The Wild Willies and Shea Moisture natural beard kits both offer a complete kit that includes everything you need to get a healthy, clean beard. So, which one should you choose - the Shea Moisture Ultimate Beard Kit or Wild Willies: Willies' Essential Kit?
In this article, we'll look at each of the following:
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Kit Contents
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Ingredients and Scent
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Ease of Use
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Affordability and Rating
Table of Contents
Quick Take
Overall winner - Wild Willies: Willies' Essential Kit
Overall the Wild Willies Essential Beard Kit is the best choice if you consider the quality ingredients infused in each product. You get more bang for your buck, and the product is easier to use. If you are looking for an affordable, all-natural beard kit, this is the way to go.
Shea Moisture: Ultimate Beard Kit
The Shea Moisture Ultimate Beard Kit is a great choice if you are not concerned with using artificial fragrances. These products work great and are easy to find in stores.
Key Similarities and Differences
Key Similarities
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Both contain natural ingredients that won't dry out your beard or weigh it down.
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Each kit includes similar products like beard shampoo, beard oil, and butter or balm.
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Both kits are similarly priced for the amount of product.
Key Differences
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The Wild Willies products are formulated for beard growth, whereas the Shea Moisture kit is not.
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100% customer satisfaction guarantee by Wild Willies.
Kit Contents
Wild Willies
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Beard Wash
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Beard Butter (Cool Mint)
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Hemp Oil
The beard wash is a gentle cleanser designed to get your beard clean without stripping away the natural oils. By combining the beard butter and hemp oil elixir, your beard hair will be soft and manageable while your skin and hair follicles get the moisture they need to grow more healthy facial hair.
Shea Moisture
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Beard Wash
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Beard Balm
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Beard Conditioning Oil
Shea Moisture focuses on a simple beard grooming process. The wash removes grime and residue while avoiding drying out the hair and skin underneath. The lightweight beard oil keeps it shiny and moisturized, while the balm helps you shape and style.
Winner: Draw
The Shea Moisture and Wild Willies kits are similar in the routine they recommend and products they include: a wash, balm, and oil.
Ingredients and Scent
Wild Willies
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Formulated for beard growth
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100% natural ingredients
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Vitamin E and Aloe Vera Leaf Juice
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Essential oils for benefits and fragrance
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Free of sulfates, SLS, SLES, and parabens
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Made in the USA
Wild Willies Beard Wash Breakdown
Wild Willies Beard Wash is formulated to moisturize the skin while stimulating beard growth. Vitamin E, aloe vera leaf juice, and a blend of peppermint, eucalyptus, and lemongrass essential oils keep your beard clean, soft, and smelling great without stripping away any natural oils.
Wild Willies Beard Butter Breakdown
The beard butter is made with shea butter, argan oil, beeswax, and jojoba oil to keep your beard looking its best. This balm fights split ends and unruly hair, reduces irritation, dandruff, itchiness, and flaky, dry skin, and moisturizes your beard. Peppermint, eucalyptus, and lemongrass essential oils offer additional benefits and a cool minty scent.
Wild Willies Beard Conditioning Oil Breakdown
Wild Willies' Hemp Beard Elixir in Wild Vanilla Spice is a blend of essential oils and rich in omega-3 fatty acids. It's designed to help promote beard growth and to keep your beard healthy without being greasy. The Wild Willies beard oil also helps with facial hair loss, thinning, and breakages by providing skin treatments for itchiness, redness, inflammation, eczema, and acne.
Shea Moisture
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Focuses on natural ingredients
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Uses artificial fragrances in beard wash and balm
Shea Moisture Beard Wash Breakdown
The Beard Wash uses a pH-balanced formula that blends passion fruit seed oil, argan oil, tea tree oil, and coconut oil. These ingredients are ideal for cleaning the hair and skin of dirt and odors without drying them out.
Shea Moisture Beard Conditioning Oil Breakdown
The Beard Conditioning Oil is a blend of grape seed oil, sunflower seed oil, olive fruit oil, castor seed oil, shea butter, and jojoba oil. They used a blend of essential oils to fragrance the product, but there is no list of what was used or what the scent is supposed to be.
She Moisture Beard Balm Breakdown
The Beard Balm is made with similar oils as the Conditioning Oil, but the biggest difference is the use of carnauba wax and hydrogenated castor oil. These are used to give the product its balmy consistency compared to an oily one.
It's important to note that artificial fragrances are used in the Shea Moisture wash and balm. This can be a turn-off for those who have sensitive skin, allergies, or who just want to avoid artificial fragrances.
Winner: Wild Willies
Wild Willies has the edge when it comes to ingredients and scent. The products are made with 100% natural ingredients, essential oils, and no artificial fragrances. This makes them ideal for those with sensitive skin or allergies. The Hemp Beard Elixir is packed with proteins and fatty acids to help promote growth and aid in facial hair patchiness. Not only is it a beard care kit, but it's a beard growth kit!
Ease-of-Use
Wild Willies
The Wild Willies Essential Kit is made to be effective and simple to use. While beard oils and washes are pretty standard, butter or balm can be the downfall of a beard kit, and unlike its competitors, this one is a necessity!
It is smooth and works into the beard evenly and smoothly. You don't have to worry about this product rolling up in your beard or having to work it in with additional tools like a beard comb or brush.
Shea Moisture
Some customers claim that the balm is too dense and not as easy to work through facial hair as other Beard Balms they have used. You will want to make sure you have a beard brush or comb around to work the product through evenly.
The beard wash and oil work great and are easy to distribute. The container for the Beard Wash may allow for some product waste due to the bottle's design.
Winner: Wild Willies
While the beard oil and wash for both Shea Moisture and Wild Willies are great and easy to use, it's the balm that makes the biggest difference in these kits. Because the Shea Moisture Beard Balm has a tendency to be too thick or dense and does not work through the beard as easily, we have to give this one to Wild Willies.
Affordability and Rating
Wild Willies
The kit costs $24.95 for a beard wash (4 oz), beard butter (2 oz), and beard oil (2 oz). The average cost is $3.12 per ounce.
Shea Moisture
This kit costs $39.95 for a beard wash (6 oz), beard balm (4 oz), and beard oil (3.2 oz). The average cost is $3.03 per ounce.
Winner: Draw
While the Shea Moisture Ultimate Beard Kit is more expensive, you do get more product, so the price per ounce is comparable. They almost average out to the same price.
The Bottom Line
Overall Winner - Wild Willies: Willies' Essential Kit
Kit Contents Winner: Draw
Ingredients and Scent Winner: Wild Willies
Ease-of-Use Winner: Wild Willies
Affordability and Rating Winner: Draw
