Do you shampoo your beard? Or just use soap? Or nothing? Do you comb it? Do bits of last night’s dinner ever fall out? Have you (or anyone else) ever tried to braid it or curl it?
You shampoo, condition, and comb your beard just like your hair. If it is frizzy and wild, you use a styling product with “maximum hold” since the hairs are so coarse.
I present, for your viewing pleasure, an instructional video: Comb Your Beard (at Night)
I shampoo and rinse mine when I take my shower. It’s never been long enough to get dinner caught in it, though I’ll check/wipe for crumbs after a meal same as I do my mouth.
When I’ve periodically had a long beard, I’ve shampooed and combed it, never had a problem with getting food in it, never tried to style it, but it has a natural fork which my wife thinks is funny and has encouraged me to train it.
heck, I have what would be considered a very short beard, and I still shampoo it. I found that if I don’t, and just wash it as part of my face with regular soap, I get beard/face dandruff. 
So I use Head and Shoulders in my hair and in my beard.
Same here. If I don’t, I get seborrhea (which is probably what you have).
Yup, wash and condition and then I use the same stuff I put in my hair to keep my chin whiskers under control as those are the longest part of my beard.
I recently grew one (mostly because I got tired to shave). I use shampoo and soap unless I want cheek dandruff, same as Sampiro. Other than that, I don’t take care of it much (no combing, or product) but as soon as it’s long enough, I’m braiding that motherfucker, Warhammerdwarf-style.
I shampoo and condition it everytime I shower and I comb it every morning. I do braid it from time to time but not seriously. When I’m watching tv or playing on the computer I’ll fiddle with it and braid a single braid but mostly I’ll do a double braid as their is a natural split in the middle of my chin like Kobal2’s first link. When the beard is all naturally curled and intertwined then it comes about 4 inches off my chin but when I go to braid it and stretch the hairs out they can get up to 7 or 8 inches.
I do think it looks cool with the double braid.
Gotta shampoo and condition that thing. In college had a beard I’d occassionally pin to the mattress with an elbow while rolling over in bed. But as for styling, you’d be surprised how thick a beard has to be to style it in any way that doesn’t look weird. A friend once braided some string into it down from my moustache – cool looking, but Warhammer it was not.
My husband just washes his with soap and water at the same time he washes his face. It’s soft, even without conditioner.
I forgot to mention in my last post about getting food/stuff in the beard. At first I was annoyed and embarrassed about dropping food or drink or sauce into my beard but over the years, it’s been a little over four, I’ve come to accept that it’s going to happen. Now I am grateful for my beard beacuse of all the times I have dropped food or especially some kind of sauce into it that means that is getting on my shirt, especially my work shirts. I would rather go to the bathroom and wash out the food/sauce than to have a stain on my shirt for the rest of the day.
I’m also not embarrassed anymore for getting food/sauce into and if people are around and make note of it I’ll say something like, “Thank goodness for the beard or I’d have bbq sauce on my shirt.” and then a light bulb goes off in people’s heads and they say, “Yeah, you’re lucky there.” and then they do not think of me as a slob.*
*At least that is what I tell myself. They probably do think of me as a slob though but the beard has saved many shirts from ruination.
A nice mustache is also nice for the “Screw Milk, Got Guinness?” look. I find myself going through a lot more napkins at the bar…
I THOUGHT that looked like the same guy as in the neti pot video somebody posted.