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Haircare· Los Angeles, USA · Updated 14 May 2026

Julian Addo

Ghanaian-American founder Julian Addo launched Adwoa Beauty in 2017 to build a clean haircare brand explicitly for textured hair — long under-served by both prestige and clean haircare lines.

"Clean haircare for textured hair shouldn't be a sub-line. It should be the line."

Julian Addo
Background

Addo founded Adwoa Beauty in 2017, naming it after her grandmother. The brand launched into Sephora's Clean at Sephora program with the Baomint Moisturizing Leave-In Conditioner — which became a category hero for curly and coily hair.

Adwoa was one of the early Black-founded clean-haircare brands at prestige scale and is consistently cited as a reference case for textured-hair-first formulation.

Philosophy

Textured-hair-first — never adapted from a straight-hair formula.

Clean ingredient discipline applied with cultural fluency.

Career timeline
  • 2017
    Launches Adwoa Beauty
  • 2020s
    Baomint becomes a Sephora textured-hair hero
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  • Julian Addo on Building Adwoa Beauty

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