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The fevered minds behind Arcana Soaps have been selling lavish distillations and ablutions since 2003. Our focus is on unparalleled skincare, exotic ingredients and delectable hand-blended scents.

Thursday, June 01, 2006

The Shopping Cart Cometh

Hello to all of you lovely Arcana customers out there. We've recently added a few improvements and additions to the site. Although arcanasoaps.com is still delightfully rudimentary, an actual shopping cart has materialized, Brigadoon-like, out of the mist.

The cart will tally domestic shipping (via USPS Priority or First Class) as follows:

$.01 to $11 = $2.50
$11.01 to $18 = $4.50
$18.01 to $40 = $6.50
$40.01 to $74.99 = $8.50
$75 and up = free!

For the time being, our beloved international customers are still in the unenviable Van Johnson role, and, as such, are not able to use this sterling example of Paypal-esque technology. This means that those of you outside the U.S. will still have to email with your orders and addresses. We will reply with brief-yet-affectionate emails detailing shipping quotes, totals and payment instructions. Eventually, Arcana Soaps will have a site which will include a more advanced cart with the ability to tally international shipping automatically. For now, however, this is it.

Due to the rising costs of our absurdly extravagant ingredients, most Arcana products have experienced small price increases. Samples are now $2, although they can now be ordered one at a time, rather than in sets of 5. Soap samples have increased in size and are now at least 1 oz each.

Sampler packs (e.g. 5 samples for $7.50) are no longer available.

Oh, did we forget to mention the sale?

All domestic orders will receive free shipping from now until Monday, June 5th at midnight PST (3 AM EST). No secret handshake is needed-- the cart will automatically list shipping as $0.

We wish we could offer free shipping internationally, but we were haunted by visions of hours spent at the P.O., clutching huge piles of boxes addressed to Outer Mongolia (with the requisite sky-high Outer Mongolian postal fees) in our shaking hands. Therefore, instead of free shipping, we offer the following:

All international orders will receive 15% off of the pre-shipping total. This applies to international customers only. This offer is available from now until Monday, June 5th at midnight PST (3 AM EST). No secret handshake is needed-- the discount will be manually deducted from all international orders.

Finally, our current turnaround time is 5 business days, which means that it will generally take 5 business days not including weekends or transit time for your order to arrive.

Questions? Post them here or write to us at sales@arcanasoaps.com.

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