This weeks Let's Talk Black Business edit highlights brands and products that both you and your bae can both enjoy.
So on top of shopping your matching outfits from the brand new Grass-fields' His ♥ Hers Collection, shop and/or follow the below brands for a full couple experience and support other Black Owned Businesses.
1. Vitae London
Vitae London was born out of our desire to produce stunning watches like those of old, but at prices that don’t break the bank. With watches for both men and women, they combine beautiful, minimalist watch design with maximal social justice.
Subtle, slim and at once sophisticated, each Vitae London timepiece is imbued with the premise behind their mission: “Time, and its opportunities, belongs to all of us, wherever we are in the world, we can live without limits.”
Along with charities on the ground, Vitae London are embracing the innovative spirit of some of the world’s most difficult to reach youth so they can make a difference. Read more about this inspiring journey here.
2. Wild Seed Botanicals
Offering natural and vegan friendly wellness & beauty products for both you and your bae, Wild Seed Botanicals believe in the efficacious power of nature to heal, nourish and restore. All of their products are handmade in small batches with love using the finest wildcrafted, organic cold pressed and steam distilled carrier oils, butters, essential oils and botanical herbs.
No parabens. No artificial fragrances. No synthetic additives.
3. Vibrant Health
Vibrant Health was founded by Paige and Ted Parker who have their customers optimum health in mind with a range of complex supplements.
By using the best all-natural hand-sourced ingredients, fully disclosing every ingredient by dose on the label, and updating formulas as nutritional science evolves, Vibrant Health continues leading the way in the nutrition industry with integrity and a premium brand that helps you and your bae live your best life.
Their products include greens, probiotics, proteins and vitamins & minerals, so you can be sure your immune system is in good hands.
4. Kitchen Cosmetics
Kitchen Cosmetics create premium purposeful ethical products with no compromise on ingredients sustainability & outcome. They pride themselves on being 100% vegan providing quality handcrafted products from raw natural sources. Each product holds therapeutic properties that enhance well-being whilst staying kind to the earth, animals, skin, hair & body.
Bigger than beauty Latoya wanted to create a brand that will impact & support more than the direct consumer. Latoya wanted Kitchen Cosmetics to mobilise & strengthen the communities in which each product is crafted, sold & consumed around the U.K. Truly understanding the depth of the beauty industries social responsibility, she founded The KC Causes, a non-profit charity funded directly by Kitchen Cosmetics. The voluntary KC Causes team host, donate, & build yearly events for your local communities to benefit from.
This year their cause is to provide food & toy hampers for up to 70 families struggling within the local community at Christmas.
5. Pearl Ivy
Pearl Ivy is a London-based Artist and Designer, who from a young age has always had a love and passion for art inspired by artists such as Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.
The Pop Art movement has had a major impact in her work, as she loves bold abstract colours, pop culture and people.
Her collection is all things fun and pop culture and include pieces that are relatable and bold and not just the typical traditional style of cards and prints. You can also find some very cool accessories among her products.
6. The Mane Choice
The Mane Choice are an electrifying revolution in the hair care industry created by a Physician and Registered Nurse DUO. They built the company on the foundation of research and the “beauty, heath, science” approach.
With products for you, your man and your children too, offer a comprehensive methodology to achieving beautiful healthy hair, by infusing their hair care products with vitamins and essential nutrients such as Biotin, Vitamin A, B, C, D, & E and more. They attentively listen to the voices of their consumers, and create a solution to their hair problems.
7. Oyin Handmade
"Oyin" is the Yoruba word for honey, a natural humectant and amazing ingredient in natural hair and skin care. It also stands for the principles of sweetness, joy, and love -- elements Oyin Handmade seek to inspire in their customers' daily acts of self-care.
Their line was created in 2001 by Jamyla Bennu, a lifelong naturalista & ingredient-conscious maker, when she couldn't find commercially available natural and organic products for her highly textured, natural hair. Joined by her husband and partner Pierre in 2003, the company began online only, and now enjoys national distribution with independent retailers nationwide for both you and your bae.