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Provided is an oil-in-water emulsion composition that exhibits excellent blending stability with a metal oxide powder and excellent uniform coating properties, that sinks well into skin, that spreads and stays in a suitable manner, that exhibits minimal stickiness and sliminess, that exhibits good usability and excellent stability over time, and that has a high moisturizing effect. The oil-in-water emulsion composition comprises the following components (A)-(C): (A) a polyoxyethylene alkyl or an alkenyl ether in which the carbon number of an alkyl group or an alkenyl group is 20-24 and the average added mole number of ethylene oxide is 1.5-4; (B) a liquid oil; (C) a metal oxide powder comprising hydrophobized fine particles. |