Just because you can’t achieve ZZ Top levels of facial hair doesn’t mean they should give up on the hopes of a soft and well-groomed beard. No matter what size whiskers you rock, you can keep your facial hair and skin soft with a lavish beard cream. Need a recommendation on which product to try? If so, you are in luck, as we have put some top brands to the test to find the best beard creams. Read on to see a variety of the best scents and formulations.
Even a grizzled sea dog knows the value of a soft and tame beard. When you want to look like a proper pirate, you need a beard cream that can protect your face from the saltiest sea air.
Bluebeard’s Original Beard Saver is the ideal choice. Its blend of nourishing ingredients does a little bit of everything. It softens with shea butter, it hydrates with aloe juice, it heals skin with vitamin E, disinfects with lime oil, and it tames with avocado oil.
It gives your flavor saver a clean and citrusy smell while softening and conditioning your wiriest whiskers. This cream helps treat beard itch and provides a light hold for flyaway hairs.
Simply comb this beard cream through your beard once or twice a day, and you’ll quickly notice the difference that a little TLC makes.
If you keep a short beard or are simply growing some stubble, a large container of beard cream can feel like too much to bother with.
Cremo’s Beard & Scruff Cream proves this notion wrong, offering ingredients to repair both skin and hair. This makes it well worth using even on a scruffy beard.
As a matter of fact, it’s even more important to moisturize a short beard. As any beard enthusiast will tell you, beard itch is at its worst when coarse and short hairs curl back into your skin and cause irritation.
Hydrating ingredients straighten out these painful hairs, and this beard cream keeps them tamed with a light hold.
Cremo’s comes in three scents, but with many users dissatisfied with the sharp menthol of the mint and the curiously fragrant “unscented” varieties, I recommend the forest blend, which has a nice cedarwood and pine scent with a subtle musk.
The Wahl Beard Creme is a buttery cream that is easy to comb into your tangled mane even if you only have a few minutes to get ready in the morning. When you compare this styling cream’s easy application to a tin of clumpy wax, it becomes clear how convenient it is to stick with beard cream.
The cream is not as heavy as thick wax, so a little bit goes a long way. The main purpose of this product is to hold down scraggly hairs and help you maintain that finely groomed look throughout the day.
It also moisturizes and conditions your beard hair using potent ingredients like aloe juice, peppermint oil, and tea tree oil. The inclusion of eucalyptus oil gives the Wahl Beard Creme a disinfectant quality that helps maintain symptoms of beard itch.
Billy Jealousy’s beard control lotion is a lavish treatment for wild or patchy beards that need both control and volume.
This product is loaded with nurturing ingredients. There is aloe juice to moisturize your beard, jojoba seed oil to promote follicle health, and panthenol to retain moisture and provide volume.
The added lift is great for less full beards, but the hold is fairly light. As a styling product, it adds definition to your beard’s shape while still looking natural.
The scent is that of a typical salon product. Some will dislike this, but the smell is faint, especially after it is properly worked into your beard.
This product’s great price value and volume-boosting recipe make it a solid pick for beards of all sizes.
Beardalizer’s Beard Cream is a wholesome facial treatment that is focused around the idea that fewer ingredients do more. This cream uses the naturally nourishing qualities of ingredients like shea butter, sunflower oil, avocado oil, and olive oil to hydrate and strenghthen your follicles.
These components of this beard cream make it rich with essential vitamins and minerals like zinc, magnesium, and calcium. These promote both skin and hair health while giving your chin curtain a desirable softness.
Its sandalwood scent is subtle and masculine and helps fully actualize the confidence that you feel when your beard is looking just right.
When you have an average-sized beard, the most common issue to deal with is flyaway hairs. When you have an epicly long beard, the most common issue to deal with is knots and tangles. If this applies to you, Shea Moisture has you covered with their Men’s Beard Detangler. Their wide variety of natural hair softeners allows you to ease out knots.
Natural ingredients like shea butter, passionflower seed oil, argan oil, and coconut oil make your whiskers feel softer and more controllable. Combing this cream fully into your beard allows your skin beneath to receive the hydration and cleaning benefits as well.
Unlike other beard creams, this detangler lotion gives your beard a slightly oily finish. This detangler cream is a great pick if you want that sheen that you get from a beard wax without needing such a heavy material. And if you want to see more products from Shea Moisture, they also have a complete beard care kit we reviewed on our list of the best beard grooming kits for men.
Few facial hair care products sound more delicious than beard butter. This beard butter from Live Bearded is a deep conditioning product that holds unruly hair in place like a beard balm but moisturizes more like a beard cream.
It holds down flyaways without leaving your hair stiff. On the contrary, its combination of jojoba oil, coconut oil, shea butter, and almond oil provides your follicles with everything they need to bring out their natural softness.
The scent is an elegant blend of cedar, vetiver, and bergamot. It is a tad more fragrant than other beard creams, so those with sensitive noses should probably opt for the unscented version of this product.
Volume: 3 oz. Ingredients: Shea butter, coconut oil, jojoba oil, avocado oil, almond oil, grapeseed oil, fragrance Fragrance: Cedar, vetiver, and bergamot Hold: Medium
Always Bearded’s Crème à Barbe is made from some unique ingredients, but it keeps your beard fresh all the same while boosting new facial hair growth.
This version of the Crème à Barbe uses Bergamot and Ylang oils to condition the ‘ol Winnebago locks and hydrate the skin beneath.
The real all-star in their recipe, though, is hemp seed oil. Hemp seed oil is rich in fatty acids and high in protein, making it perfect for encouraging healthy hair growth.
Aside from relaxing frizzy hair, this cream has only a light hold. It spreads into your beard easily and soaks into your follicles without leaving an oily shine.
This 2-in-1 beard and face conditioner from Clubman is a godsend for those who suffer from dry skin on their face and jawline.
Its rejuvenating blend of rosemary extract, yucca juice, and coconut oil heal and hydrate dry skin while smoothing out and softening beard hair.
This moisturizing cream massages into your beard easily, and leaves with a natural matte look rather than an oily sheen.
This product sports the signature Clubman scent, a subtle yet refreshing menthol. It doesn’t offer much in the way of hold, so if you have serious flyaway hairs, you may need something more robust like a beard wax.
However, if a flaky beard and itchy skin are your main issues, then this beard cream is a cost-effective way to look and feel classy.
While every beard cream I’ve mentioned so far is a leave-in conditioner, this Ultra Conditioner from Beardsley and Company is actually meant to be washed out.
If you’re generally averted to putting product in your hair, then this beard wash is a great alternative that still confers many of the benefits of beard cream.
Its jojoba seed oil and soap bark extract soak into dehydrated hairs quickly, eliminating the need to wear this product all day.
Because you only let it sit in your beard for about five minutes, it doesn’t offer much in terms of shaping or control, but it hydrates your skin and beard exceptionally.
The Scotch Porter Beard Conditioner is another rinse-out beard wash that offers the simple application of a beard cream plus the deep moisturization of a conditioner.
This beard conditioner has effective natural ingredients like shea butter, coconut oil, aloe juice, and agave nectar.
Because this product’s primary purpose is to revitalize dry and crinkled whiskers, it doesn’t offer much by way of hold.
Additionally, this particular conditioner’s ingredients tend to leave that oily shine on your hairs. This is something that makes it different from other beard creams. Nonetheless, it is a solid pick for beards of all sizes.