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Beard Care • A Beginner’s Guide

February 2, 2014 By //  by The Beardsgaards 2 Comments

For a primer on big beard care, check out Beard Care • An Epic Guide

Beard Care

A beard is a glorious thing. A beard can build you a new chin, butch up a baby face, make strangers ask to pet you, grant you superhuman wood chopping skills, and make you irresistible to women.

Of course, a beard can also make your boss rag on you, make your lady friend not want to smooch you, and make people try to toss change in your coffee cup.

How can something as simple as facial hair give you such varied results? Because beards that do the latter are worn by boys. The former, beards that actually look and feel good, are worn by men, and don’t just happen. They don’t take a lot of work, that’s why they’re beards. But not NO work. You can’t expect greatness with absolutely zero effort.

With some really basic maintenance, you can have a proper man’s beard that makes both you and the people in your life happy.


Wash It

Wash your beard, scrubbing the skin underneath well, but do it as infrequently as possible. How often depends greatly on your face’s oil production, as well as your beard’s length and density (fine-haired beards need it more often). At the most frequent, wash every other day, but if you can go a week or more without it getting gross, do it!

Beardsmith, for example washes his every week and a half. On non-wash days, still give it a good scrub just with water to reset bed beard and distribute those natural face oils.

What to wash with? First, put down the bar soap, unless it is specifically made for beards. We like Hudson Made Beard & Shave Soap.

Another easy option is shampoo, because if you have hair on the top of your head, you’re using it already. If you are in our chairs, we can recommend one of our stellar Davines products, but any professional brand targeted toward thick, dense hair will do.


Condition It

It blows our minds how often dudes don’t think to use conditioner on their beards. It smoothes, softens, keeps it from becoming a gnarly tangled mass, helps it become bendy and trainable, protects against breakage – all the things you need to make your beard appear healthier and even longer!

It also keeps that beast pettable, because if you plan of rubbing it up against someone, let’s keep it out of the brillo pad state, yes? And if you’re planning on inflicting smooching on someone, don’t forget the mustache area.

Even if you don’t wash your beard every day, it’s totally fine to condition it daily. Use a good moisturizing conditioner for these purposes, or if you’re extra burly, smother that face beast in an emollient-rich deep conditioner instead.

Just smear some on your entire beard area, including parts that you are going to shave (neck, cheeks) toward the end of your shower when the hair is already pre-softened from the water heat. If you’re deep conditioning, you can even get out of the shower with the conditioner still in your beard, leaving in for at least 10 minutes before rinsing.


Brush It

While your beard is still wet, brush it well to pull your facial oils through the hair and smooth down the wild hairs. You can use a brush or a comb, but whatever you use, just make sure that the teeth or bristles are long enough to reach all the way through to your face.

Brush with beard oil in if you’re using it, but if you’re doing a balm or something else with wax as in ingredient, apply that one after doing most of your brushing.

For light to medium beards, we love Captain Fawcett’s Wild Boar Beard Brush. For medium to coarse beards, as well as mustaches and other facial hair, check out the Captain’s folding beard combs.


These steps are just the basics of beard grooming but for those truly dedicated gents, there is even more to learn in Beard Care | An Epic Guide.

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About The Beardsgaards

The Beardsgaards are a pair of mom-and-pop barber nerds with a shared obsession with perfection. We built this old school barbershop to feel like home to everyone who enters beneath the Elvish script above our door. If we and the Gaardian army can give you a better handle on your grooming routine, all the better.

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  1. Randy

    February 4, 2016 at 4:26 pm

    First time beard grower here. I’ve had a goatee (or circle beard) for years and always kept it around 1/4″ long. I’m now wanting to grow a full lumberjack/Bandholz type beard but not sure how to go about it or what to tell my barber. I had a three months growth going and made the mistake of telling a barber to “clean it up” some. He cut it back to 1 to 1-1/2 month length. Needless to say I was not happy. My question is do I just let it grow or do I need it evened/cleaned up occasionally.

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    • The Beardsgaards

      March 2, 2016 at 8:00 pm

      It’s a journey, not a destination, you’ll totally get there. So! Keep the edges lined up and once your length gets down from your chin a bit, start dropping the neckline to match while still echoing the angle of the jawline. Keep it growing, and good luck!

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