8 LGBTQIA+ Owned Beauty Brands
Clean products for all
Clean products for all
June is Pride Month, and to celebrate, we wanted to highlight several brands owned and/or started by LGBTQIA-identifying individuals. The following natural skincare and beauty brands champion related charities and initiatives like The Trevor Project in addition to other give-back programs, and offer holistic, non-binary skincare and beauty products.
Noto Botanics | Shop Agender Oil
Noto Botanics is a natural, gender fluid, multi-use cosmetic line packed with uncomplicated, high-performing, natural and organic ingredients. The brand centers around representation, real results, clean and vegan ingredients, a give-back philosophy, BIPOC-solidarity, activism through identity and sustainability.
Volition Beauty | Shop Strawberry-C Serum
Volition Beauty focuses on creating safe, science-backed clean skincare for all. They offer an innovative concept in allowing folks to submit product ideas and bring them to life via crowdsourced votes. Here’s more on how they operate.
Hi Wildflower
Inspired by the everyday muse of wildflowers, the brand is for socially-conscious, colorful and stylish consumers looking for luxury and fine-crafted goods. Shop botanical lipsticks, illumination powders, perfumes and home fragrances.
Fluide | Shop 7-Free Polish
Fluide is where consumers meet their irreverent, otherworldly selves. An irresistible future where radical inventiveness and queer kinship thrives. To Fluide, beauty is malleable, political, powerful, play.
Kiss My Face | Shop all products
Kiss My Face is the product of a queer romance spanning more than 40 years. (Allure) Founders Bob MacLeod and Steve Byckiewicz went from unemployed 20-somethings with a single order of olive soap bars, to a worldwide brand with more than 200 kinds of vegan products. The brand offers bath care, sunscreen, toothpaste, deodorant, lotion and more.
Otherwild
Otherwild acts as a gathering space, hosting a variety of workshops taught by makers and practitioners, dance and music performances, readings, meetings, food swaps, lectures, publication launches, comedy nights, soirées, craft fairs, dance parties and more.
The brand is committed to utilizing their resources to provide sustained support to staff, vendors and suppliers, as well as grassroots and national social justice and health care organizations. Shop clothing, zero waste products, natural self care, homewares, apothecary, accessories and more.
Sigil Scent | Shop all scents
Sigil Scent was founded in 2015 by Patrick Kelly. Inspired by his love of nature (backpacking trips through the high desert, wild harvesting sage and chaparral, gardening with his grandmother), Patrick developed a line of premium fragrances that are long-wearing, nuanced, and 100% natural. Utilizing a combination of handmade tinctures, essential oils, and absolutes, Sigil perfumes are hand blended to evoke the natural world that surrounds us. The result is singular eau de parfums that unite the sensorial with the intangible.
W3ll People | Shop all
Co-founded by lesbian makeup artist Shirley Pinkson, who held previous positions at Barney's New York, M.A.C., and Nars, W3ll People has a considerable range of products of both makeup and skin care. They create premium plant-powered cosmetics for long-lasting, high-performance wear. The brand’s nourishing formulas deliver hydrating, buildable coverage to effortlessly take you from day to night.
We hope that you enjoyed this post and found a few new brands to support in the process!