Lemon Grass Oil

• is the oil distilled from Cymbopogon flexuosus Stapf or from C. citrates Stapf (Family: Gramineae).


  Lemon grass oil
• is a reddish yellow or brown. It has odour resembling that of lemon oil.


  Lemon grass oil
• It is almost entirely soluble in 70% alcohol; the solubility gradually decreases on storage.


  Lemon grass oil
• mainly contains citral and citranellal (75–85%).


  Lemon grass oil
• The other terpene is geraniol, nerol, linalool, methyl heptenol, limonene, etc., and β-ionone is derived from citral.


  Lemon grass oil