Placenta on my hair?

I’ve heard about the wonders of placenta. How it can combat post partum depression. How some cultures bury it by a tree. Ah the almighty placenta!  I can’t help but be proud of the greatness that is, THE PLACENTA.  After all, hell, I can GROW (or is it make?) a placenta!  Ha! Take that MEN!

I did not save my placenta after giving birth to either of my children.  But I see no harm (a teeny tiny gag, sure, but harm? no.) in anyone wanting to do whatever they please with the placenta they have grown/made. Eat it, bury it, pop it like a Tylenol or rub it on their face. It’s theirs.

That’s my take on placenta talk.  {Wow. I have never written or said the word placenta so much in my life…}

Ok so fast forward to last week, when I received these packets of hair conditioner from my mother in law.  I was excited to give my hair some love with a mask of sorts.  And it was really sweet of my mother in law to think of me (I’ll take it as her wanting me to take some time for myself and NOT that she thinks my hair needs the mask). I’ve seen these packets at the store before. But evidently I had never really read the packet.

It wasn’t until my husband looked up in horror after reading the packet and professed, “That’s DISGUSTING” that I took notice.

Me: “What?”

Him: “Henna ‘n’ Placenta“?!?!?!

Me: “Oh yeah, it’s for your hair.”

Wait. Hold on. Back up. I read it myself, “Henna ‘n’ Placenta”. Placenta? Placenta as in baby, as in afterbirth?  Hold.the.phone.

Me: “It can’t be human placenta.  Is placenta also a plant? (oh please say yes)  Fuck it, let’s google it.”

A quick tap on the keys and a pounce on the return button, I found out that it’s not human placenta.

Oh good. Phew. That would be fairly odd, weird, damn near gross.

Oh wait. So it’s not human…it’s….

SHEEP PLACENTA

Oh, ok, that’s better.

WAIT. No it’s not, that’s still gross and did the mother sheep have a say with what they are doing with her placenta?

I mean, what if she wanted to make pills out of it or bury it by the barn.  And they say no animal cruelty.

Hask, I beg to differ, You TOOK HER PLACENTA AWAY! And SOLD IT! The poor sheep.

And now I am putting it on my hair. I am so sorry sheep.  Really I am.

But I have to tell you, my hair is now B-EWE-tiful! (thank you!)

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