Beard oil recommendations?

[BrewerGeorge]

To the guys who have beards, how do you clean your beards? Do you use soap or shampoo? Conditioner? A good beard oil is only part of the formula.

Just face (bar) soap, but my beard is more 1970's length than it is 1860's length.

 

[Traumabrew]

You should have done this for Movember.

I make a beard oil using: 1.5 oz fractionated coconut oil, 0.5 oz jojoba, 0.5 oz argan oil and 0.5 oz tamanu oil ( you can reduce the tamannu oil if you want/need as it does have a green tint) and vit E (tocopherol). I use an EO blend of fir and sandalwood, sometimes add Bergamot for a citrus hint. You can go plain.

Remember beard oil is for both the hair and skin.

 

[BrewerGeorge]

Ugh, I can't see how you can stand to have that tamanu smell right up next to your face all day.

 

[BattleGnome]

To the guys who have beards, how do you clean your beards? Do you use soap or shampoo? Conditioner? A good beard oil is only part of the formula.

My husband uses a beard shampoo. He used to use a brand called “beard guys” but now uses a brand called “broo” (with umlauts on the o’s). I don’t trust myself with anything resembling a shampoo yet, syndets still intimidate me.

 

[toxikon]

Reading this is encouraging me to give beard oil making a try! It's good excuse to start dabbling with EO blends and I do have a few willing beardy test subjects. Seems fun.

 

[Ivanstein]

I get wicked beard-druff and normal moisturizers do nothing to it. My skin gets angry red, scaling and itchy. A google search of the symptoms yields a truly frightening world of facial yeasts, tiny insectoid parasites, and expensive steroid plus antifungal treatments.

I make a equal proportion blend of fractionated coconut, jojoba, and avocado oil and it settles my skin overnight. The oil blend is light and soaks in very quickly without feeling greasy.

I have tried substituted argan oil for the avocado, and it still works, but I don't feel like it works quite as well as the avo.

I have tried grapeseed oil in the mix and it gives me pimples.

I haven't tried any scents in it, for me its more about the medicinal properties.

Have you considered some tea tree oil? That stuff works wonders on...uhh..."guy fungus" or athlete's foot. Maybe a bit of it in the beard oil would banish the little beasties?

Just a thought.

 

[xuledywo]

Did a forum search and didn't come up with anything hugely useful. Swiftcraftymonkey also came up blank. I'm looking to make a beard oil for DH. Anyone have a recipe they like for such a product? It's probably going to be left unscented, since he tends to either not like scents, or not be able to smell them at all. I do want it to be a liquid at room temp product, so he or I can pour a little into the palm of a hand and work it through his beard.

I have... alot. Avocado, apricot kernel, babassu, coconut, canola, sunflower, olive, castor, meadowfoam, rice bran, and argan oils, liquid jojoba, lanolin, mango, cocoa, shea and kokum butters, beeswax, candelilla wax, vitamin E, a bottle of toasted sesame oil normally used for cooking (and it's YUMMY! though I'll part with a little for this if it adds nice effects)... Not even going to consider orange peel wax for this, the scent is too strong. Essential oils included for conditioning effects might be considered, but I'd have to run each one by DH first.

I figured I would ask here first if anyone had a recipe they like to use before striking out on my own and making it up as I go. My first batch is going to be maybe an ounce or two jerusalempost, just to try things out. Actually, either way, I may well start off by trying each oil I'm considering individually over the course of a week or two.

So I've had a beard off and on over the years. I usually have a goatee during the spring and summer and grow out my beard during the fall and through winter. Sometimes I'll shave it all off and start fresh. This year I've decided I'm going to grow out my beard, though I can't go to long for work purposes, but I want a fuller and thicker beard instead of the very short beard I normally would grow. I recently discovered that even people with short beards like mine (currently) can use beard oil and that it will help with the beard during the growing out process. I purchased a bottle of Portland Beard Company (Schuler) which has a nice citrus type smell. I've only been using it for a week so I can't say one way or the other it has helped just yet, but I'm sure its doing its thing. I've also got another bottle, made by a fellow You Tube Pipe Presenter, coming my way to try out and give feed back on as he's getting ready to send it to market to sell. So out of curiosity, who all has beards and who uses beard oil? If you're using beard oil what brand are you using and what are your thoughts on it? Also if you have any tips feel free to share them.