Whether you’re adventurous or just plain forgetful, you’re going to appreciate the best grooming subscription boxes for men. If there’s one part of a man’s life that actually makes sense for a set-it-and-forget-it subscription service—and there are many, like, say, meats or ties, that make none—it’s one’s grooming regimen. A subscription service can keep you stocked up on everyday essentials like shave creams, razors, shampoos, and toothbrush heads, or keep replenishing a specific personal care like hair loss medication. It’s nice to never run out of the stuff you need to look your best—heck, you might even stumble across a new product you’d never encounter otherwise.
The Best Grooming Subscription Boxes for Men
Pick any category—beard, shave, anti-aging, oral care, fragrance, or all-around grooming fanatic—and there’s a subscription service for you. In you’re in the market to put any of those needs on autopilot, here are the brand names you should know about first and foremost. They don’t all come in boxes, per se, but they all make for the perfect gift for yourself, for a well-groomed guy, or a soon-to-be well-groomed guy—which, yes, makes them the very best grooming subscription boxes for men, period.
The Best Grooming Subscription Boxes for Skincare
What you get: For a bare-minimum skin care routine with plenty of pedigree, check out Geologie’s offering. A 2023 GQ Grooming Awardee, this daily skin care set includes two face washes, a morning cream, a night cream, and an eye cream. You can opt for a one-month supply, which means the products come in travel-sized containers, or you can go for the three-month supply, so everything is full-sized. Of course, how long the products last will depend on how generous you are with application, but you can customize the cadence of shipments between one to four months.
Frequency: Every one to four months
How much it costs: $45 for a one-month supply or $144 for a three-month supply
What you get: Curology started off making one product—its bespoke acne-fighting cream—but it’s since expanded into all other types of skin care, from face washes to moisturizers. Its customized acne topicals are exactly what their name suggests—a dermatologist gives your skin a virtual evaluation, then engineers a formula that makes use of acne-busting ingredients like tretinoin, azelaic acid, and clindamycin to help you with your specific concerns. For $60, you get a new bottle every two months, and depending on how well it works, your virtual Curology dermatologist will rejigger the ingredients to make sure it continues to work for you. If you don’t see results within 90 days, you even get your money back.
Frequency: Every two months
How much it costs: $60
What you get: Dermstore offers an inventory of skin care goodies that rivals that of Sephora’s or Ulta’s, except—get this—it’s completely virtual. Its BeautyFIX subscription is a monthly haul of essentials products for skin and hair, an $100 value you’ll get for just $25. It’s an excellent way to discover new products or load up your dopp kit, and if you pay upfront, a three-month subscription costs $69, a six-month subscription costs $132, and an annual subscription costs $252
Frequency: Every month
How much it costs: $21-25 per box depending on how you want to pay (upfront or monthly)
The Best Grooming Subscription Boxes for Shaving
What you get: They’ve kept the name, but Dollar Shave Club is more than just a shaving company now—you can upgrade your monthly shipments with shower and oral care products as well. A starter kit of everything costs just $19, which includes the brand’s flagship razor, four blades, and a shave gel. They’ll restock you with full-size products two weeks later, once you test everything and decided what you like. Make adjustments as needed, and they’ll only send what you want.
Frequency: Restock boxes are sent at customizable intervals
How much it costs: $9-12, depending on your product selections
What you get: A curated beard kit, with as many Beard Club oils, tamers, stylers, washes, scissors, combs, and growth supplements as you fancy. Anything that needs replenishing will be shipped to you monthly, which you can expand or reduce as needed each time. So your kit can be as big or small as you need it to be, from an oil to a whole haul of beard goods.
Frequency: Every one, two, or three months
How much it costs: Varies based on custom order
What you get: If you prefer to shave with a safety razor (it provides less dragging, and is often preferred by guys with thicker facial hair), Bevel is the subscription for you. Your first order is the starter kit, for $60, which includes a safety razor, shave brush, 40 blades, priming oil, shave cream, and post-shave balm. Subsequent boxes don’t include another razor or brush, but the other accoutrements are recurring.
