Well, if you are shaving every day to grow a beard and it makes you think that shaving increases beard growth and thickness, you are in the right post. Over here, I’ll discuss it in detail.
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Does Shaving Increase Beard Growth?
Unfortunately, shaving doesn’t increase beard growth. It’s a myth people are having in their minds. What happens is that newly grown hair looks darker and sharper. It creates an illusion among them and makes them think like that.
Another reason is that hair grows even thicker as your age matures. They don’t consider their age but perhaps consider shaving increases it.
Why Doesn’t Shaving increase Beard growth?
When you first started growing your beard, it looks thin and patchy.
Then thinking that shaving grows beard – you started shaving your beard, right!
After some time, you will see your beard grows thicker and becomes less patchy. Then you will believe, even more, shaving does increase beard growth.
Perhaps, it isn’t due to shaving but due to shifting of the beard growth phase.
To know about it, let’s see!
#1. Hair Growth Cycle
Your hair grows in four phases:
- Anagen – Growth phase
- Catagen – Transition phase &
- Telogen – Resting phase
- Exogen – Shedding phase
Anagen is the first phase called the growth phase that lasts up to 3-4 years. During this phase, your hair grows.
The next phase is called the Catagen phase. It is also called the transition phase that lasts up to 2-3 weeks. This phase is where your hair follicle starts to degrade, resulting in cutting off nutrients and essential oils needed to grow your hair. During this phase, your hair tends to go to the resting stage.
Now comes the Telogen phase that lasts for 2-3 months. Over here, all the nutrients and oil supplies are cut off. As a result of it, your hair starts to rest. This is the period where your hair stops growing completely.
Finally enters the Exogen phase. During this phase, either your dead hairs shed off or start to go to the first Anagen phase, where your hair starts to grow again.
This is the full hair growth cycle.
Do you still believe that hair grows after shaving? It’s ultimately a myth but needs to go through each phase to grow it fully. At a particular point in time, it stops and again started growing after some time.
- Read Beard growth kit.
Why do People think Shaving Increases Facial Hair Growth?
#1. Hair Looks Darker, Sharper and Thicker
People believe that shaving stimulates facial hair growth because of denser, thicker, and sharper beards. Thus, they shave their beard every day to grow it fuller without even realizing that the beard also matures over time.
When they first shave their beard, it is never exposed to the environment, thus looks fresh and dark.
The sharp beard is because you slice off the end of the hair. As a result, it becomes coarse and stiffer when it grows back but eventually softens as it grows longer.
Don’t believe what you see! But believe that’s being scientifically proved!
If shaving doesn’t increase beard growth – What does?
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Genetics
Whether you will grow a thick, thin, or patchy beard – all depends upon your genetics. If you inherit a gene of no beard, there is no other way to grow a beard.
But you can maintain your patchy beard. It can be grown fuller by taking proper diets, vitamins and by using a derma roller.
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Diet
Hair is made up of keratin that strengthens facial hair. It also helps in providing a shiny look and prevents frizzy hair.
Keratin is a strong protein; thus, intaking protein has enormous benefits for facial hair.
It helps to grow your beard quickly, and on top, it keeps your hair shiny.
Thus, I suggest you intake diets like
- Meat
- Milk
- Egg
- Fish &
- Nuts
for quick facial hair growth.
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Regular Exercise
Doing regular exercise also helps in the growth of your beard. Doing exercise increases the blood flow, which has a positive impact on its growth. Besides that, exercise also increases testosterone production and boosts metabolism that can stimulate hair growth.
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Exfoliation
Dead skin cells and dirt clog up the pores, and as a result, you will see the patchy beard. Thus, I suggest you exfoliate your face once or twice a week. It will help you to remove dead skin cells from pores and stimulates the growth of new hair.
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Proper Rest
Doing exercise won’t help you in real. But you also need to take proper rest. I suggest you take proper sleep. You must sleep for 8 hours a night.
Sleep will help you to decrease stress: the lesser the stress, the more production in testosterone.
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Massaging Your Face
You can also massage your face to stimulate hair growth. It increases blood circulation in your face resulting to provide a tiny increase in facial hair growth.
Don’t expect that massaging your face grows your beard densely.
Note:
While massaging, don’t rub it too hard; it can irritate.
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Let it grow
One of the common problems while growing a beard is itchiness. If you really want to grow a beard, you need to tolerate it. Meanwhile, you can reduce it using beard products like beard oil and balm.
Don’t ever think of trimming it unless it gets proper shape.
Let it grow, whether it is bushy or patchy.
You will definitely love it after it becomes fuller.
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Vitamins
Vitamin is also essential for the growth of your beard. Without vitamins, you can’t grow your beard – especially vitamin B.
Without it, you can’t ever grow a beard or hair. Thus, most suggest using Biotin because it contains vitamin B.
On the other hand, Vitamin E won’t help in the growth of your beard but helps to keep your beard away from dandruff and prevents the split end.
Meanwhile, Vitamin C helps to boost the production of testosterone, thus helps in beard growth.
Other vitamins I would suggest are
- Vitamin D
- Vitamin K
- Vitamin B3
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Beard Transplant
If none of the above methods works, the only solution to have a beard is to transplant it.
It is costly yet highly effective.
For the result to appear on your face, you might need to wait for 3-4 months.
Conclusion
Shaving doesn’t increase facial hair growth but taking proper vitamins, diets, doing proper exercise and taking rest does. The growth of the beard is totally related to the male hormone, i.e., testosterone. Thus, if your body can produce a good amount of hormones, you will have a good looking dense and thicker beard.
Otherwise, for having a beard, you will need to transplant it.
