15 Indigenous and Native-Owned Makeup and Skincare Brands

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.  

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. 

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. 

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. 

These soaps and scrubs from Sequoia Soaps are made in Nevada, where Mohawk founder Michaelee Lazore originally made them in her kitchen.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. 

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.