Blended Girl Cosmetics, founded by Navajo makeup entrepreneur Shí-Fawn Chee, highlights the eyes with a range of lashes and colorful eyeshadow palettes. Each style of lashes (there's a variety of lengths and lash fullness) is named after a notable Native American woman.
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Cheekbone Beauty Lipstick
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Cheekbone Beauty Lipstick
This North American Indigenous brand has been blowing up on Instagram for its interpretation of sustainable beauty. Anishinaabe founder Jennifer Harper designed a lipstick tube for their signature shades that is made from biodegradable materials and can be completely recycled after use.
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Intertribal Beauty Cosmetics Creamy Matte Liquid Lipstick
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Intertribal Beauty Cosmetics Creamy Matte Liquid Lipstick
Shop Intertribal Beauty Cosmetics, founded by Brittney Amitrano, who identifies as Hidatsa, Lakota, and Black, for bold matte liquid lip colors. This one is vegan and infused with coconut oil to prevent cracking.
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Prados Beauty Sedona Brush Set
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Prados Beauty Sedona Brush Set
Xicana and Indigenous founder and CEO Cece Meadows infuses her own multicultural background into Prados Beauty and the product design. You'll find everything from brushes to palettes and lashes.
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Skwalwen Tewín’xw Cranberry Rose Antioxidant Facial Serum
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Skwalwen Tewín’xw Cranberry Rose Antioxidant Facial Serum
Ethnobotanist Leigh Joseph, whose Squamish ancestral name is Styawat, founded Skwalwen Botanicals with the commitment to using wild-harvested plants and all organic ingredients. Each product, like this cranberry rose serum, has a Squamish name to pay homage to the land on which the product ingredients can be found.
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Ah-Shi Beauty Botanical Firming Toner
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Ah-Shi Beauty Botanical Firming Toner
Ahsaki Baa LaFrance-Chachere grew up on the Navajo reservation and was always fascinated with skincare innovation—she founded plant-based Ah-Shí Beauty in 2012. This refreshing, firming toner is made with cucumber extract, chamomile, aloe, grapefruit seeds, and Japanese green tea.
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Yukon Soaps Essential Oil & Matching Soaps Combo
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Yukon Soaps Essential Oil & Matching Soaps Combo
Of Northern Tutchone heritage, owner Joella Hogan has been making these soaps for 20 years in the Yukon area (hence the name Yukon Soaps). The hand-poured small batch soaps, complemented by essential oils, are made from natural ingredients like olive and coconut oils and wild rose petals.
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Sequoia Soaps Tea Tree Mint Face Scrub
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Sequoia Soaps Tea Tree Mint Face Scrub
These soaps and scrubs from Sequoia Soaps are made in Nevada, where Mohawk founder Michaelee Lazore originally made them in her kitchen. She focused on including her favorite scents, such as sage, cedar, and sweetgrass, in natural products like this tea tree and olive oil exfoliating sugar scrub.
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Satya Organic Skin Care Stick
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Satya Organic Skin Care Stick
Originally developed as an eczema remedy for Ojibwe founder Patrice Mousseau's daughter, Satya Organic Skin Care was developed as a natural solution to irritation and dry skin. Try Satya's all-purpose organic skincare stick, for soothing chapped lips and skin.
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Mother Earth Essentials Wild Rose Hand & Body Lotion
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Mother Earth Essentials Wild Rose Hand & Body Lotion
Mother Earth Essentials is packed with botanical ingredients based on the Cree Medicine Woman ancestry of founder Carrie Armstrong. This nourishing wild rose hand and body lotion has a base of olive oil and aloe leaf, along with rosehip and cranberry seed oils.
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Niawen Spot Treatment for Acne Blemishes
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Niawen Spot Treatment for Acne Blemishes
If you're looking for a more natural acne remedy, try Niawen. Tara-Tekahentakhwa founded the brand on the Mohawk territory of Akwesasne in order to create a skincare brand that was tied to her Native American heritage.
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Haipazaza Phezuta Prairie in Bloom Soap and Shampoo Bar
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Haipazaza Phezuta Prairie in Bloom Soap and Shampoo Bar
Haipažaža Pȟežuta, in the Lakota language, means "medicine soaps," according to Lakota/Dakota co-founder Tipiziwin Tolman. You can cut back on your shower time and on the amount of packaging you're using with this moisturizing goat's milk and Greek yogurt shampoo and soap bar.
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Spirit Earth Holistics Blueberry Sage Sugar Scrub
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Spirit Earth Holistics Blueberry Sage Sugar Scrub
Oneida co-founder Dayna Elijah also started this earth-friendly brand out of her kitchen. Not only does it look Instagram-worthy, but the blueberry sage sugar scrub has a creamy base of beeswax and shea butter, so it won't strip your skin of moisture.
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Sister Sky Sweetgrass Conditioner
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Sister Sky Sweetgrass Conditioner
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Real-life sisters Marina TurningRobe and Monica Simeon began their startup, Sister Sky, back in 1999 to honor their Spokane ancestral medicine. Their haircare products, soaps, and lotions are vegan and use only plant-based ingredients, including sweetgrass, white willow, and chamomile.
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ArXotica Serum Infused Deodorant
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ArXotica Serum Infused Deodorant
Qissunamiut Native Alaskan triplets Michelle, Cika, and Amy Sparck got crafty creating ArXotica, with ingredients that can only be found in the tundra, like Arctic sage. ArXotica created an aluminum-free, beeswax and coconut oil formula for their deodorant, infused with their trademark anti-aging skin serum.
Mara is a freelance writer and editor specializing in culture, politics, wellness, and the intersection between them, whose print and digital work has appeared in Marie Claire, Women’s Health, Cosmopolitan, Airbnb Mag, Prevention, and more. She’s a Fordham University graduate who also has a degree in Italian Studies, so naturally she’s always daydreaming about focaccia.
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