Growing a great beard is more than just letting it grow.
There are ways to make your beard grow faster, thicker, and healthier.
And there are products that can help you keep your beard looking healthy, tamed, and moisturized.
Here's three quick tips you can use right now.
1. Get yourself an arsenal of beard products
A true beardsman has an arsenal of beard care and growth products at his close proximity. That is, a trimmer, usually some beard and mustache scissors, perhaps a beard kit, a boar bristle brush, beard oils, balms, beard shampoo and perhaps even mustache wax.
Looking for the best beard products? That can be though, some websites like Amazon, return almost 1000 results for the simple search of "beard oil".
2. Use castor oil
Castor oil is special type of oil that is mostly monounsaturated, and contains a fatty-acid called ricinoleic-acid.
Not only can ricinoleic acid increase something called prostaglandin E2 in the body (which can result in thicker beard growth), it also has another cool benefit for your beard.
Castor oil makes your facial hair appear thicker.
That's right, due to its extremely thick and sticky consistency, you can apply small amount of it on your beard as beard oil to make it instantly appear thicker.
3. Nourish your beard from the inside
A lot of beard care happens on the outside of the body, but perhaps the most important beard care factor comes from within.
It's your nutrition habits.
There are multiple foods that can promote beard growth naturally, such as:
- Coffee
- Sorghum
- Potatoes
- Eggs
- Olive Oil
- Macadamia Nuts
- and Raisins
(information provided by Ali Kuoppala, the founder of Beard Resource).