WARD 7 WASHINGTON, DC
Talent is everywhere. Infrastructure isn't. We build both.
Yeleen Beauty Makerspace is DC's training and manufacturing hub where founders, youth, and career-changers learn cosmetic chemistry, make real products, and launch real businesses.
- Cosmetic Chemistry
- Product Development
- Small-Batch Manufacturing
- STEAM Education
WHY IT WORKS
Entrepreneurship and Workforce Development. One Strategy, Not Two.
The same skills we teach cosmetic chemistry, formulation, compliant manufacturing, commercialization open every door in the beauty industry. Our trainees leave as founders, as skilled professionals, or both over the course of a career.
And the loop closes: founders who scale here become employers, hiring from the same pipeline that trained them from Girl Scouts and DC youth to university students and first-time founders.
How Yeleen Beauty Works
Yeleen Beauty offers a holistic solution for emerging beauty brands through a benefit corporation structure, Makerspace members gain valuable insights for efficient scaling.
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Access to small batch, US based manufacturing facility
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Access to retail buyers and decision-makers
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Access to vetted suppliers
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Access to affordable, ethical sources of natural raw materials
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Funding resources accessibility
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Expert-led training in retail,
marketing and product development support
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Building Ethical Supply Chains
Building Ethical Supply Chains
Yeleen Beauty believes that A Beauty, African Beauty, is the future of beauty.
Africa is home to an extraordinary diversity of botanicals, beauty traditions, ingredients, and knowledge that have influenced beauty rituals for generations. Yet much of this value remains underdeveloped, underrepresented, and disconnected from the global beauty supply chain.
Yeleen Beauty is building the infrastructure to change that.
Through our sourcing partnerships in Ghana, we are growing an ethical, traceable supply of African botanicals for the Yeleen Beauty Makerspace. These ingredients will provide beauty founders with access to distinctive African raw materials while creating stronger economic opportunities for the communities that grow, harvest, and process them.
