The Beard Story Hair Cream Review

[Nicholas Mahendra]

Theolder I get, the more of a task shaving my body hair has become. But much as I hate doing it, I've come to prefer shaving, especially down there (internalized misogyny is so much fun!). And that's despite the red bumps I often get after folding my body in half in the shower to shave with a five-blade razor. People on TikTok who also prefer to stay at least somewhat hairless are with me, which I know because I constantly watch them figure out shaving alternatives like waxing, sugaring, depilatory tools, and depilatory creams.

One of these alternatives recently caught my eye because I already owned the tool: a men's facial hair trimmer. For years, I've stashed a cheapo drugstore trimmer in my medicine cabinet for at-home undercut trims, but little did I know that TikTokers had repurposed the tool to remove body hair, reportedly without any irritation. I've watched people use (or heard them talk about using) one to remove hair on their legs, armpits, and even bikini lines, so I had to put it to the test on my very dark and coarse body hair, which just so happens to be paired with pale-white, sensitive skin (thank you, Irish-Italian bloodline).

For my little experiment, I obviously didn't want to take my generic, six-year-old beard trimmer to my most sensitive areas, so I opted for a significant upgrade: Meridian's The Trimmer, gifted to me by the brand. It's actually designed specifically for men's pubic grooming, but it's more or less the same as a beard trimmer: a vibrating razor with tiny, comb-like teeth that comes with several longer comb attachments. It's wildly compact and, with its olive green hue, pretty damn cute for a "men's" product. Similar trimming options include Bushbalm's Francesca Trimmer, King C. Gillette's Cordless Beard Trimmer, or Manscaped's The Lawn Mower.

Later in my bathtub, I took the trimmer to my armpits, then legs, then pubic region. It should be noted that my hair in the first two areas had grown out only for a few days. The latter, I hadn't touched in at least a week and a half. This wasn't necessarily a game-changing moment for me, but I did find an amazing, lazy alternative to shaving for the days I need a last-minute clean-up or want to shave but just can't be bothered.

All of that is to be expected, seeing as trimmers aren't designed to slice hair off as closely as a straight-up razor is. But that's also why a trimmer doesn't leave much (if any) skin irritation in its wake. "They are manufactured to trim hair, not to remove it from the root. That is inherently more gentle and less sharp," Dr. Gohara says.

After having used both methods pretty consistently now, I'm opting for a combination of the two. I'm keeping a traditional razor for my armpits and legs because I prefer a closer shave there, occasional irritation be damned. My bikini line has always agreed best with occasional waxing, so I'll stick to that too. But for my lovely lady garden, I'm never giving up my trimmer because it's so damn easy. I'll also be picking it up for any and all last-minute body-hair removal emergencies.

You have to keep your trimmer clean, Dr. Gohara says and, thankfully, doing that is pretty much as easy as replacing your razor cartridge. "Use that cute little brush [that comes with the trimmer] to get the gunk out [of the comb]," she says. "And a little organic disinfectant spray will seal the deal."

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HOWEVER, the question still remains, does derma rolling work for beard growth OR is it a big marketing ploy for businesses to make a tonne of cash off of our insecurities around not being able to grow adequate facial hair?

Then, after looking at the cold hard facts, our founder Thomas In Action is going to be taking part in a 6 month experiment using a beardroller on his patchy facial hair to put all the theory into practice.

but I did want to acknowledge that I read those comments and for those of you who do get sick of me talking, I have included timestamps in the description of this video so you can skip ahead to my results.

It's also a fact that derma rolling is primarily used for stimulating the skin's natural healing process, keeping your skin looking more youthful & healthy thus creating a great environment for new hair to grow.

In the most simple terms, the nutrient rich blood that is sent to the injury site after treatment allowing the body to create more collagen also produces more of the proteins needed for strong healthy hair as well as stimulating the cells that are responsible for regulating the growth cycle.

The experiment was carried out on the vertex of the head (the crown area) and 1 group were given 5% minoxidil to use twice daily with the addition of weekly microneedling treatment for 12 weeks and the other group were only given the 5% minoxidil to use for the same amount of time.

