Woman makes $15,000 a year selling placenta smoothies and keepsakes
A savvy Aussie woman makes $15,000 a year selling placenta products including face creams, keepsakes and smoothies.
Ciara Noble, a 23-year-old midwife from Melbourne, collects placentas within 12 hours of labour and turns them into consumable items and keepsakes for the new mothers.
“Some people might be turned off by it, but it’s such a natural and beautiful thing,” Ms Noble said.
“I first heard about the possible benefits of placenta encapsulation, which turns the placenta into pills to swallow, after I graduated from university.”
She has provided over 100 women with capsules, essences, face creams, creative keepsakes and even raw smoothies made from their own placentas.
Placenta smoothies are ‘full of nutrients’
Ms Noble makes placenta smoothies made from fruit, coconut water and fresh raw slices of placenta, which is said to provide an ‘instant’ energy hit.
“Some women are a bit concerned about an after taste, so I can add flavours such as bubblegum, lime or strawberry which helps mask it,” she said.
“The placenta smoothies are meant to be very potent and full of nutrients, as it’s done raw. You don’t kill any of it from the dehydration, and you’re putting back what you just birthed.”
Her most popular product is placenta capsules, which are believed to help with energy levels, hormone imbalances, reducing post-natal bleeding and increasing milk production.
“Once I get the placenta I cut it into thin slices, and I pop it into the dehydrator for 15 hours – the same as if you were making beef jerky or dried fruits,” she said.
“Then I’ll put all the slices in a blender and whizz it up into a powder. I have a pill making machine that makes it all into little capsules.”
Sweet mementoes crafted from afterbirth
Ms Noble works full time as midwife and earns $15,000 a year through her business Kindred Postnatal Products, which she launched in January 2017 after becoming a certified Placenta Remedies Specialist.
She also provides free keepsakes to mothers such as placenta-blood prints and ornaments made from the umbilical cord.
“You just need to lay a piece of paper on top of it and press it down, and it creates these beautiful paintings,” she said of the placenta prints.
“If a cord is only short I’ll just do a love heart, but if it’s longer I can make words like ‘love’. But not many people get that,” Ms Noble said of her umbilical cord creations.
“I really love what I do and it means the world to me to know I’m making some small difference in these women’s lives.”
– Caters
