By Daniel Markey

(Men's Health) - If you’re like me, you may have been able to grow a semblance of a beard since you were maybe 16 or 17. But growing something close to a beard and growing a beard are two very different things. 

As long as I can remember, I’ve had a patchy beard with inconsistent growth. It’s why I typically shave rather than let it grow. 

For the longest time I was told the more you shave the thicker your beard will come in. But, after years and years of shaving, I can honestly say FALSE. 

So I started doing some research and found out that there are dozens of beard growth products that can help you hydrate and stimulate circulation to actually trigger beard growth. But of course, when dozens of products are offered, it canbe hard to know which products actually work and which are duds. 

Recently, I turned to TikTok to see if I could get some real life testimonials of products that worked. TikTok is a great place to find recommendations from experts and customers who want to share their experiences.

Of course there were dozens of beard growth products that people recommended.

Thankfully, I can put a handful of men’s beauty reviewers on the mission to test the most viral TikTok products, and find the best ones. We found five products that we would recommend to use if you’re looking for a thicker, more even beard. Let’s get started. 

Effectiveness: 95%

Safety: 100%

Price: $

Overall: A+

This is by far the best product for anyone looking to grow a thicker, more consistent beard. Mane’s Beard Growth Oil is a daily serum to help condition both hair and skin to stimulate growth and keep your beard hair healthy. We found out about Mane when they offered us a secret 50% discount code SECRET50. We immediately were ready to rock with these dudes. The oil is made from Jojoba Oil, Ginger Root Oil, Sesame Seed Oil, which are some of the top ingredients for natural hair growth. We found our reviewers had thicker growth in less than 4 weeks. Really great stuff and we HIGHLY recommend. 

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Effectiveness: 80%

Safety: 100%

Price: $$$$

Overall Value: B+

Beard and Company guarantee you’ll grow your beard twice as fast when you use their Beard Growth Balm. Filled with fatty acids and nutrients, it aims to give your hair follicles all the essential ingredients it needs to grow stronger and faster. However their main ingredient for growth is Castor Oil, which is helpful, but not the most proven ingredient. While it can offer help and even give relief to your skin, the balm itself was a little too thick for our reviewers, and made their face a little more irritated than they would have liked. In terms of growth, they did see some filling out, but not as effective as Mane’s Beard Growth Oil. 

Effectiveness: 80%

Safety: 85%

Price: $$

Overall Value: B+

Everyone knows Biotin is a great way to help your skin, nails, and hair, but many have trouble seeing fast and reliable results. Well, it may be the way you’re consuming the biotin. Often the most common ways are through a pill or gummy. While the package may guarantee a large serving size for each pill, most may not actually be absorbed in the body. Pure Research has created a liquid drop that can be absorbed faster in the body for quicker results. Of course, biotin is not necessarily focused just on the beard, it is a great thing to add to your supplement diet if you want thicker, strong hair everywhere. 

Effectiveness: 75%

Safety: 80%

Price: $$$

Overall Value: C

If you are looking for a morning supplement to help provide additional nutrients for beard growth, Delta Genesis offers a helpful pill filled with effective vitamins. It’s hard to know the true effectiveness of a supplement because often many of those vitamins are helping your whole body and not concentrated on the beard. And if you’re like me, you’re already taking a fair amount of the vitamins in this supplement including Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Vitamin B1 and so forth. And there are some questionable nutrients like Horsetail Extract that definitely gave me a double take (just kidding it’s a plant). 

Effectiveness: 90%

Safety: 70%

Price: $$$$$

Overall Value: B+

Here’s a hard product to find but worth the search. A beard growth gel/serum that you apply straight to the beard. It rubs on smooth to the face and hair to help activate hair and thicken growth. The big concern is that it’s hard to know exactly what’s in the product. The website isn’t quite clear which makes us nervous. While we may have seen some results, that’s still a big concern. And for the price (the most expensive on our list) you may benefit from a more affordable and transparent beard serum like Mane’s Beard Growth Oil. 

While we believe we recommended some great products to help stimulate beard growth while giving you a thicker, more even look, we believe Mane’s Beard Growth Oil is the absolute best option. We wanted to talk further with our investigative reporter Mark Herring who helped create the rankings list and how he discovered the greatness that is Mane 

Personally, I’m a bit of an anti-product guy. Bar of soap in the shower and some toothpaste. My girlfriend only recently pushed moisturizer on me, haha. It’s not that I don’t believe in any of the stuff (hell, I research and write about it all the time). I just never thought I needed most of it. My skin is fairly clear and the hair on my head is thick. That said, the one thing that always bothered me was my beard. It’s thin and patchy and doesn’t grow even at all. I look like one of those kindergarten portraits of Santa Claus with cotton balls sparsely glued around my face. Needless to say, I shave everyday.

So when I was put on assignment to find some amazing beard growth products, I was happy to test some things out. Unfortunately, not a lot made the cut. Too many products promising ZZ Top results in weeks. It wasn’t happening.

But then my best friend, who I trust with my life, started to grow out his beard and it looked damn solid. I asked him if he had any tricks and shot out of his chair and grabbed the bottle of Mane’s Beard Growth Oil. He said he tried a few things but this was the only product that he felt like actually delivered. I was skeptical, but when he showed me his beard growing efforts from six months ago I was damn floored, man. A totally different person. 

I asked him to let me borrow his Beard Growth Oil, but instead he told me to buy my own like a real adult LOL. Luckily he gave me the secret 50% off discount SECRET50. So I ordered two bottles immediately.

I received the package two days later and used as instructed. After you shower, dry off, and rub a few drops of the oil into your beard and skin. Simple enough. I like simple.

Of course, I looked into the mirror and expected immediate results, but with products like these you got to use them everyday for about three weeks before you notice anything. In the meantime, I wanted to know what made Mane’s Beard Growth Oil do what it did. 

A combination of essential oils and nutrients help not only strengthen hair but activate roots that have stopped growing or never had the energy to grow. 

It’s quite simple, just as our bodies can exert less energy when we get older (remember staying up all night in your twenties?), our hair follows a similar pattern. When old hairs fall out, typically a new root is triggered and energy is spent building a new hair follicle. However, the older we get, the less energy is distributed to these roots. That’s when thinning and balding occur. 

Many of the hair follicles in our skin are never stimulated enough for the root to activate and push the potential hair from under the skin. Often it’s a result of not enough nutrients and energy at the top layers of our skin where we need it. 

The key to a fuller head of hair starts with activating your roots, and that’s exactly what Mane’s Beard Growth Oil aims to do. Mane’s uses a Hair Growth Complex that’s filled with amazing ingredients to stimulate blood flow to the skin while strengthening hair follicles. Some of those essential ingredients include:

Jojoba Oil

A big nutrient-filled ingredient with Vitamines C, B, E, Copper, and Zinc all helping make hair follicles healthier and stronger. 

Ginger Root Oil

This is how roots are activated with an anti-inflammatory oil that stimulates blood flow to the top layers of the skin.

Sesame Seed Oil

Another vitamin-filled oil that nourishes the hair root for a stronger growth cycle and thicker hairs. 

So, finally, after 4 weeks, I decided to check if I could see results… and wow! The areas of my hair that were previously patchy began to fill out. Plus my beard felt fuller and stronger. I was simply amazed at how good it looked and felt.