How To Make Beard Butter: Easy DIY Recipe!

Wearing a beard is cool and all of that, but beard maintaining and keeping your beard healthy is where the hard work lies. There are several reasons to keep a beard these days, from protecting your skin from UV rays to getting the ladies and moisturizing your face.

However, every man faces beard growth problems. They are either patchy, not full enough, or unresponsive to beard growth products.

Whether you’re struggling to grow your beard or find it difficult to style, we can all agree that beard products can be a bit pricey. Sometimes, your preferred brand or product may also be unavailable, making it necessary to switch to another brand.

This makes homemade beard growth products a viable alternative. One of such home-friendly solutions is beard butter. As a devotee to solving hair-related problems, I’ve compiled a guide on how to make beard butter and the benefits of applying it to your beard!

Without further ado, let’s get into it!

What Is Beard Butter?

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beard butter

Beard butter is an amazing beard grooming and even better facial hair rejuvenating product. Packed with ingredients to moisturize, soften, condition, and hydrate your facial hair, it is one product you would not want to leave behind in your journey to growing a healthy beard.

Every man’s beard is different, and so is their beard grooming routine. In using several products, you may find the one that works best for your skin type and facial hair, and you may even combine products to enjoy the maximum benefits for your healthy beard.

However, if you’re looking for a lightweight product with great styling ability, beard butter is the way to go for you.

Beard butter consists primarily of different kinds of butter—shea butter, almond butter, hemp seed, etc., and essential oils, including argan and jojoba. It has a cream-like look and texture compared d to beard balm since beard butter does not contain waxes.

This special product will make your mane stronger, healthier, and look better, keeping your beard soft and attractive. It works similarly to beard oil but is more of a cream than oil, making its effects better on your facial hair.

Benefits And Uses Of Beard Butter

beard butter benefits

Beard butter has several benefits for your skin and beard if you want to grow and keep a healthy beard. Some of these benefits include:

Deep Condition

Beard butter works as a deep hair conditioner that moisturizes your facial hair and the skin under it. Beard butter protects the beard from weather elements and leaves your beard refreshed and hydrated. A moisturized beard grows better and stays smooth to the touch.

It helps with dry skin

Beard butter also soothes any irritation you might feel from having dried skin beneath the hair. This user-centric product provides relief from itchiness and other discomfort associated with dry skin beneath your beard. In addition to this, it also helps to prevent dandruff and hair breakage.

Beard Mask

If you want a mask for your beard, beard butter is just right for you. With its amazing conditioning properties, You can use it to create a mask effect that you can soak in your beards, leaving them nourished and refreshed.

Shaving Lubricant

Beard butter makes a great lubricant for shaving when you want to trim your beard to make it look neat. It soaks in the facial hair to allow your razor to glide over the skin easily. Lining up your beard with some butter also helps avoid shaving accidents while achieving the desired look.

Softer Facial Hair

Beard butter also works as an amazing solution if you have an unruly beard. It helps calm your beard and makes it softer to the touch. Beard butter will also give your beard a much fuller appearance.

Read Also: Beard Oil vs Beard Butter

How To Make Beard Butter (DIY Recipe)

beard butter recipe

To start using beard butter, you’ll want to learn how to make your beard butter just in case you don’t find it at your favorite store, so you’ll use just the right ingredients for your skin and hair.

To make a DIY beard butter, the most important ingredients are your butter jars, as they form the base of your beard butter.

