Best FREE Shopify themes for health and beauty products.

TL;DR.

Don't want to read the article. Ok...here are the Best FREE Shopify themes for health and beauty products.:

Is a FREE theme good enough for your Health & Beauty Store?

Yes! The FREE themes offered by Shopify are already great. The $300+ themes available are so worth it, but the FREE themes out of the box have everything you need to open your store and showcase your health & beauty products.

What do the FREE themes have already?

FREE Shopify themes have got all this and more:

Easy "drag-n-drop" website builder. NO CODING. No web developer needed. You can essentially build out your website - by yourself in less than 4 hours in your spare time. NO CODING.
Personalize your shop by adding your brand logo and colors.
Quickly add all your product photos, pricing, and link your Payment Provider.

Health & Beauty Product Theme Showdown

What are the must-have features for an online shop that sells health and beauty products? Well below are the absolute necessities:

Theme	Mobile-Friendly	Fast	Simple
Refresh
Taste
Dawn
Sense

Mobile-optimized. Most of your customers will be using their phones to shop, it only makes sense that your theme provides the best user experience - meaning your product photos won't be squished, cut or morphed, your product descriptions will be easy to read on a small screen, and all the buttons work from cart to checkout.
Fast speeds. Your customers don't want to wait for your store to load. More than a few seconds and they will leave. These themes are built to make your site fast.
Easy for you to run. The free themes are simplified to get a new store owner up-and-running. No excess features to get in the way of you focusing on selling products.

These free 4 health & beauty themes are all the same then?

They mostly have the same features. When you play with each theme demo, you'll see few differences in the layout, but all of them can be modified to your liking. So don't pick a theme based on what the demos look like. Below is a summary of the features of each theme:

Theme	Optimized for Story-telling	Editorial Content	Slide-out Cart	Press Coverage	Product Options
Refresh
Taste
Dawn
Sense

Sense theme has the least amount of features out of the 4, so it makes no sense to use the Sense theme. The theme has "Press Coverage", but what is that? I couldn't figure out what exactly that feature does - probably not important when you're first starting out.

Dawn theme has "Press Coverage" too, and "Product Options". Product options are good for health & beauty products that have different sizes, scents, colors etc. - these are called "variants". This way your customers can pick what variant/s they want and add it to the cart.

However, the Taste theme has "Product Options" too, so better to sunset Dawn. Taste is also optimized for long-form content, which may be helpful if your products have a background story to tell. Another feature of the Taste theme is "Editorial Content" - which maybe another useless feature.

Taste has the most features out of all the 4 free themes. It's only missing the "Slide-out Cart" feature. The slide-out cart (also known as a cart drawer) is basically your cart sliding out:

slide out cart free shopify theme health & beauty products

The slide-out cart is great for customers who like to pick what they want and check out immediately - usually men. Only the Refresh Theme has the slide-out cart option.

Health & Beauty Product Theme - The Best

Use Taste theme if you have a lot of product variants.

Use Refresh theme if you like the slide-out cart feature and your products have no variants.