Registration Dossier

Data platform availability banner - registered substances factsheets

Please be aware that this old REACH registration data factsheet is no longer maintained; it remains frozen as of 19th May 2023.

The new ECHA CHEM database has been released by ECHA, and it now contains all REACH registration data. There are more details on the transition of ECHA's published data to ECHA CHEM here.

Diss Factsheets

Physical & Chemical properties

Endpoint summary

Administrative data

Description of key information

Additional information

Based on its physical chemical properties, Lemongrass oil (Cymbopogon flexuosus, ext.) is not classified as hazardous according to the criteria of Regulation 1272/2008/EC (CLP).

The substance is a yellow liquid at room temperature.

The melting point of the substance is < -20ºC.

The substance starts to boil at 94ºC.

The substance has a relative density of 0.8933 at 20ºC.

The vapour pressure of the substance is 26.66 Pa at 25ºC.

The partitioning coefficient octanol-water of the constituents of Cymbopogon flexuosus oil ranges from 2.06 - 6.64. The log Kow of the constituents is >= 4 for 9.12% of the composition.

The range of water solubilities for the known constituents of Cymbopogon flexuosus oil was estimated to be 0.21 - 4364.1 mg/l at 25ºC.

The flashpoint of the substance is 78ºC.

The auto-ignition temperature of the substance is 240 °C at an atmospheric pressure from 995.6 to 996.1 hPa.