When it comes to beard grooming products, men don’t tend to splurge. Treat your beard with the respect it deserves with these sophisticated beard washes.
Nothing signals calm assertiveness quite like a deluge of luscious, perfectly coiffed hair – thick and full, yet not at all frizzy. Tragically, this is rather hard to achieve by itself, and there’s a very fine line between chic virility and looking like Tom Hanks in Cast Away. However, it only takes a little facial maintenance to send you off into the world looking razor sharp.
Duke Cannon Beard Wash
Much like the product’s aptly named title, The Best Damn Beard Wash, this is a brand that gets straight to the point with a no-frills, high-quality creation that promises to tame the untameable. Its unique inclusion of citrus peel oils will rejuvenate your facial hair, while barley and wheat protein act to strengthen the beard itself.
Professor Fuzzworthy’s Beard Shampoo
This company from Downunder is intent on keeping your face from looking like an electrocuted wombat. Professor Fuzzworthy‘s distinctive, all-natural formula includes beeswax and honey, which clean your beard while also giving it a lustrously glossy finish. The lotion also comes as a bar, meaning it’ll be perfect for your hand-luggage if you plan to sport your beard abroad.
Billy Jealousy Beard Wash
Winner of the 2014 Esquire Grooming Awards, Bill Jealousy‘s star-studded wash contains aloe leaf and soy protein, which soften and hydrate your facial hair, as well as green tea extract (an ingredient touted to slow the process of skin aging). What you end up with is a perfect all-rounder; it’ll get rid of the build-up of dirt, sweat, and oil not just on facial hair, but also the skin underneath.
Zeus Vanilla Rum Beard Shampoo
Take every follicle of your beard hair on a mythical odyssey without stripping them of their natural oils with Zeus Vanilla Rum beard products. Ingredients such as chamomile act to simultaneously clean and protect the skin, while the anti-inflammatory and antibiotic qualities of Dragon’s Blood (a seemingly menacing, but completely harmless tree-based ingredient) will drastically limit any irritation.
House 99 “Get Groomed” Purifying Beard Scrub
Say what you will about David Beckham – like that he’s a melodramatic sissy boy who lost England the World Cup – but hell, he sure does know how to maintain a stellar beard. His brand, House 99, have infused a cocktail of black charcoal, volcanic stone and ginseng that’ll work in tandem to exfoliate your beard, purging those pesky in-grown hairs which have beset us all.
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