# Washing your beard -- soap or shampoo? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 17, 2021, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washing-your-beard-soap-or-shampoo/949026 "2021-08-17T17:47:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washing-your-beard-soap-or-shampoo/949026/21 "2021-08-17T22:44:35Z")
Shaving gel mostly. I shave in the shower so it ends up as my face wash. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washing-your-beard-soap-or-shampoo/949026/22 "2021-08-17T23:10:43Z")
> [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > Fresh and clean as a whistle! You flubbed your line: “I like it, too!” Ivory soap for me - top to bottom, stem to stern. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washing-your-beard-soap-or-shampoo/949026/23 "2021-08-17T23:13:26Z")
Tits to teeth Gums to thumbs. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washing-your-beard-soap-or-shampoo/949026/24 "2021-08-17T23:27:10Z")
^ Is that from something or is it just on the **\_P** family coat-of-arms? 😆 ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washing-your-beard-soap-or-shampoo/949026/25 "2021-08-17T23:34:50Z")
It’s definitely an expression. Well, I heard it somewhere. [![](https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.551539672.4826/throwpillow,36x36,1000x-bg,f8f8f8-c,0,200,1000,1000.u1.jpg) ](https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.551539672.4826/throwpillow,36x36,1000x-bg,f8f8f8-c,0,200,1000,1000.u1.jpg) It’s from Santa Clarita Diet. ---
**Author:** ![Bootb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e19b73/32.png) [@Bootb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bootb)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2021, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washing-your-beard-soap-or-shampoo/949026/26 "2021-08-17T23:58:25Z")
I don’t wash my beard at all–I’ve never seen the point. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washing-your-beard-soap-or-shampoo/949026/27 "2021-08-18T00:20:37Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#): > > It’s from Santa Clarita Diet. Thanx! I haven’t partaken of that particular show, yet; maybe now’s the time. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washing-your-beard-soap-or-shampoo/949026/28 "2021-08-18T00:41:38Z")
When I was cutting off all my hair regularly, I had little use for shampoo so I just washed my beard with soap. Since I’ve been letting my hair grow out, I just wash the beard with shampoo lather. It’s on my head already, does the job just fine. ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washing-your-beard-soap-or-shampoo/949026/29 "2021-08-18T01:29:01Z")
I answered based on my husband - he shampoos his head and his beard at the same time using the same shampoo. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washing-your-beard-soap-or-shampoo/949026/30 "2021-08-18T03:41:08Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Thanx! I haven’t partaken of that particular show, yet; maybe now’s the time. It’s really good, I’m on my 3rd or 4th run though it. This was the show, that you may remember, had it’s billboards banned (or maybe voluntarily pulled by Netflix) in Germany. [Apparently people were offended by them](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C4yDKUeWMAEDOwC?format=jpg&name=small). [Here’s a youtube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTuaovBfxoo) clip to give you an idea of what it’s…like. It’s gory, but keep in mind, the show is actually a comedy. FTR, that’s a clip from Season 2. Not really a spoiler, just worth noting. Youtube has individual trailers for each season if you want to watch the S1 trailer instead. I just like this one because it’s a good example of the gore and the amount of swearing. Plus, it’s got a ton of people in it. Beyond just Drew Barrymore and Timothy Olyphant. It has The Waitress (of It’s Always Sunny fame), Nathan Fillion (and Alan Tudyk), Andy Richter, Natalie Morales, Ricardo Antonia (Carlos, Eva Longoria’s husband on Desperate Housewives), Malcolm Barrett and Jonathan Slavin (Lem and Phil from Better off Ted), Thomas Lennon, Joel McHale, Maggie Lawson (Juliet on Psych), Portia De Rossi, Linda Lavin (Alice) and quite a few others. It’s a quick watch too. Half hour (so, 22 minute?) episodes and funny so you can buzz through quite a few of them in a sitting. And they cancelled it after 3 seasons it’s not that you’ve got 100+ episodes to watch. ETA, after I hit submit I saw that I was in the beard washing thread and was briefly worried I posted to the wrong place. We got a bit off topic, didn’t we. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washing-your-beard-soap-or-shampoo/949026/31 "2021-08-18T13:28:01Z")
^ Didn’t seem to slow anyone down. Let’s pretend it never happened and maybe they won’t notice. 😉 ::_whistling_:: (Thanks again; I’ll check it out soon.) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washing-your-beard-soap-or-shampoo/949026/32 "2021-08-18T18:52:33Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > :: _whistling_ :: ::Turns and casually walks in other direction:: ---
**Author:** ![mordecaiB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mordecaib/32/7725_2.png) [@mordecaiB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mordecaiB)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washing-your-beard-soap-or-shampoo/949026/33 "2021-08-19T18:26:27Z")
> [@Oredigger77](#): > > I use shampoo for my head (hair, face, and beard) then soap from the neck down. This is the way it’s done by all righteous and proper men. All you others are weirdos. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2021, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washing-your-beard-soap-or-shampoo/949026/34 "2021-08-19T18:37:37Z")
Shampoo and conditioner. Then another conditioner (specifically made for beards) when I get out of the shower. ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washing-your-beard-soap-or-shampoo/949026/35 "2021-08-21T13:53:45Z")
This is correct. If I am washing my hair, I use shampoo for hair, face, beard, body… everything. If I am not washing my hair, bar soap for everything. Soap is soap. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washing-your-beard-soap-or-shampoo/949026/36 "2021-08-21T16:53:53Z")
Whenever I have a beard–shampoo if it’s grown out to any kind of thickness, just use soap if not. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2021, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washing-your-beard-soap-or-shampoo/949026/37 "2021-08-21T17:14:57Z")
My point was: you don’t need the shampoo; it’s just watery soap with different perfumes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/washing-your-beard-soap-or-shampoo/949026.md?page=1)