5 Tips for growing your beard

5 Tips voor het kweken van je baard

Patience

We begin right away with the most difficult task of the entire growing process, patience. Growing a decent beard takes time and often takes longer than expected. Of course, it varies from person to person, but growing a beard can easily take two months. Therefore, give your hair plenty of time to grow and set yourself a date you can work toward.

Wash your beard

Just like your head hair, you need to wash a beard. After some bar hours, exercising, eating and smoking, there is quite a bit of dirt and nasty odors on your beard hair. You enjoy a fresh beard, so wash it once every two weeks with a hair shampoo or a special beard shampoo. After washing, always apply a beard oil or beard conditioner to care for the beard and the underlying skin. This will prevent dandruff in your beard and the hairs will appear fuller and shine nicely again.

Oak Beard wash om je baard te kweken

Itching

Now we come right to the biggest culprit of shaving too early, itching. Nothing is more annoying than an itchy beard. Actually, there is no solution for this in the form of an ointment or oil. The new hairs simply itch and sting on your skin and you just have to bite through this. The itching period usually lasts only a week or two. What helps is to comb your beard hairs in the direction of hair growth, using a special cleanser such as Captain Fawcett. You massage the skin with this and elevator the hairs from the skin, which will reduce the itchy feeling.

Beard oil

Another big culprit for shaving off your beard prematurely is the woman of the house. Beards are naturally stiff and hard, which is why they can still sting and itch at the other party. Therefore, be a guy and avoid difficult conversations and take good care of your beard. Beard oil softens the beard hairs, making them supple and soft again and significantly reducing the symptoms.

Captain Fawcett olie en een kam om je baard te kweken

Shape it up

Few of us will naturally have a perfectly covered beard. Take care of your beard and follow the natural lines of your beard. Trim the single hairs without creating an (over)styled beard. For your neck, keep your Adam's apple as a natural boundary, shave the hairs under your Adam's apple and follow the natural curve of your neck.

If you follow the above tips, you will see that the process of your beard growth is quite easier.