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(57) [Summary] [Object] To find a medicinal component capable of imparting a more excellent whitening effect, a beautiful skin effect, and the like, and a combination thereof, and to provide a skin external preparation using the same. The skin external use contains (A) rice germ oil and (B) vitamin C and its derivatives, glycyrrhizic acid and its derivatives, and one or more pharmaceutically active agents selected from the group consisting of glycyrrhetinic acid and its derivatives. And an external preparation for skin containing (C) one or more active ingredients selected from the group consisting of specific whitening agents, anti-inflammatory agents, antioxidants, cell activators and UV inhibitors. |