 I'm Jansen. I'm Micah. And today we've got an awesome lineup of products from classic culture That's with a K lifestyle Greg Hughes sent us out some awesome products We got beard balms and beard oils So Greg has a really interesting story from 2003 to 2008. He was actually in the military So he couldn't grow a beard. Then once he left the military, he got a job in a nuclear plant And he couldn't grow a beard again because he had to wear gas masks And so he talked about his frustration of wanting to grow a beard Yeah, I think I think the job dried up or something. He's like I'm gonna go out on my own, right? I'm gonna do my own thing. I'm gonna start my own company making beard products And so he started a classic culture with a K lifestyle. He sent us all of these samples at no cost We just want to make sure we're always up front with you or subscribers in the audience to know That when we get beard products to try and review that has no bearing on how the actual review comes out And we did say that to it. We said look if your product sucks, it's crap We're gonna say it sucks. So I'd like to actually start off with his comb. Yeah, let's do it His comb is by far my favorite comb I've ever used Much different than your classic plastic. Yes. So this is a wooden comb versus a plastic versus plastic I love the shape like the way you hold it is really nice. It slides through the beard really nicely I don't get snarls. It doesn't tug at my beard. It just flows really nice So I love it for that and my experience with with the with the wooden comb just basically any wooden comb is Sometimes I do get some poles now again. This goes back to how our beards are drastically different Yeah, Mike is a little bit straighter in the way that his hair grows my hair tends to be more curly And so it can catch sometimes But I've noticed if you've got a good lubrication or good amount of product in there that you can work in it's fine But I think it just takes the time because these come I wouldn't say rough but I've got they've got some edges on them that I think, you know Given enough time that they're gonna round out and you're really gonna get a nice spread I like I like the size of the comb, but I'm still a Big fan of the Kent big brush just just for my beard just with the plastic I feel like it glides a little bit better There isn't as much like I guess there's like a break-in period for the wooden type combs that I found Oh, really? Yeah, like you got to get enough of it because the oil works into it. Yeah, okay oil gets into it That's eventually but Maybe it's just because I'm a little bit impatient with it And I just like like the plastics already around it, but either way I could see this working great Once you really work in that's it won't see that what I typically do is I when I get out of the shower I use this to kind of dry my beard I just take this through and then when I put the product in this is like my first pass And then this is like my fine-tuned pass where it kind of really work it in with the Kent this one I like a lot better. It just it's much nicer, especially for a longer beard for me again My beard is a little straighter than Janssen. So if you have a curly beard, it may not be the comb for you All right, let's move on to beard balms. We got two scents or flavors if you will we got sweet tobacco and a Citrus smell. Yeah The sweet tobacco scent Greg is awesome nailed it. Love it. It's so great It is it is just awesome. No, it's just interesting to me that the sweet to the sweet tobacco is actually a lot stronger in The oil than it is in the ball it For me. Yeah, and that might just be my senses, but for me the oil like you put it in and it's just like oh So nice, it's okay. It's fantastic. That's also about the citrus. Okay, so the citrus isn't my favorite smell When I put the citrus in I was like, man, what is that smell like it's interesting like yes It's interesting that it hit me one day. I was eating fruit loops in the morning and I was like all my word This is the smell of the beard balm. Yeah, like this is the shit. Yeah, it's fruit loops Like it makes your beard smell like fruit loops. Okay, and here's the thing Micah doesn't like the smell of fruit loops in his beard as much. I love fruit loops It's like my freaking favorite cereal ever like I have memories being at like Disneyland Oh, excuse me Disney World Disney World as like a three-year-old Eating like my first bowl of fruit loops and like wanting more now. Let's get into the actual bomb Yes now Greg and I we went back and forth a little bit on Facebook had a couple questions about the balm and the consistency of the Product now when we look and compare it to some of the other products that we've tried we notice that there's a little bit of Like they're like pellets. It's like beating. It's like beating a little bit And I'm not sure if in transit these melted or something happened But there is a little bit of a beating that happens now I will say this generally all of the best beard care products out there are natural. That's what we want We don't want a lot of petroleum based or petroleum distillates or sodium laurel sulfate detergent site weird crap They got in there what so like this is a natural product So I get it just something to be aware of is the products are going to vary from batch to batch Typically when I when I do beard balms I just kind of stick it my fingers because I like to get it worked into my fingers and that way when you put it Into your beard it kind of works into the beard a lot easier. Yeah But with this one I wasn't able to get the beads out So I'd have these little beads in my beard and it was like these little like I bedazzled my beard with a beard Ball just not and I noticed it sometimes because I'd be like hey Mike is like you got something in your beard What's going on there? Yeah, I get in my fingertips And then if I notice like that there's a product that needs a little bit more I'll put it in my palm and really melt it down and then put it in on days that I'm in a rush I'll I'll still do like the fingertip technique, but then I'll get a hairdryer. Yes again sounds womanly, but it works It's a it's a hairdryer You need to heat your hair up and like