10 Body Lotions and Butters From Black-Owned Brands to Add to Your Skincare Routine
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Fact: Your skincare routine shouldn’t stop at your neck. When it comes to moisturizing, we often meticulously apply luxurious, hydrating creams and oils to our face—forgetting that the skin on the rest of our body needs just as much TLC. Skin is the body’s largest organ, and it’s important to lather your limbs with nourishing, hydrating products to keep it as healthy as possible. While there are countless body lotions to pick from at drugstores, there are Black-owned skincare brands that deserve your support.
Ahead, the 10 body lotions, creams, and butters from Black-owned brands you need to treat your skin to. These brands celebrate Black beauty 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and 365 days a year—and their products are packed with good-for-you ingredients that will leave your skin soft, smooth, and healthy.
Grn Goods Butter Me Down
Grn Goods’ “Butter Me Down” will coat your skin in a rich blend of shea butter, cocoa butter, and sea buckthorn oil. It is formulated to deliver a boost of hydration and amp up the glow on all skin types. The best part? It gives off a warm, chocolatey scent, so you smell delicious all day.
- $20 Available at Grn Goods
HanaHana Beauty Shea Body Butter
Hanahana Beauty is an all-natural skincare and wellness brand that is known for its shea butter-based products. The brand’s signature ingredient is sourced directly from Tamale, Ghana, and as a brand that firmly believes in fair sourcing, HanaHana Beauty pays two times the fair trade price for their shea butter, and each of their products is handmade by the Katariga Women's Shea Cooperative in Ghana. Its Shea Body Butters are infused with natural oils to soften and reinvigorate dry skin.
- $26 Available at HanaHana
SkinButtr
Prepare for glistening and glowing skin after applying this whipped shea butter from SkinButtr. The brand offers its shea butter in several scents—ranging from rose to honey almond—so you can pick a fragrance that suits your vibe. If you prefer unscented products, there’s a fragrance-free option you can snag, too.
- $8-$30 Available at Skin Buttr
Zandra Beauty
The founder of Zandra Beauty, Zandra Cunningham, is a young powerhouse. At just 19 years old, Cunningham has crafted a premium, social good-focused, eco-friendly, plant-based skincare company that is worth nearly $2 million. The brand offers body soufflés and lotions loaded with nourishing oils and butters that help you achieve the soft, pillowy skin of your dreams.
- $7-$32 Available at Zandra Beauty
Honeydipped Essentials
Made from vegan and phthalate-free fragrance oils, this body creme revitalizes dry, tired skin. It comes in three scents: milk and honey, rose and wildflower, and white tea and lavender. The creme’s blend of essential oils and butters is designed to calm the skin and delight the senses.
- $28 Available at Honey Dipped Essentials
HunnyBunny Argan Hand & Body Lotion
HunnyBunny’s body products are made by a mother for her children, so you can trust that they are crafted with care. The brand’s body lotion is a luxurious lotion loaded with pure and premium ingredients. Argan oil is the star ingredient, and it is paired with plant-based scented oil and vitamin E to deliver ultra hydration to your skin.
- $8-$12 Available at HunnyBunny
Oye
Oye’s Shea Butter is made from premium shea crops in Nigeria. It is formulated with ingredients your skin will love, including vitamins A, K, E, and F. In addition to boosting overall skin moisture, you can also use it to treat thinning hair, skin rashes, minor burns, split ends, and premature wrinkles. Talk about multi-purpose, right?
- $10-$15 Available at Oye Green
Kaike Frosting
Kaike’s moisturizer doubles as a body and hair butter. Mango butter and coconut oil blend perfectly together to deeply hydrate the skin and hair. Vanilla and apricot kernel oil neutralize free radicals and soothe dry and eczema-prone skin. Not to mention it has a pleasing frosting-like scent, so you’ll want to lather yourself in it from head to toe.
- $25 Available at Kaike
Bekura Beauty Whipped Custard Body Soufflé Creams
Kiss ashiness goodbye by adding Bekura Beauty’s Whipped Custard Body Soufflé Cream to your daily body care routine. The cream’s ingredient list is a dream. African shea fruit, aloe vera, and illipe seed butter work together with coconut, olive, and grapeseed to deliver unbelievable hydration. It quickly soaks into the skin to provide long-lasting relief and nourishment.
- $14 Available at Bekura Beauty
Melanin Essentials
Melanin Essentials’ Skin Enhancing Body Butter melts into your skin upon contact, delivering mega-moisture instantly. The lavish contains butters and oils such as shea butter, mango butter, coconut oil, and jojoba oil. The all-over body product will enrich your skin and leave it silky smooth.
- $23 Available at Melanin Essentials
