Beard Pomade: What This Beard Care Product Actually Does
It is always the same story. Your beard has taken on a great, perfectly trimmed shape thanks to your barber. And yet you are still stuck with the same problem: the styling that came with the barber visit is impossible to recreate at home in front of the mirror the next morning, at least not the way he did it the day before.
The key here is the right beard care product. From beard wax, also known as moustache wax, through beard pomade and beard balm, the market offers plenty of ways to get a helping hand.
Beard care products keep gaining ground as a result. Beard grooming has picked up serious fame. Written off as old-fashioned not so long ago, facial hair has found its place in the world again, much as it had back in your grandfather's day. Whether that is a fashion trend or a lifestyle is entirely up to you. Only one thing is not up for debate. Correct, proper care. Nobody wants to look like the next guy sleeping rough at the station, for whom beard care is a foreign concept.
With that in mind, the points below will walk you through beard pomade and explain, across three sections, what sets it apart from other care products. Enjoy the research in our Charlemagne Premium blog post.
Beard pomade, and not just for the beard
Beard pomade, or rather pomade in general, is one of the essential hair care products on the market. Its ingredients are more or less the same whether it is aimed at the hair on your head or on your face. What matters are the essential oils, which make up a significant part of any beard pomade. Let us be honest here. Where are great fragrances, the kind that turn heads on both sides, better placed than on your face, sitting right under your own nose, so you can constantly (and unavoidably) check whether your scent still carries the note you want the outside world to pick up?
Essential oils
As already mentioned, beard pomade contains essential oils, which naturally bring great scents with them. Exactly as in beard oil or moustache wax, these fragrance-carrying oils such as almond and argan oil are present in beard pomade and deliver those refreshing scents. Give it a go, you will be impressed too.
What it does for your skin and hair
Do not underestimate the conditioning effect of the essential oils and the fats contained in a beard pomade. Every shave does a certain amount of damage to your beard hair. Cutting the hair at the tip means each strand loses moisture, and that needs replacing. Fats such as the petroleum jelly in beard pomade feed your hair the moisture it needs so it does not dry out. The same goes for the skin on your face, by the way. Whichever beard pomade you pick will inevitably deliver moisture to your skin too, which helps head off dryness and flaking. On top of that comes the conditioning effect, which leaves both hair and skin noticeably silky, soft and supple. There is not much left to add, other than that this is a genuine plus point with real value behind it.
What makes beard pomade different?
The base ingredients of beard pomade are fats, with petroleum jelly doing most of the work. Add the essential oils we have already been praising and beard pomade becomes what it is: a grooming highlight.
Fundamentally, the deciding factor with a beard pomade is that the consistency is not as firm as moustache wax. Beard pomade stays pliable and does not set hard the way hair gel does, to name one reference point most people will know. What pomades do instead is give your facial hair a well-kept shape. The same broadly applies to a Hungarian-style moustache wax, both in composition and in consistency. If you are the kind of man who likes a more flamboyant beard style, then for all the reasons above your pick is the Bavarian moustache wax. That one sets hard and can give your moustache a genuinely striking shape.
Beard pomades are therefore a core product in basic beard care, particularly if you wear your beard long.
As you have read, beard pomade brings specific advantages in use. Unlike a moustache wax, and the Bavarian wax in particular, beard pomade does not end up stiff but stays workable. When you are out and about a pocketable beard comb does the job, and at home a beard brush earns its keep. Both spread the care product, in this case beard pomade, cleanly through your beard hair and across the skin underneath. So you are using these tools not just for your look but for the health of your facial hair, which is something you will come to appreciate. Now that you have read this blog entry, we are of course assuming you are on the hunt for beard care products like these. A quick detour to the Charlemagne Premium shop will be worth your while, because:
„A healthy and well groomed beard is important for a real man, that's why we offer everything you need to keep yours doing so.“
As barbers with more than 20 years in the trade between us, we went looking for styling & care products that convinced us 100%. There were some good products on the market, but none that gave us everything we needed. After some thought we decided in 2014 to develop our own range. For two years we used every free minute after work at the barbershop to refine the formulations down in our cellar. When it came to ingredients, only the best was good enough. We bought the finest jojoba oils available in Morocco, and argan oil from Italy.
After two years and a good many attempts our first product line was ready, and it has been winning customers over ever since. We think 98% positive reviews speak for themselves. Since the official launch in 2016 it has of course been developed further, continuously. That is just one of the reasons Charlemagne Premium products have won not one but several comparison tests in recent years.
You will find all our products right here in our online store. For any questions about them, you can reach us any time at info@charlemagne-premium.com.
