Boost your beard growth with these 10 top tips

Congratulations, you got the part!

You’re playing Hadrig in the local community theater's knock-off version of Harry Potter.

The problem is, you promised the directors that your clean-shaven canvas could be transformed into a Hagrid-worthy beard within the month, and you’ve never grown a beard before in your life.

So, what do?

We’ll tell you what do.

First and foremost, growing your beard is going to require a  beard growth kit. In this article, we’re going to let you know exactly what should be in that kit, and we’re going to suggest some of the best beard growth kits out there, too.

We’ll also hit you with 10 top tips you need to make the most out of whichever beard kit you go for.

“But, Hadrig, can we find all this in London?”

Probably, but it’s easier to look online.

Makes sense to start with the easiest tip, doesn’t it?

Sleep is necessary for good overall health. It may also help you develop a better beard.

While we’re sleeping, our testosterone levels increase, and the more testosterone there is coursing through our bodies, the faster our beards will grow.

This also implies that we should do all possible to guarantee that we obtain enough sleep every night, as well as to improve the quality of our sleep.

We’ll discuss some of the ways to do this in more detail later, but good habits like eating well and exercising regularly will improve the quality of your sleep and therefore improve the rate of your facial hair growth.

There are a few reasons why you may want to touch your beard.

Now, we’re not sure exactly why we feel the need to touch our own beards while we’re pondering the world’s current affairs or which craft ale to try next, but it just seems to help.

This is a placebo effect. If you try thinking without touching your beard, you’ll find that you are perfectly capable of thinking without touching it, too. Minds blown.

Having an itchy beard is one of the most common causes of the need to disturb our beards with our very own mitts.

Fortunately, there are a variety of ways to relieve itching and limit the number of times we need to touch our beards when we aren't grooming them.

We can avoid itching our beards by staying hydrated, applying beard oil, and cleaning our faces with a beard shampoo.

If you’re doing everything you’re supposed to do in order to look after your beard properly, it’ll be soft, shiny and irresistible.

This includes using a beard brush, a beard comb, beard oil or a high-quality beard balm, as well as beard wash such as either beard shampoo or a beard leave-in conditioner. 

The problem is, the more you’re tempted to touch it, the more you’re going to undo all of your hard work.

The more you touch it, the more stress it comes under and the dirtier your hair follicles and skin underneath can become.

Believe it or not - scratch that, just believe it - brushing and combing your beard has more benefits for your beard hairs than just encouraging them in a particular direction and tidying them up.

Using a beard brush exfoliates your skin, aids in the distribution of natural oils through your beard to moisturise it, promotes blood flow to patchy areas, and, as a result, may encourage beard development by allowing more nutrients to reach the follicles.

To see what kind of effects you may expect, you'll have to continue with it for six to eight weeks. When used in conjunction with a natural beard oil applied once or twice per day, you can be certain that you are doing all possible to help your beard thrive.

As we briefly mentioned before, beard oil and beard balm are great tools for helping soothe the dreaded beard itch.

Every beard growth kit should include at least one of these two products, which are used to hydrate your beard and encourage growth, as well as provide all the vitamins and nutrients it needs to thrive.

Beard oils containing natural and essential oils may improve the look, texture, and condition of your facial hair, as well as alleviate beard itch by hydrating your facial hairs, which would otherwise draw moisture from the skin underneath.

Argan oil, Inca Inchi oil, Almond oil, and Jojoba oil, which can be found in some of the greatest beard products, are what your beard desires more than anything else.

Removing dead skin cells from your face clears a path for your facial follicles and stops a build-up of grime and dirt. This can be done using a beard brush, beard wash, or both

A build-up of dirt in your pores can cause skin irritation, leading to itchiness, and even spots and acne - a few of your beard's biggest enemies, preventing healthy beard growth. 

A beard brush can assist exfoliate your pores and remove dead skin, while a beard shampoo will remove oil and debris from the areas where the dead skin was previously present.

