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Data: Limited

Cananga Odorata (Ylang Ylang) Flower Oil

  • Products with the EWG VERIFIED mark have met use restrictions and warnings based on EWG review of company data.

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Other Concerns

Use restrictions (moderate), Multiple, additive exposure sources (low), and Irritation (skin, eyes, or lungs) (low)

SYNONYMS

● 707013
● CANAGA OIL; CANAGA OIL; CANANGA OIL; CANANGA OIL, JAVA; JAVA CANAGA OIL
● CANANGA ODORATA
● CANANGA ODORATA (YLANG YLANG)
● CANANGA ODORATA (YLANG YLANG) ESSENTIAL OIL
● CANANGA ODORATA (YLANG YLANG) FLOWER OIL
● CANANGA ODORATA (YLANG YLANG) OIL
● CANANGA ODORATA ESSENTIAL OIL
● CANANGA ODORATA FLOWER OIL
● CANANGA ODORATA MACROPHYLLA FLOWER OIL(CANANGA)
● CANANGA ODORATA OIL
● CANANGA OIL
● CANANGA OIL; CANANGA OIL; YLANG-YLANG ABSOLUTE; YLANG-YLANG ABSOLUTE; YLANG-YLANG OIL; YLANG-YLANG OIL; YLANG-YLANG OIL DISTILLATES
● CANANGA ORDORATA FLOWER OIL
● OILS, CANANGA
● OILS, YLANG YLANG
● OILS, YLANG YLANG, TERPENE-FREE
● OILS, YLANGYLANG
● YLANG YLANG
● YLANG YLANG (CANANGA ODORATA) OIL
● YLANG YLANG ESSENTIAL OIL
● YLANG YLANG FLOWER OIL
● YLANG YLANG OIL
● YLANG YLANG OIL (CANANGA ODORATA HOOK. F. AND THOMAS)
● YLANG YLANG OIL EXTRA
● YLANG YLANG OIL I
● YLANG YLANG OIL II
● YLANG YLANG OIL III
● YLANG YLANG OILS

Restricted

Restricted: EWG VERIFIED products cannot contain this ingredient without adequate substantiation

Oil obtained from the flowers of the ylang-ylang tree Cananga odorata.

Common concerns

See how this product scores for common concerns.

  • LOW
    Cancer
  • HIGH
    Allergies & Immunotoxicity
  • LOW
    Developmental and Reproductive Toxicity
  • MODERATE
    Use Restrictions

Ingredient concerns

  • CONCERNS
  • DATA SOURCES

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Allergies/immunotoxicity

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CONCERN REFERENCE
Known human any toxicant or allergenOpen scientific literature
Human any toxicant or allergen - strong evidenceOpen scientific literature
Limited evidence of any toxicity or allergiesOpen scientific literature

Use restrictions

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CONCERN REFERENCE
Recommended restricted in cosmetics - use, concentration, or manufacturing restrictions - Fragrance subject to restrictions: safe only within recommended use or concentration limitsn)International Fragrance Association Codes & Standards

Multiple, additive exposure sources

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CONCERN REFERENCE
Used in food or as an additive with limited or no toxicity information availableFDA Everything Added to Food
Designated as safe for general or specific, limited use in foodFDA Everything Added to Food
Designated as safe for general or specific, limited use in foodFDA Food Additive Status

Irritation (skin, eyes, or lungs)

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CONCERN REFERENCE
Limited evidence of any irritationOpen scientific literature

Ecotoxicology

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CONCERN REFERENCE
Wildlife and environmental toxicityOpen scientific literature
Not suspected to be an environmental toxinEnvironment Canada Domestic Substance List

Data gaps

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CONCERN REFERENCE
84 studies in PubMed science library may include information on the toxicity of this chemicalNLM PubMed

Organ system toxicity (non-reproductive)

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CONCERN REFERENCE
Classified as not expected to be potentially toxic or harmfulEnvironment Canada Domestic Substance List
  • Open scientific/peer reviewed literature
  • IFRA (International Fragrance Association). 2006. Codes and Standards.
  • FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration). 2008. EAFUS [Everything Added to Food]: A Food Additive Database. FDA Office of Food Safety and Applied Nutrition.
  • FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) 2006. Food Additive Status List. Downloaded from http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/%7Edms/opa-appa.html, Oct 16, 2006.
  • EC (Environment Canada). 2008. Domestic Substances List Categorization. Canadian Environmental Protection Act (CEPA) Environmental Registry.
  • NLM (National Library of Medicine). 2012. PubMed online scientific bibliography data. http://www.pubmed.gov.

Understanding scores

Cosmetics and personal care products are not required to be tested for safety before being allowed on the market. The Skin Deep® scoring system was designed to help the public understand whether a product is safe to use or whether it contains ingredients of concern.

Every product and ingredient in Skin Deep gets a two-part score – one for hazard and one for data availability. The safest products score well by both measures, with a low hazard rating and a fair or better data availability rating.

HOW WE DETERMINE SCORES

Hazard score

The Skin Deep ingredient hazard score, from 1 to 10, reflects known and suspected hazards linked to the ingredients. The EWG VERIFIED® mark means a product meets EWG’s strictest criteria for transparency and health.

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WEIGHT-OF-EVIDENCE APPROACH

A product’s hazard score is not an average of the ingredients’ hazard scores. It is calculated using a weight-of-evidence approach that factors in all of the hazards or health impacts associated with the ingredients.

Data availability

The Skin Deep data availability rating reflects the number of scientific studies about the product or ingredient in the published scientific literature.

NONE LIMITED FAIR GOOD ROBUST
Low Availability
Moderate Availability
High Availability
NONE

Ingredients have not been assessed.

LIMITED-FAIR

There is only a modest volume of research.

GOOD-ROBUST

Ingredients have been studied extensively.

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