Meet The Brands
We're committed to partnering with black-owned, women-owned, and minority-owned businesses
to bring you the best self-care products, services and resources.
Founder(s): Hem Rai & Luisa Jackson
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Hem Rai: Nepal native, is a visionary that enjoys sharing the fascinating culture of his home village. Hem’s mission is to help people connect to the Earth.
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Luisa Jackson: Columbia native, led the evolution of Earth’s Elements from a small family owned business to a multifaceted corporation. Luisa's spent the last 15 years of her life learning about natural healing, holistic lifestyle, and spiritual concepts. She is a certified Kundalini Yoga Instructor and a very powerful healer.
Founding Principle: We show up to work every day to share spiritual rituals that empower, heal and liberate. Our goal is to inspire people to live a healthy lifestyle and manifest their own reality.

Founder(s): Lynn, Sydni & Soni
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A collaboration of beauty solutions led by mother Lynn Jenkins & her two daughters Sydni and Soni.
Founding Principle: We could share countless stories about buying makeup only to find it’s not the right color, or the formulation just doesn’t quite blend well with our skin.
It’s incredibly frustrating and left us wondering, “Isn’t there a company somewhere that makes foundation and concealer that’s perfect for us?”
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It was out of our collective struggles with skincare and makeup that Sydoni Skincare and Beauty was born.

Founder(s): April Milupi & Young Kim
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Working together since 2006, Young Kim and April Milupi share a passion for providing a positive atmosphere for all customers.
Founding Principle: Ellison+Young is a Georgia-based lifestyle brand, with over 15 years experience. They love creating products that wow you with southern charm, while keeping it stylish, feminine and classy.

Founder(s): Alex & Patricia Hopkins
More than a line of products, however, Confident Girls is a platform for positive change. Confident Girls was created by 11-year-old kidpreneur, Alex, and her mom, Patricia Hopkins.
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This mommy-daughter team are building a movement to teach young girls about body image and self-worth. They want to change the conversation with young girls about body image and self-worth from the societal message of “mask who you are” to a healthier one of, “love who you are.”
Founding Principle: Our mission is to help mothers and daughters connect through confidence building activities, self-care routines and fun conversation.
Our collection of bath and body products is made with quality ingredients and an extra dose of love and positivity blended right into each item. We’re here to help you celebrate everything that makes you unique!

Founder(s): Women-owned business based in Columbia, South Carolina
Founding Principle: We started making handmade soaps and creating natural products for personal use and as gifts for friends and family, and wanted to give the same joy and peace of mind to the world. All our soaps are cut by hand making each bar unique and luxury at best.
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Slogan: To Be Elite Is Natural, To Be Natural Is An Elite Creed.

Founder(s): Sabrina Jones
Growing up with eczema, Sabrina Jones experienced the adverse effects of synthetic lotions and medicated treatments. Her struggle continued into adulthood. She suffered headaches, dry skin, allergies, and anxiety from a high-stress career in child protection.
When she became pregnant, she knew she needed to take control of her health and find a better way to deal with the stress and take care of her skin.
She researched essential oils and started combining them with other natural ingredients, such as shea butter and carrier oils. Her mental and physical health improved significantly, and she had a healthy pregnancy.
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Her experience sparked a passion for helping others with similar health issues. In 2015 she founded SJC Body Love – her own line of hand-crafted skincare made with clean, simple ingredients and a lot of TLC.
Founding Principle: Never compromise on what you love

Brief Bio:
Abiola Abrams is an intuitive self-worth coach, popular keynote speaker, award-winning author, international retreat leader, columnist and media personality who empowers Big Vision Women to find freedom from their personal fears, manifest authentic power, and align with purpose.
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"My great-grandmother in Guyana was a midwife and fertility healer. My grandparents were all farmers. My mother was raised by her aunt, family herbalist and intuitive. My father is a minister and journalist who worked with precious metals. My mom was a teacher. On both sides my people are intuitives, healers, artists, teachers and caretakers.” - Abiola
Guiding Principle(s): Abiola Abrams invites you to activate African goddess magic to transmute your fears and limiting beliefs, so that you can create more happiness, abundance, and self-acceptance.
"I am obsessed with helping women to reclaim our power. If you are ready to stop living in fear and answer your calling, you are in the right place... Spirit told me, 'We choose who shows up.'" -Abiola

Founder(s): Sisters Susan and Shelina
After moving to the U.S., in 1986, their mother struggled to find organic and Ayurvedic skincare products like the ones she used back in Fiji.
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Susan & Shelina were driven by a passion for natural, organic, and Ayurvedic skincare, and a desire to make it accessible to the public.
Being from Fiji, with an Indian heritage, they were familiar with Ayurvedic herbs and fresh tropical fruits and vegetables, and had experienced the incredible health benefits of these ingredients.
Founding Principle: At Sulina Shop we believe in natural, organic and Ayurvedic products that make hair, skin, and body look and feel beautiful inside and out without the use of harsh chemicals.
We strive to introduce new and existing ingredients that help improve the health of your skin and hair with the highest quality natural and organic ingredients.

Brief Bio:
Lilith Dorsey M.A., resides in New Orleans, a city known worldwide for Voodoo and Hoodoo. They hail from many magickal traditions, including Afro-Caribbean, Celtic, and Indigenous American spirituality.
Their traditional education focused on Plant Science, Anthropology, and Film at the University of R.I, New York University, and the University of London
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Lilith is the author of the bestselling Orishas, Goddesses, and Voodoo Queens (2020), Voodoo and African Traditional Religion (2021) Water Magic (2020), and The African-American Ritual Cookbook (2012).
Guiding Principle(s): Lilith Dorsey's magickal training includes numerous initiations in Santeria also known as Lucumi, Haitian Vodoun, and New Orleans Voodoo. Lilith Dorsey is also a Voodoo Priestess and in that capacity has been doing successful magick since 1991 for patrons.
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