Penn Herb Company

I really love this new addition to the neighborhood. The store is beautiful inside.
There are a ton of herbs and vitamins to choose from and you can learn a lot from the employees (Most of them).
I wish they had a bigger selection of organic/​healthy foods but besides that I love this place.

I was looking for some hard to find herbs and found this store online. Wow I’m in love! It’s so bright and beautiful, reminds me of Whole Foods but with only the cosmetics, pharmacy, and dried goods sections. The store associates were friendly and greeted me as soon as I walked in the door. They helped me find my products and let me browse the shelves at my leisure even 10 minutes before closing without rushing me or being nosy with what I was looking to buy.
In addition to herbs and vitamins, I was impressed with this store’s display of tinctures, teas, coffee, gourmet foods, kitchen tools, skin care products, etc. Basically this a show room version of online vitamin stores like Vitacost or LuckyVitamin. Every shelf was so organized and everything stacked so neatly and clearly labeled.
The only down side is the prices are not as cheap as online retailers, but if you need herbs, tinctures, and other woo woo witch doctor-​ish remedies and don’t feel like waiting to get stuff shipped, this is the store for you! The selection can’t be beat. It’s super convenient to get here by the Market-​Frankford subway line, as it’s a minute walk from the Spring Garden station.
Such a charming store for a new age/​alternative medicine nut like me. I will be back!

Full disclosure: I totally thought this place was going to bomb based on what I could see when walking by as they were setting up. However, I could not have been MORE WRONG! While they have a lot of health products that I likely won’t purchase, they have great organic produce for extremely reasonable prices (i.e. Avocado’s for $ 0.99). They also have nearly every herb/​spice that you could ask for. I think I have gone here at least 10 – 15 times and they just opened. I highly recommend PHC and hope they continue to do well.

Nice selection of stuff and decent prices here. For what I’m working on (simple homemade toiletries) it gets the job done. The staff was a little dopey, but they were nice which makes up for it. There’s parking right across the street, too!

Beautiful renovation of the store at the same prior location. The store is just spectacular. Larger than before and beautifully constructed wooden trees and hand carved displays. Great selection of goods and remedies with great service. So thrilled that they are back and better than ever. Check out the store. It is absolutely gorgeous. Plus they preserved the original stained glass address and inlays from the old store. Really classy.

What a gorgeous addition to the neighborhood! A well thought out store and perfectly organized. I do like that they have added produce, bread, and other grocery items my only complaint is that the prices are wayyyy out of my price range, especially with other shops on the block selling some brands for $ 1 or $ 2 less. I hope that with volume some of these prices will go down but I do like the convenience of having herbs, oils and other health items very close by. They even have my fav brand of coconut oil so that will keep me coming back:)

Penn Herb Company is now back at 2^nd and Spring Garden in their gorgeous brand new building. Have been shopping there at least 30 years and am so very glad they are back in the neighborhood. Excellent customer service, fair prices, vast inventory. As good as it gets!

I love this store and their new building is fantastic!
I shopped there MANY times and the customer service is OUTSTANDING. They seem to only hire well-​versed staff, which keeps me coming back. They also carry high quality herbs, foods, snacks, groceries, books and bamboo fiber socks! This is the only shop in Philadelphia where I have been able to find bamboo fiber socks. My toenail fungus problem has become less severe ever since I switched to wearing them.
I really do wish that they would carry beeswax candles as well as cosmetics such as hemp organics lipstick and ‘No Miss’ nail polish.

annoyed! drove from blue bell (app. 24 miles and with traffic about 1 hour) to the store that has been there since the 1920’s to find a construction site. the building leveled. they need to make that little, tiny blip on their website larger and in a more visible spot so people see it when looking at the address! yes, why don’t you put that info next to the address instead of in an obscure place that people only see after they’ve wasted hours looking for the store!

