60+ Sustainable Black Owned Businesses to Shop
Green America said it pretty powerfully, “If consumer spending accounts for 70 percent of the entire US economy, imagine what directing some of that spending power to Black-owned businesses across the country can do.
48 percent of small business purchases are recirculated locally compared to only 14 percent of what’s circulated by chain stores.
Supporting Black-owned businesses in turn supports families, employees, and other business owners, as well as attracts community investors who provide banking services, loans, and promote financial literacy--all things that build economic strength.”
By using your purchase power to support Black owned businesses, you’re investing in Black communities.
My pal Rickella had the great idea to collaborate on a round-up featuring sustainable Black owned brands. There are so many wonderful eco-friendly Black owned brands that I’m just now discovering.
This list of Black owned businesses feature 60+ small businesses organized by category including fashion, beauty, food, art, and more.
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Black Owned Sustainable Fashion, Clothing, & Accessory Brands
If you’re ready to shop from small businesses that are Black owned & create fashion and accessories check out this list!
Bow Shoe Shoe’s Accessories
Bow Shoe Shoe partners with artisans in Lesotho & trains people to sew bowties & ties with the local fabric. This provides sustainable employment opportunities for community members to support themselves.
Devi Arts Collective
Devi Arts Collective is a slow fashion accessory brand featuring handmade nature-inspired jewelry and home décor.
Galerie.LA Sustainable Fashion
Galerie.LA focuses on fashion with integrity by curating a selection of sustainable fashion focused on positive environmental and social impact.
Global Mamas Fair trade Clothing
Global Mamas community is comprised of thousands of people from around the world working together with the mission of creating prosperity for African women and their families. Global Mamas is a non-profit, so while not legally owned, the founders of Global Mamas were a group of six Black & white women.
“The Mamas” produce beautiful clothing made using traditional practices and fair trade principles ensuring every Global Mama is paid a steady, living wage. Global Mamas further empowers the Mamas by inviting them to be a part of organizational decisions and product development.
Grant BLVD Ethical Fashion
Grant Blvd is a Black owned ethical fashion brand on a mission to create living wage employment opportunities for ALL marginalized folks, particularly those who have an experience with incarceration. This sustainable fashion brand uses eco-friendly materials such as TENCEL, organic cotton, and deadstock fabrics.
HEZA’s Bold Clothing
HEZA focuses on sustainable clothing and bold pops of color by crafting clothes with organic cotton, TENCEL modal, & more eco-friendly materials.
House of Aama
House of Aama is a culturally inspired lifestyle brand rooted in the ethos of the African continent and diaspora.
Jo-Anne Vernay Sustainable Shoes
Jo-Anne Vernay is a line of vegan shoes made from pineapple leaf fibre that mixes sustainability with style.
Loza Tam’s Ethically Made Head Wraps
Loza Tam works to empower women in Ghana through job creation and crafting ethically made head wraps & turbans.
MAW SUPPLY Vintage Clothing
MAW SUPPLY also known as Man and Woman, is a vintage and reclaimed apparel and accessories company founded in 2012 by husband and wife, Norman and Rachelle Clark.
This Black owned brand specializes in sustainable day-to-day pieces, Norman and Rachelle share their love for vintage and secondhand goods that reflect simplicity, style, comfort, and individuality for the wardrobe of today.
Omi Woods Fair Trade Jewelry
Omi Woods jewelry features contemporary heirlooms that celebrate connections to Africa. The jewelry is ethically handmade with fair-trade African gold and globally sourced conflict-free fine metals.
Rebel Vine’s Fashion & Beauty
Rebel Vine hopes to change the way society connects with the fashion and beauty industry. This boutique helps protect the environment and humanity by providing products that are ethically and responsibly sourced.
R E M U S E’s Mindful Style
R E M U S E is a sustainable fashion brand utilizing natural fabrics, vegan materials, both fiber reactive and mindfully concocted plant-based dyes, and fabrics sourced both locally and globally, with a constant exploration of GOTS certified organic materials, deconstructured and recycled fabrics, and our foundation, unbleached and unaltered calico.
Sancho’s Ethical Boutique
Sancho’s is an ethical fashion boutique focused on sustainable clothing and accessories.
Sawa Sawa Collection’s Artisan Made Fashion
SAWA SAWA Collection works with women in rural communities in Kenya to support artisans by providing connections to retail market, and supplies and materials to those that would like to create but lack the resources.
ShareHope’s Activewear
ShareHope is a people oriented activewear brand empowering garment workers in Haiti. Profits from their ethically made leggings are reinvested into educational and health focused social programs, furthering the growth of garment workers and creating bright futures for Haitian workers.
Taylor Jay Sustainable Fashion Brand
Taylor Jay is a Black owned sustainable fashion brand creating an intersectional approach to fashion through ethics, sustainability, and inclusion. Taylor Jay partners with a factory focused on ethical sourcing and fair labor in Oakland, CA to produce environmentally safe garments from certified eco-friendly textiles.
The Chayah Movement’s Upcycled & Secondhand Style
The Chayah Movement sells, upcycles, and donate clothes with a focus on benefiting local non-profits who support foster youth and adults transitioning into the workforce.
The Stylist Way’s Sustainable Styling Services
The Stylist Way offers sustainable styling services while meeting conscious consumers where they’re at in their journey.
Threads by Dreads
Threads by Dreads produces ethical fashion accessories that represent a piece of culture, not just from Ghana, but a deeply rooted history.
Natural Beauty, Body, & Wellness Brands
BLK+GRN Eco-friendly Marketplace
BLK+GRN is an eco-friendly marketplace featuring all Black artisans and connecting people with natural lifestyles by featuring high quality, toxic-free brands.