Welcome to The Hair Loss Show, where two of Australia's leading hair restoration surgeons, Dr. Russell Knudsen and Dr. Vikram Jayaprakash, discuss issues relating to hair loss and the medical and surgical treatment of hair loss in both men and women.

And I'm Dr. Vikram Jayaprakash. Today's episode has been requested quite a few times, so we thought we'd add that to the list. A lot of you have commented on it and we've promised that, so here's today's episode and it's on derma rolling.

All right. So, beard roller is a device that you can buy and it is self-explanatory. Derm means skin, rolling means rolling something across the skin. So, these are devices that are designed to use little needles that you roll across the skin that actually puncture the skin. And that sounds horrible and it's not painless-

Yeah. And the same logic is used on a number of different fronts. So, for example, laser therapy, not laser in hair, but if you're doing laser resurfacing of the skin. In essence, what you're doing with the derma rolling, is you're making small little punctures. Small, little injure points to the skin surface. And in doing so, what happens is there's an increased blood flow to the area. There's an increase in growth factors and inflammatory mediators that come to the area, that essentially stimulate the hair in that area to grow.

Stimulate the skin, [crosstalk 00:01:56] and hair is part of the skin. So, basically it's a controlled, superficial injury to the scalp with the hope that by initiating a healing process, the growth factors won't distinguish between healing the skin and strengthening the hair. So, the thing to understand about beard rollers is that it comes at different depths.

Why is the question? And the answer to that is different people have different dermal thickness. And so, you may need a longer needle to cause the same outcome. But, also the other flip side of that is if-

More injury. But, the larger the needle the more injury caused, the more injury caused, the more growth factors and inflammatory markers come to the area. But, like you've said, the flip side, or the dark side of that is the potential for injury there.

Okay. So, if people are saying, "Well, what would be the ideal depth?" Well, the short answer, is the target area you're trying for in the skin, is typically around about between one and one and a half millimetres under the skin. Because that's where the stem cells in the bulge area reside and this is what initiates growth in the hair follicles. So, it sends signals to the base of the hair, but it comes from this zone, what we call the bulge, which is around about one to one and a half millimetres under the skin.

It's not down here, it's up here. All right. So ideally for hair, what you would do is you look for something in the one millimetre depth range or the 1.5 millimetre depth range, because that means that the injury is in the area where the bulge area and those stem cells reside.

Now, if you're doing the skin rejuvenation, which is another reason why people use beard rollers as a skin rejuvenation, you don't necessarily have to go quite as deep for your skin rejuvenation, because you're trying to work on a different part of the skin.

But I would argue, yes, they come in needles that are either half a millimetre deep or one millimetre deep, or one and a half millimetres deep, I would argue that you certainly don't need anything more than one and a half millimetres deep, but something in the one to one and a half millimetre range makes sense.

Not only that if you put enough inflammatory factors in there, then you can shed just as a response to the inflammatory factors. So more is not necessarily better, I guess, is what we're saying here. So this is not something you spend an hour a day doing. I mean, that's really just not a sensible protocol to do because you're just overdoing it, right. It takes 24, 48 hours for all that healing to really kick in. So my advice is you wouldn't want to do this more than two or three times a week, and you just don't want to overdo it, right? Because if you over inflame the area, you may be doing more harm than good.

The closest thing that it is to in the way it works is PRP platelet-rich plasma. That's the closest example. And one of the things, we've talked about PRP before and said well it's a bit confusing, because one of the things we don't know about PRP is whether the needle going in to inject the PRP is doing more good than the PRP itself that's injected. So the very fact that we have to inject PRP in the scalp means we're essentially doing a beard roller process. So I don't rank them at the top end of our treatment chain because they are mildly invasive, right. We actually are doing something painful, it is penetrating the skin, which is not going to cause infection. If you've got a clean beard roller you're not going to cause infection, but you are penetrating the skin. And if you're creating too much bleeding with it, well, you're potentially doing some damage. So I'd say it's a kind of an add on that we can use for some people once we've tried other things that are less invasive.

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