South Plainfield, New Jersey, 3 February 2014 – Lonza Personal Care is launching its new Rômacil™ V multifunctional cosmetic ingredient at the in-cosmetics® trade show in Hamburg, Germany. Now available to customer formulators worldwide, this innovative new product can be added as a fragrance, and it also provides a beneficial secondary effect as a broad-spectrum antimicrobial. 

"The upcoming in-cosmetics® event will be a good showcase to make the debut of our multipurpose Rômacil™ V ingredient, a fragrance that also has antimicrobial effects,” says Laura Szymczak-Frye, Global Marketing Manager, Lonza Personal Care. "Formulators now have available a dual-purpose ingredient that can be used at low-concentration levels and that offers a variety of proven benefits in multiple applications.’"

Drawing on its decades-long experience in the cosmetic and personal care industries and on its skills in analytical chemistry and toxicology, Lonza Personal Care developed the new Rômacil™ V product to respond to formulators’ desires for ingredients that offer multiple benefits, that simplify the formulation process and that offer consumers key desired effects.