You can use cocoa, Shea, or mango butter, all three, or any of the three depending on your preference. If you have a nut allergy, you can do away with Shea butter to prevent allergic reactions. Your carrier and essential oils are also needed to make your beard butter. So to the recipe:

You will need for the DIY beard butter recipe:

  • Rosemary beard oil. (This is made by infusing rosemary herb with jojoba oil using the double boiler method and adding apricot oil)
  • Shea butter
  • Cocoa butter
  • Coconut oil
  • Vitamin E
  • Essential oils(sandalwood, citrus essential oils, or rosemary essential oil will work fine if you want to add fragrance.)
  • Double boiler spatula
  • A container to put your beard butter
  • Glass bowls to mix your ingredients
  • Whisk

Recipe

  1. For the rosemary beard oil: Place your glass bowl of jojoba and rosemary oil into the double boiler and allow to simmer for about 2 hours.
  2. Allow to cool, and add apricot oil.
  3. Melt Shea butter, cocoa butter, and coconut oil in a double boiler.
  4. Add rosemary beard oil and Vitamin E and mix gently.
  5. Add essential oils and allow the mixture to cool and solidify. (You can also freeze it for some time.)
  6. Whip up the mixture thoroughly and transfer into a glass container.

And there you got it! This is how to make beard butter all by yourself!

How To Make Beard Butter Without Beeswax

What differentiates beard butter from other beard care products is the absence of beeswax. Many men prefer not to apply beeswax on their beards or use products that contain beeswax to sculpt their beards.

You would want a more natural feel to your beards, and your beard butter would help you achieve that. To make beard butter without beeswax, all you have to do is follow the recipe to make your beard butter, and don’t add beeswax. It’s easy!

On the opposite side, if you want to use beeswax use it sparingly. After all, we are trying to create butter!

Our recipe doesn’t include beeswax so for the vast majority of you that do not want it, it is fine!

Let’s move on!

Read Also: Beard Butter vs Beard Balm

How To Apply Beard Butter

Now that we created our beard butter, it is time to use it.

But, how can we use it properly? How much is too much to put into our beards?

Let’s start!

Asides from its amazing benefits, beard butter is also very easy to use, and you can use it once or twice daily to get your skin more moisturized.

To use beard butter, all you have to do is:

  1. Wash and dry your beard before you apply your beard butter.
  2. Use your hands to take a small quality of beard butter (on the tip of your finger) and rub your hands together to melt the butter, then rub it onto your beards softly, making sure it completely covers your beard.
  3. Comb your beard out with a wide-tooth comb.
  4. If you think the quantity wasn’t adequate you can repeat the process, but don’t overdo it.

Beard Butter Or Beard Balm

Beard balm and beard butter are beard care products that offer similar styling benefits. It might be hard for you to know which to go for when looking for products past beard oils. There is no right choice; only your preference, hair, and skin type will determine which to use.

What’s the difference between beard balm and beard butter?

Beard balms are products that contain waxes, essential oils, carrier oils, and butter to make a solid balm.

Beard butter, however, is made of butter, carrier oils, and essential oils and has a lighter feel than beard balms. Beard butter isn’t as common as beard balm, but it is essential in your beard grooming routine.

Beard balm and beard butter have different levels of consistency, and while beard butter is smoother with a cream-like texture, beard balm contains wax which makes it harder to spread over the beards and is best if you want to control your beards and sculpt them. Beard balm has a better hold on your beard.

Beard butter does not contain wax, and it mainly helps soften your beard and promote healthy beard growth. If you’re looking for a product with a light hold to style your beard, beard butter may be the right choice.

Using beard butter means you’re using the best of the two worlds of beard balm and beard oil and can be used in place of the two. With the right consistency to hold but not too heavy to dribble down your beards, beard butter hydrates your beards and the skin underneath while also sealing in the moisture for that alluring look.

To Sum Things Up

Using beard butter daily helps you take care of your beard and lets it grow in a healthy way.

Sometimes, grooming products can get expensive especially if you are using many of them. Some of you also do not trust products from the market and they wanna create their own not just to save money but also to control the ingredients being used.

In this article, we discussed a very simple yet effective way to make beard butter that will help you make beard butter fast, easily and inexpensively.

I hope you found the beard butter recipe and the article helpful and easy to understand, gentlemen.

Until next time,

Stay safe,

Tasos

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