that'll melt it and then I brush it out and it looks great And then you can actually like set it with like if you put your hairdryer and cool It'll actually help set and and form your beard to make it stay a little bit more consistent throughout the day That was that was my biggest complaint other than the smell the citrus wasn't my favorite My other biggest complaint was working it. It just it took a lot Like I haven't had any other product beard balms thus far that have had to work that hard to get into my beard So that was really frustrating and I'm not a really a beard balm type guy Like I don't like beard balms that much honestly and I am it took me a while to start using the classic culture Lifestyle beard oils because generally from my beard I like the hold that a balm gives me because again, I've got really curly beard hair So I need something that really helps it like that makes sense like form to my face If not, I just look like Like a poofy porcupine porcupine. Yeah, it's nasty. It's all over the place So I like I like the extra hole for you that makes sense Yeah, but for me it just makes my beard feel a little waxy Yeah, that's the only thing I wanted to bring up was beard balms The reason I don't like them is to make my beard feel waxy I like oils much better because it doesn't do that So I actually started with the oils Jansen started with the balms once I started using beard oils I was like, I don't ever want to use beard balms again. I love them His oils are great. I like the eyedropper at first it kind of bugged me But then I was like actually like if you just push it down all the way up You get the perfect amount for my beard and I just like having a little extra in my beard throughout the day It seems to last the whole day because again like the whole reason We're doing any of these products is to get rid of the itch like if you don't use products Your beard's gonna itch and like there's some real manly men out there that will not use any products in their Beards, but just watch them in a month six months a year down the road after using shampoo and their beard Like their beard's gonna become brittle. It's gonna break and it's gonna look like crap We're not after that we're after like something that's gonna that's gonna last Because remember again once your hair grows out of your body once it's hair. It's dead So we're just in the process of maintaining and keeping it as good as we can keep it for as long as we can Yeah, so I like the point that you just made going back to the bottles quickly now Beard care products. We're just gonna I'm gonna turn the label on this one, but this this is another product It has a screw-off take yeah with a little hole on top this one too these leak don't love them No, they leak like this is kind of crap. So don't do this with your product. So again classic culture lifestyle Thank you for having in a dropper. It makes sense Distribution to the beard I agree with Micah I do a full blast. Yep, and I drip it I kind of drip Yeah, I kind of I kind of keep my hand underneath because I notice if I just drip in my beard It'll it'll come out the bottom So I do like a drip and then I rub and then I do like the other side of drip and then I do some here I had no idea and then I lather like not lather. It's not gonna like But I then rub it in and Honestly like for the first time of all the beard oils that I've tried. I've noticed the day after I try And use the the classic culture oil my beard feels incredible. Oh, yes I will I will vouch with that like I have not I don't know what you have So we've got jojoba oil avocado oil sweet almond oil vitamin E and essential oils and of course the same like all the other oils are like Sometimes we'll use like an olive oil in there a grape seed oil and they feel fine, but like eventually just kind of It like feels I don't know it just fizzles out Yeah, I don't get like the conditioning like the day after I'd use this I was like this this still feels great. I'm like you have the protection on there without feeling too oily or greasy and Nailed it. I would totally a hundred percent agree and the other thing that I thought was interesting They have the exact same ingredients on both oils. Just it's just preferences smell. Yeah That's all it is. And and so I I totally agree when I put it in my be I was just like after the first day I was like, holy cow. This is awesome. So I you know and I wore it again for like another six weeks You know, I just like this is great. This was this was my like I didn't even get to the beard bombs until probably Four or five weeks and we both like pulled each other in the opposite direction like with like what to try When and first I'm like one for the oils I went for the bombs and I was like dude You should really try the bombs and he told me about things so I was like, hey Yeah, once I did the palm and the mic goes like all the oils are so good I'm like, oh Unless I have a short beard like I will say this when I when I traditionally have gone back to a shorter beard I'll do I'll do the oils and then the bombs because I need the hole I need to carry it further, but yeah, my my beard doesn't my beard doesn't frizz quite as much as yours So I just stick with the oils. Um, that's why so overall Definitely recommend I think both of us would get a give a good solid recommendation to classic culture lifestyle beard care Sure, for sure. I would I would a hundred percent stand behind his oils and his comb Not so much of a fan of the beard bomb, but again, it's not for me. I'm yeah, I'm not a huge beard bomb guy I however really liked the beard bomb, especially the sweet tobacco The the citrus again smells like fruit loops and if that's what you're into like You'll just have like an awesome bowl of cereal in your face all day You can just like Throughout throughout the day, but either way a big shout out and thank you to yes, right fantastic Classic culture lifestyle and this has been beard buddies product review for today Stay tuned right comments below if you have some products you like us to try Let's get in contact. We can try them out for you Also, please as always a subscribe tell your friends. 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