicapped

Manufactured with solar energy

The Lip Bar

I launched The Lip Bar because everywhere I looked, the media was telling women that beauty looked a certain way. I hated it! So I started making lipstick in my kitchen because I believed beauty shouldn’t compromise health and because I was determined to change the way people thought about beauty. There is no standard! You are the standard.

Vegan 🌱

Loola Cosmetics

For beauty professionals by beauty professionals

Our brand is a 100% female owned. Our mission is to create a high level of beauty innovation that is accessible to beauty lovers as well as artists with the most convenient, customizable, easy to use, multi-purpose line of products with a diverse variety of colors in the industry.

Lovinah Supernatural

Luxury skincare powered by green chemistry

Makeup Addiction®

To create inclusive high-quality products to the makeup enthusiast that are perfect for the woman who wants to experiment without the high-end price tag.

Maréna Beauté

A Swedish cosmetics brand providing high quality makeup for women of colors. The color palette of the makeup collection was exclusively developed to match complexions of consumers with darker skin tones.

Marie Hunter

Beauty should be simple and not complicated

Our iconic packaging and statement-making modern collections are designed to help you discover and walk in that reflection. We’re just here to help you Be Bolder™ as you do it.

Melanin Haircare

Rooted in passion for natural hair, healthy scalp care, natural and safe ingredients

Vegan 🌱

Mented

One night over a glass of pinot, we sat down and asked ourselves why it was so hard to find the perfect nude lipstick. We created Mented Cosmetics because we believe every woman should be able to find herself in the world of beauty, no matter her skin tone. We know you'll love being put first - because when it comes to beauty, no one deserves to be an afterthought.

Vegan 🌱

Merchant’s Daughter

Herbal refreshments

All proceeds support children in the arts

Vegan 🌱

Mischo Beauty

Award-Winning pioneer of clean beauty, offering 10-FREE, vegan, cruelty-free, richly hued and high performance nail lacquers.

Vegan 🌱

NASH + PINO

10-FREE nail lacquer

Vegan 🌱

NaturAll™

World leader in fresh & frozen hair care

Nue Makeup

OBIA Naturals

pH balanced, eco-friendly and herbal-based natural hair & body care products for women & men

Vegan 🌱

Omolewa

A bold and elegant makeup line with staying power for go-getter women of color who want a red-carpet ready look for the every day.

Triple O Polish

Diversifying beauty in nail care with inclusive imagery & 80+ handmade African-inspired shades

13-Free

Vegan 🌱

OPV Beauty

Bold UK Beauty

ORIRE Organics

Originated from a mother’s desire for her new born to use the best products for her skin and hair

Vegan 🌱

OUI the People

Bodycare for the good of the people.
Come as you are, not as you “should” be.

Pattern Beauty

We are here to fulfill the beauty needs of the
CURLY, COILY & TIGHT TEXTURED
community.

We are centered around the celebration of Black Beauty.

We are an active space for uplifting & loving our authentic beauty.

Pear Nova

10-free nail brand celebrating all skin tones

People of Color® Beauty

Nail polish for People of Color & those who live in color

Vegan 🌱

Plain Jane Beauty

Beauty inspired by nature. Award-winning, eco-friendly & ethically sourced

Pooka Pure and Simple

Handmade bath, body & hair

Propa Beauty

We have been painstakingly mixing pigments and formulas that have our skin tones at the center stage of beauty innovations. Never again will we have to say, "if only this shade was just a tiny bit darker, a tiny bit warmer or a tiny bit redder, then it would be perfect for me."

Vegan 🌱

Range Beauty

Formed for people ranging from all shades, skin types, and genders who have felt left out or underrepresented. We are clean beauty for the forgotten shades.

Vegan 🌱

Rooted Woman

We curate non-toxic, ethical nail polishes and treatments to promote radical self-care for women. Our polishes are made in small batches, and as such, may reflect slight variation in color. This is by design and in keeping with our standard of authenticity.

