Awesome Beards

Those of us with facial hair know the importance of keeping it clean and well-groomed. The Beard Scrubber from Tooletries is a game-changer for keeping your face in tip-top condition. The hex-shaped tool has pointy yet flexible silicone bristles that work their way through even tangled hair, cleaning your beard and helping to exfoliate your skin.

Give your beard the good treatment it deserves with Whisker Sauce from Grooming Lounge. This beard conditioner helps keep facial hair smooth and soft and moisturizes skin to stop itchiness and flaking. Ingredients include avocado oil for soft skin, lime oil for its shine and fragrance, and panthenol to soften hair and prevent split ends.

Do you have a full beard? This heated straightener brush can tame the curliest beards in a snap. It offers three heat settings to keep frizz and tangles at bay all day long, plus it has an anti-scald design to let you get deep into your beard and work out the mess.

VICE introduces us to Daniel Schetter, also known as “Surfer Dan,” a local legend in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, who, along with his friends, have made a name for themselves by surfing the frigid winter waves of Lake Superior, and for the amazing ice formations that gather on their exaggerated facial hair.

1up your grooming routine with this handmade beard comb from L.I.M. Lazer. Its alder wood body features a laser-engraved design inspired by Nintendo’s classic 8-bit gaming system, and offers up two laminated bamboo comb blades with fine and wide spacing. They also make a version with acrylic blades.

Give your beard that professionally-trimmed look any time. The template offers six types of lines for curved and straight cuts, a super-thin edge for precision, and doubles as a beard comb. The Amazon deal includes scissors and a comb, or buy the tool itself from Beardman.

Keep facial hair in check with Man Crates‘ wooden gift box packed with three great products from Renegade – beard shampoo bar, beard balm, and beard oil; along with a boar bristle beard brush, and a hand towel.

When they’re not making groovy music, the Roosevelts enjoy handcrafting a small batch beard care line. Oils are named after national parks; a portion of profits go to conserve them. Bonus: this stuff smells so good, you may have your own personal groupies to evade too.

Keep your facial hair tamed and tidy with miniFab’s Swiss Army-like grooming tool. It packs fine and wide-toothed combs as well as a dull blade for scooping their organic beard balm. Available in paduak, maple, walnut, or bamboo, all with bamboo blades.

The medieval variant of the Bearded Knit Beanie is the perfect low-effort Halloween costume, turning you into a knight while keeping your head warm on cold Autumn nights. Available with brown, black or combo yarn beards.

Horse & Hammer are damn proud of their fave facial accessories: their beards and glasses, so they of course wrote a song about it. If it weren’t for the glasses and bow tie parts we might have had a No-Shave November anthem on our hands.

The Philips Beard Trimmer 9000 is the first to be outfitted with a laser-guide for precision straight cuts. It also has a dual trimmer, 17 different length settings and two LED displays. You’ll be sporting that Tony Stark goatee in no time.

This guy going by the moniker “Incredibeard” does silly things with his dense facial hair. Here, he uses his beard as a bowl for his lunch. All we can say is that he better take a really long shower after this. More beard insanity here.

Minneapolis-based photographer Ben Garvin has created a video of stop-motion beard tricks, which he built on his iPhone with the Stop Motion Studio app. The whimsical music makes it even more amusing.

Prior to watching this clip, our favorite Cage was Nicolas. Now, we have to go with the winner of the 1991 Beard and Mustache Championships freestyle award – and his truly epic facial hair.

Chad Roberts is a maestro of facial hair. Here, El Capitan, Minister of Information, and Founder of the RVA Beard League dons his best X-Wing Fighter look. Beard Five, Standing By!

The other skiers will swoon and be jealous as you swoosh down the slopes in the Beardski, a fleece and neoprene ski mask offered with a variety of attached, foot long beards. (Thanks Ben!)

Did your Movember efforts last a little longer than usual this year? You may have found yourself on the receiving end of something very similar to what filmmaker Zak Stoltz does in this short then.