Professionals of Natural Hair & Scalp Care
Holistic Lifestyle Coaches
Escofhari's Holistic House Is focused on providing high-quality service and customer satisfaction. We will do everything we can to meet your expectations.
Escape from the hectic rush of your busy life and take time with us to relax
and rejuvenate your body and mind.
The Institute of African Holistic Science, now the Escofhari Institute, is the first in North Carolina to specialize, educate, and license individuals in Natural Hair Care and Holistic Living under the NC Board of Natural Hair Care and Holistic Science. The Care of Natural Hair from a Holistic Approach is Our legacy, which extends over 30 years. We have trained professionals throughout the triad and beyond.
Escofhari's Holistic House offers a variety of hair care and holistic relaxation and revitalization services that are sure to warm your spirit and soothe your soul.
We believe everyone deserves to be pampered. The better you feel on the inside and the healthier you are, the more confident and happy you'll be with how you look on the outside.
Escofhari's Holistic House offers holistic treatments for all individuals in a comfortable and secluded setting.While visiting, you can see our selection of essential oils, herbs, incense, hair, skin, and body products, as well as gift items.We have something for everyone.
About Us
Escofhari's Holistic House
It is based on the traditional belief that the whole body must be considered for wellness. Our customers' needs are of the utmost importance.
Our entire team is committed to meeting those needs.
As a result, a high percentage
of our business is from repeat customers and referrals.
We have serviced the community for over 30 years, and it has been our pleasure to share and teach the benefits of a Holistic Lifestyle, mind, body, and soul.
Healthy Hair and Scalp Services
Choose from a variety of services designed to transition chemically treated hair, start and maintain locs, create natural hairstyles, repair thinning hair, or truly indulge in our Relaxation and Revitalization services, all while assisting you with the proper care of healthy hair and scalp from a holistic perspective.
Diet and lifestyle must be considered to achieve beautiful, healthy hair and a healthy body. What you put inside your body is reflected on the outside. Poor diet, lack of water and exercise, nutrients, and medications adversely affect your health, mind, body, and soul. Our consultations include talks about your well-being.
Let us help you to become a better, healthier you.
Holistic Haircare Consultations $36
New Client's $50 Dep. Required
24 Hr. Notice of All Cancellations
Initial Visit.
Includes: Consultation & Assessment, Moisturizing Shampoo, Essential Rinse, Herbal Steam, Moisturizing Leave-In Conditioner, Mini Scalp Manipulation, Corrective Work, Maintenance (Locs), and Style of Choice.
Add a Scalp Revitalization Treatment (S.R.T.) to any hair service $65
Transitioning
Start Locs
Loc Maintenance
Loc Maintenance & Style
Cuts & Trims Double-Strand Twist
Coils, Hand Rolls. Flat-Twist, Cornrows
Figure 8’s Links Petals, Barrels, Up Do’s
Roller Sets, Spiral Sets Blow Dry, Press N Curl
Pipe Cleaners, Mohawks & More
Natural Styles
Loc Maintenance
Loc Maintenance & Style
Herbal Steam Treatment $10
Herbal Scalp Manipulation. $10
ACV Detox- Deep cleansing of locs $43
Essential Hot Oil Treatment. $48
Deep Moisturizing Conditioner. $32
Tunde’s Botanical Products
Made with the finest ingredients for growing and
maintaining healthy hair, scalp, and skin.
The finest ingredients
The best results
Order: escofhari.com
6108 Gateway Drive
Gibsonville, NC 27249
336 697-9499
Hours: Tues-Fri: 10 am-5:30 pm
Sat: 8 am- 3 pm
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Escofhari Institute
Escofhari's Holistic House​
The Story of
Enhancing Lives Holistically
An Unforgettable Experience
1993 Escoffery A. Babatunde Il, Escofhari (Esco), and his wife, Robin, witnessed the desperate need for a different way of caring for curly hair after experiencing detrimental side effects from chemicals used to relax hair. Robin suffered from severe scalp burns and significant hair loss after a chemical treatment, which she had experienced many times before. This time was different. Unbeknownst to Robin, being in the family way, her hormones rejected the application of the relaxer immediately. This detrimental experience reduced her self-esteem and made her feel ashamed and less attractive. ​​
After countless visits to the salon for unsuccessful restorative treatments, she became frustrated with the lack of sensibility and practicality pertaining to the correction and care of her scalp and hair. Robin was even more frustrated with the fact that beauty professionals were insensitive to her in-depth pain and suffering. She could not believe that they actually suggested more of the same hair treatments which damaged her hair initially. In hindsight, Robin references her experience as abuse. This began her journey of self-love and self-discovery.
Escofhari revolutionized the Natural Hair Care industry in the State of North Carolina!
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The Journey
Escofhari developed and owns “Tunde’s Botanical Products tm,” the best natural hair and skin care line available today.
These products helped Robin regain a healthy scalp while providing luster and hair growth lost due to chemical damage. “Tunde’s Natty Dred Cream” (named in honor of Dred Scott) also helped to control the eczema on her hands that she suffered from as a child. Tunde’s Products became her healthy haircare and body care regimen. These products are made with the finest ingredients and are known for providing supreme benefits for those experiencing hair loss, irritated scalp, skin, and body pain. Clients say so! They also have anti-fungal and antibacterial properties and can be used from head to toe. Tunde’s Botanical Products are shipped all over the world.
