Placenta encapsulation turns your precious placenta into easy to take palatable capsules. Like any other supplement, placenta capsules are taken 1-3 times a day to facilitate a healthy emotional and physical post-birth recovery. They are your own unique tailor-made nutritional supplement.

There are two ways to prepare placenta capsules, the Simple preparation or the Steamed preparation.

The Steamed prep consists of steaming the placenta before dehydrating and grinding down into a powder form. This method will produce a slightly lower number of capsules due to shrinking during the steaming process. Some feel steaming may be more damaging to the nutrients.

Simple capsules miss out the steaming process. With the Simple prep, the placenta is dehydrated fresh and is at no time subjected to high levels of heat.

With both methods, there is never anything added and the capsules only contain 100% dehydrated placenta powder. Both methods are equally potent and whether you opt for Simple or Steamed is down to personal preference.
However, as an extra precaution, a Steamed prep must be done when mums have tested positive for GBS or when there is meconium present.