10-Free

Vegan 🌱

Ruba Beauty

Luxury & clean beauty

Sabreen Cosmetics

Founded by three sisters, Sabreen Cosmetics was created to honor our aunt Nabeehah Sabreen who passed away from Breast Cancer. It is our mission to preserve her legacy by continuing to educate and empower women of color in the clean beauty industry.

Supports the Ora Lee Smith Cancer Research Foundation

Vegan 🌱

September Rose Cosmetics™️

Founded by a UK Tanzanian descent, who was always told she was “too dark” to wear bright eyeshadow, only to break the internet with the brightest RAINBOW eyeshadow palette the beauty industry had ever seen.

Vegan 🌱

Shanel Inc.

Make-up specifically geared for The Culture. Created with vibrant colors and even more relatable concepts, it draws you in with the urban spirit of cities, heritages, music and much more!

Sula NYC

Exotic, pure and clean

Vegan 🌱

Undefined Beauty

Clean. Conscious. Inclusive. Plant Magic

Vegan 🌱

UOMA Beauty

UOMA - pronounced OMA (uh-mah) means beautiful and we believe that beauty starts the moment you decide to be yourself. We exist to re-write the rules of inclusivity and diversity to create a world of beauty that truly is for all of us.

SUSTAINABLE FASHION

Almost.On.Time.

AOT is known for it’s modern interpretations of corsetry and designs are inspired by feminine silhouettes, sports and streetwear.  Each garment is designed by Kayla and handcrafted by her or her small team of local seamstresses in San Francisco. 

AOT is a part of the slow fashion movement  and makes a conscious effort towards innovation and sustainability. A large emphasis is placed on keeping old clothing in use for as long as possible, making garments that last, and using renewable materials to make new garments.

Bobbi Made This

We are a hand crafted jewelry line that focuses on funky, bold, one of a kind earrings.

Founded in late 2019, each piece is hand crafted in our spare bedroom with the mission of spreading joy, one ear at a time.

Brown Leaf Beauty

The SnapWrap™ is a 3-in-1 product designed with African hair care in mind.

Hand-sewn and made with cotton fabric making it a long lasting, durable and timeless piece.

Cold Laundry

Escape The Noise

Elia Vintage

Curated Vintage

Foaki

Accessories handmade in the UK

Golde

Natural cotton goods

Vegan 🌱

Lait de Coco

Lait de Coco aspires to make all different kinds of individuals glow in elegance and serving the environment while doing so. Lait de Coco provides vintage finds and handmade pieces embellished with the treasures of tropical islands.

Local European

Established in 2019, Local European is a womenswear label based in Los Angeles founded by Alexandra Bunch .

“Minimal with a touch of edginess”.

We value sustainability, quality, luxury, & exclusivity.

MILLERSROOM.

Founded by Marquise Miller, an LA native, Millersroom stands to be one of the most coveted vintage suppliers in the city of Los Angeles.

All garments & objects are sourced from all over the world by Marquise Miller himself.

Monrowe NYC

Timeless brims (hats) for the bold at heart. Inspired by nuances of jazz culture.

Strong, structured silhouettes. Nostalgic tones. The sort of extraordinary details inherent in expert craftsmanship. Daring shapes or classic forms—we know there’s a place for both.

Moon-Seed

Handmade jewelry for the risk-taker.

Omi Woods

Omi Woods jewelry are contemporary heirlooms that celebrate all of our connections to Africa and her diaspora. Our jewelry is individually and ethically handmade with fair trade African gold and globally sourced conflict-free fine metals.

Vida Botanicals

A community that shares naturally dyed and other goods conscious of you and the environment

Your purchase helps support local Latinx/e artisans and 10% of our proceeds are donated to local urban farms helping end food insecurity. We are have also partnered with local public schools serving BIPOC students and their sustainability efforts.

HEALTH

Andrelle's

Handcrafted by a clinical herbalist
Minimum Ingredients | Maximum Results

Black Girl Sunscreen

A 30 SPF lotion infused with natural ingredients and formulated for women of color. Made with melanated skin in mind, BGS dries completely clear and protects melanin without the white-cast.

