Learning Center


Welcome to our Learning Center — an educational hub for those who want to understand the plants, ingredients, and traditional frameworks that guide our work at Creation Farm. Herbalism is both practical and experiential, and here you’ll find resources designed to help you explore, study, and apply herbal knowledge in everyday life.

About the Learning Center

The Creation Farm Learning Center exists to preserve and share the educational foundations behind Creation Farm Inc.. Drawing from the lived experience and authorship of its founders, this space connects traditional herbal knowledge, ingredient literacy, and formulation philosophy with the company’s products and publications. Learn more about this work through Anna’s Journey.

Explore Herbal Learning

Our approach blends traditional herbal wisdom, plant energetics, aromatherapy, and natural skincare craft. These teachings connect the body, the seasons, the land, and the herbal kingdom into a unified learning journey.

Ingredient & Herb Profiles

Discover botanical ingredients, herbs, and aromatic extracts used in natural skincare and wellness traditions.

Ingredient Dictionary

Ingredient Reference Index

  • Aromatics & Essential Oils
  • Botanicals & Extracts
  • Carrier Oils & Bases
  • Hydrosols & Waters

Skin & Body Systems

Understanding how herbs and plants interact with different body systems is essential to traditional herbalism. Here we explore system-level shifts with a focus on structure, function, and natural patterns — without medical diagnosis or treatment language.

Herbal Energetics & Traditional Frameworks

Plants are not only chemical — they are energetic. Energetics give context to how herbs feel: hot, cool, moist, dry, or tonic over time. This framework helps guide selection and application in a non-medical, traditional context.

Tutorials & How-To Guides

These step-by-step guides translate traditional herbal wisdom into practical routines. They are written so that beginners, families, and practitioners can all find something useful without hype or pressure.

Seasonal Herbalism

Books & Journals for Deeper Study

Browse Books & Journals

Frequently Asked Questions

Begin Your Herbal Journey

Why Creation Farm?

See More about: Creation Farm Inc. and Our Family of Brands

Creation Farm began in 1982 with handmade herbal soaps crafted by Anna Sangemino. Over the next four decades, the work expanded into salves, creams, aromatherapy, hydrosols, and traditional herbal skincare rooted in folk herbal practice.

Our orientation is herbal rather than pharmaceutical, and traditional rather than trend-based. We work with whole plants, simple carriers, and conservative dilutions of essential oils chosen for topical comfort rather than for dramatic aromatics.

We are one of the longest-standing herbal soap and salve makers in the United States, with more than a million bars of soap produced by hand since the 1980s. Our products have appeared on QVC, in natural markets, apothecaries, homestead supply shops, and were exported to Japan for nearly a decade as part of a premium botanical skincare program.

Today, Creation Farm serves both direct customers and independent retailers through Faire wholesale, while also offering books, courses, and a growing learning library for those interested in herbal practice and plant-forward skincare.

Formulation Philosophy

    • Whole plants: herbal infusions, macerations, and hydrophilic extracts
    • Topical outcomes: comfort, moisture, nourishment, and seasonal support
    • Aromatics: essential oils used in conservative, skin-aware dilutions
    • Non-pharmaceutical: no medical claims, no internal use, no hormone claims
    • No unnecessary additives: no endocrine disruptors, no synthetic fragrances
    • Long-term use: products intended for daily and seasonal routines

Suitability & Use

Our products tend to work especially well for:

    • peri & post-menopausal skin
    • mature and elder skin
    • thin, dry, or papery-feeling skin
    • seasonal dryness (winter & AC summers)
    • frequent hand-washing
    • outdoor and homestead lifestyles
    • sensitivity to conventional cosmetics