Frequency: Every two, three, or four months
How much it costs: $60
What you get: For a whopping five bucks, Harry’s sends you a starter set with a razor, five-blade cartridge, travel blade cover, and shave gel. (You have four options for the razor handle color, including a $10 upgrade to chrome.) Then, you choose which kind of plan to opt into once the trial period lapses, which will ship roughly two weeks later (unless you decide to cancel). You can choose just the blades, add on shaving gel, or double the dose for a family of shavers. You also select the frequency of shipments based on how often you shave.
Frequency: Every two, three, or five months
How much it costs: $17-43 per shipment
The Best Grooming Subscription Boxes for Haircare
What you get: By now it’s a well-known fact that there’s no one size fits all approach to haircare (but if you’re still grabbing for a shampoo that’s formulated for fine, straight hair and wondering why you thick, curly mane feels worse post-shower, now you know). We all have different haircare needs based on texture, density, and age. If all of this is news to you or you’re experiencing fatigue from the onslaught of options on the market, Prose’s customized haircare subscription is like a godsend. Enter in all the relevant (and seemingly irrelevant details, like if scents tend to linger on your hair) to receive a curated selection of hair goods, from shampoo and conditioner to moisture-boosting masks and oils, that’ll treat your coif just right.
Frequency: Varies
How much it costs: Pricing varies but custom shampoo and conditioner start at $29 each
What you get: Hair loss prescriptions—minoxidil (to combat thinning at the crown) and finasteride (to fight that receding hairline)—without visiting the dermatologist’s office. Just speak with Keeps’ board-certified doctors through their enrollment system to assess your needs. Then, you can receive either prescription, or both, paying half of what you would for other brand-name prescriptions.
Frequency: Every three, six, or 12 months
How much it costs: $33-50 for minoxidil, $75-240 for finasteride, $108-125 for both
The Best Grooming Subscription Boxes for Oral Care
What you get: An electric brush, in metallic, monochrome, or classic colors, with brush heads sent to you at monthly, semi-monthly, or quarterly intervals. Your initial order includes the brush itself ($55-$65, depending on your selection), then, every three months you pay $14 for a fresh tube of toothpaste and a new toothbrush head.
Frequency: Every one, two, or three months
How much it costs: $55-65 for first order with brush, then $14 every three months for a new tube of toothpaste and fresh toothbrush head
What you get: Boka gives you an electric brush with activated-charcoal bristle heads. And if you want to put your full oral-care regimen on autopilot, they stock you up on various flavored toothpastes and floss, too. Two replacement heads come with each recurring shipment, which costs $11, and toothpaste subscriptions cost 10, while floss subscriptions cost $5.
Frequency: Every one, two, or three months
How much it costs: $63 for first shipment with brush, $5-11 every one to three months for two new brush heads, floss, or toothpaste
What you get: We named Quip our favorite electric toothbrush for travel, and its distinction as such is only made better by its subscription offering. Your initial purchase includes either the rechargeable electric toothbrush or the AAA-powered electric toothbrush, while replacement brush heads come every three months and cost just $5.
Frequency: Every three months
How much it costs: $50 for the initial toothbrush, and $5 for each replacement brush head
The Best Grooming Subscription Boxes for Cologne
What you get: If you’re indecisive about any one fragrance—or if you’re shopping for a new signature scent—then the sticker shock of most colognes will likely steer you away from a commitment. Enter Scentbird, which allows you to try these scents in smaller doses: You can get a month’s supply for just $17, allowing you to get the feel for a whole bunch of scents before you choose a favorite (or you can keep trying new ones, and switch ’em up between seasons). They say that each sample has 120 sprays, which means you’ve got to limit your daily trials to four to five sprays each. Not too shabby, especially considering they carry plenty of GQ-approved brands like Acqua di Parma, Versace, Burberry, and more. You just add the ones you’re curious about to a queue, and then work your way through them. If the queue runs out, they send you a scent of the month to try. So have a look at our favorite cold-weather scents, warm-weather scents, and classic scents, and see which ones you want to try for yourself.
