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20 | Protecting Our Melanin with Shontay Lundy of Black Girl Sunscreen

She's So Lucky

She's So Lucky

Lesalfred, #Shessolucky, Entrepreneurship, Balancedles, Business, Self-improvement, Balancedblackgirl, Education

4.9 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 February 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Today, we’re talking to Shontay Lundy, founder of Black Girl Sunscreen.

She was inspired to create Black Girl Sunscreen by her love of the outdoors, and dissatisfaction with sun protection products available on the market.  She often hikes practices yoga and walks her bulldog on the beach. Unfortunately, she couldn’t find a sunscreen that would protect her from the sun without cramping her style. Like many women with dark skin tones, applying sunscreen meant dealing with the white residue left behind by traditional products—and it wasn’t a good look.

Armed with an MBA and a personal vendetta against this unappealing residue, the New York-­‐raised businesswoman started looking for a solution. She discovered that there were natural ingredients that could boost melanin production, offer proper UV protection and be fully absorbed by the skin. So, she worked with skin care experts to create Black Girl Sunscreen.

In this episode, we talk about…

  • Making skincare a pillar in your wellness routine.
  • Why it is important for people of color to protect their skin from the sun (because Black can crack).
  • Ingredients to look for vs. Ingredients to avoid when choosing skincare products.
  • How to take your business from idea to trusted product.

 

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0:00.0

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0:57.0

Welcome to the Balance Black Girl Podcast. We're putting Black Girl Magic in motion. This show is dedicated to reinventing

1:06.2

wellness for women of color. I'm your host Lestrandra Alfred. Thank you so much

1:12.0

for tuning into this week's episode of the Balance Black Girl

1:15.0

podcast. It is your host Lestrandra here. Welcome to the show if it is your first

1:19.2

time tuning in with us and welcome back if you are a returning listener. So happy to have you here today.

1:25.4

Recently I got some feedback from a friend about the show basically saying that she really loved the guests that we have had on the show and that she

1:37.5

appreciates just having women who represent so many different areas of wellness coming onto the show because

1:44.8

Finding the episodes and listening to the interviews have been how she's found some of her favorite people to follow lately and

1:51.2

Honestly that is the best possible compliment that anyone could give regarding the show

1:58.7

because really when I launched the podcast last fall that was the entire goal I thought you know I'm really

2:05.8

burnt out of the fitness space and even though I personally love wellness I'm pretty

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