Top Beard Kits for Effortless Grooming in 2024 (2025)

We're not going to lie: finding the best beard kits wasn't as easy as we expected, because it turns out that most beard grooming kits are bad. In the past five years, grooming brands and beard products have exploded beyond all reason. On balance, that's been good news for bearded men. You can now buy high-quality beard oil, beard trimmers,razors, and washes for every beard hair type. But finding great kits worth the price had us digging through a lot of trash – specifically, lots of janky £25 beard kits on Amazon from brands we've never heard of. Hell, some of the kits from our go-to grooming brands failed to meet our standards.

We're not even being that picky: we want quality hardware, well-formulated skin- and beard care products, and nothing that inflates the kit's size or cost without being genuinely useful. That last factor tripped up more beard kits than we expected – too many think that more is more. Beard shampoo and conditioner and balm and oil? There's only so much moisture your face can absorb.

Ultimately, we found only seven kits and gift sets we believed in. They're great for kickstarting a new beard care routine (maybe you followed our “How to Grow a Better Beard” advice?), refilling your empties in one fell swoop, or giving as a gift to men with fuzzy faces.

And if one of the seven sets below doesn't quite solve your beard scenario, check out our guide to the best beard care products.

• GQ's beard kit top pick: MoBros Personalised Beard Grooming Kit
• The best beard care kit overall: Scotch Porter Ultimate Beard Collection
• Most advanced beard kit: Manscaped The Beard Hedger Advanced Kit
• Best beard kit with natural ingredients: Oukzon Beard Grooming Kit
• Best beard kit for thicker beards: Percy Nobleman Beard Survival Kit
• Best beard kit for coarse beards: Viking Revolution Beard Grooming Kit for Men
• Best beard kit for most people: King C. Gillette Ultimate

It's one thing to mention that this particular beard kit can be completely personalised for you (making it an excellent gift this Christmas), but it was also a kit spotted in the film Paddington 2 and has been on BBC's Dragon's Den. Fine pedigree at first glance, but the value goes much deeper thanks to the comprehensive collection of useful products included. You get oil, wash, balm, and butter (for your beard, not toast), as well as scissors, a boar hair brush, a pocket mirror and a comb as part of the package, and you can select the scent of your collection to elevate your aroma and your beard care routine.

If you're familiar with British GQ's grooming content, you'll likely have heard of Manscaped, one of our favourite, fastest-growing brands for men's grooming. Aside from its fun roster of gardening-nodded trimming devices, it also offers a host of excellent moisturising products to keep your facial hair fuzz-free and handsome, including a beard shampoo and conditioner, and an oil. We especially enjoy the conditioner as you can apply it to a dry beard and leave it in to soften your beard throughout the day. It also comes with the brilliant Beard Hedger trimmer, which is one of our favourite tools.

Caring for your beard using natural products is harder than you might initially think. Many kits include harsh chemicals or products made from ingredients you wouldn't want to include in your routine, so if that's a perennial concern, we'd recommend Oukzon. A complete 10-in-1 package that's excellent as a wrapped-up gift under the Christmas tree, it includes all-natural products to keep a beard clean, shiny and frizz-free. The standout product is the beard balm, which gently soothes any raging irritation while leaving your beard smelling clean and fresh.

Men with thicker beards will know all about the frustrations associated with keeping it sleek, clean, and the absolute opposite of the wild state that it naturally wants to be in. To simplify those issues check out Percy Nobleman's beard survival kit, which will rescue you from your woes. The signature beard oil breaks down the coarse, thick hair into a manageable, flowing beard, nourishing the hairs to keep them flexible and soft for longer. Combine that with the moustache wax and you've got the finest fuzz in all the land.

All beard owners secretly dream of owning and maintaining a mighty beard worthy of the Vikings of old, and that dream is a much more likely reality thanks to Viking Revolution's care kit.

While you may have previously thought that Viking warriors were carefree with their fuzz, they'd have been rather jealous of the treatment on offer here, with a coarse boar hair brush and plenty of nourishing oils and balms to soothe and control the untamed hair. Trim down the wisps with the scissors for a tidy finish.

Scotch Porter is a premium men's grooming brand with a premium beard kit to match. This set is a particularly smart buy for anyone with dry skin or coarse facial hair, thanks to its three moisturising products (conditioner, balm, serum). And if that's not you, then good news: the kit will last even longer, because you won't need all three of those products at once.

We're overlooking that overlap because this is the rare kit that comes with both a boar bristle brush – that's the good kind – and a trustworthy pocket comb from Kent. If you opt for a different kit, we'd highly suggest you get yourself a nice beard brush separately. It's one of the most important – and underrated – beard care tools.

The best beard kit for travel: Jack Black Beard Grooming Kit

Jack Black makes one of the best beard oils in the world, though the brand's beard wash and lube are no slouches. They use natural ingredients and botanicals like Kalahari melon oil, Vitamin E, jojoba oil, aloe vera, and eucalyptus to hydrate your beard, soften the hair, and keep the skin healthy and happy. When it's time to shave, the beard lube acts as both a shaving oil and a conditioner. And it all comes in TSA-friendly travel sizes, so you can look good on the road.

If you've noticed that we haven't mentioned the beard comb included in Jack Black's kit, that's because our mothers taught us that if we can't say anything nice, not to say anything at all. The Beard Lube by itself costs £28, so ignoring the comb isn't costing you anything.

Best beard kit for most people: King C. Gillette Beard Care Kit

The King C. Gillette line provides beard and shaving products that are a step above cheap pharmacy shaving creams and oils. This particular bundle includes the brand's exceptionally good beard balm (for keeping those hairs soft and in place), the double-duty beard-and-face wash, and beard oil. At £80 for a collection of full-size products, it's a steep ask, but the bundle leans on tried-and-true ingredients – argan oil, cocoa and shea butter, jojoba oil – to keep your beard in king-level condition.

The best beard kit gift: Murdock London Redchurch St. Collection Men's Gift Set

We mentioned this, but there are a lot of beard care sets from suspect brands sitting on Amazon – don't give someone the gift of garbage grooming. The Murdock London gift set is the lone exception we found. This kit comes with four premium products for hydrating, smoothing, and washing your whiskers. Crucially, it also comes with a beard brush, an unfortunate oversight in most kits. (It's a vegan beard brush, which means it's likely not as effective or long-lasting as a boar-bristle brush – but also, didn't require a boar to sacrifice its hair.)

The best-smelling beard kit: Acqua di Parma Barbiere Essential Shaving Kit

Maintaining a decent beard takes real work and care – the more you put in, the better your beard's going to look and feel. Acqua di Parma's kit brings some real spa energy to your grooming. There's the smooth shaving cream for prepping, and an aftershave designed to minimize redness, irritation, and razor bumps – particularly handy for sensitive areas, like the neck. And since this is Acqua di Parma, you get a bottle of the brand's Colonia cologne, with notes of citrus, bergamot, lavender, vetiver, and patchouli. Because if they're close to enough to appreciate your meticulously managed beard, they're close enough to appreciate a great scent, too.

The Best Beard-Trimming Hardware Kit: Panasonic Ultimate All-In-One Kit

As dedicated beard trimmers go, the Panasonic Multishape Ultimate All-In-One is not first in line in our best beard trimmers review. It's hard to beat a dedicated product, and the Multishape is more of a Swiss Army Knife – though one we vouch for if you can put it to use. The kit features a handle with a rechargeable Li-Ion battery that can accept five attachments, two of which are designed for facial hair maintenance: a foil shaver to erase stubble, and a beard trimmer with four guides plus adjustable lengths (just twist the head).