This would be a 5 star rating it I hadn’t wasted 40 minutes driving around looking for a store that literally no longer exists. The N. 2^nd St. address listed here and on their elaborate website is incorrect. Not only has the store moved, the physical building it used to be in has apparently been torn down– which leads me to believe this move happened quite some time ago and nobody has taken the time to, I dunno, tell potential customers? According to a very small notice on their website they will be reopening this store in 2013.
The new (temporary?) store, some 15 miles away is well stocked and the workers are quite friendly and helpful. I was looking for some fairly obscure herbs and essential oils and they had them all for a very fair price. Unfortunately, this location is not likely to get much business because a) the only place you can see the new address is on a sign posted on the fence that surrounds the large hole in the ground where the old store used to be, and b) there is zero lighting and minimal signage around the new store that is located in what seems to be in some sort of industrial complex.
Either way, the positive experience I had once I got over how pissed I was has forced me to consider making this my go-​to spot for my herbal needs/​natural product needs.
FYI the ACTUAL (current) address is 10 601 Decatur Road
Philadelphia, PA 19 154

I really appreciate how friendly and helpful these people are.

WOW! This is an amazing resource! Their CS Reps are super helpful friendly. I had to return a product, and they issued a refund quickly no problem at all. Their Natures Wonderland brand is about the best price I have found if you are looking for quality and price which we all are I think. The Herbal Extracts are fresh well packaged & as I already said a GREAT price. Oh and they have a great assortment of soaps, and lotions, and some snack mixes too! The Athletes mix has the worlds biggest freshest raisins! Yummy! This place is money WELL SPENT! I have been to their store & ordered on line both great.

It was completely by accident that I stumbled upon Penn Herb Company. At first I wasn’t even going to go in, but my bf convinced me to just check it out and see what they had.
I admittedly do not believe in alternative medicine — I don’t dis-​believe in it, but I’m not about to choose it over my local pharmacy — so at first I was just wandering around the large front room, curious to see what types of herbs were listed under the different categories (the sexual health section being the most fun when «just browsing.»). But then I wandered into the second, smaller room and found what I was looking for.
They have a few shelves that are dedicated to bulk herbs. BULK. The prices are pretty nice, everything is listed alphabetically so its easy to find, and they list the medicinal uses for each herb on the label. But amongst all those herbs are tons that you use just for everyday cooking, and typical drinking teas too! Next thing I knew I was cradling tons of bags like a baby — it was hard to whittle down the choices to those I actually needed (versus those I just want so I can say I have them). And the staff is so nice and friendly and helpful! They’re really sweet people, I’ll go back just to make sure they get my business, even though they’re…not exactly anywhere near my neighborhood. If you’re into alternative medicine, this is definitely the place for you, but even if you don’t you will find something that you want anyway!

Penn Herb staff is always friendly and pretty knowledgeable about their products. They also offer mail order service if you can’t make it to the store. I’ve used that as well and was very pleased.
Good store. I highly recommend it.

Please do not buy things if you know not what they do. I usually come in to buy the healing herbs for my life here… FYI allergy sufferers-​there is a liquid form of Butterbur that Penn Herb carries. I dare say it will alleviate if not eliminate your allergies! Achoo!

Every once in a while I’ll go all hippy-​dippy and decide that I’m into herbs instead of modern medicine. When I do, this is home base for herbs. Can’t sleep? Do your feet itch? Does your breath stink? Stop your whining and get your butt over there. They will have what you need. You will get no weirdness and nobody will try to douse you in pachouli (unless you want to, I suppose).
I am far from being practically perfect in every way, and I’m sure I’ll be back on line at Walgreens soon, but for now, I’m going au natural with my herbs. Oh yeah…

I first discovered Penn Herb Co. when I lived in Colorado and became enamoured with Chap-​a-​Grips. On a frantic search to buy a dozen or so for some goody bags I was assembling for volunteers of a golf tournament, I discovered the web site (which I just added to this site). I placed my order and was so very happy that I ended up an avid catalog friend for the next several years. Upon my recent visit to the city of Philadelphia, I simply had to go in and see this place. Honestly, I had no idea that the place would be so small! I had envisioned the Ikea of herbs and vitamin supplements. Not at all. This place is small but not cramped yet chock full of every possible goodness that you could imagine! I stocked up on these crazy travel toothbrush sanitizer covers. I love them — I only wish I had tried the cinnamon scent too. Oh well, I will just go on their cool web site until I can get back down to Philly. The people were very friendly and helpful as well. Not that I had any questions but I observed them with other customers. Certainly go in and at least say hi to these folks!

The Penn Herb Co is a family-​owned business that has very friendly and knowledgeable staff. I was dying to go in here, but they close at 5:30 – before I get off work. On my day off I stopped in and came home with 2 different reasonably priced teas.
The atmosphere is so friendly, I want to go back just to say hi.