DIY: How To Make Beard Oil Recipes At Home. Quick And Easy Step By Step Instructions

I know that you have better things to do but it was you that wanted to grow a beard.

Growing a beard is not as simple as one would imagine. It needs time, patience and continuous care.

I know what you were thinking. “I will leave a beard and it’s going to look awesome”. Well, now you see that things are not as simple as you thought.

Even if you have the perfectly shaped facial hair, unavoidably, beards need daily care. Washing, trimming, conditioning, stroking (NO, stop it!!!) and repeat.

How are you going to do all this beard maintenance? The easiest way is to just go online and shop all the necessary beard kits.

But you just don’t want to do this.

It’s not the amount of money that you have to spend, even though it can be considerable. Especially, if you’re too generous with the amount of products that you apply on your beard or if the brands that you choose are pricey.

It’s more about the fact that you’re the type of beard owner that wants the best for his beard. Your beard is like your child, you want to nurture it and grow it to be healthy and strong. And you want to provide it the best, for its well-being, nutrition.

So, you want to cook for it (here’s the keyword we’ve been looking for). You want to prepare all these homemade goodies for your beard, and do everything on your own.

After all, you don’t want fast food for your child on a daily basis, do you?

Beard oil is one of the conditioning products which are excellent for any beard. It’s perfect for all beard styles and lengths. When you start growing a beard, beard oil can be more than necessary, especially if it’s itchy as hell. When your beard grows longer, beard oil is once again essential.

Beard oil conditions your beard and makes it soft and easy to manage. A truly remarkabeard product!

But enough with the qualities of beard oil, since you know them already more or less. Otherwise you wouldn’t be reading this article.

Or perhaps you don’t that much? Go ahead and educate yourself about the benefits of beard care products.

What ingredients do you need to make beard oil on your own?

As you read through this post, you’ll get a good understanding of how simple and fast it can be to make your own beard oil recipe. All you need is a bottle, few drops of essential oils and another few drops of carrier oils. You mix everything in the bottle and that’s it!

But what’s the deal with these oils anyway?

Why do you need these ones specifically?

Carrier Oils

Carrier oils are named after their property, and that is to “carry” the essential oils which would otherwise be harmful for the skin. Essential oils if used without the carrier, they could cause skin irritation and burns.

The carrier oil is used to dilute the essential oils in your homemade beard oil. For this reason, the main ingredient in a beard oil recipe is a carrier oil and the essential oils are a few drops each within the solution.

But that’s not it. Besides their bulk property, carrier oils are easily absorbed by skin and they, many times, have therapeutic effect, depending on the type.

The main reason to use carrier oils is because of their properties.

Most of carrier oils are vegetable oils which are derived from seeds, nuts or kernels.

Common carrier oils that many of the best beard oils share are jojoba, argan, sweet almond, coconut oil. All proved to be great for beard softening, promoting beard growth and nourishing the skin.

Take for example jojoba oil, with a molecular structure similar to sebum oil -the oil produced by the scalp, doesn’t interfere with the scalp’s Ph balance. Besides that, numerous studies have shown that it’s excellent for hair health and growth.

Coconut oil, apart from being absolutely delicious in food, prevents hair damage, retains moisture and conditions the hair. It’s also great again beard dandruff -or beardruff.

Argan oil makes your beard more manageable and softer, while conditioning it. When used in a beard oil, you’ll also appreciate the skin moisturising properties that prevent it from drying. This practically means that beard itch is reduced or even eliminated.

Now, take all the above carrier oils and blend them together in a single beard oil. Doesn’t it feel awesome already?

Because of all these great properties, many commercial beard oils always contain one or more of the above carrier oils. All you have to do is check out the ingredients list and see for yourself.

Tip: Be careful with the shelf life of carrier oils. Many of them last only for a few months

List of Carrier Oils

Below I included a list of all carrier oils to choose from, according to your skin type or preference. I hope, it will give you couple of ideas for your beard oil recipe/experiment. You can use either one of them as a base or even more with different proportions.

If you don’t want to go through the entire list of carrier oils, you can have a look at the below. They are among the most commonly used oils for beard oils and you can’t go wrong selecting any of them.

• Molivera Organics Sweet Almond Oil
• Moroccan Argan Oil, 100% Natural, Organic, Cold Pressed
• Life-Flo Organic Pure Grapeseed Oil
• NOW Solutions Castor Oil, 100 % Pure
• Viva Labs Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil
• Nutiva Organic Hemp Oil

Essential Oils

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Essential oils come mostly from roots, flowers, peels, berries or even wood. The have a strong scent and they give your beard oil recipe extra health benefits such as Vitamin E and many other depending on the type you choose.

Essential oils are the ones that spice up the beard oil. This type of oil is going to give the main scent of the beard oil recipe. You can be super creative and mix different essential oils every time you try a new recipe. In most cases, you won’t need more than 10 drops of an essential oil.

Even though you can try mixing many different beard oils, you need to be very careful and try different proportions. Every drop of essential oil matters, and this could be the cause of completely ruining an entire batch of beard oil.

Note: You’re only 1 or 2 drops away before you make a beard oil horrible

List of Essential Oils

The list of essential oils is huge and I’m pretty sure I missed a lot of them. Check them out and get creative.

Just like I did with the carrier oils, I gathered a few essential oils sets that can get you started. The following are among the most common used essential oils for beard oil recipes.

