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Quillback Balm Works
A terracotta and olive storefront for a two person balm kitchen in Ilwaco that pours every tin for net menders' hands.
Published September 24, 2026. Built from a brief, no AI, no account needed to download.
The brief this store was built from
Quillback Balm Works is a skincare kitchen behind a marine supply store on the Ilwaco waterfront in Washington. A former deckhand runs it with her brother, who handles the infusions. Calendula flowers soak in sunflower oil for six weeks in glass jars on a south window, then the oil is strained, warmed with local beeswax and poured into steel tins by hand. They pour about two hundred tins on a Tuesday and label them on Wednesday.
- Product
- Net Mender's Hand Balm, 60 ml Tin, $16
- About it
- A firm calendula and beeswax balm poured into a 60 millilitre steel tin, made for hands that spend the day in salt water and rope. It melts on contact with skin and leaves no slick on a phone screen or a knot.
- Brand facts
- Calendula is infused in cold pressed sunflower oil for six weeks before a single tin is poured. The beeswax comes from hives on a cranberry bog four miles up the Long Beach peninsula. Every tin holds 60 millilitres and carries a batch number written in pencil on the base.
- Style
- Home & Lifestyle. Home/lifestyle — serif italic hero, accent buttons
Who this theme is for
A small skincare maker with one product that sells the rest: a balm, a salve, a bar of soap, a tin of lip butter. The Home and Lifestyle preset opens on a serif italic headline over a warm photograph, which suits a product bought for how it feels in the hand rather than for an ingredient percentage. It works best with a catalogue of one to fifteen items and a story about where they are made. It is the wrong choice for a clinical skincare line that sells on actives and concentrations, because the italic type and soft spacing read as a kitchen, not a lab.
What was decided in the brief
A terracotta primary with olive held back for the buying controls. Calendula oil runs orange and the tins sit on a clay coloured bench in every photograph, so the interface borrows that colour instead of adding a new one, and olive is the one green that does not look like a medical brand. The three facts were chosen because a buyer of hand balm is asking what is in it and who made it: a six week infusion, beeswax from a named bog, and a pencilled batch number answer both without a claim anyone could not check.
What is in the ZIP
- A single-product homepage: hero, trust strip, benefits, how-to-use or specs, reviews, final call to action.
- The whole store shell: product, collection, cart, search and 404 templates, header, footer, announcement bar.
- Valid Shopify 2.0 sections with schema, so every line of text is editable in the Shopify editor.
- The photos you see in the preview, ready to swap for your own.
Questions
- Is this Shopify theme really free to download?
- Yes. You get a complete Shopify 2.0 theme ZIP and no account is needed. In your Shopify admin open Online Store, then Themes, then Add theme, then Upload zip file.
- Where do I put the ingredient list for a skincare product?
- Put the full list in the product description, after one plain sentence on what the product is for. Shopify has no separate ingredients field in a standard theme, so keep the list as one paragraph in the order printed on your label. Anything a buyer needs before checkout, such as allergens like beeswax or nut oils, belongs in that description too.
- Can I change the terracotta colour to match my own packaging?
- Yes. Open the theme editor, go to Theme settings, then Colors, and replace the primary colour with the hex value from your label. The buttons and links follow that setting, so one change repaints the store.
