my friends here think i’m nuts for all my beard caretaking. its not that overboard, shampoo, protein conditioner, and oil it once a day when combing it. do all the bearded folks here do the same??? How do you keep your beard healthy and shiney???
chicken grease. J.k. I don’t have a beard too freaken hot for that. It’s a winter thing.
I trim mine twice a month.
I do trimming and maintenance on my beard, but not much else. It’s mostly grey now, so there’s not a lot of shine. 
I’ve always had a beard. I never thought about “caring” for it aside from trimming it every week or two when it gets unruly. Every morning in the shower I wash my face with regular soap and that includes the beard. I do have an uncle though that uses shampoo and conditioner on his beard when he washes his hair. I tried it a few times but it didn’t seem to make any difference to me. I’ve always kept my beard pretty short but if I were to grow a longer beard I may put more thought into the matter. As it stands now it’s probably a whole new beard every month or two.
I had a beard since 1993, and I didn’t cut it from 2002 till 2007. It reached mid-belly, and I decided to cut it short,(it was truly enormous!) which is how I keep it now. I feel about it like onefortheroad - I clean out the food bits, dust off the left over snuff. Ocassionally I chase away little bird trying to nest in it :o) But I would never ever never be without it :o) At Pascha I sometimes wax my moustache and make a handlebar of it :o)
I wear a vandyke, so its reasonably short. I pretty much do what leman, snuffypants and onefortheroad do. Nothing special. I never had a bird in it 
but the occasional insect will get caught in there when I’m outside!
I do nothing special just strim it a bit when i shave,but usually i do not trim it.Started to grow it
i find its great for keeping fallen snuff off my collar.
I keep a short goat, closely cut. I once tried growing it long, but it was too wispy, and irritated me. I wish I could grow a full beard, but it doesn’t come in on the sides. 
I once met a rabbi at a kaballah seminar, he had the most gorgeous beard. It was like a perfect white cloud. Alas, I will never be able to grow one like that.
I don’t know the official name, blue, but some refer to it as a “flavor saver”
Here is a pic of my beard. It’s a few years old. I have a goatee now. I was deep into Hinduism when this was taken. 
the offical name is a soul patch, though I prefer flavor saver.
That little triangle, I thought, was called a soul patch. I keep that pretty long, but the rest of the goatee is very clean and short in the summer, and one size longer in the winter. I put conditioner on it occasionally, but otherwise it’s too short to worry about. I’ve yet to grow the hair on my head back so I’m enjoying not taking care of hair at all, other than shaving it off every day. Sometimes when I’m sloppy with snuff I get dark patches on my philtrum. One time I unwittingly created a Hitler mustache with Santo Domingo. Good thing it was only noticed by my neighbor (I was cutting the grass), but the explanation confused her. She didn’t understand snuff.
@wickedkitchen Rofl! That’s the first laugh I’ve had on a particularly horrid day. Thank you! @tom Are you sure we weren’t twins separated at birth
I trim mine once a week. No special treat though, maybe a little shampoo once in a while because I keep it very short. It’s all grey (or WHITE rather) and I like wearing a black cap to show off. The white beard also goes nicely with black, navy or dark blue shirts.
My beard probably started in a more haphazard way than most. Disposable razors irritate my skin or nick me too much, and if I buy a decent one, I tend to lose it after one shave. I said screw, I don’t have enough money for this, I’m growing a beard. It’s coming in quite slow and patchy, though. I must have four inches on my chin, a bit of sideburn on the right, and nary a hair on the left side. I figure I’ll just let it be for now though. Occaisionally, I condition it, but it’s pretty sporadic.
I’ve always been blessed(cursed) with heavy fast beard growth. I have a trimed goatee now, but I can look like my pic in a month.
I have one bald patch just under my chin. the hair is all black except for 2 bright red stripes runing from my chin down my neck. sadly the red is already going white (im only 26) but hopefuly i’ll look like Wolfman Jack
Or Jeff Lynn of ELO.