Some businesses are built from passion. Others are built from pain — from the frustration of searching for something that should exist but doesn't. Xolisile Yvette Mkhize's journey into skincare is the second kind, and it is exactly that personal truth that makes every product she creates mean something.
The Woman Behind the Brand
Xolisile Yvette Mkhize is the founder of Yvette M Beauty & Wellness, a skincare brand based in Durban, South Africa. Born and raised in the small town of Verulam, Waterloo, Xolisile built her brand from the ground up — founding it in 2023 with a clear mission: to create affordable, results-driven skincare products that actually work.
How It Started
Xolisile's path into skincare did not start with a business plan. It started with her own skin.
Like many women, she struggled to find the right products for her skin — products that addressed her real concerns without breaking the bank or making promises they couldn't keep. Instead of waiting for someone else to create what she needed, she did what entrepreneurs do — she learned, she formulated and she created.
What started as a personal solution became a brand built for every woman who has ever stood in a shop aisle feeling unseen by the products on the shelf.
The Product
Yvette M Beauty & Wellness offers a range of affordable, results-driven skincare products designed to target the concerns that real women deal with every day — stretch marks, breakouts, dryness, uneven skin tone and dullness.
These are not luxury products designed for one type of skin. They are intentional formulations created by someone who understands the struggle firsthand and refuses to compromise on results.
Affordable. Effective. Made for you.
The Journey
Building trust as a Black business owner in the beauty industry is not easy. Accessing opportunities and establishing credibility in a crowded market takes more than a good product — it takes consistency, resilience and the willingness to keep showing up even when growth feels slow.
Xolisile has done exactly that. Through the quality of her products and the consistency of her brand, she has grown Yvette M Beauty & Wellness into something her customers believe in — and keep coming back to.
What She Wants You to Know
She wants every customer who uses a Yvette M product to feel confident, beautiful and cared for. Not just about their skin — but about themselves.
Because that is what great skincare does. It is not just about what you put on your face. It is about how you feel when you look in the mirror.
The Vision
In the next three to five years Xolisile sees Yvette M Beauty & Wellness expanding into major retail stores, reaching international markets and growing into a well-recognised beauty brand.
From Verulam to the world — she is just getting started.
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Moving Africa and Africans forward, one product at a time.
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I have been using her oil from Last year i have never looked back. The best.