We all know there’s an oil for every ailment and every issue. If you want to get to sleep faster you use lavender oil. If you have a dry scalp or dry skin you use tea tree oil. There’s always an oil. What about pumpkin seed oil? Did you know that pumpkin seed oil benefits are huge? Let’s check out what 5 of those are.

1. Happy Heart

Like its friend olive oil, pumpkin oil can help lower your cholesterol. Pumpkin oil can also reduce your blood pressure and help lower the risk of heart disease. The same healthy fats that are in one are in the other. Pumpkin oil isn’t terribly expensive compared to the fancy olive oils either.

Grab a bottle and use it every so often in your cooking instead. The anti-inflammatory properties and antihypertensive effects can help you from having heart attacks too.

2, Your Skin Will Thank You

Some of those same fatty acids will help improve the overall look of your skin as well. Rubbing it into your skin can help your skin to retain moisture. It can help your skin retain a youthful glow by helping to increase your collagen levels.

3. Promotes Hair Growth

Pumpkin oil contains calcium, vitamin E, potassium, and other nutrients that are beneficial to promote healthy hair growth. If you don’t want to add it to your diet on your food, you can buy it in capsules to take that way. The zinc can help balance out your hormones which can promote hair growth as well.

4. Protect Your Prostate

Pumpkin seed oil is known to be beneficial for your prostate health. Since men need to pay more attention to their prostate health, it would be a good idea to incorporate some pumpkin seed oil into your diet.

Pumpkin seed oil can reduce the growth of prostate cancer cells due to the antioxidants in the oil. It can also reduce symptoms due to an enlarged prostate.

5. Boost Your Mood and Help You Sleep

This sounds like a win win to me. Pumpkin seed oil has tryptophan which you may know and love as the turkey coma amino acid that puts you right to sleep after eating all of the Thanksgiving turkey. Take a few drops before bed to enhance your melatonin naturally and get some lovely sleep.

Pumpkin seed oil can also help stave off depression and can improve your mood. The healthy fats help calm your anxiety which would definitely help you to feel better. We should all have pumpkin seed oil every single day the way things are going out there, right?

How to Use It

There are quite a few more benefits to pumpkin seed oil. You should think about having a bottle on hand and rotate it in your cooking. You can use it in place of coconut oil or turn it into salad dressing to make sure you get your daily intake.

For hair benefits you can massage it in. You can massage it into your scalp after your shower. If you don’t want your hair to feel greasy, you can rub it in before you shower, but just give it about 20 to 30 minutes before.

For your dry skin and acne, apply the pumpkin seed oil directly to your face and massage in. You can always just take a teaspoon, or tablespoon, whichever you’d like, a few times a day.

Remember, as with adding any supplement into your diet, if you have any questions about side effects, talk with a doctor first. Though I prefer roasted pumpkin seeds to get the benefits, incorporating them in your diet in any form is the important bit.