20 Sustainable BIPOC Owned Brands You Should Know

Best for: Natural beauty and skincare

BLK + GRN is an online marketplace showcasing black artisans creating sustainable and eco-friendly products.

The platform allows customers to browse from hundreds of black eco friendly brands. Their selection includes natural skincare brands such as Black Girl Sunscreen, and make-up brands such as LUV + Co.

All of the products BLK + GRN showcase are non-toxic, natural, and cruelty-free.

Best for: The latest innovative sustainable homewares

GOODEE is a black-owned online platform offering its customers the best on-trend innovations in the sustainable homeware market.

As a certified B corp, the brand prioritises people and the planet above profits. GOODEE helps to support marginalised communities, and works to reduce poverty by ensuring its artisans are paid a fair price for their products.

Best for: Sustainable activewear

Sustainable activewear brand Wolven is a female-founded BIPOC brand creating sustainable activewear with a sexy twist. Wolven uses recycled plastic bottles and turns them into its pieces.

In addition, Wolven collects 1 pound of ocean-bound plastic for every order through its partnership with One Earth – One Ocean.

Best for: Slow luxury fashion

House of AAMA is a slow fashion brand which takes its inspiration from African cultures. The fashion house was founded by mother and daughter duo, Rebecca Henry and Akua Shabaka.

House of AAMA collections are bespoke, offering a refreshing take on luxury designs. House of AAMA designs are available to pre-order, a system which helps to reduce textile waste.

Best for: Sustainable fashion / Eco-friendly linen clothing

Women-led eco-conscious brand Two Days Off creates dreamy linen clothing ethically and sustainably.

The brand is certified carbon neutral, and takes care to ensure people and the planet aren’t harmed to creates its clothing. All of the brands unique pieces are ethically cut and sewn in Los Angeles, California.

Best for: Sustainable fashion and organic essentials

Back Beat Co. is a WOC-owned clothing brand focused on ethically made organic essentials. The brand prioritises low impact fabrics like recycled or organic natural fibers instead of environment polluting virgin polyester and cotton.

Expect to find colorful t-shirts, shorts, and other organic basics that you won’t be able to live without.

Best for: Made in the USA women’s sustainable clothing

Handmade in Los Angeles, The Tiny Closet is a black owned business creating a collection of effortless statement clothing.

The brand is women owned and creates its clothing on small batches to reduce waste, and each piece is produced from deadstock fabric that would otherwise end up in landfills.

Best for: Ethical jewelry

SOKO is a women-led marketplace connecting jewelry making artisans in Kenya with the world.

The global online platform offers people the chance to support jewelry makers in Kenya, who create ethical jewelry from sustainable materials such as recycled brass, reclaimed materials, and beads. SOKO is a registered B corp, meaning it takes car of people and the planet in its supply chain.

Best for: Luxury leather bags

Founded by self taught designer Valerie Blaise, VAVVOUNE is a brand creating luxury and bespoke leather goods, in the heart of New York City.

Each bag is designed and handcrafted in small batches in NYC using recycled deadstock Italian leathers left over by luxury brands.

Best for: GOTS organic cotton T-shirts

If you’re looking for an organic cotton t-shirt, The Good Tee should be your go-to brand. The women founded company ensures ethical production of its t-shirts by partnering with Fair Trade.

GOTS organic cotton is a more sustainable alternative to cotton as its grown with less water usage and without pesticides.

Best for: Bespoke woven bags

Founded in 2014 by Akosua Afriyie-Kumi AAKS celebrates and raises awareness of the bespoke weaving techniques of women in Ghana.

The brand does this by showcasing beautifully crafted baskets and bags, woven by artisans in Ghana.

Best for: Homewares

Naked Clay Ceramics is a UK-based ceramics brand, founded by Carla Sealey. Carla creates her designs in small batches 3-4 times per year.

If you’re looking for minimal style ceramic tableware, you should check out her brand.

Best for: Sustainable fashion, ethical clothing

Another great sustainable black owned clothing brand is Aliya Wanek, who creates refreshing vibrant styles in using sustainable fabrics including resp sourced linen and other natural fabrics.

Aliya creates pieces in her collection herself, and works with other small local production businesses in the San Francisco Bay area.

Best for: Natural cosmetics

Cheekbone Beauty is an Indigenous-owned clean beauty brand innovating sustainable cosmetics for eco-conscious consumers.

Founded by Jen Harper in 2016, Cheekbone stays true to Anishinaabe roots ands ensures the planet isn’t hurt to produce its cosmetics.

Cheekbone is a certified B corp, and its products are cruelty-free.

Best for: Eco-friendly toilet paper

Reel Paper is a sustainable BIPOC-owned business that creates eco-friendly toilet paper from bamboo.

Reel ensures its paper is biodegradable and made without harmful inks or dyes. Plus, Reel paper is made with 100% tree-free fibers making it one of the most sustainable toilet papers in the world.

Best for: Vintage clothing

MAW Supply which stands for Man and Woman, is a Texas based vintage clothing and accessories brand founded in 2012 by husband and wife, Norman and Rachelle Clark.

Norman and Rachelle take their passion for vintage and pre-loved clothing to carefully curate their online marketplace. Selecting stylish second-hand pieces that both rival and reflect the style of modern day trends.

You can find their unique handpicked pieces on etsy, or through their website MAWsupply.com.

Best for: Vintage clothing

If you’re looking for vintage clothing, check out Retro Rhapsody, who sells unique vintage finds through her Etsy store.

Based in Florida, Retro Rhapsody has helped over four thousand customers find vintage treasures.

Best for: Natural haircare

NaturAll Club is the leading brand in natural frozen hair care. the haircare brand creating shampoos, styling creams, and frozen hair care from natural plant-based ingredients.

NaturAll club is cruelty-free and ethically-sources all of its ingredients.

Best for: Sustainable underwear

Proclaim is a dreamy sustainable lingerie brand that ethically creates its comfortable and supportive designs in its Los Angeles studio.

Proclaim is a female-founded brand redefining nude underwear to include and compliment every skin tone.

Expect to find styles including bralettes, triangle bras, and bodysuits in size-inclusive sizes up to 3x.

Best for: Plants, plant pots, eco-friendly homewares

Whether you’re looking for chic plant pots to home your abundance of greenery, or you’re looking for natural eco-friendly homewares, check out Eco Vibe.

What started as a shop based in Portland Oregon in 2010, has grown into an eco online business, selling on-trend natural, eco-friendly homewares.

Eco-vibe style is run by husband and wife duo Len and Dre with a passion for the environment. The business is part of 1% for the planet, which donates 1% of all profits to environmental non-profit organizations.