• 12 Synergy Blend Set by Edens Garden 100% Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade
• Natrogix Nirvana Essential Oils – Top 18 Essential Oil Set

Anything else I need to make the beard oil recipe?

So far, you got the main ingredients that your great homemade beard oil recipe needs. But these ingredients cannot get mixed by themselves, can they?

Bottles

The first thing you will need is a bottle. Usually a 1oz bottle is enough. There are commercial beard oils that come with 2 oz bottles but in my opinion, it’s not the best choice especially if it’s the first time trying the brand out.

Besides, just like commercial oils, if you haven’t tried a particular recipe before, you might want to avoid making too much beard oil in the first place.

• Boston Round Bottles pack of 12
• Boston round bottles with eye dropper cap pack of 12

Dark glass bottles are more common for beard oils. Wondering why is that?

Dark glass doesn’t allow sunlight and this way, this type of bottles block the potentially harmful sunlight and protect the oils from oxidation. The bottles ensure that shelf life and quality remains unaffected.

And there’s more.

Since it contains different oils, the density and weight of each one of them is different. Even though you mix and steer the different oils in the bottle, after a certain point there will probably be an oil separation and it will look as if there are layers of oils in the bottle.

That is actually kinda true. Why do you think that the vast majority of detergent and personal care products have no transparent bottles? Well, now you know why!

Eye Dropper

United Scientific Supplies Eye Dropper

If you want to make a beard oil at home like a pro, you will also need to have an eye dropper.

The eye dropper will be a great tool, not only to measure the doses of essential oil in the mix but also, when the beard oil is ready, to apply it directly on your beard, hands, brush or anywhere you may find appropriate.

If you want to keep the budget lower, you can consider getting a bottle for the beard oil, that already has an eye dropper integrated with the lit.

More tools for the Pros

If you are looking to take things more seriously, you can also add additional tools in your beard oil process for larger quantities and you can make your kitchen a beard oil lab. Examples of such products could be:

Plastic Transfer Pipettes 3ml

Transfer pipettes are particularly useful when you want to mix different oils and you don’t want to have the different scents interfere with each other.

Besides that, they’re fairly cheap and it totally worth it for being as precise as possible with the dosage.

Norpro 3-Piece Stainless Steel Funnel Set

No matter if you’re making one bottle or one container of beard oil, funnels come in handy.

They’re very practical when you mix different oils together during testing and makes the process mess-free. Now, when you’re done with your testing, you want to put the different oils of your homemade beard oil in a container. Again, a funnel seems to be the most appropriate tool to use.

Scientific Glass Graduated Cylinder

Precision in beard oil making is crucial. When you mix all the oils, it takes only a few drops to make the mistake and change the scent of the oil completely.

With graduated cylinders, you’ll make sure that no matter the volume of beard oil you’re planning to make, there’s going to be no miscalculation in the process.

Rubbermaid Measuring Cup

A measuring cup can be useful in all stages of beard oil making.

The most important stage however, is at the end. This is the container where all carrier and essential oils end up in order to blend them together put the mix in the bottles.

Welledia AromaStorage Oil Wooden Box

Even though this isn’t necessary at all in your beard oil recipe making, a nice box to store all your beard oils as well as the carrier and essential oils you haven’t used doesn’t seem such a bad idea.

Such box is also great if you’re planning to make beard oil at home and offer the box with the oils as a gift.

Did I miss anything?

Ah yes! How are you supposed to remember what’s inside the beard oil bottle? Get some stickers, so you can put the beard oil recipe name and ingredients on it.

Finally, instructions on how to make this beard oil recipe I came for!

As explained, making beard oil is pretty straightforward. The process is simple but getting the beard oil right is a bit tricky.

This has to do with the ingredients that you put and the dosage of each ingredient. Rest assured, that you can easily mess a recipe up by being greedy. By putting more oil, or less than required, from a particular ingredient you can make an otherwise pleasant beard oil, completely unbearable.

1. Bottle? Check!

Get the bottle first and get ready to fill most of it with the base (carrier) oil. Depending on the recipe, it could be either 1 or a combination of more carrier oils.

2. Carrier oils

Fill the bottle with the carrier oil(s) using a funnel. This way, you won’t make a mess with oil all over the bottle and in your kitchen.

3. Time for essential oils

Now it’s time to add the essential oils in the bottle. Usually, few drops of essential oils are more than enough to give the desired scent to the beard oil. However, this always depends on the recipe.

So, get the eye dropper that we talked about earlier, and pour a few drops of the essential oils in the bottle with the carrier oils.

If it’s your first time making your own beard oil, try to stick to the recipe doses. Otherwise, there are great chances that you’ll throw away the first batch. Been there, done that…

4. Shake it

The fun part begins. Close the lit of the bottle and start shaking it like there’s no tomorrow. Half a minute of shaking should be enough.

5. Drink it!

Well, I really hope you didn’t drink it. The beard oil should be ready to be applied directly on your beard. Others may leave it for a few days to sit, in order for the oils to bind with each other. Enjoy!

Less talk, more recipes please. Gimme beard oil recipes!

We talked about the simple instructions on how to make beard oil at home, now it’s time for some recipes. As said, you can be creative and try different oil combinations and doses that will give you the perfect scent.

To make things easier for you, I included links to the ingredients that I found online so you can purchase them directly. Few ingredients are included in several beard oil recipes and I decided to have a link to the online stores only once.

Here are the best beard oil recipes for you. I tried already three of them and the results were surprisingly good. Let me know if you try any of them.