Release notes

#1.0.0

The first release of Balm, a theme for skin care and beauty brands that organizes the whole store around the ritual: Cleanse, Treat, Moisturize and Protect, morning and night.

#Highlights

• Shop by ritual. The header turns your main menu's first four links into the steps 01 to 04, with a ritual menu for each step and an AM/PM switch that shows the morning or the evening ritual.
• Ingredient-label product cards with the step color, step tag, AM/PM icons, texture and skin type, size and unit price.
• Ritual view on collection pages groups products into step rows, next to the usual grid, with filters and sorting in both.
• Complete the ritual on product pages fills the other three steps from your complementary products in the Search and Discovery app, and adds the rest of the ritual to the bag in one go.
• Build your ritual, AM and PM rituals, Step by step, Before you begin (a dose guide) and an Ingredient index tell your ritual story on the home page.
• A cart that knows the ritual: products in step order, a coverage rail, and a suggestion for the first step that's missing.
• No setup needed to start: ritual data comes from simple product tags such as step:2, from metafields, or from Shopify's standard skin care category attributes.

#Also included

• Product page blocks for every element, with color and image swatches, rich media, pickup availability, Shop Pay Installments, accelerated checkout, the gift card recipient form and app blocks.
• Over 20 sections, including Slideshow, Image with text, Testimonials, Collapsible content, Video, Map, Newsletter and Custom Liquid.
• Eight color schemes, three font pickers, cart drawer or cart page, predictive search, and animations that respect reduced motion.
• Storefront text in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese.
• Keyboard accessible throughout, with visible focus states and accessible contrast.

See Getting started to set up Balm.