What Glow Care is for

Glow Care is four products that were designed to be used together, in order, two or three times a week. Tila Abhyanga Oil goes on first and is massaged into the skin before a bath. Herbal Body Ubtan — masoor dal, rice, barley, white sesame and neem — is mixed to a paste and worked over the oil. The Beetroot Face Pack, multani mitti with besan and beetroot, is for the face and takes five minutes. The Herbal Hair Cleanse Powder, led by shikakai, reetha and amla, replaces shampoo.

They are powders and an oil rather than bottles of liquid, which is a deliberate choice: nothing is diluted, there is no preservative load, and a 100 g jar lasts a long time at two or three uses a week. Each powder also comes as a 250 g refill pouch, which works out around a fifth cheaper per 100 g than buying the jar again.

None of this is a treatment and none of it claims to be. These are traditional preparations for cleansing and physical polishing, for external use, and every one of them asks you to patch test before the first use.