How come Tarzan doesn't have facial hair?

Here's what Burroughs stated in "Tarzan of the Apes":

"Was not hair commencing to grow upon his face? All the apes had hair upon theirs but the black men were entirely hairless, with very few exceptions.

True, he had seen pictures in his books of men with great masses of hair upon lip and cheek and chin, but, nevertheless, Tarzan was afraid. Almost daily he whetted his keen knife and scraped and whittled at his young beard to eradicate this degrading emblem of apehood.

And so he learned to shave–rudely and painfully, it is true–but, nevertheless, effectively."

He wasn't the only physically 'perfect' character that the author had come up with... Its not a judgement. Just a statement.

DAMNIT! now i have to think about that.
yep! should be bearded as hell

Pieces of animal bone.

He took female hormones😀

Well, most of those movies back then were meant as veiled homo-erotica.