Drinking water just keeps offering an increasing number of benefits, doesn’t it?

Water consumption and beard growth rate are intimately related since increased hydration levels result in increased blood circulation, which allows nutrients to reach the places that need them most - your beard and moustache.

Hydration also means healthier skin and fewer dead skin cells to have to worry about when you’re washing, brushing and combing.

We’re certainly not dietitians - and we could well be hypocrites on this subject - but eating a balanced diet will provide you with all the nutrients you need to grow a full, hearty beard.

If your lifestyle doesn’t allow you to consume the perfect diet for your beard, you could turn to supplements, but they may not be quite as effective as getting the natural stuff from natural sources.

There's some evidence that vitamin D may help to reactivate dormant hair follicles. B vitamins such as B-12, biotin, and niacin  may aid to condition and strengthen hair.

Exercise can do wonders for the body and mind.

In fact, exercise can have a direct, positive impact on your capacity to grow a beard naturally.

This is because many types of exercise, from weightlifting to competitive sports,  elevate testosterone and Dihydrotestosterone (DHT) levels in the body, which are important for facial hair development.

Cardio exercise, or even just walking, improves circulation, which aids in the renewal and replenishment of hair and beard follicles, while also delivering those necessary beard growth nutrients to the face.

You only live once, and it’s important that we enjoy our time as much as we can while we can.

However, if you're having difficulties growing a beard, it's worth considering some of the unhealthy behaviours you're fostering, such as excessive alcohol intake and chain-smoking.

Since alcohol dehydrates the body, nutrients that aid in the growth of your beard will be delayed and less potent. Alcohol also hastens the ageing process, which of course includes hair loss as a symptom.

Because smoking affects blood circulation in the body, you may be inhibiting the growth of your beard if you smoke. Depending on how much you want that huge beard, you may need to make some lifestyle changes. Smoking may also cause your moustache hairs to dry out and get a disgusting yellow-grey colour over time.

Whether you’ve got a bit of a patchy beard, a fuller beard, a thinner beard or a thicker beard, it’s important that you do everything you can to look after and love your beard.

Providing you’re doing everything you can to support the growth of your beard, including using a beard brush, beard oil, beard wash, maybe even a beard growth supplement or two and a beard roller to encourage blood flow, you should be proud of what you’ve developed.

Beard growth kits come featuring a number of products these days that each serve a particular purpose.

While these beard grooming products certainly cannot alter your DNA, they certainly can assist with the beard growth process - whether that’s growing thicker or faster - through nutrition and conditioning.

So the short answer is yes, beard growth kits do indeed work, but you can’t expect it to do miracle work.

And even if you don’t notice too much difference in terms of growth, you’ll still now have the tools you need in order to groom and maintain your fantastic facial fur.

While there certainly are some very good beard growth kits out there, as well as some very bad ones, it simply isn’t possible to pick out a specific “best beard growth kit”.

Typically you will get what you pay for, but what it comes down to is the specific products your beard hair needs the most, as well as your preferences on particular fragrances and materials.

Beard kits come in all shapes and sizes, featuring very different combinations of beard tools. Most consist of a beard brush, beard comb, beard oil and a beard wash.

Other more expensive options will also offer products like a beard trimmer, beard growth activator serum, a beard roller… maybe a beard bib, a beard towel… but will these items assist the beard growth process? Not directly… but maybe spending the extra money will convince you to spend more time looking after your facial hair.

Let’s talk about the essentials.

When you’re looking to buy a trusty beard growth kit to tame your manly mane, there are a few things to keep in mind to ensure you get the most out of your investment and don't squander your cash.

Primarily, you should be looking at which beard care products will help you the most, depending on your specific needs. 

Whether that means you can get away with just a beard brush, beard comb and beard oil, or if you need some of those more specialist beard products like a beard growth activator and beard growth activator serum, you need to make sure the products themselves are of optimal quality.

