The Melanin House
What does your company do?
The Melanin House is an Afrocentric manufacturing powerhouse that prides itself in currently designing manufacturing the highest quality luxury fragrances in all categories.
The Melanin House was founded in 2020 to represent the African individuals in the aromatherapy and fragrance market after realizing that most products on our shelves are Euro-centric and do not necessarily represent the African individual.
As The Melanin House, we are more than just a business, we are a movement, meaning, we utilize business as a form of activism and hence the establishment of The Melanin House, "Melanin" meaning a pigment that makes one black.
This representation in the market is very crucial and it also improves our imagine internationally, in the sense that, an understanding of African luxury is expressed in the form of Royalty.
What is your biggest success?
Being able to support beauty pageants through event sponsorship.
I have graduated from the incubation program at Durban University of Technology after 3 years.
We have sponsored and collaborated with different organizations as a marketing strategy and as a way to give back to the community.
What has been your biggest hurdle?
More funding opportunities, so that we are able to advance and expand the business, so that we are able to create more job opportunities and hence assist in eradicating hunger in various communities.
Reaching more community-builders and having a community of them, where we can apply strategies to advance communities. E.g visiting schools in townships and pushing entrepreneurship and having fragrance masterclasses and things of that sort.
Securing grants and more incubation/mentorship programs that are genuinely invested innovation and entrepreneurship as strategies to eradicate poverty in our communities.
Upscaling and Upskilling.