Escofhari, being well-versed in science, indigenous world history, botanical herbs, and oils, inspired his entire family to seek a more holistic lifestyle and its benefits. This included a mindful diet and nutrition, meditation, positive healing through energy work, self-reflection, self-acceptance, and healthier alternatives to pampering. Robin became curious about the philosophy of metaphysics, seeking the truth of existence and understanding the science of who she is as a black woman. Her relation to history, culture, the mind, the body, and the soul principle became intriguing and spiritually awakening. Escofhari, Robin, and their 5 sons sought natural health and longevity.
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The Novelty
Seeing so many women, men, and children suffering from the ill effects of chemicals used on hair and causing damage to the scalp and skin, Esco and Robin became passionate about educating individuals about healthy hair care. This was the impetus for their entrepreneurial endeavors in the natural hair care industry.
Improper hair care, the side effects of chemicals used on the hair, scalp, and skin, and the lack of health care were extremely disturbing. Therefore, it became an obsession to educate individuals while also assisting them with creating a means for self-sufficiency. Esco and Robin, having a background in cosmetology, decided to make a curriculum based on natural hair care and holistic living. They believe that the two philosophies must work together for the individual's success.
In blending their ideologies, Esco and Robin decided to establish the "Escofhari Institute." This school offered a 260-hour curriculum, which included natural, healthy hair care, sanitation, holistic living, professionalism, the properties of essential oils, the effects of transferring positive energy, and much more. Once the curriculum was completed, students were tested, certified, and licensed as "Natural Hair Care and Holistic Living Practitioners." Not only did they teach healthy hair care to their students, but they also endowed them with the capability to own and operate their natural hair care businesses. They helped their students understand the benefits of self-realization, self-acceptance, and self-preservation.
For over 20 years, the Institute provided licensing through its self-regulated board, the "North Carolina Board of Natural Hair Care and Holistic Science." Unfortunately, in 2010, the Cosmetic Art Board gained approval from legislatures to govern natural hair care in the State of North Carolina. This new law prohibited the North Carolina Board of Natural Hair Care and Holistic Science from licensing individuals as Natural Hair Care and Holistic Living Practitioners. This new idea was indeed something that people were reluctant to embrace.
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Escofharis Holistic House
Though the physical Institute that licensed individuals was unable to be reestablished, the natural and spiritual component of the curriculum withstood any legislative policy. Escofhari and Robin regained their footing and created a new way of teaching self-care and providing healthy hair care and body services, which proved to be an even greater commodity. Like a phoenix rising, The Escofhari Holistic House was born for those who wanted and needed alternative healthy hair care. In this new and iconic establishment, they taught people how to do more with less. One of the primary goals of the House was to provide an establishment where people could come for beautiful, healthy styles that lasted with minimum maintenance while transitioning from damaged and relaxed hair into healthy, natural hair or transitioning into beautiful locs. Another healthy goal was to offer relaxation services for not only your hair and skin but also your mind, your body, and your soul. All the natural hair care and body relaxation services offered are from a holistic science perspective. Everything used in the care of the client's hair, skin, and body enhances them by not causing destruction but encouraging healing, self-discovery, and appreciation.
It is essential to Escofhari and Robin that their clients recognize their natural gifts and embody self-esteem. They embody and espouse self-love because it fosters human expansion and gratitude and encourages a curiosity for a more explorative view of themselves and how they fit within the world's natural order. Knowledge is power, and Escofhari and Robin are proponents of eradicating the self-defeating Eurocentric conceptualization of beauty to which people of color do not prescribe. They wanted to ultimately express to their clients that the essence of self-acceptance is the key to knowing their moral greatness. Instead of assimilating through hair, Escofhari and Robin teach their clients to love and embrace their natural tight curls, healthy locs, and divine brilliance.
“Although we may be different hues and physically, being able to coexist with the critical understanding that we are alike, all originating from the same higher existence, is of essential importance to our wellbeing.”
The universe does not innately differentiate between people. Human beings do that based on physical externalities. We all are gifted with the ability to communicate on extreme levels. Accepting who we are and what we look like as individuals allows us to appreciate our differences, thus opening a way for a more positive flow of our energy from one to another. By passing on that positive energy, we are communicating on a higher level and this is what creates a more humane, compassionate, and unselfish environment, which enhances healing among us all and, for the world.
The Importance of Now
The Escofhari Institute is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that currently offers continuing education for licensed Natural Hair Care Specialists and cosmetologists, workshops, seminars, and training in the holistic sciences of natural hair care, holistic living, and life sustainability.
Esco, Robin, and their five handsome sons, “The Babatunde Family,” admit that despite the community's initial reluctance to accept their vision of providing natural hair care and holistic living services, it has made them more robust. They express their sincere thanks.
“We are sincerely grateful for all the beautiful lives we have connected with over the years. It has been an enormous passion to enhance the lives and well-being of our communities. Seeing all the transformations has been truly awesome. Witnessing people becoming more confident and having an awareness in thought and action about who and what they are, while also helping others become self-sufficient in their careers, is more than we can ask for in a life filled with amazing joy and accomplishment”.
Esco and Robin look forward to enhancing many more lives in the future. Their prayer is to enlighten and awaken the mind, body, and soul of each individual who desires a new way of living holistically. The Babatunde family wishes you all abundant love, peace, and prosperity!
The Babatunde’s
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Escofhari Worldco and Associates, P.O. Box F Sedalia, NC 27342