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.

I have shampooed my goat ever since I grew it about 15 years ago. I have been known to condition it some too but not often. I usually get my hair cut a t this upscale barbershop across from SMU in the swanky part of town. They don’t charge extra for beard trimming, it is only about $4 more than the mass-market hair cutters, and they make you feel like a true gentleman when you go in there so it is well worth it. I can never seem to make it look as nice when I try to trim it myself. I do seem to be getting more and more gray hairs in my stash but luckly my hair is light enough that it doesn’t show too much. If it gets too bad I will have to get some of that just for men.

I let it grow until its starting to make me look like a caveman and then trim it down to about a mill and start again. I have a beard through complete lazyness so apart from ordinary daily showering just leave it alone. All about Beards.org is a grand lunatic site, rather like this one in some ways, which I recommend. Why am I not surprised everybody here has one…

It’s manly.

That it is, I think all men look better with one. The real manly thing to do is not start dying it when you go gray.

I might start dying mine for awhile. Have been searching for another job lately. It’s beginning to seem like they notice all the grey and are probably thinking “Too old. Next!”

When I was going Orthodox, I tried to keep a beard. Shaved it off after sitting down to a cup of coffee at a street cafe and having a server ask my colleague “Is this man bothering you?” I realized I looked like a well-dressed whack-job (my beard always came in kinda patchy, and so I looked more deranged than observant) and promptly went home to shave the thing off.

Guanxi88 that is funny when I have my beard it either makes me look really professional or dangerous. Because no matter how I dress (including wearing a gaint piece of nose jewelry) people call me sir when I have a beard.

When I was about 18, I had sort of a Jerry Garcia thing going. Shoulder length hair and a full beard. I was walking past an elementary school that had just let out and an elderly Mexican Woman was walking her grand daughter home. The Lady took one look at me and crossed herself. To this day, I have no idea.

When I was about 25 or so I would trim my goat to a point. The women friends I had told me it made me look sinister. Then I realized that I kind of looked like The Master in Dr. Who with it like that. I shaved it and started over a few weeks later.

The original Master (1970s) was awesome. I’ve been told my beard is like his too. :-{I>

snuffpants she probably thought you where the second coming.

@bob From the look on her face, she probably thought I was Satan incarnate. Lol! I may be somewhat evil at times, but probably not quite that bad.

i have goatee chops lol, which i just shave around and trim now and again but otherwise don’t even remember they are there most of the time

@Johndeere, Those seem to be sprouting everywhere. Started growing out the sideburns a few weeks ago, I turn around and everyone’s doing the same. Weird!

I keep a goatee (no mustache, so it’s not a moutee). For some reason the hair inbetween the mustache and chin really irritates my face, and I can’t grow a nice thich stache so I just leave the chin hair. I’ve been wanting to grow it real thick, but it’s too damn hot down here for that.

@ cstokes4 thats why i just keep the goat too, till winter, then i get my massive elvis side burns going.

i have a mustache mixed in with my combo too.

All i can grow is sideburns and a goatee , plus two patches under my chin that just seem useless so I’m usually clean shaven.

Full beard all year long, splashed with water during the summer as I’m working has an air-conditioned effect. Wouldn’t think of being without one in the cold windy winter.

I’m not telling you about my beard…LOL!

@toffeenose Liquid lunch today? ROFL! j/k. I was thinking of getting rid of my beard, but leaving the 'tasche like Lemmy’s. Was yesterday when I realised that it would make me look more like the biker guy from the Village People.

I recently trimmed my Goatee down, almost to the skin. Then I didn’t shave for a week so that I could make it bigger. I have a knack to slowly make it smaller as I shave around it, so I have to do this every once and a while. Also starting to grow out my sideburns again.

I decided to re grow my beard three weeks ago, so I packed my shaving gear away and let it grow. So now I have a full beard but the trouble with mine is that my moustache doesn’t join up with the rest of my beard so I look a bit weird but I like it. Stefan

toffeenoses comment reminds me I once thought of starting a professional beard service.

im about an inch away from a devilish goat. i have 2 thick stripes of bright red on my chin, split by a thin black line, and black on both sides, and have it trimmed to a nice point.

toffeenoses comment reminds me I once thought of starting a professional beard service LMAO And what kind of Beard service would that be?

I have a full beard. I wash it with soap when I bathe, and trim it once a year. I love not having to fool with it or shave every morning. No telling how many months of time I’ve saved not shaving, not to mention the money it saves. I used to shave and every morning there it would be again. I finally decided G-d must be trying to tell me something and I just let it happen.

I’m growing my beard out now. I think it’s natural to have a beard.

That’s true about the beard …that and ,"Let there be Snuff. And there was Snuff. And the Lord saw that it was good and blessed all those that partook of it " ( I’m just quoting here)

Haha walrus I know what you mean…One side of my moustache joins my beard and one side doesnt… which is quite annoying! Its only when it gets too long to notice does it look normal…tend to just get the trimmer on it and keep a bit of stubble generally, its easier than a full shave… Does anyone have any full-on mutton chops here? Mr Cushing is pulling off a kind of half mutton chop in my avatar there, looks more rock-star than van helsing lol… in fact Nils Lofgren out of Springsteens E Street band has exactly the same sideburns…

I’m just working on a full Bin Laden.

@tom502 I think the politically correct term for those is now ‘Joachin Phoenix’. Lol! Finally got the sideburns to grow in, with the Van Dyke. Someone pointed out to me that Brad Pitt was now sporting the same look. These celebrity copycats need to get a life and stop imitating me.

I’ve had the Lemmy a few times. I have an old picture of me from the 80’s sporting that.

If anyone knows who the Lubavitcher Rebbe is, My beard looks just like his. At least I think so.

Once or twice a year, I’ll get bored with just a plain old beard and do something different with it. This time I chose a mustache. Usually I go with a goatee or mutton chops. This generally lasts for a month or so when I get sick of shaving every day, and the I let the beard grow back.

I haven’t shaved my soul patch for months. It’s almost past my chin now. I still have a tightly trimmed goatee but I’m seeing how long I can make the patch before it looks weird.

I’m striving for the Bhagwan.