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The Scion of Dean’s Hair Salon in Portland Starts a Product Line of Her Own

 
 
 Leaping on the couches with cousins, taking naps, encouraging mop and vacuum floors—these are all normal things kids do at household. In this situation, having said that, Nicole Rose is describing her childhood memories at Dean’s Natural beauty Salon & Barbershop. Established by Rose’s excellent-grandparents, Benjamin and Mary Dean, in 1954, the Northeast Portland salon is the oldest working Black-owned business enterprise in Oregon. And now, nearly 70 many years considering that the shop opened its doors, Rose is growing on the Dean family members legacy with her own enterprise: Ella Dean, a natural hair care line named soon after her grandmother, Ben and Mary’s daughter, who also worked…