My husband’s beard is growing full and healthy these days, and I couldn’t love it more. I can’t say if I ever met a beard I didn’t like…I really do love me a good set of facial hair. It’s been a process though, talking Caleb into letting it get as long as it is. I understand that the growing-out process can be quite uncomfortable at the beginning…itchy, sensitive, and downright unpleasant.
A beard of such epic proportions necessitates dedicated maintenance and tender care. A soothing, moisturizing, cleansing concoction is key to any beard’s health, growth, and general well-being. I bought one online a couple years ago, and when it ran out recently, Caleb talked me into making one myself, using essential oils. I cleaned out the bottle he had been using and recycled that, but here’s a link to this type of bottle, if you want to buy empty ones. Lemon essential oil worked like magic for cleaning off the persistent residue from the original label after I peeled it off. (Seriously, if you haven’t tried lemon for this purpose yet, go find some stickiness on something somewhere right now — it’s that fun.)
And the recipe is this simple:
- 2 drop Lemon essential oil (for scent + purification)
- 6 drops Tea Tree essential oil (for healthy skin)
- 6 drops Lavender essential oil (for soothing, healing, and even an aphrodisiac)
- 12 drops Cedarwood essential oil (for cleansing + manly scent)
- grapeseed oil to fill the rest of a 2-oz. bottle (full of Vitamin E, sweet-smelling + non-greasy)
(Learn more about essential oils and sign up for a wholesale membership from Young Living, where I purchase mine, here.)
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And there you have it! Long live great beards.
On a completely unrelated side note, get ready for The Realization of Good‘s inaugural giveaway, coming soon! I love giveaways and am sure this will be the first of many. Stay tuned next week. 🙂
This sounds like a brilliant recipe. I’ve got two-weeks worth of face fuzz right now and the beard oil I purchased helps with the itchiness. Will give yours a go!
Awesome, thanks! Hope it works for ya!
Amazing! I need to make this for my husband! Thanks for sharing, Melanie!!!
🙂 I hope it works for him!
I am going to have to try this. My beard makes my face dry and hope this helps!
Great! I hope too that it helps!