
Most beards are washed with whatever is nearest — hand soap, hotel shampoo, the bar in the shower.
That works, in the sense that the beard ends up clean. It also strips the skin underneath, which is why the itching and flaking arrive in week two and get blamed on the weather. A beard wash is a milder cleanser at a pH closer to your face. That is the entire product category, and anyone telling you otherwise is selling you a system.
Ours is sulphate free, so it foams less than you expect, and fragrance free, so it doesn't argue with your oil. Two or three washes a week is enough. We'd rather you bought a bottle every four months than every six weeks.
5.5
pH, roughly matching facial skin. Bar soap sits around 9, which is the part that dries you out.
0%
Sulphates, silicones, fragrance. Also 0% caffeine, biotin, and anything described as a complex.
4
Ingredients above 1%. All four are printed on the bottle, in order, with percentages.
WHAT IT DOES
Removes sweat, food and city air
Stops the flaking under a new beard
Leaves the beard soft enough to comb
Costs £20 and lasts four months
WHAT IT DOESN'T
Grow hair where there isn't any
Foam like a car wash
Smell of anything at all
Replace the other three products, or need them
WHY IT WORKS
Four claims, all of them checkable
Stops the itch
Because it doesn't strip the skin. That's where new-beard itch comes from.
Softer, combable beard
Glycerin holds water in the hair. That's the mechanism, not magic.
No scent to clash
Your oil does the smelling. The wash keeps out of it.
Won't grow your beard
Nothing in a bottle will. We're the only ones putting that in the benefits list.
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