Dirt Don’t Hurt Me

All natural oral care + beauty & body care activated charcoal detox products

Vegan 🌱

Garden of Self

Herb infused body care products based in London, UK

Golde

Superfood Self-Care

We're on a mission to make wellness easy, accessible and fun for all.

Vegan 🌱

The Honey Pot Co

The first complete feminine care system, powered by herbs™

Merchant's Daughter

Herbal refreshments
All proceeds support children in the arts

NOIREBUD

NOIREBUD is a fearlessly black female owned multidimensional CBD luxury product line which serves multiple demographics with humble charm, integrity, and simplicity.

Unsun

No chemicals. No white residue. Two shades. Voted "hands-down" the favorite mineral tinted sunscreen for dark skin tones among Allure editors.

I created Unsun so that women (and men) of every ethnicity and skin tone would have skin-safe sunscreen products that look good on your skin, and are good for your skin.

HOME & FRAGRANCE

Adorned Abode

Black-Owned boutique

Black Box Candle Co.

Black Box Candle Co. produces handmade soy candles in San Bernardino, CA. Their goal is not only to source all materials from local suppliers but also to sell through local retailers.

Vegan 🌱

Foxie Cosmetics

I fuse unique crafting techniques of century old ideas + current knowledge, combining nature with chemistry to create useful and intriguing vegan products.

Vegan 🌱

Handmade Just For You

All natural handmade beauty and bath products

Hummingbird Candle Co.

At Hummingbird Candles we strive to promote self care by providing unique & fun experiences during our BYOB Candle Making Workshops, create fair wage jobs by hiring Women to hand pour our Eco-Friendly Luxury Candles, and to always be activists by giving back to organizations that support women locally and globally!

Coconut wax

Vegan 🌱

Kindle Your Peace

Kindle Your Peace only uses 100% all-natural soy wax in our candles. This allows for a clean burn, easy clean up if you spill anything. Our wicks are 100% cotton wicks and are lead free.

The Koop

For daily luxury. Handcrafted in Brooklyn, NY

As a black immigrant owned business The Koop is on a mission to do more than just create candles. Already having donated $2,500+ to various #BlackLivesMatter charities, The Koop is dedicated to giving back to the community & helping immigrant families come together.

LIT Brooklyn

Luxury fragrance company hand poured in Brooklyn since 2015

Soy wax

Marie Hunter

Cosmetics and fragrances for the modern muse.

MISHAL

Everyday luxury for home & body.

All candles, scented oils, and rich, creamy body butters are made slowly with care and intention. With every pour, time and care is taken in order to ensure freshness in every batch.

Neriyas

Good old-fashioned self-care

Vegan 🌱

Novel Skincare

“This is intelligent beauty, with a twist” The Guardian

Vegan 🌱

Passport Seven

Passport Seven Home Décor & Candle Co., LLC is a company that inspires “wanderlust and modish living” via sustainable, hand-made quality products. Our brand can be described as an abstract view of the world shaped by travelers in motion.

Pooka Pure and Simple

Handmade fragrance

PUR Home

We are dedicated to creating natural and safe household cleaning products with ingredients that are plant-based, biodegradable, sulfate-free, and non-toxic.

PUR Home is dedicated to both our local community and the global community. We participate in local community gardens, volunteerism, and support sustainability efforts.

Redoux NYC

Pronounced /ri-du/
Products with sophisticated scents 🌿

Vegan 🌱

Sula NYC

Exotic, pure and clean

Vegan 🌱

UNLAX Candles

All of our candles and wax melts are hand-poured and created with a blend of 100% natural soy wax, essential oils, phthalate-free fragrance oils, & zinc and lead-free eco wicks.

Vegan 🌱

Urban Wanderlust

Handmade fragrance company from Long Island, New York.

Travel inspired fragrances, individually crafted to spark your olfactory senses.

Made using natural ingredients, our goal is to create a clean, non-toxic experience that's healthy for your home.

So many cute brands, right?!

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