This founder launched a wellness brand in her kitchen. She is now partnering with Target and using her platform to fight medical racism in the United States.

It was 2012, and Beatrice Dixon was running out of patience. She suffered from chronic bacterial vaginosis that came back almost every month, and doctors kept prescribing her medications that were more of a quick fix than a long-term one.

Dixon felt she wasn't being heard, so she started researching on her own, which was overwhelming in itself.

"I was in this perpetual state of taking meds, going back to the doctor, and getting another prescription," Dixon says, "which then led to Google's doctor's office. It's not the one you want to be in. You don't want to be on Google trying to figure out what's going on with you."

Dixon began to alternate between medication and holistic remedies which she researched online, but saw no significant results. Then his grandmother spoke to him in a dream.

She describes how her grandmother (whom she has never met) sat across from her at a round table. The room was all white, with just the two of them in the middle.

"I remember her saying to me, 'I'm not here for us to have a conversation. I'm not going to be here long,'" Dixon recalled. "'You need to memorize what's on this paper because it will solve your problem.'"

Dixon woke up with a kind of urgency she had never felt before and immediately began jotting down the ingredients that came to her while she slept. Dixon began collecting the aforementioned ingredients at Whole Foods, where she worked at the time, and after a few days created her own formula.

After the fifth day of using the formula, Dixon was fully cured of her BV.

“He had literally disappeared,” she said. "It was crazy. That's when I realized that was what I was going to be doing for the foreseeable future."

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"It got to the point where people were like, 'Look, I can't take this for free anymore. ""

After Dixon perfected her formula, she knew she had to share her discovery. Since Dixon had only raised funds from family and friends and had created the product in her own kitchen, she could not afford a clinical trial; so she launched hers.

Dixon didn't ask for any money in exchange for his homemade product, which eventually became the best-selling The Honey Pot Co's Normal Wash. Instead, she asked people to review the formula and give her feedback on whether or not it worked.

His friends and family were addicted.

"It got to the point where people were like, 'Look, I can't take this for free anymore, take cash,'" Dixon says.

That's when Dixon knew she was onto something, so when news broke that the Bronner Brothers Beauty Show was heading to Atlanta, she took the opportunity to expand her reach.< /p>

“That was the best place to get us started because there was nothing but humans with vaginas walking around,” laughs Dixon. "So we went to the hair salon. We did 600 bottles. We sold 600 bottles. It was crazy."

Image credit: Courtesy of The Honey Pot

"There was no plan B either, so this shit had to work."

That was early 2014, just about a year and a half after Dixon made its first Honey Pot product. The business began to grow and despite growing demand, The Honey Pot Company continued to operate in Dixon's kitchen for another two years, while Dixon kept his full-time job at Whole Foods to join the two. tips.

Through 80-hour weeks and tireless work, Dixon never wavered from her mission, certain that women needed her product in their lives. "It was really hard...