Whether you are growing a beard for the first time or are the proud owner of a fully grown beard, maintaining your beard should be an important of your personal grooming routine. Check out the following tips for optimal beard care health for a well-groomed beard.
1. Commit To The Process
Growing a well-groomed beard takes time and doesn’t stop and trimming and conditioning. Maintaining overall health is essential to growing a good-looking beard. When growing a new beard, you should get plenty of sleep. Avoid smoking, drinking caffeine and alcohol, and other unhealthy habits. You could also consider taking vitamin supplements to boost your overall health. When growing a new beard, it is important to exfoliate several times a week to keep your pores clear and help prevent ingrown hairs. This will lay a solid foundation for beard growth.
2. Select The Right Tools
Much like you choose the right products for your hair and skin, it is important to invest in the right tools for your beard. You will need the following:
- Skin Cleanser or Shampoo tailored to your skin type
- Clean dry towel
- Beard Oil
- Beard comb and beard brush
3. Keep You Beard Clean
A gentle cleanser will work well for both your beard and skin. Washing your beard daily is important to remove dirt, oil, germs, pollution, and dead skin. To shampoo your beard, gently massage your cleansing product into your beard and skin with lukewarm water. Be sure to thoroughly rinse your beard to remove all of the excess residue.
4. Use Beard Oil To Moisturize
Beard Oil is great for keeping your beard soft and glossy, while providing essential nutrients and hydration to both your skin and beard. For best results, apply your beard oil immediately after washing and towel drying your beard. Your beard should still be slightly damp when you apply your beard oil. Massage the beard oil into both your skin and hair. If you have sensitive skin use an unscented beard oil.
5. Add Some Beard Balm Or Butter
Some guys find that beard oil alone is not enough for their beards. Beard Balms and Beard Butters are beard care products that are made from all natural oils, plant butters, and waxes that further condition the beard hairs. Beard Balms are also thicker and can be used to help style your beard as it grows.
6. Grooming And Trimming
Brush and comb your beard daily to remove any tangles or knots. Regularly trimming your beard can also keep your beard feeling great by removing the dead ends and preventing the hairs from breaking. Keeping your beard shaped is also a great way to stay motivated!
7. Train Your Mustache and Beard
Just because your beard and mustache are finally growing in, that doesn’t mean all the hairs will want to grow in the right direction! This is especially important in the mustache where you’ll want the hairs to part in the middle, and curve away to the sides. A great way to achieve this is with stronger styling products like Beard Balms and Mustache Waxes. Styling your mustache and beard before bed and is a great way to train your hairs over night to grow in the right direction. Over time you should start to notice the hairs naturally curving in the desired direction.
