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  Sipho Gumbo launched Yangu Beauty, a skincare line for women of color, in 2016. She often visited churches and attended trade shows to market her products. “I use ancient African oil and cutting-edge science to create products that help women of color have beautiful skin,” Gumbo said. But like may small busienss owners, surviving during the COVID-19 pandemic has had its challenges and business declined. “It came to a halt for us just after we had visited the beauty expo in Los Angeles,” she said. “We had met a lot of potential retailers nationally and internationally. So all that was impacted because of COVID. What happened was we had actually had so many retailers have a lot of interest in the business, but because we had to stop we didn’t know where it was going to go. Our international expansion had to come to a halt also.”

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