The lack of high-quality affordable skincare products inspired our founder, Ann Mattingly-Lowe, in a way that made her want to help others. Since growing up as a child with parents from the Great Depression era, Ann has had a penchant for researching the best products, finding great deals, and learning how to stretch a dollar. Throughout the years, like many women, Ann became a regular at “medical spas.” Of course, she loved looking refreshed and sporting a glow after treatments… but she wasn’t so fond of the high price-tags associated with the skincare products that the staff often tried to push after their services. Before you knew it, Ann was busy sourcing the key “active ingredients” found in high-end skin care products and making small batches of her own. Her home began looking like a miniature lab; with test tubes, amber jars, magnetic stirrers, beakers, and lab scales. She experimented with several variations of high-quality ingredients, measuring with precision the raw ingredients, solvents and stabilizers; not settling until she had landed on exceptional quality and consistent ph levels within industry standards that maintain over the course of months. Along the way, she recruited her family and friends as testers and critics, in hopes of developing the “perfect formula.” She began giving it to her friends and family for holiday and birthday gifts…and they kept asking for more. It didn’t take long to realize that she had a hit on her hands. Glow was born. And as they say… “The Rest is History.”