[knarf]

20 years ago you would have seen placenta in the list of ingredients of skin care products (many different brands including AVON)

[Mrs. Don-o]

It would be important to know if that was placenta from an aborted baby, or placenta from the natural afterbirth.

The placenta is a uniquely layered shared fetomaternal organ (mother's cells on the outside adhering to the uterus, baby's cells on the inside facing the baby) which naturally develops, grows, ages and then perishes at the end of a normal pregnancy.