Frequency: Monthly
How much it costs: $17
What you get: If you’re a bit of a fragrance connoisseur and already have your foundational scents—the scents you rotate through year-round—taken care of, then you probably won’t find much use in a general cologne sampler. At this point, if a scent is going to make it into your fragrance repertoire it’s got to be special. Enter Ffern, an organic perfumer based in Somerset, England, that has added a noteworthy twist on the fragrance subscription model by releasing a limited edition bottle at the turn of each season (the Winter 24 scent features refreshing notes of eucalyptus, juniper and rosemary). Aside from its lush, countryside origins, what makes this fragrance drop particular noteworthy is that you have to join a waitlist for a chance to receive. Names are selected off the waitlist at random but if you’re selected, you’ll have the option to receive the latest seasonal offering for $129 and future blends for each season to follow.
Frequency: Quarterly
How much it costs: $129/bottle
The Best Grooming Subscription Boxes for Supplements
What you get: When you want to improve your skin or regrow or thicken your hair, it’s a headache to have to visit the dermatologist for the right products and prescriptions that will do the trick. Hims lets you handle that all from your computer; you speak with their on-call board-certified dermatologists, and then get prescription-strength skincare and hair loss products, as approved by the doc. The Hair Kit stocks you up on finasteride, minoxidil, DHT-blocking shampoo, and biotin gummies; the Anti-Aging Treatment has a tretinoin-packed prescription cream; the Acne Treatment has a custom face cream targeted to fighting breakouts. You can also opt into anything ad hoc if the full kits aren’t your jam.
Frequency: Varies
How much it costs: Depends on custom order of individual products and kits; full kits range from $44-49
What you get: They say you are what you eat. And if you’re looking to achieve that lit-from-within glow, your best bet is to add some hearty supplements to your routine. Inspired by Japanese herbal medicine, Apothékary’s Daily Essentials Starter set comes with a potent mix of herbal remedies targeting stress, low energy, and dull, dry skin. If the holidays have thrown your sleep game off and you’re currently depending on two to three coffees a day to get through, Slay All Day, a blend of matcha, ginseng, and coconut milk powder will give you the energy boost you need, minus the sleep-disrupting caffeine intake. (Beauty rest is a real thing.) Another excellent option is Firm Believer, which is chockfull of antioxidants like Camu Camu and Sea Buckthorn to boost your skin’s collagen production for a noteworthy glow.
Frequency: Every one, two, or three months
How much it costs: $199 $179/month
The Best Grooming Subscription Boxes for Variety
What you get: We might be a little bit biased, but the GQ Box can more than hold its own in the grooming-sub arena. Along with GQ editor-loved grooming goods, every box also includes our favorite finds in tech, style, and beyond, racking up a retail value of at least $200 but costing you just 50 bones. Come for the hair, face, and body stuff—stay for the rest of the look.
Frequency: Quarterly
How much it costs: $59
What you get: From best-sellers to limited releases, Duke Cannon’s Supply Drop bundles a boat-load of great-smelling products into its quarterly box, which costs $50 but is guaranteed to be a $75 value. It’s an excellent means of ensuring you’re always stocked up on essentials like hand lotion or body soap, and an easy, harmless way to to tell your buddy they need to up their game without ruining the friendship forever.
Frequency: Quarterly
How much it costs: $50
What you get: If you see the home as a reflection of thyself why not treat yourself to an assortment of goodies that’ll make you and your spot feel like a million bucks. With Flamingo’s earthy spin on the grab bag, you can expect an assortment of sense-tingling goods to show up at your door every few months—this season’s box is packed with a woodsy shampoo and conditioner set and hearty soap brick to get your squeaky clean along with a special coffee roast and delicious virgin olive oil to add some robust flavoring to your daily meals. Tie it all together with the olive tree candle that also comes in this season’s box for a truly holistic grounding experience.
Frequency: Quarterly
How much it costs: $250
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