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Guides from KBA & Co

Original, research-minded guides you can read on any device. Each one is delivered to your email right after checkout. Add as many as you like.

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The Complete Digital Library

Our whole digital shelf in one offer: the Botanical Beauty makeup guide, the printable Recipe & Remedy Cards, all four seasonal guides (Sleep & Stress, Cold & Flu, Mama & Baby, Summer Skin), and The Guide to Herbal Tea included. Everything but the Field Guide, at one bundled price.

$102.00 $69.00 Save $33.00

The Field Guide is sold on its own and is not part of this bundle.

Free The Guide to Herbal Tea — Everything I Know About Making Tea Worth Drinking. Yours free on its own, and included with the bundle. Get it free →

by Climate & Region

Field Guide to Common Medicinal Herbs

An original, 150+ page digital field guide to 120+ medicinal herbs across four climate regions. Traditional uses, active constituents, home remedies, history, and two indexes, written for beginners and seasoned herbalists alike.

What's inside

  • 120+ herb profiles across four climate regions
  • Active constituents and traditional uses for each plant
  • Home preparations: teas, tinctures, infused oils, and salves
  • A beginner foundations section and starter-garden guidance
  • Two indexes: search by herb, or by ailment

$55.00 $44.00

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Professional Herbal Makeup, Made at Home

Botanical Beauty

Make professional-quality makeup at home the way a small cosmetics studio does: with clean process, weighed formulas, botanical powders, and natural mineral mica for color. Foundation, blush, eyeshadow, mascara, and lip color, plus the parts most makers skip.

What's inside

  • Working like a studio: clean process, tools, and weighing by formula
  • The color-additive rules you actually have to know (and eye-area safety)
  • Your ingredient pantry: minerals, micas, oils, butters, and botanicals
  • Color theory and matching skin tone with iron oxides and mica
  • Formulas: foundation, blush, eyeshadow, mascara, and lip tint
  • Preservation, shelf life, and stability
  • How to research and vet your suppliers for genuinely cosmetic-grade materials

$34.00

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A Printable Apothecary Pack

Recipe & Remedy Cards

A printable pack of the core KBA & Co preparations, written as clean one-page cards for your kitchen: the master salve, alcohol and alcohol-free tinctures, a tea-blending frame, and a plant-based bug spray. Same forgiving, repeatable ratios we teach, ready to print.

What's inside

  • The Master Salve (the 4:1 ratio for everything)
  • Alcohol tincture, by folk and ratio methods
  • Alcohol-free glycerite for kids and the alcohol-avoiding
  • A simple three-part herbal tea blend
  • Plant-based bug spray, lemon-eucalyptus led

$12.00

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A Seasonal Herbal Guide

Sleep & Stress

A short, honest guide to the herbs and rituals that help you wind down, with the research left in. Lemon balm and holy basil, a bedtime tea blend, and a wind-down ritual that actually ends in sleep.

What's inside

  • Lemon balm: the lemon-scented off-switch
  • Holy basil for the wound-up day
  • Build a wind-down ritual that works
  • A simple bedtime tea blend
  • What the herbs can and cannot do

$14.00

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A Seasonal Herbal Guide

Cold & Flu Season

Honest herbal comfort for cough-and-cold season: thyme and mullein, a soothing tea, a gentle steam inhalation, and clear lines on when to stop home care and call a professional.

What's inside

  • Thyme: the aromatic chest herb
  • Mullein, the quiet lung herb
  • A soothing cough-season tea
  • A gentle steam inhalation
  • When to stop home care and call someone

$14.00

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A Gentle Seasonal Herbal Guide

Mama & Baby

The gentle, safety-first guide for pregnancy, postpartum, and little ones. Calendula and colloidal oatmeal, a short safe routine for babies, and the bright safety lines that matter most when "natural" does not automatically mean "safe."

What's inside

  • The golden rules (safety first)
  • Calendula: the gentle skin flower
  • Colloidal oatmeal for dry, sensitive skin
  • Pregnancy tea, with a caveat
  • A short, safe routine for little ones

$14.00

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Everything I Know About Making Tea Worth Drinking

The Guide to Herbal Tea

A 50-page guide to herbal tea, organised by what you actually want the cup to do. 39 blends across sleep, anxiety, cough and expectorants, digestion, immunity and more, each with the ratios, the method, and an honest note on what the research does and does not support. Free, with 21 cited sources.

What's inside

  • 39 blends grouped by what they do, from sleep to sore throats
  • Steep or simmer: the one distinction that fixes most bad cups
  • Every ratio, brew time, and batch quantity in one reference
  • What each herb in the blend is doing, and where the evidence sits
  • 20 botanical plates, a full index, and 21 verified citations

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Bugs, Sun & Soothing

Summer Skin

Protect and soothe skin through bug season and sun season the honest way: lemon-eucalyptus repellent that holds up, calendula and oatmeal for bites and heat rash, after-sun care, and the truth about herbs and sunscreen.

What's inside

  • Keeping bugs away: lead with lemon eucalyptus
  • Soothing bites and irritated skin
  • After-sun and dry-skin care
  • The honest part about sun protection
  • A summer skin-soother spritz

$14.00

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A look inside the Field Guide

Sample pages

A few pages from across the guide, so you can see the style and depth before you buy.

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Questions & answers

How do I get my download?

Right after checkout we email you a secure download link. It works for 14 days, so save the PDF somewhere safe once you open it.

What format are the guides?

PDFs you can read on any phone, tablet, or computer, and print if you like. The Recipe & Remedy Cards are designed to print one card per page.

Can I get a refund?

Because digital downloads are delivered instantly and can’t be returned, all digital sales are final. If your link ever doesn’t work, email us and we’ll fix it right away. Contact us

Is this medical advice?

No. Our guides are educational and reflect research and traditional use. They are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.