Woman Makes Picture Frames Out of Placenta

A woman creates photo frames out of placenta, the Daily Mail reports.

Amanda Cotton, 25, creates marble-effect frames from dried and crushed pieces of placenta and mixes it with molds filled with clear casting resin. She says she has already been receiving orders from new parents. Cotton uses the entire placenta when making a frame. She first boils it and then grinds it into small pieces before placing it into a mold with resin. "I have had a lot of positive feedback from mothers and fathers-to-be and I already have clients," Cotton said. A spokesman for the University of Brighton has confirmed that Cotton has had an order from Ulrika Jarl, a mother who is expecting her second daughter at Christmas. After birth, Jarl plans on keeping her placenta inside a cool box for Cotton to collect and turn into a frame.

"I can understand why some people might find this a bit yucky but what attracted me was the use of materials that we think of as waste. I finished an MA in sustainable design at the University of Brighton a couple years ago and these issues are close to my heart. We need to think of all the waste in a completely new way, as raw materials which hold huge potential. Why not use human waste where possible? I have friends who swear by placenta capsules and say they give them much more energy, more milk and even combat postpartum blues," Jarl said. "You can donate placentas for training dogs to look for human remains. There are so many uses for these useful bits of tissue that kept your baby alive for nine months, yet the majority of placentas are just thrown away. That really is a waste," she added.