Beard combs are one of the essential mundane tools for taming and styling your facial hair. They are especially handy when your beard gets longer, as long beards require a bit more effort to smooth, shape, and style. The same goes for thicker or curly facial hair, which is comparatively tougher to smooth out. Beard combs can detangle your thick facial hairs more efficiently and are the best for controlling the shape of your beard. They are also conveniently portable so that you can get quick styling while on the go. Here are our top picks for best-in-class beard combs that are worthy investments.

Augustinus Bader: The Neem Comb (Best Luxury Beard Comb)

As the name suggests, this luxury beard comb is made out of neem wood, widely known for its antifungal and antibacterial properties from ancient times. This water-resistant comb is especially useful for sensitive facial skin and hair. With a super sophisticated look, the wide teeth of the comb help stimulate the hair follicles of your beard. As a result, the hair gets smoothened and detangled quite easily, while the neem wood helps in detoxification too.

The Art of Shaving: Dual-Sided Sandalwood Beard Comb (Best Overall Beard Comb)

Wood beard combs are generally great because they minimize snagging and pulling on coarse beard hair. Wide tooth wooden combs help comb out thick or curly beards more evenly. This dual-sided comb conveniently comes with two different tooth widths for different beard types. Made from Argentinian green sandalwood, this classic beard comb is a bit bulkier in design but is super helpful if you get patches of different thicknesses while your beard grows.

Parker: Premium Rosewood Wide Tooth Beard Comb (Best Small Beard Comb)

Most of the time, larger and bulkier beard combs get hard to control. This anti-static wood comb from Parker is conveniently smaller but highly effective. The wide teeth are shaped more like a pick. The stubbier shape comes with long-sized teeth, offering increased control. This comb also evenly distributes beard products like balms and oils through your facial hair much easier than plastic ones.

Nature Boy: Wooden Beard Comb (Best Beard Comb for Coarse Beards)

Made from black walnut wood and bamboo, this beard comb comes with an innovative finger-hole grip design, providing increased grip. The result is an incredible added control over the motion of your hand, which helps in stimulating blood flow to the follicles. The long, narrowly shaped, and widely spaced teeth of the comb can gently detangle even the curliest and thickest of beards with ultimate ease. The optional fine teeth will work great on shorter beards as well.

Kent: Beard Comb Set (Best Beard Comb Set)

These beard combs from Kent are like the Rolls Royce of beard accessories! With a history of making hair brushes for more than 200 years, their signature handmade combs have gained a cult status symbol among stylish bearded men. Each piece of this set of three is hand polished, saw cut, and buffed to create rounded and soft teeth. With a tortoiseshell finish, these different-sized combs are made of acetate, which promises to cause fewer pulls and snags than plastic.