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For this week’s body-care conversation, Glossy sat down with Sabrina Elba (@sabrinaelba; 720,000 Instagram followers), the model, UN Goodwill Ambassador and co-founder of 3-year-old clean skin-care brand S’Able Labs. Last week, S’Able Labs announced the launch of its latest product, the Okra Face Serum, a retinol with botanical peptides derived from okra — it’s an ingredient the brand calls nature’s Botox due to its ability to stimulate collagen. With S’Able Labs, Elba aims to bring more awareness to A-beauty and the healing benefits that ingredients sourced from the continent of Africa can provide.
Growing up as a melanin-rich person struggling with acne, Elba struggled to find a product that protected her skin tone and also solved her skin condition. As she recalled, many of the popular acne products at the time destroyed her skin barrier and caused more inflammation because of the overpowering acids in the formulations.
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