Grow Facial Hair Faster

What? I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over my awesome beard.

Struggling to Get Your Face to Full Bush? We Can Help

As you already know, not all hair is created equal. Just because you’re able to grow a lustrously thick head of hair doesn’t mean growing a beard or mustache will come just as easily. In fact, a lot of guys attempting to grow facial hair run into a whole new set of frustrating issues. Perhaps the biggest one of all? How to make grow it faster.

Natural Ways to Speed Up Facial Hair Growth Key Vitamins for Optimal Beard Growth Grooming Tips for Facial Hair Best Products to Help Grow Facial Hair

First things first: how is the hair on your head different from the scruff on your face? Brian Porteous, Owner and Head Barber at Heritage Barbershop in Portland, Oregon cites one big reason, “genetics has something to do with it.” He adds that blood circulation plays a large role as well. By pulling and brushing the coarse hair, circulation increases, promoting hair growth, but more on this later.

Types of Facial Hair Growth

While long and strong is one matter, what if your facial hair is naturally patchy, sparse, or thin? Celebrity hair stylist and men’s groomer Kristan Serafino adds her professional insight: “Let us consider the circumstances that can lead to a bad skin situation. [First] new beard growth is multi-directional, coarse, and brittle [and second] neglected skin under the beard becomes dehydrated and dry. The result of these two circumstances occurring range from itchy skin, to ingrown hairs to skin infection.”

Natural Ways to Speed Up Facial Hair Growth

One of the most important, likely overlooked, yet quite controllable factors is your diet. “Focus on foods that contain selenium such as kelp, brazil nuts, algae, coconut water, mushroom and sea vegetables,” says Julie Clark, Founder and CEO of Province Apothecary (through a blog on the company’s site).

Selenium plays a key role in metabolism and can help regulate thyroid function, which in turn can contribute to the regulation of hair growth.

She also advises getting B Vitamins through grains, bright orange and green vegetables or B7 biotin as a supplement to help combat brittle hair. Foods rich in silicon — leafy green vegetables, beets, bell peppers and brown rice — and sulfur — allium vegetables such as garlic, leeks and onions, various cheeses, cruciferous vegetables such as Brussels sprouts, broccoli, and kale and most meats — can additionally help nourish and nurture the hair on your head and your face.

Key Vitamins for Optimal Beard Growth

It’s not just a diet rich in the B vitamins such as B7 plus B5 and B6 that contributes to lush facial hair, vitamin C, iron, zinc and omega-3’s can increase your body’s ability to grow healthy hair on both your face and scalp. A great list of vitamins and minerals include:

While supplements are handy when you’re on the road, it’s best to eat whole foods when you can. Try eating more fatty fish naturally rich in omega-3s such as wild salmon, mackerel even sardines, and fresh, organic fruits and vegetables to get the most nutritional benefits.

Grooming Tips for Facial Hair

As you’d expect, common cleanliness is also important, according to Porteous.

“Get a good face wash and keep your face nice and clean,” he says. With 17 years in the barber business, he also knows a thing or two about what to tell your own hair stylist when it comes time for a trim.

“Tell your barber to keep the majority of your beard. You can clean up the area around the ear lobes and remove anything beneath your Adam’s apple. Essentially, you’re making little improvements and removing anything that’s not in the natural silhouette of your beard.”

Once you’ve got a nice beard, mustache or goatee going, you might start to feel that common itch that comes with growing facial hair. This can be caused by a few different things, most commonly dry or inflamed skin. A good beard oil (we have a suggestion) or skin moisturizer (we got you there too) can go a long way towards relieving this common problem.

However, if you already have oily skin, adding more beard oil may not be the answer to your skin irritation issues. Instead Porteous recommends a jojoba beard balm as your moisturizing option.

Products to Help Grow Beard and Other Facial Hair

The last piece of the effective facial hair growth road map is the products that’ll increase your odds of building a great beard. Below are our recommendations for seven high-quality products that’ll are worth the investment to shape your look.

Best Facial Hair Growth Cleanser

Bulldog Face Wash

A good beard starts with a clean face. As far as everyday, easy-to-find cleansers go, you can’t do much better than Bulldog. It’s face wash is a highlight of a range of solid products with this one including aloe vera, green tea, and camelina oil. To keep your mug and your emerging facial hair clean, this is a pretty good bet at a pretty great price.

Best Facial Hair Growth Beard Wash

Jack Black Beard Wash

Use this mild, sulfate-free wash to deeply cleanse your hard-earned beard and mustache, without stripping your hair or skin. Because it’s so moisturizing, you don’t need to use a conditioner afterwards. Of course, that’s always optional.

Best Facial Hair Growth Beard Conditioner

Scotch Porter Beard Conditioner

“A beard conditioner provides deep conditioning to soften the hair, as well as calm and moisturizing hydration to the skin underneath the beard,” shares Serafino. Scotch Porter’s follicle moisturizer is a popular option for coarse-bearded men.

Best Facial Hair Growth Serum

Province Apothecary Rejuvenating + Hydrating Face Serum

Look no further than this frankincense oil to strengthen and nourish skin while deep cleaning pores. This makes a great clean slate to start your facial hair growth campaign. Province has gone a long way to make sure their products include completely natural non-toxic ingredients offering everything you need and nothing you don’t.

Best Facial Hair Growth Oil

Beard Reverence Cedar Honor Beard Oil

Tea tree, jojoba and argan oils are the key players in this soothing beard oil. Beard Reverence has also added cedar bark, which gives that woodsy note complementing the ruggedness of that new beard of yours. This oil is all about a clean, soothing and tidy finish.

Best Vitamins for Facial Hair Growth

Garden of Life Vitamin B-Complex

Like Clark noted above, comprehensive B vitamin intake, whether from veggies or supplements, is crucial to increasing your facial hair odds. This B-complex vitamin supplement is vegan, gluten- and dairy-free and includes a probiotic for digestive help.

Best Scissors for Facial Hair Growth

Marbeian Beard and Mustache Scissors with Comb

If you’re patiently waiting for some hairs to reach the length you want others might exceed expectations. These stainless steel scissors are sized small, so you can maneuver around and snip all the hard-to-reach spots with ease. To sweeten the deal, they come with a handy comb for precise shaping, and a case to keep those tools clean and sharp.

Best Facial Hair Growth Trimmer

Philips Norelco Beard Trimmer 7200

The Norelco 7200 is an ideal option designed to clean up your mess with a built-in vacuum that sucks up cut hairs. “Keep a beard trimmed in a manner that accentuates the positive, which includes face shape and beard growth pattern,” says Serafino. She also recommends keeping the “hair nearest the patchy area close cropped or clean to minimize its attention.”

After all this, if you still have the facial hair you had in elementary school, it’s OK to embrace a less-is-more attitude towards your scruff. After all, at the end of the day, if you are comfortable and confident with the hair your chin and cheeks are sporting, then that’s really all that matters.