Here are some of the things you should be looking out for with the products in your beard kit:

When looking for the finest beard growth kit, you should always look for a healthy formula. A beard-growing kit that works must be based on a formula that promotes healthy skin and natural hair growth.

Otherwise, you may get itchy skin, redness, or other unpleasant side effects. As a result, choose a kit that contains beneficial vitamins and all-natural substances. If at all possible, stay away from artificial additives.

Even if you're only purchasing a beard brush and comb set, make sure they're constructed of high-quality materials like wood and boar bristles.

You get what you pay for. Therefore the more money you spend, the higher quality wood and cut of boar bristle you'll get.

Never purchase a beard growth kit that includes plastic tools, as they can wreak havoc on your beard, snagging hairs and causing static buildup, undoing all of your hard work.

With so much competition in the beard business, many unique, high-quality, wonderfully scented beard oils, beard balms and beard wash products are being created in order to win your custom.

This means you can find a beard oil or balm with a favourable fragrance, such as smoke-spiced bourbon, and even use them in place of your usual expensive aftershave owing to their long-lasting scents.

We’ve talked about how even the most basic beard grooming products can help with your beard growth, but we’ve only really brushed over some of those specifically designed tools that claim to help your beard grow faster.

A beard roller, otherwise known as a derma roller is a gadget that uses the method of "micro-needling" to encourage hair follicle development, resulting in a thicker and more uniform beard.

By pricking the skin, the beard roller technique tries to boost the supply of collagen under the surface. By entering your skin at the epidermis level, your brain is fooled into believing that a region of skin is wounded, and it fills that area with collagen to repair the injury.

A dermo roller will stimulate hair follicles, which will in turn stimulate hair growth, which will then encourage newly grown hair and a healthier beard.

The pace of growth of your beard hair is accelerated due to an increase in blood flow and collagen that the beard roller gives.

Beard growth oil and beard serum have similar goals, however, minoxidil is the major component in most beard growth serums. Minoxidil improves blood flow to the follicle capillaries. And since follicles must get the right nutrients in order to flourish, improved blood flow is never a bad thing.

Upon receiving sufficient nutrition from a beard serum, your hair follicles expand in size and strength while becoming more glossy and extravagant.

This suits some beard styles more than others, and it’s only really the longer beard styles that will ever require the use of such a product.

The jury is a little out on these, but if you're trying all of the above and are looking for a safe product to help your facial hair, then beard growth supplements might be worth trying.

As with anything, be sure to buy your supplements from a reputable brand, and always check the ingredients list. This isn't just to check for allergies - you should also make sure the ingredients won't interfere with any medicines you're on, or supplements you're already taking. Even things like vitamins can be deadly in too high of a dose.

Now it’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for and probably skipped to.

If you did read our 10 top tips above, you’ll now know exactly what you should be doing to grow your beard hair at the fastest rate possible. You now also know exactly what should be in your beard growth kit in order to achieve the best and quickest results.

You may not, however, know which beard hair growth tool combo to purchase for yourself, so here are 3 of the best beard growth kits on the market:

This comprehensive beard growth kit is Amazon’s best selling kit, and it features quite a range of products that can assist in your beard growth goals.

The kit includes a beard brush, a beard comb, beard oil, beard balm, beard wash, beard scissors, a beard roller and even an E-book featuring information on how to grow a beard faster.

This beard set is excellent for those that already own a beard brush and do not need to waste more money on another.

This beard growth kit is currently Amazon’s Choice kit. It features beard growth oil, beard and moustache balm, a beard roller and a handy styling comb.

With this great beard growth kit, you can get £95.00 worth of premium beard growth products for just £55.

These products are amongst the finest on the market, so you can rest assured that your beard is getting absolutely everything it needs to flourish.

The kit comprises a beard brush, beard comb, three different beard oils (Underdog, True North & El Presidente) and Underdog beard balm, neatly packed away in a premium waxed canvas wash kit.

If you like what you’re hearing, check out our beard growth products in more detail here.