Afrocenchix In the Press
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For press releases, high res images and our latest news, or if you would like to review our products, contact info@afrocenchix.com with your request in the subject line. Scroll to see some some of the great publications Afrocenchix has been featured in!
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HSBC & UK Black Business Show: Meet 25 Top Black Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2022
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The Times – Pool party planner and watchmaker make ‘black entrepreneurs to watch’ list
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The Voice Online – Hair experts call for safer products for black women amid health risks
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BBC Radio Manchester – The People - Rachael Twumasi-Corson
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The Guardian – University College London generates £10bn a year for UK, says report
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Byrdie – Type 4A Hair: What It Is and How to Care for It
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The Times – Pool party planner and watchmaker make ‘black entrepreneurs to watch’ list
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Refinery 29 – Wait, So We’re Not Supposed To Use Oils On Natural Hair?
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ITV – This Morning – Healthy hair segment
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The Bookseller.com – Pan Mac and Afrocenchix launch year-long partnership
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The Sun – LUSCIOUS LOCKS 9 best afro hair products, tried and tested
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Brown Beauty Talk – 10 Black-Owned British Hair Brands
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Glamour Mag – 40 brilliant Black-owned beauty brands to support on Black Pound Day and all-year round
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Glamour Mag – The best silk hair wraps for sleeping in to protect your curly or Afro hair (from someone who wears one *every* night)
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The Daily Express – Mum looks 20 years younger with lifestyle hacks and 15 minute tip - 'it's all natural'
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Sifted – How to hire for diversity — from early to late stage
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Campaign Live – WPP and ITV back Google's £3m Black Founders Fund to tackle VC inequality
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The Times – Google announces £3 million Black Founders Fund
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OK! Mag – Black Pound Day: The best businesses to help treat yourself on any occasion
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thatgrapejuice.net – Exclusive: That Grape Juice Host UK Launch Screening Of ‘BEL-AIR’ [Executive Produced by Will Smith]
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Silicon Canals – London-based BACKED raises €150M to support ‘boldest’ entrepreneurs in Europe with its human-centric funding model
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The Business Insider – PITCH DECK: Read the data-driven deck a Black beauty company used to secure a $1.2 million round backed by Google
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Metro – Three steps to keep your curls and coils happy and healthy in cold weather
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The Guardian – On my radar: Anne-Marie Imafidon’s cultural highlights
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Sifted – Three years of Sifted: Our writers pick their favourite stories
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Sifted – Best of Sifted Summit 2021: Watch the talks here
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Grazia – 11 Of The Best Black-Owned Businesses You Can Shop From This Black Friday (And Beyond)
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The Voice Online – Tech Diversity Champion given an MBE in New Year Honours list
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Business Insider - The VC landscape is dire for Black women. 7 Black women who have raised millions in funding reveal their best fundraising advice
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Pitch Black Mag – Products to buy and try
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It's A Lifestyle, Hun – Hair Growth Hacks That Will Make You The Modern Day Rapunzel
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BBC Radio 5 - Saturday Breakfast
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Mediashotz – Recipe creates first afro hair ad to air on British TV this Christmas
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BBC 5 - Wake Up To Money
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BBC News – We hope natural Afro hair TV advert is first of many
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BBC Radio 4 - You & Yours
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The Voice – First Black hair Christmas TV ad to air on Channel 4
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Metro – First Black hair Christmas advert airs on British TV
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PopSugar – How to care and maintain cornrows according to pros
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Say Your Mind by Kelecki - Podcast - Strap Flailing Speeches
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The Telegraph – Does The Black Pound Still Matter?
