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New Uses for Old Products

Posted by Adrienne Martini

The solution for younger-looking skin has been with us all the time! We've just been foolish and wasteful enough to throw it away!

No, beauty isn't a result of diet or exercise or positive self-talk. It's locked away in the placenta. 

I know what you're thinking. I'm thinking the same think, even more so now that I googled for placenta images. But a Japanese company called Nihon Sofuken is marketing a new line of "drinks, jellies and face masks" that harness the healing powers of the afterbirth.

I have nothing against the placenta. They are great, placentas are. I just don't want to smear it on my face -- even if it has, as Nihon promotes, a "delicate peach" flavor and is technically vegan.

Rest assured, pregnant ladies. Your former organs will not be snatched up after delivery. The products are only made from pig placentas. I'm just not sure if that is more squick inducing or less. 

Photo credit: dailymail.co.uk 


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Comments

 

MsC said:

A good friend of mine has used a placenta-based hair product for decades.  Apparently it was highly recommended by several of her Latina friends, and she loves it.

April 9, 2008 12:54 PM
 

maeby said:

oh but what about crushing up birth control and putting them in your hair?

ah heck lets use breastmilk also! I'm sure a placenta/birth control/ breastmilk combination will really make your hair ultra shiney! I'm gonna try to sell this idea to Suave...

April 14, 2008 9:22 AM

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