Yeah. I’ve had a beard for 40 years, and this is the first time I’ve heard of beard oil.
I shave my neck once a week or so, and keep it trimmed with scissors once every two weeks or so. It gets washed with the same shampoo I use on the other end of my head.
Every couple days (or more) to razor the upper cheeks and lower neck. But my beard is thin and slow growing. YMMV.
A beard/mustache trimmer every once in a while to shorten it. (Not as often as I should.)
It generally doesn’t look all that great, esp. with the gray having taken almost completely over. But it’s less work than shaving most days. Currently beardless due to a combination of things (summer for one).
I rock a beard every winter. Usually start it first day of October and shave it first day of March. I keep it on the shorter side. Use a Wahl trimmer on the beard itself, and still shave my neck with the straight razor. There’s not much to it. They only thing you probably need to be aware of is that it’s going to itch like crazy for maybe the second and third weeks, just power through it. I condition mine with Honest Amish Beard Wax, and that seems to help with the itching a bit.
Shampoo, huh.
For a few years I was shaving my head. I got used to using Irish Spring bar soap for everything.
Now that I have hair again, I’ve stuck with bar soap and am satisfied with the results.
I just shaved my beard off a few weeks ago. I flip back and forth between beard and non-beard.
I recommend people starting a beard to just quit shaving for at least 4-5 weeks. No trimming, nothing during this time. The itching will normally stop after 2-3 weeks. At the 4-5 week period you can decide if you want to shape the neck line and cheek line. Keep letting the rest grow. After about 6-8 weeks, you can then decide if you want to keep letting it grow or if you want to trim areas up with either scissors or a beard trimmer using a gauge like your barber does on your hair. I tend to trim my sides and let my moustache and chin area grow longer.
Your beard hairs are normally going to be coarser than the hair on your head. Your beard will also tend to suck moisture from your face, resulting in dry skin under your beard. I also tend to have more wiry beard hairs, and like them to lay more flat against my face. For these problems I recommend beard balm and beard waxes. My favorite is Honest Amish Beard Wax. It’s all natural, no synthetics. It will keep your face moisturized and is heavy enough to tame those wild hairs. If you don’t want something that heavy use a beard balm or beard oil. Stick with the all natural stuff. There are lots of different boutique makers of the stuff.
Have fun with your beard. It’s just hair, you can cut it and it will grow back.
Full beard, neck shaved
Not a lot of hair left on the top of my head, so when I shampoo (every day), I do the beard too.
Use the beard trimmer on my electric razor to trim it every couple of days. Use a comb and a pair of scissors to trim the length about once a week. Beard trimmer also works great to shave the longer hairs off my throat and neck, then shave the neck and cheeks.
But I’m no executive, so I don’t mind if it looks a little rougher or there’s stubble for a day or two.
I like that.
When I first grew mine, it was jet black, and more than one acquaintance called me “Evil Spock.” I wore that epithet proudly! Alas, it is now mostly gray, and doesn’t look nearly as evil.
Update. I was out of the house for last couple of hours being friendly with some acquaintances, and they be all like “owww, what is wrong with you, have you some addiction problems?”
I defended myself by claiming it is midlife crisis thing and that it’s better to grow beard than to buy Harley. Someone pointed out, that I’m not rich enough to buy Harley. Duh, that is why I grow beard. Cheaper.
And here you missed the perfect opportunity to suddenly lean on them, paw at them and give them the begging puppy eyes while saying “You got any on you? I’m really jonesing here!”
“Licensed for beards”??? Is that a thing? :eek: I just have the nice lady at my standard cheap haircut place trim mine whenever I get a haircut. Hair cut + beard trim + tip = $12 to 15 (sometimes they don’t charge for the beard trim, sometimes it’s $3). In between I trim with the aforementioned Wahl trimmer. I do shave my lower neck and upper (face) cheeks every 2-3 days.
My beard and moustache are 42 years old. I also don’t know what ‘beard oil’ is.
I use shampoo too.
It all gets cut back about once a month by my barber.
Just something I tease Calvin (my barber) about.
I have not touched razor to face in more than 50 years. I shampoo my beard along with whatever is left of my hair twice a week. I wash my face–and therefore the beard–with soap every day.I get my hair and beard cut every couple months. It is fairly long now (maybe 4 inches) and I will be seeing the barber next week. She charges just a few dollars more to do the beard, although she spends only a couple minutes on the hair and maybe 20 on the beard. I figure I have saved thousands of dollars on razors (never found a satisfactory electric razor) and maybe 100 days of my life by not shaving (ten minutes a day, 5 days a week, 50+ years; it adds up).
Beard Oil? Never heard of it.
Shaved mine off a couple weeks ago…but every few days, shave the neck and cheeks to shape it.
Little bit of coloring to hide the grey
Never heard of beard oil…but have heard of mustache wax. Is it the same idea?
I currently have a full beard. It’s the longest I’ve ever had a beard, I stopped shaving about six months ago when the weather turned cool (in the good hemisphere) and just let it grow to see what happened. I kind of like it, but I’ll probably shave it off soon, as the weather is starting to warm up again.
I don’t use any product because I’m not a hipster. If I’m shampooing my hair I rub some in the beard too. I rinse around my mouth with tap water if I’ve eaten something messy. That’s about it.
Beard oil must be similar to blinker fluid.
Licensed For Beards would have been a great band name before hipsters were a thing.
I trim my beard about every two weeks. Fortunately I’m not naturally hirsute, so I don’t get shaggy too quickly.
I’ve never used it, but my understanding is that it is intended to tame the dreaded beard-druff. With the facial hair properly moisturized, it doesn’t have to wick up moisture from your skin. Or so say the “experts.”
So, if you put this grease in your beard, it won’t absorb water? (but will hold crumbs… 
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