Placenta Beauty Products

1. probinu
   April 3rd, 2008 at 9:30 am

   My wife and I recently had a baby, and I am convinced that when they refer to the “Beauty of childbirth” they are not talking about the placenta.

   No thanks.

2. kuanes
   April 3rd, 2008 at 9:42 am

   get demi moore on the horn….

   /referencing her interview with dave letterman about her leech beauty therapy

3. Scooter
   April 3rd, 2008 at 10:06 am

   uh, GROSS.

4. JoBo S
   April 3rd, 2008 at 10:06 am

   I think I will speak for the majority when I say:

   Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
   Ew
   Ew
   EWWWWWWWW!

5. luke
   April 3rd, 2008 at 10:19 am

   Placenta 340000 was a total flop, 360000 is great!

6. Thomas
   April 3rd, 2008 at 10:32 am

   That’s beyond terrible. Why, Japan? Why? You give us robots and anime, and awful pornography — but this? Why?!?

7. Nate
   April 3rd, 2008 at 10:38 am

   haa haa haaa….gross.

   Why does this remind me of the movie Boomerang…
   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZYGbizcZgg

8. Justin
   April 3rd, 2008 at 10:54 am

   OH MY GOD SO GROSS!

9. rohin
   April 3rd, 2008 at 11:11 am

   At least they’re not eating it. I have met several couples that have chowed down on it after junior popped out, like a celebratory meal. I bet they’re the kind of people that drink their own piss too, cos it “cleanses the soul”.

   My friend tried some placenta and he said it was deee-lish.

10. empty-minded
    April 3rd, 2008 at 11:21 am

    I find nothing, absolutely nothing, attractive about a woman who would wear or ingest a pig’s placenta (or any other mammal of choice).

    I mean how did they come up with this idea in the first place? I know that some mammals eat their own palcenta. Did the pig farmer notice that the mother pig’s skin was more soft and supple after she ate her own (or somebody else’s) afterbirth? Or did the pig farmer’s wife get sprayed with this stuff and the pig farmer found himself thinking that he had never found his wife so beautiful before.

    My guess is that the pig farmer said ‘yuck’ (you’ve got to think that something that would make a pig farmer go ‘yuck’ has got to be bad) and thought how can I get rid of this slop? Then the epiphany: “I’ll sell it as a beauty product. Something this ugly and gross has got to make women beautiful.”

11. probinu
    April 3rd, 2008 at 11:44 am

    When you think about it, a lot of the things we eat are probably pretty gross in their natural form. Sausage cased in intestines?

12. Bill
    April 3rd, 2008 at 1:42 pm

    I’m no expert in the Japanese language but I know English translations and attempts to use English words often seem to imply something different. For example, in Japan you often see Pocari Sweat. Ew, sweat? Actually, no. The idea is to replenish your body when it sweats. At least I hope that’s what is going on with “Placenta 360000″.

13. Circa Bellum
    April 3rd, 2008 at 2:06 pm

    My first wife bought some shampoo back in the 70’s called, “Placenta Plus!” She threw it away after I pointed out to her what it actually had in it.

14. Scot
    April 3rd, 2008 at 2:18 pm

    Placenta is good chopped up and stirred into scrambled eggs.

15. CheeseDuck
    April 3rd, 2008 at 2:28 pm

    *Barf*

16. DrJones
    April 3rd, 2008 at 2:54 pm

    I’m assuming other mammals eat their afterbirth because of all the nutrients and other goodies, not because it tastes good. Seeing as how the infant goes right to suckling, it makes sense…for those mammals. We humans have other, more tactful and probably more tasty ways to get those same nutrient goodies.

17. su.wei
    April 3rd, 2008 at 2:54 pm

    soooo disturbing. bleh

18. Amazone
    April 3rd, 2008 at 3:36 pm

    How much do the Japanese pay for my placenta?

19. ted
    April 3rd, 2008 at 4:11 pm

    Yum.
    Add a few fava beans and chianti, and you’ve got a meal.

20. Ali S.
    April 3rd, 2008 at 5:15 pm

    Nothing like more snake oil methods of trying to get younger.

21. matorsys
    April 3rd, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    Vouching for the positive side of the ingestion of placenta…I’m TCM practitioner. Human placenta, known to the Chinese as Zi He Che, is used as an herb (albeit expensive) necessary in the treatment of severely emaciated or chronically ill patients. Its one of the most nutrient rich substance in the planet. Its no surprise that the Japanese have chosen to market it as an anti aging method.

    http://www.tcmtreatment.com/herbs/0-ziheche.htm

22. empty-minded
    April 3rd, 2008 at 5:50 pm

    Ted - only if it’s a “nice” chianti. Fah, fah, fah, fah, fah.

23. xander
    April 3rd, 2008 at 6:16 pm

    I can’t get out of bed anymore without a placenta enema.

24. Miss Cellania
    April 3rd, 2008 at 6:52 pm

    There is one little detail I left out, just to see how many people would go read the linked article. It’s not human placenta.

25. Viola
    April 3rd, 2008 at 9:13 pm

    “wholesome, Japanese pigs”

    Wholesome? Well, that changes everything! I’ll take six bottles, please.

26. Lasse
    April 4th, 2008 at 5:05 am

    I’ll rather get old and keep my dignity (and stomach content).

27. MoonCake
    April 4th, 2008 at 6:12 am

    i know dogs and cats eat the placenta.. if not, i know they eat the feces of their young. and that’s not because it tastes good, it’s to keep them clean. i mean, we humans find everything gross. we wouldn’t lick our own floors unless it was part of a bet and we’re obsessed with f*cking purel hand sanitizer. to each their own, but the point is of course we think it’s gross because the name holds true to the actual product. if that were true of every product, you would be more grossed out than you would think. and they’re not even ingesting this stuff– they’re putting it on their skin. big whoop. good for the japs for marketing something else we people just throw away as a commonality. not advocating the use myself, just pointing out that there are worse things out there that we are blindly purchasing. we’re just lucky that manufacturers don’t name their products after the ingredients contained in them.

28. probinu
    April 4th, 2008 at 9:15 am

    exaclty my point earlier,

    My Bologna has a first name, it’s N-A-S-T-Y

29. leela
    April 4th, 2008 at 1:20 pm

    Huhu,everybody gets so upset about products made of placenta. Have you ever wondered where the hormones in your contraception-pill come from? No, they are not synthetically made. Yes, it is horses urine from pregnant mares. You take them every day. Or you have your girlfriend take them every day.
    Do you really think that in your average hot dog there is premium meat when it only costs what it costs? Yes, it is shredded beyond recognition and your contraception pill is so nicely pink or white. I am quite sure this stuff from Japan does not much resemble what you know it is made of. Still I doubt very much that it works.

30. tabest
    April 4th, 2008 at 1:36 pm

    lol some of these posts are pretty hilarious. Neatorama should do something on “neatorama’s top 50 funniest quotes” or something.

31. liphttam1
    April 4th, 2008 at 8:41 pm

    ok i didn’t need 2 no this

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