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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a natural pigment-containing external preparation for skin having excellent temporal stability, particularly light stability. SOLUTION: One or more natural pigments selected from the group consisting of gardenia pigments, carotenoid pigments, and chlorophyll pigments, hydrophilic surfactants, and polyvalents having at least trivalent or higher hydroxyl groups in the molecule. It has been found that the above-described problems can be solved by providing a skin external preparation characterized by containing at least one kind of a monohydric alcohol in an amount of 20% by mass or more and substantially having a water content of 10% by mass or less. thing. [Selection figure] None |