Beelove Honey Infused Body Products
Beelove crafts natural raw honey and honey infused body care products.
Breedlove Beauty Co. organic hair & Skincare products
Breedlove Beauty Co. crafts affordable natural hair and skincare products that are handmade with natural & organic butters, oils, and ingredients.
Beauty Bakerie Cosmetics That Give Back
Beauty Bakerie cosmetics line gives back with each purchase through their partnership with Sugar Homes. Sugar Homes' mission is to "sweeten the lives of others" by donating money, clothes, toys, and other things needed to orphanages all around the globe.
Coloured Raine Beauty
Coloured Raine spreads awareness of diversity through beauty and encourages people to embrace all aspects of color through unity. Coloured Raine cosmetics are certified cruelty free by PETA. Most products are paraben free and gluten free too.
CURLS Natural Hair Care
CURLS is a leader in the natural hair care industry. This socially responsible brand sources from fair trade suppliers, uses organic ingredients, and is on a mission to encourage women to embrace their natural curls and live beautifully.
Hanahana Beauty
Hanahana Beauty is a skincare and wellness empowering women of color with all natural products featuring fair trade shea butter sourced from the Katariga (Suglo) Cooperative in Tamale, Ghana.
Mented Make Up
Mented is a socially responsible make-up brand featuring products that are vegan, paraben-free, non-toxic, cruelty free, and proudly made in the USA.
Mielle Organics Hair & Beauty
Mielle Organics is a hair care and beauty brand that believes in healthier ingredients to encourage healthy hair and skin.
Mrs. Jack’s Body Food
Mrs. Jack’s Body Food focuses organic body products, herbs, and natural healing solutions.
People of Color Beauty
People of Color Beauty is a brand of vegan, cruelty free nail polishes.
Range Beauty
Range Beauty products are made in the USA, cruelty free, and free of toxins.
Shea Moisture
Shea Moisture is a natural, sustainably-produced beauty line. These products are ethically made with love pioneering fair trade through Community Commerce at home and abroad.
The Honey Pot Co. Natural Menstrual Products
The Honey Pot Co. focuses on natural menstrual products such as organic pads, natural cleansing wipes, organic tampons, & more.
The Lip Bar Cruelty Free Beauty
The Lip Bar is a vegan and cruelty-free beauty brand that exists to help change the way consumers think about beauty.
228 Grant Street Candle Co.
228 Grant Street Candle Co. creates high quality candles made with all-natural soy wax, braided cotton wicks, and scented oils, no other additives or dyes. This Black owned candle company focuses on sourcing locally in the USA whenever possible.
Organic Pantry & Natural Home Goods from Black Owned Small Businesses
These Black owned businesses are making tasty snacks, high quality home goods, & more.
Aquarius Herbs & Tea
Aquarius Herbs & Teas focuses on organic teas and natural healing.
Brooklyn Tea
Brooklyn Tea strives to create an authentic and accessible escape for our customers through their love of tea. Brooklyn Teas are of the highest quality, organic, and fair trade whenever available. As part of their mission, they provide free expert-level tea education in any community we serve. I really love their herbal teas for relaxing at night time!
Cerebral Teas for Anxiety
Cerebral Teas is a Black owned tea and wellness company whose mission is to help as many people as possible overcome Anxiety disorder, Depression, ADHD and more.
CEO and Founder, Pedestra Reeves, started the company in 2018 after years of dedicated study and research on the topic of everything Anxiety-related. Cerebral Teas has their therapeutic teas, coaching programs, and healing courses.
Maya’s Cookies
Maya’s Cookies is a vegan bakery shipping cookies nationwide.
Pipcorn Snacks
Pipcorn is a heirloom corn based snack brand that ships natural snacks across the U.S.
Project Pop
Project Pop ships their small batch organic kettle corn nationwide.
PUR Home
PUR Home is a natural, non-toxic eco-friendly laundry detergent and household cleaners product line. This socially responsible brand uses organic and raw ingredients that are plant-based, biodegradable and low toxic.
Reel bamboo Toilet Paper
Reel is a Black owned bamboo toilet paper brand creating more eco-friendly bathroom solutions. Use the discount code HONEST25 for 25% off your first order from Reel.
Southern Roots Vegan Bakery
Southern Roots is a San Antonia based vegan bakery that ships treats within the USA.
Trade Street Jam Co.
Trade St. Jam Co. is a chef, woman and minority-owned and certified business that started in a tiny apartment in North Carolina on Trade Street. Their vegan jams feature unique flavors. My personal favorite is the Blackberry Mulled Merlot.
Black Art & Content to Love
Aya Paper Co’s Stationery
Aya Paper Co is an eco-friendly stationery brand printing greeting cards on 100% recycled paper.
BLK MKT Vintage
BLK MKT Vintage is a shop featuring black collectibles representing the richness of black history and lived experience.
GOODEE Marketplace
GOODEE is a curated marketplace where good design and good purpose come together.
Grey Remedy Stoneware
Grey Remedy features handmade stoneware clay pieces that are elegant, minimalist, and contemporary.
Ethical Style Journal
Ethical Style Journal is a print magazine and digital platform exploring fashion with a mindful perspective. ESJ focuses on ethics and sustainability in fashion: connecting readers to the stories that matter, the people behind the brands, and inviting everyone to help shape a fashion industry that is as much about awareness, accountability, and action as it is about style.
Naked Clay Ceramics
Naked Clay Ceramics is a handmade line of minimal style tableware and homeware featuring black stoneware and white porcelain.
Oh Happy Dani
Oh Happy Dani creates justice inspired doodles.
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