Essential oils add many beneficial qualities to your
beard oil and also allow you to customize your
oil with a
scent your man is sure to love.
But more enthralling (and at times grotesquely fascinating) were the traces — along with the
scents and tastes, real and imagined — of the organic stuff of everyday life: olive
oil, dried leaves, dirt and soot, herbs and spices (turmeric, cinnamon, paprika, dill), bacon fat (mixed with pigments), and
beard clippings.