17 Products for the Best Beard of Your Life
Growing a beard can be a wild ride—the prickly neck hairs, the awkward phases, the dreaded patchiness. Luckily for you, the best beard products on the market today make caring for your scruff a pleasure—and a surge of interest in proper facial hair maintenance means there’s an endless array of products to sift through. The only downside? All that abundance can get a little overwhelming. Do you really need to buy a shampoo specifically for your beard? Invest in a specialty beard wax? Spring for a beard conditioner? Yes, yes, yes! Your beard is a thing of beauty, and it deserves to be treated that way.
So to help you get started we did some sorting—through the combs, brushes, trimmers, and more—to separate the grooming essentials from the nice-to-haves. From soothing balms packed with skin-friendly ingredients to old-school waxes the pros swear by, these are the beard care products you need to tame stray hairs with ease—all without veering into faux-speakeasy mixologist territory. So get shaping and smoothing, and prove once and for all to your deeply-concerned friends and family that your whiskers are here to stay.
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The Fan Favorite Trimmer
A good beard needs a good beard trimmer. So we crunched the numbers and it turns out there's one beard trimmer that the readers of GQ prefer to all others: this highly versatile, incredibly affordable appliance from Hatteker. We named it our top all-in-one beard maintenance tool way back in April of 2020, and at well below 50 bucks it's still a no-brainer.
- 3/17
The Must-Have Razor
If you sport a beard but still need to clean up your neck and sides every now and then (read: way more often than you likely have been), this is the precise, perfectly weighted tool to do it with.
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The Salon-Approved Beard Oil
Vaughn's V76 formula comes in a bottle double the size of most of its competitors'—we're talking a hefty 2 oz. here—but it's the oil's lingering scent and fast-absorbing properties that really makes it the right choice to help tame even the wildest whiskers.
- 5/17
The Deep-Cleaning Beard Shampoo
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The Hyper-Nourishing Beard Conditioner
If you rock any sort of facial hair at all beyond a cursory five o'clock shadow, a good beard conditioner is a must. Anthony's hydrating wash will thoroughly clean your beard, washing away dirt and grime and adding some much-needed moisture in the process.
- 7/17
The Non-Greasy Beard Balm
This Grooming Award winner is still just the thing to tame rough scruff.
- 8/17
The Razor Bump Preventative
Renée Rouleau's anti-bump solution was another winner. The brand's powerful spot treatment uses lactic acid to target acne and ingrown hairs, minimizing irritation before and after you shave. One of the most-asked questions on GQ.com is “How do I treat razor bumps?” This is a great answer.
- 10/17
The No-Shine Beard Serum
In contrast to a more conventional beard oil, Acqua di Parma's formula blends in a touch of hyaluronic acid, so it layers on thick before disappearing entirely, no shiny residue left behind in its wake. But for the fact that your face now feels soft and smells great, you almost wouldn't know it was there.
- 12/17
The All-In-One Shaving Kit
Bevel's starter kit sets you up with a safety razor, a 20-blade replacement set, a badger hair brush, a shaving cream, and a pre- and post-shave duo to prevent excess irritation and shaving bumps. It's the perfect thing if you want to shave it all off—but it will also keep your neck and cheeks tidy until that day.
- 16/17
Cremo beard & scruff cream
Cremo’s Grooming Award-winning formula combines the scent of cardamom, dry papyrus, and palo santo via a lightweight concoction you can use for styling, or to soothe your stubble post-clean up.
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