Faith and Fabric Softener: A Detroit Entrepreneur Finds Success Through Church Business Program

When Detroit native Constance Brooks decided to start her own business, she didn't have much in the way of background or experience.

But she had one thing in common with a lot of women of color, she tells the Detroit Free Press: She was "born and raised in Detroit," and she wanted to give back to the city that gave her so much.

So she teamed up with Global Empowerment Ministries to start Cozie Dryer Sheets, a line of plant-based, hypoallergenic, and gluten-free sheets.

The idea for the line came to her as she washed her own sheets: "I was like, 'I want to do something that's good for the environment,'" she says.

"And I was like, 'I want my sheets to be safe.

I want them to be soft.

I want them to be hypoallergenic.' And I was like, 'This is what I want to do.

I want my sheets to be safe.

I want them to be gluten-free.' And I was like, 'This is what I want to do.

I want them to be plant-based.' And I was like, 'This is what I want to do.

I want them to be safe,'" she says.

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