If you’ve been part of the bearded population for a while now, you’ll know how important it is to look after your facial hair. If you’re new to the beard club, where do you start?
Cleaning and trimming a long beard can feel daunting, especially if you’re growing a beard for the first time. Well, we’re here to tell you that you shouldn’t feel intimidated. Follow these simple steps to keep your long beard looking and feeling great.
How to Look After Your Beard
To make sure your beard looks its best and smells great, there a two main grooming steps to follow regularly to help your beard look fuller and healthier.
1. Cleaning – Just like the hair on our head, beards require regular washing to help remove dead skin cells and beard flakes, and to keep it smelling fresh.
2. Trimming – Nobody wants a scraggly-looking beard. Regular beard trimming helps your beard to look and feel fuller. When trimmed using the right products, beards are left feeling soft.
Check out this simple, step-by-step guide to learn how to trim a long beard and keep it clean.
How to Clean Your Long Beard?
One of the biggest challenges with keeping a long beard clean is getting rid of beard flakes.
Skin naturally produces an oil called sebum to keep itself hydrated. However, particularly long beard hairs absorb a lot of this oil, leaving the skin under your beard prone to dryness, itching, and flaking. These dead skin flakes make your beard appear dirty.
While you might be tempted to use a bar soap to wash your beard and remove the dandruff, this could exacerbate the problem. Most bar soaps are rich in sodium which strips the skin of its natural oils, leaving it dry and prone to flaking. Instead, use a shampoo specially formulated for long beards.
Is Beard Shampoo Necessary?
The short answer is yes! While it can be easy to lump beard shampoo with normal hair shampoo, they each serve a different purpose.
Standard hair shampoos are often designed to tackle the oilier scalp area, making them unsuitable for facial skin which is usually drier. The skin around your chin often requires extra oil because it disperses nutrients to your beard, reducing its oil retention rate.
For this reason, beard shampoos are often formulated with moisturising ingredients to hydrate facial hair and support healthy-looking skin.
Best Beard Shampoo for Long Beards
We recommend using our King C. Gillette Beard and Face Wash. This beard shampoo is not only designed to give long beards a thorough clean but is formulated with argan oil, avocado oil and coconut water to help replenish the moisture and nutrients lost during the beard-washing process.