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Jennifer Cynthia - YouTube - HOW TO MAINTAIN A SILK PRESS
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LinkedIn Ad – Changemakers
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Black Owned Economy – Disruptive Entrepreneurs
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UCL Alumni Spotlight: Rachael Twumasi-Corson on creating the UK's leading Afro hair care brand
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Stylist – The ultimate guide to hydrating afro hair come winter
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OK! The Beauty Buzz – Curl Friends
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The Economist (YouTube) – The Hidden Cost Of Black Hair
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SW Londoner – Black Pound Day pop-up shop open in White City to celebrate Black History Month
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UCL entrepreneurs build multi-million pound afro haircare business from just £100
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Sifted - Meet Yuty, the beauty business building sustainable ai
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Insider - pitch deck: Read the data-driven deck a black beauty company used to secure a $1.2 million round backed by google
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Sifted - 16 Black female founders in the uk who have raised funding
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Cosmetics Business - Superdrug is backing these 4 new black owned hair care brands
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The Black Chronicle - Google Backs Black Hair Care Company Afrocenchix, Raises $1.2M in Funding
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Gal-Dem - No more lyes
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Healthline - Co-Wash- How to Do It, What It Is, and Products to Try
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Black America Web - Google Backs Black hair care company Afrocenchix, Raises $1.2M in funding
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Forbes - Securing Funding To Drive Expansion
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Sifted - "There was an assumption that we must not be that intelligent" - one Black founder's experience
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UCL News: UCL supported startup receives $1.2m in seed funding from google
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Beauty Independent - “Up Against Prejudice”: Afrocenchix Raises $1.2M Seed Round With Involvement From Google
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Yahoo Finance - Google shares its $2M Black Founders Fund among 30 European startups
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City A.M. - These are the 30 hottest black-led companies according to Google's startup team
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Business Leader - GOOGLE FOR STARTUPS ANNOUNCES 30 BUSINESSES SELECTED FOR £1.5M EUROPEAN FUND FOR BLACK FOUNDED TECH STARTUPS
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Forbes - Meet 30 Black Founded Startups Selected By Google For Their New $2 Million (£1.5 Million) Black Founders Fund
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Stylist - win a signed copy of The other black girl and a hamper from Afrocenchix
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SW Londoner - "My hair, my choice, my crown." Black women and their hair before, during and after a pandemic
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Tech Crunch - Google shares its $2M Black Founders Fund among 30 European startups
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Marie Claire - Afrocenchix products were used on the model's hair
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Glamour - Afrocenchix
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Mashable - Stormzy's #Merky Books challenges representation in children’s books with 'Superheroes'
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Voice Online - #Merky Books announces children’s book ‘Superheroes: Inspiring Stories of Secret Strength’
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Financial Times - Online launches give black-run businesses a better chance
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Grazia - How to care for afro hair: everything I learned about my natural hair during lockdown
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Sifted - Dating a Founder
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The Strategist - The Best Products for Curly Hair, According to Curly-Hair Experts and Beauty Writers
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Marie Claire - The best brands that know how to care for afro and natural textured hair
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The Stack World - Dealflow: 25 Black Female Founders To Invest In Now
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iamhistoryuk - Black Owned & Sustainable Brands
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Supermama Interviews Rachael Corson Co-founder of Afrocenchix
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Business Insider - Google launched a $2 million funding programme for Black founders in Europe: 'There is a lot of work to do.'
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Jim Magats SVP, Omni Payments at PayPal - 10 best afro hair products that care for your hair
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Starling Bank Blog - The power of collaboration in business
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Gal-Dem Blog - It's time to talk about our damaging addiction to laid edges
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Vegan Society - How to unleash your curls the Vegan way
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The Strategist UK - No Matter How I Toss and Turn at Night, This Stylish Bonnet Simply Doesn’t Shift
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Evening Standard - 10 best afro hair products that care for your hair
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Start Ups Magazine - THE 11 BLACK-OWNED STARTUPS TO WATCH OUT FOR IN 2021
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BBC 1Xtra: Money Moves with Toni Tone - Starting from Nothing feat. Rachael Corson
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GQ - It's a sin's Omari Douglas on A$AP Rocky, charity shops and afro hair
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Stylist - best ingredients to nourish and hydrate afro-textured hair, according to the experts
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Shopify Blog - the marketing strategy that grew sales 10x in 18 months
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L'Officiel - 15 Beauty Brands to Try from around the world
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The Marketing Society - Afrocenchix's Joycelyn Mate and Rachael Corson on the purpose and the power of communities
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Hello! - The best hair products of 2021 so far - from frizz-battling shampoos to moisture-rich masks
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Euro News - Post-Brexit trade: is red tape chaos just 'teething trouble' as the uk government argues?
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Medium - Adventures in Ventureland: Can D2C Drive Diversity?
