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From Root to Ritual

Pumpkin seed oil and hair: what the 2014 trial actually tested, what a 2026 review added, and the honest difference between a capsule and an oil on your scalp.

by OLENA LARITELLE

Pumpkin seed oil and hair: what the 2014 trial actually tested, what a 2026 review added, and the honest difference between a capsule and an oil on your scalp.

Pumpkin seed oil has one of the better-known botanical hair trials: 76 men, 24 weeks, capsules taken by mouth. Here is what that study found, what a 2026 network meta-analysis added, and why an oil massaged into the scalp is a different question.

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