How to Grow Facial Hair Faster

Few things are more sexy to some than facial hair on a man. While the rate of facial hair growth is largely dependent upon genetics, there are a few things that may stimulate faster growth.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Vitamins
• Skin care products
• Minoxidil [optional -- with a caution]

1. Stay healthy and take care of yourself. Certain minerals and vitamins are documented as being beneficial to hair growth. Be sure you have the appropriate amount of these nutrients in your diet. These nutrients include, but are not limited to, 15,000 IU of Vitamin A; 50 mg each of Vitamins B3, 5, 6, and 12; two grams of Vitamin C; 800 IU of Vitamin E and 50 mg of Biotin on a daily basis.

2. Get adequate amounts of sleep. Your body uses the time you are sleeping to repair, restore and refresh and sleep will help your hair to grow. If you are not getting enough sleep, your hair growth will slow down and your hair may become weaker. Most people need between seven to nine hours of sleep each night.

3. Stress can slow down hair growth and make your hair weak and brittle. To help your facial hair grow, be sure to limit the amount of stress in your life and learn how to handle the stressors that are present. Exercise, meditation, yoga, deep-breathing exercises and stress-management classes are all recommended strategies for dealing with stress.

4. Keep your face clean, moisturized and exfoliated to allow for good facial hair growth. Steam opens up pores for easier cleaning and closer shaving. Exfoliating removes the dead skin cells and keeps your pores and hair follicles clear. This will allow better hair growth and will limit the incidences of in-grown hairs. Moisturizer keeps your skin healthy, which will also allow for better hair growth. If your skin is dry and flaking, you will have more in-grown hairs, and your facial hair growth will become stunted.

Tips & Warnings

• If you want facial hair now, there are retailers that sell human hair mustaches, beards, and sideburns that can be applied for temporary aesthetic or entertainment purposes. Remember that there really isn't a cure-all or magical way to instantly grow hair. Genetics and medical conditions affect hair growth, which limits how much you can do to overcome sparse facial hair.
• Remember that there is such a thing as too much of a good thing. Having too much of any vitamin or mineral in your diet can cause harm to your body. This includes ingesting too much of the hair growth vitamins and minerals. Stay within the recommended guidelines. Contrary to an old wives' tale, shaving does not really make hair grow back in thicker and faster. It is an illusion caused by what happens to the individual hairs when they are shaved. Minoxidil has been used in many hair growth treatments for the scalp, but not for the face. There is a caution for women on the labels of products containing Minoxidil that if any gets on the face, it could result in facial hair growth. This means it is possible it will help men. However, using Minoxidil for a use other than what it was designed could be risky. Talk to a doctor first. If you are a young man just growing in your first facial hair, you should wait it out for a little bit. This is because men and women tend to grow more facial hair as they age. Facial hair growth also tends to speed up with age. Many young men who start out with sparse facial hair notice it fills in and grows more quickly as they mature. Your facial hair growth will continue to change as you age, and young men who are just getting their facial hair can expect it to fill in over the course of one to three years. Waiting it out before taking drastic measures would be a recommended step for any young man.

Resources

• Food sources of vitamins and minerals

[xxsanadaxx]

on 12/1/2009 I can grow most of a beard, but not quite all of it. It comes in above my lips and on my chin, as well as good sideburns, and along my neck - but it doesn't grow in on the sides of my lips and just under the left side of my chin.

Weird how its that sporadic.

Thanks for the message though - I'm going to give the vitamins a shot. I don't have much stress in my life, nor do I have ANY trouble sleeping - I usually pack in 8 to 10 hours a night. I make sure I get a whole lot of sleep. And it sure isn't genetics - my dad and my grandfather on my moms side, as well as one of my dads uncles, had righteous beards and goatees. I'm also a pretty clean guy, always washing my face and all that.

Well, I'm hoping for a nice, full, trimmed, neat beard sometime in the future.

[jmolema]

on 3/7/2009 my boyfriend has a hard time growing facial hair, i'm going to recommend to him to try the vitamins. thanks!

[chai2k2]

on 3/6/2009 Cool! I need this!

[bruinrob11]

on 3/6/2009 I have been trying to grow a beard for a long time and I finally gave up. As my girlfriend always tells me, grass doesn't grow on a busy street.