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The Times - Christmas Gift Ideas from the best independent brandsLorem Ipsum
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Sifted - Uk tech startups and scaleups to watch in 2021
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Sifted - Lessons Learned: When not-perfect is good enough
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Sifted - 8 tips: how to break into the beauty industry
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Business Leader - Winners announce at the black British business awards 2020
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Hackney Gazette - Meet Hackney's 2020 Black British rising stars in business
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The Good Business Festival - The Power of Niche
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The Drum - The people behind the label by ogilvy roots uk
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Euronews - Black Pound Day Promoting Black-owned Businesses Campaign Hopes To Expand Globally
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Campaign - black pound day campaign aims to boost black-owned businesses
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The Telegraph - winners of black British business awards revealed
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Independent - 10 best black-owned beauty and haircare brands to support now
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Represented by Secret Leaders - Afrocenchix Podcast
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The Telegraph - Hard work and passion needed to start a successful business, say britian's top black entrepreneurs
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Culture Whisper - Afrocenchix
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Glamour - 5 women reveal how the pandemic changed the relationship with their hair
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Yahoo - Meet the community-first grooming businesses busy educating and empowering their customers
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Vogue - 9 of the best natural hair kits to help define your 'fro
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Popsugar - 3 Black beauty founders on starting a brand, from challenges to proudest moments
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Curly Callin: Curl Maven - Everything you need to know about pre-pooing
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Sheerluxe - Sharmadean Reid shares her little black book
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Metro - Boxpark Shoreditch is hosting a pop-up dedicated to black-owned businesses
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The Voice - Awards ceremony to reveal Britain's outstanding black business talent
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NY Times - After the Pandemic and Protests, a British Rapper Spotlights Black Businesses
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The Earth Issue - Afrocenchix
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Vogue - 5 Of The Best Scalp Oils For Your Shiniest Ever Hair
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Raconteur - balancing babies with business
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Trend Hunter - Natural afro-specific hair products
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Good Find - Afrocenchix: Vegan, handmade natural hair products with organic & fair-trade ingredients
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Logical Harmony - 50+ cruelty-free black-owned brands
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Vegan Food & Living - 6 Vegan black-owned beauty brands to support
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UCL BME Alumni Network Newsletter
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The Conversation - Seven ways business can value black lives (beyond social media posts)
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The Strategist - 101 black-owned, u.k.-based businesses to support
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Jasmine Hemsley - 12 Black-owned natural beauty brands to support
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Plant Based News - 5 Black-owned vegan beauty businesses to support
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Bustle - 67 Black-owned uk businesses to buy from in 2021 & beyond
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Glamour - 39 brilliant black-owned beauty brands to support ahead of the anniversary of black pound day
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Brown Beauty Talk - 10 Black-Owned British Hair Brands That We Love
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Euro News - Venus Williams launches sunscreen fo 'all skin types and skin tones'
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Belfast Live - The Black-owned beauty brands to celebrate and support now and always
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Glamour - How to make the most out of afro and curly hair at home
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Stylist - how to refresh your braids: simple tips to make your braided style last longer
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Metro - How to care for afro hair during lockdown
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Business Live - 11 successful black women in business you should know about
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Glamour - The Best Small British Beauty Brands to support right now
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Cosmopolitan - 18 Black-owned beauty brands you should know
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BBC News - Interview with Joycelyn Mate
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Accenture: People Insights Blogs - Tapping Into the Black Pound
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Gal-Dem - Afrocenchix Receives Seed Funding
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BBC News - "Not only are we black, we're female... for them, it's a turn-off"
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Forbes - There Is A Huge Gap In the Hair Care Market. Afrocenchix Is Filling It.
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I want you to know by Kristabel Plummer - Gift guide: 15 creative black-owned businesses
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The Independent - 12 best shampoos and conditioners for Afro hair
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NDRIKA - 32 black British hair brands that prove we have options
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Saabirah Lawrence - Afrocenchix review
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Daily Mail - The secret of our success? Starting a business with our Best Friend!
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The Pool - Why it’s time we changed the language around black hair
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The Voice - Afrocenchix Win Big At WeWork Awards
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The Wharf - The Hackney entrepreneurs behind Afrocenchix have a two-word business plan for their all-natural haircare brand: ‘world domination’
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The Independent - 7 best Afro hair oils
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iNews — I quit my job to start my own business, but here’s how I’m still managing to save on a low income
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BBC News - Interview with Rachael Corson
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The Pitch - Long read: How Afrocenchix beat investment bias
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The Voice Newspaper - Going Back to Their Roots